Learning ‘The Second Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Feedback
As indicated in my prior blog Learning the ‘First Way’ of DevOps–Continuous Flow, many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even the ‘first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. The first way of DevOps, continuous flow, is the foundation for DevOps. Once mastered, an organization will naturally want to master the second way of […]
Get the Benefits of Low-Code Without the Risks
Today, more than 300 vendors and various platforms offer different flavors of low-code solutions. However, the majority of these low-code tools are really no-code tools that benefit individuals or groups trying to solve a specific program. The list of benefits of low-code tools in your environment is long and compelling; however, there are security risks […]
Leveraging AI in DevOps for Non-Linear Scaleup
With technology evolving in leaps and bounds, AI is shaping the future of digital transformation for every business seeking speed, scalability, quality and flexibility. Since DevOps is on the verge of delivering exceptional software development environments, DevOps in AI is undeniably the next breakthrough in technology. We’ve witnessed every industry racing toward the adoption of […]
Digital Customer Experiences: The Future is Modular
With the proliferation of microservices and APIs, will UIs go modular too? Some technologists note a rising trend around smaller, intent-based customer experiences that more directly mirror API endpoints. I recently met with Adam Evans, co-founder and CTO of Airkit, to better understand what’s broken with today’s digital customer journeys and how they need to […]
Modernizing Continuous Integration
In the duality of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), CI focuses on build automation. Leveraging CI practices for software delivery is normal for most organizations and can be seen as a solved problem. However, the demand for increasingly distributed applications has risen with the expansion of microservices, and development teams have the expectation that every commit […]
No-Nonsense Guide to Distributed Databases
I got my first DBA job 15 years ago, and quite a few things have changed since then. The amount of data exploded, we saw the rise of NoSQL, and business logic moved away from being stored in relational databases to applications. To this day, the three pillars of reliability, scalability, and maintainability are the […]
How Low-Code/No-Code Can Transform Your Organization
For many companies, IT transformation is no small feat. Between the technology, process and organizational changes needed, it can take time to see a return on your IT transformation efforts and investments. So it’s no surprise that low-code/no-code is starting to be seen as a compelling solution for some. With low-code/no-code, you can empower teams […]
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to API Management
As API use has exploded across IT departments large and small, the need to manage APIs as independent entities—both APIs themselves and calls to them—rapidly became apparent. We have been through this cycle several times before–ORBs, DCOM, object repositories … the list goes on. There are several competing goals when introducing some management structure into […]
Cribl Automates Observability Efforts
Cribl today announced it has updated the Cribl LogStream observability tool in addition to generally making available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering dubbed LogStream Cloud. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy and competitive intelligence at Cribl, said Cribl LogStream provides the means to aggregate log data collected from multiple platforms and applications in a format […]
How to Build a People-First Engineering Team
When we think about successful technology teams, there is a tendency to primarily focus on the technology being created rather than the people who are creating it. While both approaches can lead to successful products, a technology-first approach is often the default when software engineers become managers without necessarily having the right tools to manage […]
Learning ‘The First Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Flow
Many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even ‘the first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. DevOps is an evolving body of knowledge. There is no one-stop shop that covers all roles and the complete range of skills required for DevOps. A DevOps-competent workforce requires an ongoing commitment to DevOps skills development and mastery. […]
Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture
There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices — even outside the usual use case of providing software (take, for example, SpaceX teams using agile, or leadership teams that use scrum practices and have daily stand-up calls). […]
7 Step Transformation Blueprint for SecDevOps
The struggle for continuous software security is obvious, but the solutions are not. As I indicated in my prior blog, SecDevOps is the Solution to Cybersecurity, a security-first mindset, coupled with SecDevOps-specific practices, provides an opportunity to achieve true continuous security. But, in reality, how can an organization accomplish SecDevOps? This blog explains how to […]
How to Move Fast Without Breaking Security
“Move fast and break things,” is a familiar motto. The phrase, attributed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helps to explain the company’s stellar growth over the past decade, driven by its product innovations. However, while it’s a useful philosophy for software development, moving faster than you’d planned is a risky approach in other areas, as […]
Unifying Partner Ecosystems With a Distributed Ledger
Blockchain has become famous in recent years for powering the cryptocurrency craze. But the fundamentals behind blockchain could prove helpful in other areas of the data economy, too. Because, as the value of data rises, so does the need for accurate, real-time data sharing across multiple partners. As we saw recently, global trade is surprisingly […]
JFrog Adds Private Distribution Network for App Binaries
At its online swampUP conference today, JFrog launched a Private Distribution Network (PDN) that makes it simpler and faster to distribute application binaries across an extended enterprise. Yoav Landman, JFrog CTO, said the PDN provides the equivalent of a content delivery network (CDN) designed specifically for distributing application binaries using a peer-to-peer network managed by […]
Cattle, Not Kittens – Revisited
The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens). For a year or so, the refrain was everywhere. And we did. We detached servers from dedicated hardware, we made spin up and spin down so easy that we just replaced malfunctioning servers (which […]
Oracle and Allies Launch ARM-Based Cloud Service
Oracle announced today it will make available for the first time ARM-based processors on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that will also be supported as targets for deploying applications using GitHub, GitLab or Jenkins platforms. The latest Oracle service is based on processors from Ampere Computing. The company also revealed today it has joined the […]
Three Ways Machine Learning Can Change Incident Management
Incident management for important applications has many connotations, many of them negative. Most are well-deserved. Stress, panic, hurry, urgent, drop-everything, all-hands-on-deck, emergency, to name a few. Typically, there is a critical problem, ranging from complete failure to loss of certain functionality or performance. The problem or outage potentially means loss of revenue, loss of customers, […]
Implementing an On-Demand Feature Environment
Not long ago, developers at LeanTaas implemented an on-demand feature environment. It came about as the result of a collaborative effort to support a faster go-to-market strategy. Moving to an on-demand feature environment resulted in greater agility, effectiveness, quality and a better bottom line for the organization. With careful implementation, any development team can benefit […]
Le Morte d’Arthur— A DevOps Engineering Journey
The stories of King Arthur have fascinated me from the time I was young. Now that I am old DevOps_the_Gray, I enjoy relating the story of King Arthur to my experiences with DevOps. I hope you find this blog interesting and relevant too. Imagine a boy raised in Britain by the wizard Merlin who becomes […]
Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek to Streamline App Feedback Process
Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both inspect a web application developed using JavaScript and leave comments for developers. Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, said Netlify will embed that collaboration capability in the […]
Our API Mess is Coming
APIs are the satisfaction of a long and deep need to be able to create consistent and reliable integrations between disparate systems, operating systems and datasets. As we started to use REST-based APIs, we also realized they fulfilled a previously little-addressed gap in automation. Frankly, they are a force multiplier in DevOps delivery. Early efforts […]