The Pandemic’s Impact on Mobile App Security
Mobile device use has continued to grow throughout the global pandemic, surpassing 5.19 billion mobile phone users worldwide over the past year. As a result, companies have been launching mobile apps at an incredible pace to capitalize on the abundance of potential users. The rapid pace of mobile app development, however, has led to a […]
How to Modernize Data Integration
In times of uncertainty, accurate real-time data becomes essential to informed decision-making. When the pandemic ends and businesses begin to reopen, this will be truer than ever. While there is no precedent for COVID-19’s impact on the economy, what is clear is that the enterprise is clamoring for more analytics than ever. Data engineering is […]
Oracle Extends Capabilities of Enterprise Manager Platform
Oracle today announced it has updated its core management platform to provide capabilities that make it easier to manage a hybrid cloud computing environment spanning millions of endpoints. The latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) 13c, in addition to greater scalability, also provides support for dynamic groups, dynamic runbooks, automated workload analysis, monitoring templates, […]
Are Developers Responsible for Open Source Governance?
There are lots of factors in the open source software world converging to make it a big year for “shift left” in software development. Heightened security concerns, an increasing need for software supply chain visibility and the growth and complexity of open source ecosystems will continue to push the responsibility for ensuring code is secure […]
Reducing Friction in Developer Collaboration
Given how the individual unit of deployment has gotten increasingly smaller, such that the unit of deployment is usually a microservice, it would be tempting to think that individual developers are more able to control how well the code they write (the service they deploy) will work in production. In fact, though, almost the opposite […]
Is Low-Code Development a Security Risk?
According to Gartner, the worldwide low-code development market is projected to be $13.8 billion in 2021, a whopping increase of 22.6% from 2020. Gartner also predicts that the surge in remote development during COVID-19 will continue to boost low-code adoption, despite budget cuts and efforts to optimize cost. Low-Code’s Popularity Among Professional and Citizen Developers […]
How Shifting Testing Left Can Boost DevOps Velocity
DevOps is all about balance: How can speed and quality be balanced to best meet the demands of customers who want exceptional digital experiences as fast as possible? DevOps looks to meet these expectations head-on by helping to deliver a faster cadence of new builds to customers while keeping quality high. What’s more, quality should […]
ADOC: Assessing DevOps Culture
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey. The assessment models five DevOps […]
Survey Shows Acceleration of Centralized IT Management
An OpsRamp survey published this week suggests large enterprises are looking to finally unify IT management at at time when it is becoming increasingly complex. OpsRamp, a provider of an IT management platform based on machine learning algorithms, polled 132 IT operations directors working for organizations in the U.S. with more than 500 employees that […]
DevOps Trends to Watch in 2021
Engineers at fast-paced startups often wear both Dev and DevOps hats. Early in my career, as a developer at a sentiment-analysis startup, I was tasked with writing scripts to spin up servers, configure them, install necessary software and deploy the code we wrote. My custom shell scripts, Python scripts and cron jobs did all the […]
Languages and DevOps: Mainframe
In true DevOps fashion, I nearly forgot to cover the mainframe after saying it warranted its own blog! There is a lot going on right now in the mainframe space, so the question of mainframe language choices has several different answers. We’ve got Linux running on the mainframe, we’ve got cross-compiled open source capable of […]
How the DevOps Skill Journey Fosters a Learning Culture
Human skills, among others, have always been important; now more than ever. Empathy, diversity, creativity, personal commitment have been put to the test. The increase in remote work tends to challenge individuals in unique ways, and these human skills are becoming critical. Top 5 Skill Domains for 2021 This year, 69% of respondents to the […]
Redis Labs Extends Reach of In-Memory Database
At its online RedisConf 2021 event, Redis Labs today detailed how the company’s in-memory database will be employed to drive real-time applications that are at the core of most digital business transformation initiatives. Yiftach Shoolman, Redis Labs CTO and co-founder, said there are four initiatives at the core of the Redis Labs effort to replace […]
DevSecOps Practices Gap Assessment
DevSecOps practices are essential to deliver software safely and securely withinDevOps value streams. To get the maximum security protection from DevSecOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s practices for DevSecOps and determine a strategy for […]
The Evolution of the Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC)
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey. The assessment models five DevOps […]
Low-Code Automated Software Testing Drives DevOps
The DevOps world has quietly turned its focus to solving an essential challenge: enabling software teams to innovate quickly while meeting high customer expectations for quality. In other words, to build useful things faster with fewer mistakes. This tension has been growing for years, but 2020 added the challenges of remote work and accelerated digital […]
Solving Cloud-Native Challenges in the Rush to the Cloud
The shift to cloud-native environments away from traditional data center infrastructures continues unabated, but security and complexity challenges remain a struggle for DevOps teams. These were two of the main takeaways in a survey and analyst report published by the IT consultancy firm Flexera. The survey, based on the responses of 750 IT professionals, revealed […]
How to Use the Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC)
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey. The assessment models five DevOps […]
Languages and DevOps: Recommendations
In light of the points brought up in these articles, what is my advice for which language to use on a given project? The same advice I have always given development teams: Use the right tool for the job. My father was a woodworker, and drilled that concept into me. I brought it to development, […]
Unified Enterprise DevOps Platforms Eliminate Bottlenecks
Nearly all enterprise digital transformation projects include moving software to DevOps processes and platforms. The effort, cost and time it takes to be successful with these transformations depend on a lot of factors, but one thing stands out: as indicated in my white paper Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform Why? How? And What?, “An enterprise with many […]
Survey Finds Digital Transformation Outcomes in Doubt
The COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations, both large and small, to either launch or accelerate digital business transformation initiatives that, to varying degrees, depend on their level of DevOps acumen to succeed. Value stream management platform provider Digital.ai today published the results of a survey of 200 IT decision makers, 200 security decision makers and 200 […]
4 Ways SASE Fuels DevOps Productivity
Many enterprises are adopting secure access service edge (SASE) solutions as part of their digital transformation efforts. SASE, in a nutshell, merges together SD-WAN and security stacks to deliver secure networking and improved WAN performance, making it a logical choice for cloud-enabled businesses going through the throes of digital transformation. However, SASE offers other benefits, […]
Empowering DevOps With Cloud Desktops
Today’s organizations need to enable their IT teams to rapidly deploy, manage and maintain their applications and services. This is a primary driver behind the growth in adoption of DevOps. By uniting the IT operations and software development teams, organizations are helping to provide continuous delivery and accelerating the systems development life cycle. At the […]