On-Premises Software Delivery Tool: Build or Buy?
The on-premises software market is four times larger than the SaaS market, but harder to reach. Every software vendor who wants to pursue it has to decide how they are going to package and deliver applications inside customers’ firewalls, automating away the complexity of keeping applications deployed and running. Should they build or buy a […]
Languages and DevOps: API-First
One of the places development has made significant changes is in the land of APIs. These days, a program almost isn’t considered a proper application unless it offers APIs to do most of what can be done via UI (and even command line). This is a big deal for several reasons; first and foremost, the […]
Logz.io Adds Prometheus Service to Observability Portfolio
Logz.io announced today the general availability of a cloud service, based on Prometheus, that can collect and analyze metrics alongside its existing log management service. Jonah Kowall, CTO, Logz.io, said the goal for Prometheus-as-a-Service is to provide IT teams with a centralized approach to analyzing data collected from instances of Prometheus running on local servers […]
Why Developers Should Care About Resilience
Recently, a friend reminded me of a joke we used to have when we were both developers at a huge software corporation (we won’t mention names, but back when printers were a thing, you probably owned one of theirs). We didn’t develop printers. We developed performance testing and monitoring tools. We were the dev team, […]
Assessment of DevOps Capabilities: 5 Dimensions Explained
In order for organizations and teams to move toward DevOps maturity, they need to understand their DevOps capabilities. An Assessment of DevOps Capabilities determines a baseline DevOps state, measures and accelerates continuous improvement. When we designed our Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC), the ambassador cohort brought a ton of ideas to the table around the […]
Sonatype Acquires MuseDev to Add Code Analysis
Sonatype today revealed it has acquired MuseDev, a provider of a code analysis tool, in addition to updating its Nexus platform for discovering vulnerabilities in software supply chains. Muse analyzes code each time a pull request is made, which makes it easier for developers to discover and address issues long before they commit code. Muse […]
Measuring the Value of DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS)
The late great W. Edwards Deming, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant said, “In God we trust. All others must bring data.” The point is, if you want people to trust your information, then you need to present measured data. This is true for countless circumstances. As a DevOps consultant, I am often asked by […]
The Importance of Incorporating DesignOps Into DevOps
Design is a critical software project element that often goes unnoticed by those writing code. After all, coders and implementers tend to take the design process for granted and leave the look and feel of applications to the designers. In the days of waterfall based development, design was one of the first steps in the […]
LinearB Raises $16M for Software Delivery Intelligence
LinearB announced today it has raised an additional $16 million in funding to advance adoption of a software delivery intelligence platform. Ori Keren, LinearB CEO, said rather than relying on antiquated processes that require software development teams to track progress by reentering data into a project management application, it’s now possible to automatically collect all […]
5 Steps to Successful DevOps Culture
The late business management guru Peter Drucker coined the phrase, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” and the phrase has endured through the years. Your people must be passionate and enthusiastic about executing business strategy, or it – and your business – is doomed to fail. But remember that company culture itself needs a strategy to […]
Linux Foundation Project Secures Software Supply Chains
The Linux Foundation today embraced a sigstore project founded by Red Hat, Google and Purdue University to make it simpler for developers to employ cryptographic software, enabled by transparency log technologies, to secure software supply chains. Luke Hinds, security engineering lead in the office of the CTO at Red Hat, said he and Dan Lorenc, […]
GitGuardian Reports Careless Handling of Application Secrets
A new report, the 2021 State of Secrets Sprawl on GitHub, published today by GitGuardian, a provider of a tool for monitoring usage of application secrets, suggests developers are not especially good at keeping those secrets safe. Based on an analysis of every single commit made to GitHub, the report finds there has been a […]
Kong Integrates Service Mesh with OPA
Kong, Inc. today announced an update to Kong Mesh, built on top of open source Kuma service mesh, that adds support for Open Policy Agent (OPA) software that enables DevOps teams to manage compliance as code. Kuma and OPA are both being developed under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Kuma, unlike […]
Introduction to Materialized Views
More often than not, the types of queries that use materialized views are both faster, and use fewer resources than those that are still processing queries directly to base tables. But the key to understanding the potential that materialized views bring with them involves first understanding as much about them as possible. What is a […]
IaC Frameworks: Vendor-Specific or Multi-Cloud?
Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual machines (VMs) to cloud-native architecture, applications are much more complicated, making it much more important to automate infrastructure to respond with speed. In […]
DevOps Myths Debunked
Leaders need not be DevOps experts, but they need to distinguish DevOps myths and realities to lead their digital transformation projects. As I indicated in a recent article, Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges, leaders need to set an inspiring DevOps directional vision for the organization, and proactively stimulate and sponsor team activities toward goals. […]
How to Build Actionable Logging Systems
Logging is often considered an automatic process that doesn’t require much thought. We see logs, in general, from any system and take for granted that those logs have the information that’s needed. However, thinking through a logging strategy and architecture is extremely important for troubleshooting and performance efficiency. Regardless of how you log, the most […]
Languages and DevOps: Web Development
Web development has changed a lot since DevOps first hit the scene. The languages used have shifted, where languages are used has shifted, the likely back-end hosting environment has changed – but DevOps has folded these issues in and just kept plugging along. We’re going to approach this from two angles – what languages you’re […]
Game On: Secure Coding Virtual Summit 2021
Agile organizations are looking for ways to win at security without slowing down their release cycles. That’s where DevSecOps comes in. The days of a hands-off security approach for developers are over. Organizations implementing DevSecOps to integrate security into their DevOps framework are able to release secure software faster. Developers test code for potential security […]
Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges
When I think about the challenges of DevOps transformations, I love the viewpoint expressed by Ryan Harmon, strategic accounts manager at Trace3: “DevOps is a complex maze that has many leaders frustrated. In many large enterprises, ‘DevOps’ is simply a buzzword they are striving to achieve but struggle with what the end state looks like […]
3 Common App Modernization Pitfalls to Avoid
Application modernization has been a consistent theme for organizations year after year. Businesses today still rely on their legacy applications for the majority of their revenue generation, from mainframes to Java EE. New digital transformation initiatives and mandates have pushed application modernization back to the forefront, as a new generation of automation platforms and best […]
Languages and DevOps: Embedded
Every once in a while, it is a good idea to take stock of the environment and the market around us to determine if what we are doing is what we should be doing. I’m a developer, not a prognosticator, so these observations are simply based on my experience in the development world, along with […]
Survey: The State of Database DevOps
Enterprises are undergoing rapid changes. Throughout the past year, companies have been pressed to learn a diversified set of technologies and methods to remain agile in a changing economy. In this digital-first world, data plays a heightened role; in tandem, so does the delivery of data and the persistence of the database layer itself. Applying […]