The Future of IT: Smart Tools, Intelligent Technology
In the last few years, the lines between information technology and development have been blurred. Developers need to know about infrastructure, and administrators need to know how to code. Advances like containerization, orchestration, continuous integration and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) happened in tandem with DevOps’ rise. The advantage of DevOps is that you can quickly build and […]
Foundation Proposes Advancing eBPF Adoption Across Multiple OSes
The eBPF Foundation, which proposes to advance adoption of an approach that enables sandbox programs to run faster at the kernel level, is being launched today as an arm of the Linux Foundation. The technology known as eBPF was originally developed for Linux. The eBPF Foundation is now committed to expanding use of eBPF across […]
Real-Life BDD: Getting the Best Out of Dev Teams
If we want our software to have value, we need to improve it every day, rather than wait three months for the next release. If someone finds a bug and we know how to fix it, we want to deliver the fix that day. The challenge is deploying to production many times a day. If […]
Google Unveils Tool to Better Secure GitHub Repos
Google today launched a GitHub app that provides automated continuous enforcement of security best practices for GitHub projects. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Allstar application enables IT teams to assess any project on GitHub to check for security policy adherence. In addition, Allstar sets desired enforcement […]
Continuous Delivery: The Secret to 5G’s Success
New technologies are evolving the way societies function, and as a result, how businesses are carried out. In the networking industry, these emerging technologies coupled with the long-lasting impact of the past year–such as remote working–are changing the way customers and communication service providers (CSPs) interact. To that end, these shifts in behavior subsequently bring […]
Should You Hire a Clojure Engineer?
Quite often, when developing applications, it becomes necessary to execute long-running code at the same time as performing other tasks. More recently, to run a program on the Java virtual machine (JVM) it was necessary to write the program in Java. Those days are long gone due to the wide variety of programming languages for […]
A New DevOps Test Environment Platform is Needed
Test environment management is bottlenecking DevOps transformations and is driving the need for a new test environment management platform solution. On-demand test environments in which developers and testers do not have to wait for a shared environment are sorely needed. The evidence is clear. In my book Engineering DevOps I indicated that finding and setting up […]
Establishing Trust in Multi-Cloud Environments
Modern applications are transforming enterprises into digital innovation factories. However, the distributed nature and complexity of modern apps have made it extremely difficult for organizations to maintain trust and compliance across multi-platform, multi-cloud environments. Although Kubernetes is the standard for application platforms today, each cloud service provider (CSP) has a different offering for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) […]
EP 16: How DevOps has Changed Testing Forever
DevOps has changed the game in almost every aspect of testing: who, what, when, where and even why. What’s working, what needs to change immediately, and what challenges—and opportunities—lie ahead?
4 Steps to More Agile Operations
After over a year of business disruptions, modern enterprises have realized that speed and agility are the only way forward. In fact, according to Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 eBook, “Organizations that don’t focus on efficiency, efficacy, and business agility will be left behind.” In order to stay future-ready, organizations across all industries are moving to adopt an operating […]
Sophos Acquires Refactr to Advance DevSecOps
Sophos this week revealed it has acquired Refactr, a provider of an automation platform that makes it simpler to add static and dynamic security scanning and application testing to a DevOps pipeline. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Joe Levy, Sophos CTO, said Sophos will extend the Refactr DevSecOps automation platform to add security […]
Where Do SREs Go From Here?
Charlene O’Hanlon talks with Leo Vasiliou, director of product marketing at Catchpoint, about the results of a study the company fielded with VMWare Tanzu and DevOps Institute of nearly 300 site reliability engineers (SREs). This year’s report underscores the challenges of multi-cloud, calls out the underutilization of AIOps and shows a systemic shift in core […]
EP 15: Why Testing is so Frustrating
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Adam Kalsey of Tricentis, Brian Dawson of the Linux Foundation and Caroline Wong of Cobalt to discuss why testing is considered the most frustrating bottleneck for developers and engineers. Panelists will explain the benefits of testing early on in the SDLC and how to accelerate the feedback cycle with automated and continuous testing, as well the pros and cons of testing, the value of shift-left testing and how to effectively balance quality and speed. The video is below, followed by a transcript.
Improving Security with Mapping, Automation and DevOps
Strong cybersecurity is paramount for every organization. But all too often, security teams are disconnected from ongoing development processes and viewed either as an impediment to bringing products to market or as an afterthought. This leads to increased costs and possible gaps in the attack surfaces of new platforms. While many organizations are turning to […]
Harness Updates Cloud Cost Control Tool for DevOps Teams
Harness today announced that it has updated its cloud cost management (CCM) module for its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to add support for Kubernetes at the node level in addition to providing business intelligence tools to analyze overall cloud costs. Harish Doddala, senior director of product management for Harness, said the update surfaces […]
EP 14: What Have We Learned?
The past year-plus has brought disruption and opportunity to businesses and software teams all over the world. Change is inevitable, but 2020 was a year of massive change: businesses pivoted, supply chains were disrupted, customer expectations shifted to contactless services, digital transformation projects accelerated, new digital experiences were created, the move to the cloud jumped into high gear and our ability to create and deliver software was elevated to an essential capability for business.
Accelerate Your SDLC With DevSecOps
DevOps has been the answer to rising software development complexity, but the granularity and multiplicity of actors, technologies and environments brings added security requirements. Moving to DevSecOps will not only help with these requirements but also accelerate the software development life cycle (SDLC). As development projects mature, more developers get involved, the code base grows […]
EP 13: Observability and Performance Testing
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel is joined by Christine Yen of Honeycomb, Paul Bruce of Tricentis and Mitch Ashley from ASG/MediaOps to discuss how to effectively test the performance of your applications and how bringing observability into testing environments helps DevOps teams identify and resolve issues early in the SDLC. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation.
How to Build an Options-Based Observability Strategy
The global pandemic forced companies to accelerate their digital transformations, pushing them toward new technologies and architectures as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. Companies wanted fast development and deployment and were happy to trade off efficiency, reliability and sometimes, security, to pursue their goals. Now that the pandemic is receding in many […]
Multi-Cloud Is Not About Lift and Shift
Multi-cloud is often framed from the perspective of “lift and shift.” In other words, an organization takes a computing environment previously running on one cloud and transfers it over to a different service provider. Cloud migration may make sense for cost savings or performance benefits and such a shift may be necessary when migrating on-premises […]
5 Ways to Reduce DevOps Toil
Over the last several years, DevOps has become a bit of a buzzword. It has become simultaneously a practice, a culture, a team, a job title and a vendor product. You can hire some DevOps, buy some DevOps, adopt DevOps and sprinkle a little bit of DevOps on top for good measure. But, at its […]
CircleCI Survey Shows the Need to Prioritize DevOps
A CircleCI survey of 2,013 business leaders in the U.S. and UK published today finds nearly all respondents (97%) recognize that the success of their business within the next year depends on their software development teams. Despite those findings, well over one-third of respondents (39%) admit their organization is challenged when it comes to innovation […]
The State of DevOps Is Just Fine
There is a growing amount of hand-wringing about the state of DevOps; that adoption is not progressing apace, or that the full benefits of the methodology are not being realized by the majority of adherents. That we can and must do more and do it better, etc. That is just stupid. Or, my first reaction: […]