Continuous Delivery Foundation Adds Interoperability Project
At a CDEventscon event this week, the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced it is hosting a CDEvents project through which it hopes to create a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data across multiple services, platforms and systems. Andrea Frittoli, open source developer advocate at IBM, co-creator of the CDEvents project and member […]
What SREs Can Learn From the Atlassian Outage of 2022
What happens when the tools and services you depend on to drive site reliability engineering turns out to be susceptible to reliability failures of their own? That’s the question teams at about 400 businesses presumably asked themselves in the wake of a major outage in Atlassian Cloud. The incident offers a number of insights for […]
How to Get the Supply Chain Back to (Better than) Normal
If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, today’s supply chain is in dire straits. A recent infographic from The New York Times shows all too clearly that the international supply chain is in upheaval, due directly or indirectly to the outbreak of COVID-19. At the same time, reams of data generated […]
New Relic Expands Scope of Observability Reach
At its Futurestack conference, New Relic announced it expanded the integrations and tools it provides for its observability platform and added its first cybersecurity tool. The company now provides more than 470 integrations with cloud services, open source tools and other enterprise technologies, with support for offerings from Akamai, Atlassian, CircleCI, Cloudflare, Netlify, PagerDuty and […]
Creating Automated GitHub Bots in Go
Events management requires quick responses, which can be challenging since there is typically an incredibly large volume of events that take place every day. Therefore, relying on humans to respond to these events quickly is error-prone, messy and often frustrating. These events have easily reproducible steps that can be codified and are perfect reasons for […]
Splunk Survey Surfaces Gains in Observability
A global survey of 1,250 observability practitioners, managers and other experts published today by Splunk found that sophisticated observability practitioners are able to cut downtime costs by 90%. That figure is based on an estimated cost of $23.8 million annually for comparative newcomers to $2.5 million. However, only 9% of respondents are advanced enough to […]
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
In this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double salaries.
Making DevOps Smoother
Being a DevOps developer isn’t just about technical expertise necessary to build a product. It is also about learning the operations that facilitate the entire process. That means working with a fast-paced, high-performance, cross-functional team using Agile methodologies. But because of these sometimes-conflicting demands, it can sometimes get rocky. Here, we’ll offer six tips for […]
Why Over-Permissive CI/CD Pipelines are an Unnecessary Evil
Balancing the speed of innovation with security is an age-old problem in software development. This is no different in modern DevOps. Development teams want a frictionless path to deploy new code but often struggle with access permissions that are linked to services. The CI/CD pipeline makes it easier for developers to quickly introduce new features […]
Why Data Lineage Matters and Why it’s so Challenging
Change introduces risk. It’s one of those foundational principles of software development that most of us learned very early in our careers. Nevertheless, it always seems to keep cropping up in spite of those repeated life lessons. Our inability to foresee the impact of changes, even small ones, often leads to negative outcomes. As the […]
Observe, Inc. Dives Deeper Into Observability
Fresh from picking up an additional $70 million in funding, Observe, Inc. announced this week it has added multiple tools, dubbed Data Universe Maps, to its observability platform to visualize all datasets and surface underlying event data. The company also added pre-built applications for Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Jenkins environments with editions for […]
Top 3 Requirements for Next-Gen ML Tools
As the machine learning market matures, new tools are evolving that better match data science and machine learning teams’ needs. Vendors, both open source and private, have been quick to introduce new products that better meet requirements making it easier and faster to develop models and enable collaboration. These new offerings range from cloud-based platforms […]
How Waterfall Methodologies Stifle Enterprise Agility
In this age of sweeping digital transformation and accelerated change, organizations are recognizing that depending solely upon the drawn-out process of waterfall methodology is no longer sustainable if they are to remain competitive and relevant. Enterprise infrastructure must incrementally embrace evolution from monolithic architectures in response to the escalating pace of technological innovation, ever-changing consumer […]
Red Hat Adds Managed Ansible Service on Azure
Red Hat today announced general availability of a managed instance of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Announced at the Red Hat Summit 2022 event, this offering makes it possible to deploy the control plane for Ansible on the Microsoft Azure cloud as an alternative to existing support for Amazon […]
Jamstack Will Revolutionize How Websites Are Built
Today, every organization wants a website that loads quickly and looks sharp. The reasons go much deeper than cosmetic motivations, though—even a slight delay in loading can cause users to exit a page prematurely and site performance plays an important role in search engine rankings. Meanwhile, threats like ransomware and phishing are everywhere and are […]
Does GraphQL Introduce New Security Risks?
The GraphQL query language is an excellent tool for increasing the ease of data sharing. The premise is that you request the fields you need in a single bundled request, avoiding multiple network calls. Due to its usability, GraphQL is a growing area of development. Yet, as with any new technology, it comes with caveats. […]
Checkmarx Report Highlights Need for AppSec Collaboration
A research report published by Checkmarx finds the same basic malicious software developed using multiple programming languages as cyberattackers industrialize their malware development processes. Checkmarx, a provider of code scanning tools, shared examples of malicious packages written in multiple programming languages. These example packages share the same indicators of compromise that have gone undetected for […]
Stytch Launches New, Flexibility-First SDK
Passwordless solutions have been a trend for a while now, improving user experience (UX) while reducing exposure to common attack vectors. Now, Stytch’s new JavaScript SDK aims to make password-free authentication a bit easier by increasing customization and flexibility while offering fully baked authentication out of the box. Julianna Lamb, Stytch CTO, said the solution […]
DevSecOps: Realities of Policy Management
Policy management is essential to scale cloud environments and is key to secure DevOps practices. It enables organizations to manage policies put in place that secure the cloud environment, ensure Kubernetes configurations are secure and enable the continuous monitoring of a company’s overall security posture. As businesses migrate workloads across multi-cloud architectures to achieve the […]
Twitter/Bluesky ADX Algorithm | Cloud Energy Use ‘Tripled’ | Apple Staff are Revolting
In this week’s The Long View: Bluesky—Twitter’s research spinout—opens its ADX algorithm, Irish data-center electricity worries grow, and Apple employees are the latest to rise up against hybrid working.
Pulumi Extends Infrastructure-as-Code Reach
At its online PulumiUP conference, Pulumi announced it will make its Pulumi CrossCode translation technology available to third parties and DevOps teams. The technology was developed to integrate a wide range of programming languages with its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform. The company also announced it has added support for YAML—widely used to configure Kubernetes environments—as well […]
Internal Developer Portal: What it Is and Why You Need One
One main advantage of the cloud is that it offers developers flexibility and a self-service solution. Instead of having to contact the central infrastructure team whenever a dev team needs a new server or a cluster, the dev team can do it themselves through a simple web UI. This change drastically improves productivity. But there’s […]
Smoothing the Transition From REST to GraphQL
Since its open source release in 2015, GraphQL has taken the development world by storm. GraphQL, the query language originally developed by Facebook, is a big boon for frontend developers, as it enables you to grab the exact data you need with a single request. This solves the problems of over-fetching and under-fetching, which classical […]