Learn a Bit About AI
Every once in a while, a trend becomes broad enough that I feel the need to offer career advice. This year it will be simple: Know enough about AI/ML to be dangerous. We are past the point where not having at least a basic understanding is a good idea. Looking around the data center, AI […]
A Blueprint for Securing Software Development
Software development has changed dramatically in recent years, as technologies like DevOps, application containers, and cloud-native transform how software is built and distributed. Unfortunately, attackers have been paying close attention to these changes, and have retooled their attack strategies to take advantage of relatively weak security controls in software development and build environments. Attackers recognize […]
Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF
Splunk Inc. announced during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it donated a data collector to the OpenTelemetry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Splunk’s data collector runs as a sandbox-level program at the kernel of a Linux operating system and takes advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology […]
Why Observability and Monitoring Matter to SREs
Site reliability engineers, or SREs, do many things. They help developers build reliability into applications. They manage SLAs and SLOs. They play a leading role in incident management and incident response. For all of these tasks, SREs draw heavily on observability and monitoring. Although other parts of the IT organization also typically help to manage […]
Welcome to the New Field of Software Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management is the newest ‘shiny object’ in both the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. But what does it mean in relation to software development? Historically, supply chain management is a commerce term that refers to tracking the logistics of goods and services moving between producer and consumer. This would include the storage and flow […]
CNCF Adopts Meshery to Advance Service Mesh Management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week during the ServiceMeshCon/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference that Meshery, a service mesh management plane created by Layer5, has become a sandbox-level project. In addition, Layer5 has also donated Service Mesh Performance (SMP), a set of tools for measuring the efficiency of a service mesh, to the CNCF. […]
Top 5 Must-Haves for IaC Automation Tools
These days, there are a lot of different DevOps tools to accomplish a lot of different jobs. Almost daily another startup comes out with a new and innovative product or a newer (maybe even better) version of existing tools. One of the biggest innovations has been infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Giving infrastructure admins and developers alike the […]
Rethinking Your Approach to Ops Governance
The “You build it, you run it” approach has changed the mindset of modern organizations that are increasingly adopting DevOps practices. No longer completely beholden to the requirements of operations, engineering teams are continually acquiring more autonomy to deliver rapid innovation. At the same time, more organizations are adopting platform teams to accelerate development, empowering […]
5 Steps to Succeed With Blue-Green Deployment
By allowing teams to maintain two production-ready environments at the same time, the blue-green deployment technique can significantly boost reliability. But blue-green deployment can also be difficult to execute and manage. Let’s unpack how blue-green deployment works, why it’s important and which best practices to follow for blue-green deployment success. Blue-Green Deployment, Defined Blue-green deployment […]
Mastering API Gateways for the Modern Cloud-Native Enterprise
As modern enterprises continue migrating to the cloud and the need for connected applications and devices dramatically increases, API-driven architectures are being widely adopted. In addition to the convenience of being able to efficiently connect and share resources, organizations benefit from the innovation and accelerated development speed that APIs bring in multi-cloud environments. APIs are […]
Your Tech is Only as Good as Your Infrastructure
A few weeks ago, one of my neighbors dug a ditch in his yard, hit a fiber internet line and knocked out my internet for eight hours. There I was, ready to start working, and I was cut off from my colleagues for an entire day. That experience highlighted the importance of a good digital […]
Microservices Adoption and the Software Supply Chain
Software development is undergoing industrialization, with more and more software rapidly assembled out of components and an emphasis on building automation around software validation and release processes. Modern cloud-native software is no longer a monolithic application living in a single repo with the majority of its dependencies self-contained. It is integrated from third-party components provided […]
BMC Acquires StreamWeaver to Advance AIOps Strategy
BMC has acquired StreamWeaver, a provider of a platform that makes it simpler to capture streaming data in real-time, as part of an effort to extend the BMC Helix IT operations platform infused with artificial intelligence (AIOps). Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Margaret Lee, general manager and senior vice president for digital […]
Verica Launches Database for Sharing IT Incident Reports
Verica, a provider of an incident management platform, announced this week it is making available a database to make incident reports publicly available via a single repository. Courtney Nash, senior research analyst at Verica, said the Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) initiative is part of an effort to enable organizations to learn from outages and […]
How to Pivot and Join Time-Series Data in Flux
Merging multiple time-series in InfluxDB using Flux may seem like a daunting task. This in-depth Flux tutorial will explain how to pivot, time shift and join time series in InfluxDB. In this InfluxDB tutorial, we will show you how to create an accurate overview of multiple time series with industrial data captured in consecutive production […]
4 Container Orchestration Security Concerns
Container orchestration is a must-have technical skill, according to 51% of respondents to the 2021 Upskilling survey from DevOps Institute. So, it’s no surprise, then, that container technology is becoming increasingly popular. However, container environments are far more complex and dynamic than other infrastructure, making container security essential. Security ensures containers are running as intended, […]
But What About When You Fail?
One thing Agile and DevOps definitely brought IT was a more accepting view of the whole “mistakes happen” mantra. Crashing systems is no longer a guarantee of a free ticket out the door. Indeed, off the top of my head, I can think of at least two cases where a CIO themselves checked in sloppy […]
Global Next-Generation Software Engineering Conference
GNGSEC sounds the clarion call for software engineering change! The pandemic made 2020 the year where we see some of this decade’s most exciting digital technologies become commercially viable, and others finally go mainstream. Software is the core of digital transformation. In the digital era, the methods by which we produce software also need to […]
The Role of APIs in Mainframe Modernization
Mainframes are historically clunky systems. They are incredibly secure and can process impressive calculations, yet they are complex to manage and challenging to extract data from. This reality is at odds with modern cloud-native infrastructure, which emphasizes distributed computing and portable microservices. So, how can existing mainframes adapt to this connected, data-driven economy? I recently […]
A New Era of Observability, Monitoring and Analytics for DevOps
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4 Tips To Plug The Cloud IT Skills Gap
Technical talent is few and far between. The programming world faces a developer shortage, and with this shortage comes a lack of cloud know-how. By now, most organizations have become multi-cloud, yet 86% of IT professionals believe a lack of these skills will slow down cloud projects. As more teams transition from older architectures to […]
Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Automation Ambitions
During the online Ansiblefest, Red Hat announced the availability of a preview edition of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 that is intended to make it easier to automate IT processes at scale. Richard Henshall, senior manager for Ansible product management at Red Hat, said previously most IT teams have been automating individual processes, but […]
The New(ish) Complexity
The API economy and microservices architectures, led by Agile and DevOps, have introduced a massive amount of hidden complexity. I call it hidden complexity because we have a tendency in IT to focus on the problems in front of us, resolve them, then focus on the new problem in front of us. This leaves technical […]