Amex, Adobe Join GitHub Intern Program
GitHub revealed today that Adobe and American Express have joined its Summer 2021 Fellowship program, a 12-week, hands-on curriculum where interns work alongside developers to contribute to open source projects hosted on the GitHub repository. Vanessa Gennarelli, senior director of education at GitHub, said the overall goal of the program is increase the pool of […]
The Digital Transformation of Decision-Making
The ability to make effective business decisions has historically relied on factors such as experience, qualifications, talent and, in many cases, luck. Strategic and tactical choices are also informed by ‘borrowing’ the insight and knowledge of others. In many situations, ‘follow the leader’ can be an effective approach, and one need only study any sector […]
DevSecOps Implementation: Patch Management
Patch management has been a thorn in IT’s side for decades. While it is undeniably necessary for security and stability purposes, the staggering array of patches that are available make managing them effectively nearly a full-time job – or a job better left to users. Few IT professionals want to be the “patch person,” and […]
Future-Proof Your Product Development Life Cycle
In product development, change is vital. In fact, some might say that product development is the embodiment of change. Continuous improvement keeps products from becoming stagnant, which, in turn, keeps companies afloat. While change is important, it’s not always helpful, especially when it involves the management of employee attrition and retention. Over the last year, […]
DevSecOps Implementation: It’s About the Data
It seems we are constantly barraged with, “So-and-so announced that their systems had been breached and 80,000 user records were stolen,” notices. In fact, https://haveibeenpwned.com/ lists ten billion hacked accounts. That is no surprise. Databases exist to pool related data together. Even NoSQL type databases, which some saw as an opportunity for wildly disparate data […]
How Shift-Left Testing Improves DevOps Efficiency and Software Quality
Shift-left testing is the key to deliver quality software at speed. Developers shift testing left to shorten long test cycles, prevent defects and mitigate risk earlier in the development cycle, rather than in later stages, to avoid rework and delays. In this interview, IBM Z DevOps Testing Lead Nathan Cassata talks about shift-left testing, the […]
OpenAPI Specification: Perception vs. Reality
The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) (formerly known as the Swagger specification) provides a way to describe and document REST APIs and their components. It includes details on endpoints, their operations, parameters needed for the operations, expected responses for every operation, authentication methods and even annotations. OAS is an easy format to learn and read, and can […]
Transforming Your Digital Transformation
Change is difficult, so most companies pull the bandage slowly, hoping to avoid the hard, painful part – especially with regard to digital transformation. But in the corporate world, cautious change inevitably leads to entropy. Progress gets made in one department at a time, at the expense of others. Leaders turn over, priorities shift, plans […]
vFunction Automates Conversion of Java Apps to Microservices
vFunction has developed an eponymous platform capable of automatically converting a monolithic application written in Java into a set of microservices. The startup is emerging from stealth mode today. Fresh from raising $12.2 million in seed funding, vFunction CEO Moti Rafalin said the company’s platform employs dynamic analysis, static analysis, data science and automation to […]
The Chaos Mindset: Teaching Your Code to Cope
Chaos engineering sounds alluring and exciting—it’s fun to experiment, right? But what some misunderstand about this approach is that it’s not about moving fast and breaking things. It’s about designing and introducing disruptions in the software production process that tests the resiliency of the code, much like crash testing in the automotive industry. If you […]
Pilot Testing DevOps in a Pandemic
Savvy organizations are using the pandemic to drive innovation by pilot testing DevOps. As health experts brace for an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases across the nation and vaccine distribution ramps up, many states and cities are still implementing significant measures to reduce the virus’s spread. As shutdowns impact cities coast to coast, organizations are […]
The State of Digital Innovation, One Year Into the Pandemic
It’s obvious COVID–19 accelerated digital reliance for many companies. And it’s no surprise that, according to a recent study, 89% of tech leaders believe digital experiences are critical to addressing new COVID–19 challenges. In this race toward 100% digital business, agile innovation is the new elixir of life — without it, a company may face an […]
DevSecOps Implementation: SIEM
The world is filled with events. Our inbox floods with events that marketers really want us to pay attention to, while news feeds flood us with events they’re trying to raise above the background noise, but then, the dog barking interrupts our consumption of that information. Our family is, meanwhile, texting us about events on […]
Overcoming Cloud Asset Management Challenges
Twenty years ago, no one in IT could have predicted the monumental role that cloud computing would play in our everyday lives. To play off the words of Back to the Future‘s Doc Brown: “On-premises? Where we’re going, we don’t need on-premises.” As technology continues to evolve, though, security teams face greater challenges. Infrastructure is […]
An Analytics Workload is a Critical Data Management Tool
From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as analyzing A/B testing results, understanding user retention or finding anomalies in a flow, for instance) or can serve in a supporting role for […]
TechStrong TV: How to Build and Refine Your DevOps Skills with OpsCompass
The role of DevOps is constantly evolving as new technologies and trends keep emerging and reshaping the business. It is critical for DevOps engineers to continuously learn about the latest tools, best practices and technology, and be able to adapt to change. There are many ways for DevOps teams to refine their skills in order […]
Enterprise Software Development Will Break the Speed Limit in 2021
For some, 2020 was the year for software development speed … but not for everyone. Startups and SMEs climbed on board the CI/CD, shift-left and agile development train en masse – and reaped the benefits of faster iterations and tighter release schedules. But the “big kids” got left behind. Core enterprise applications – the legacy […]
Measuring the Business Benefits of AIOps
Staffing levels within IT operations (ITOps) departments are flat or declining, enterprise IT environments get more complex by the day and the transition to the cloud is accelerating. Meanwhile, the volume of data generated by monitoring and alerting systems is skyrocketing, and Ops teams are under pressure to respond to incidents more quickly. Faced with […]
HAProxy Updates Data Plane API to Simplify Service Discovery
HAProxy has updated the open source HAProxy Data Plane application programing interface (API) to include service discovery capabilities alongside native support for the Consul service mesh being developed by HashiCorp. Version 2.2 of the HAProxy Data Plane API also adds support for file handling, SSL certificates, map files and configuration files for its Stream Processing […]
Rookout Tool now Debugs Third-Party Code
Rookout revealed today it has extended its eponymous debugging tools to include third-party applications. Shahar Fogel, Rookout’s CEO, says most organizations today are building applications that rely heavily on code or modules developed by a third party. Rookout now makes it possible to analyze and debug that code before it is incorporated within a larger […]
4 Ways to Scale DevOps in 2021
January is a month often dedicated to planning, setting intentions and preparing ourselves professionally and personally for a fresh year. In my own capacity as a DevOps and SRE leader, many of the clients I work with will reinvigorate internal efforts to streamline how they work in Q1. I often advise clients to make very […]
Managing Data Risk in 2021
You can’t protect your data if you don’t know where it is stored. The first thing to consider when creating a risk-based approach to data protection is the ability to identify and prioritize data, and control who has access to it. But, how do we do this? How do we prioritize data? In this TechStrong […]
How MLOps Can Help Get AI Projects to Deployment
Did you know that most AI projects never get fully deployed? In fact, a recent survey by NewVantage Partners revealed that only 15% of leading enterprises have gotten any AI into production at all. Unfortunately, many models get built and trained, but never make it to business scenarios where they can provide insights and value. […]