LogicMonitor Introduces Unlimited Log Data Retention
LogicMonitor today announced it will provide an option that allows IT organizations to retain an unlimited amount of log data on its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Tej Redkar, chief product officer at LogicMonitor, said one of the issues that is holding back advances in observability is the cost of storing log data. LogicMonitor has decided to […]
Plutora Enhances VSM Platform with Release Insights
Plutora has enhanced its value stream management (VSM) platform to provide dashboards that enable DevOps teams to better optimize application delivery. Jeff Keyes, vice president of product marketing and strategy for Plutora, said dashboards added to the platform will make it possible for application release managers to leverage predictive analytics to manage application delivery in […]
Nobl9 Adds Hydrogen Platform to Surface Technical Debt Issues
Nobl9 today unveiled a Hydrogen platform that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to identify technical debt issues as they manage service level objectives (SLOs) as code. Hydrogen enables DevOps teams to define SLOs using a simple wizard or by embedding code within their application as part of a DevOps workflow. That code is then […]
Stopping Mobile Fraud With Automation and DevSecOps
Mobile fraud is a multibillion-dollar problem that’s only getting worse. One study showed that mobile click fraud alone rose 64% during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, during the pandemic, about one in five mobile ad clicks were fraudulent. And that’s just one form of mobile fraud. Weaponized botnets, mobile malware, […]
Building and Leading Product Teams in Uncertain Times
The world seems to be changing faster than ever, and there’s no reason to believe it will slow down anytime soon. The pandemic has compounded this sense of constant flux, with customer priorities shifting overnight. Against this backdrop, product teams need to constantly evolve their development work without losing focus or feeling they need to […]
Prioritizing Scalability, Reliability and Security in Engineering
As digital products and services are more deeply embedded in critical industries and infrastructure and the implications of problems grow in scope, engineering organizations are renewing their focus on building platforms that are scalable, reliable and secure. More importantly, they are recognizing that this isn’t the responsibility of an SRE or CSO, it’s an ethos […]
Google Makes Fuzz Testing Integration Tool Available
Google today made available a ClusterFuzzLite tool that makes it simpler to incorporate fuzz testing into a DevOps workflow. Fuzz testing refers to an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected or random data as inputs to an application to discover issues such as potential memory leaks. Jonathan Metzman, a senior software engineer […]
Akamai Brings Web Application and API Security Together
Akamai Technologies, Inc. this week launched a service that consolidates the process of securing both web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs). Amol Mathur, vice president of product management and strategy for Akamai, said with the launch of App & API Protector the managed security services provider is making it easier for IT teams to […]
Low-Code and the Rise of the Citizen Developer
Low-code technologies have become increasingly popular for helping businesses adapt to ever-changing environments quickly by allowing them to build, customize and deploy apps with little to no coding. At Low-Code/No-Code Virtual Summit, taking place on Nov. 18 at 9 a.m. ET, luminaries of leading organizations in the low-code community will share valuable insights on their […]
Data Theorem Adds Runtime Protection Enabled by Observability
Data Theorem, Inc. this week added an Active Protection offering to its portfolio of application security services that makes it possible for DevOps teams to embed observability and runtime defenses in their applications via a software development kit (SDK). The Data Theorem cloud services are based on Trustkit, an open source framework the company created […]
4 Strategies to Manage Freelancers with In-House Dev Teams
Remote workers are a growing segment of the global workforce. Freelancers account for a big part of that segment, especially when development teams need to bring in specialized skillsets for upcoming projects. Working with freelancers offers many benefits, but there can also be challenges when integrating freelancers with in-house teams. Here are four strategies to […]
Observability Matters. But Are You Observing the Right Things?
It’s like clockwork. Every few months, a new buzzword descends on the tech industry, and soon it’s on everyone’s lips. Take your pick from the graveyard of buzzwords past: “Big data,” “internet of everything,” “hacktivism,” “gamification.” It’s not that these terms are meaningless—just that they go from relatively obscure to ubiquitous seemingly overnight. We can […]
Dynatrace Adds Security Gates to Advance DevSecOps Adoption
Dynatrace today added a security gates capability to its observability platform to make it easier to automatically embrace DevSecOps best practices within an application delivery pipeline. Steve Tack, senior vice president for product management at Dynatrace, said the security gates function much the same as the quality gates that Dynatrace previously added to that platform […]
Allstacks Adds Free Dashboard to Track Software Dev Benchmarks
Value stream intelligence platform provider Allstacks today added a free live dashboard populated with anonymized data that DevOps teams can use to benchmark their own progress. Hersh Tapadia, Allstacks co-founder and CEO, said the company is making this data available to make it easier for DevOps teams to uncover bottlenecks in their software development processes. […]
Grafana Labs Expands into Incident Management Realm
During its online ObservabilityCON 2021 conference, Grafana Labs this week previewed an incident management platform in addition to making available an on-premises edition of its distributed tracing tool. Tom Wilkie, vice president of product for Grafana Labs, said the Grafana OnCall incident management platform is a natural extension of the observability tools the company already […]
The Need for Agile, Adaptable IT Infrastructure
Through the adoption of Agile concepts and new best practices such as automated testing, organizations can move beyond the innovation curve and bolster their IT infrastructure. In fact, the need to build agile and resilient IT infrastructure has become increasingly pertinent over the past 18 months. From remote working and managing the diverse needs of […]
How Dispersed Can We Be?
It is interesting to consider DevOps from the storage perspective. DevOps in general—and specifically newer development and deployment models—tried to pretend that long-term storage was not a necessary component of software delivery. In short, it appears that because there wasn’t a good answer to long-term state in stateless development models, the storage and databases that […]
Debunking 6 Stubborn Public Cloud Myths
A lot of enterprises migrate to the public cloud because they see everyone else doing it. And while you should stay up on the latest and greatest innovations—which often happen in the cloud—you need to be aware of the realities and understand different migration strategies. You need to know why you’re moving to the cloud. […]
Developer Familiarity is Key to Digital Success
For some time, the goal of digital transformation was to replace legacy systems. It became a battle between all that was new and shiny and that which was old, outdated and “had to go.” However, this philosophy has since shifted as companies realized two crucial facts. First, legacy systems are often too important to be […]
Microsoft Expands Azure DevOps Portfolio
Microsoft has made available a bevy of updates to its DevOps portfolio that, collectively, are intended to increase its share of a wave of applications that will be rolled out across the extended enterprise. Additions to the Microsoft DevOps portfolio were announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference and include DevOps Workflow Generator, a free […]
How Retailers Can Prosper in the Age of eBay and Prime
It feels like a long time since the beginning of the pandemic, where once malls and city centers were alive with the footfall of customers and any service could be found across a counter. The landscape of consumer services has now changed irreparably. Online marketplaces, which have increasingly dominated much of consumer purchasing habits since […]
Driving Software Delivery Automation With AI/ML
What if we could use an artificial intelligence (AI) engine to predict the next lines of software code to build? What if machine learning (ML) could trigger the creation of automated test cases to validate our solutions? Automation has been a focus for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry for years, and there are […]
Why DataOps is Critical for Digital Transformation
Data lies at the heart of all digital transformation. In fact, today, as organizations look to further accelerate their ongoing digital transformation initiatives, companies are looking to extract even more value from their data, to better drive corporate decision-making, help grow the business, improve customer satisfaction and gain a competitive advantage. Inspired by DevOps, DataOps, […]