DevOps for the Development and Delivery of High-Performance Applications
Engineering teams that successfully implement DevOps practices often deliver software with higher business value. These organizations can easily identify areas where problematic code exists, quickly eliminate issues and deliver high-performance applications more quickly than their competitors that use traditional delivery methodologies. DevOps practitioners understand that creating an efficient model for performance testing goes hand-in-hand with […]
Set DevOps Free With Modern Application Security
Development teams increasingly use technologies like cloud computing and microservices, in conjunction with DevOps principles, to innovate faster and remain competitive. But such progress comes at a cost. The fast pace of DevOps has left security teams scrambling to keep pace and install appropriate security guardrails. Traditional security practices used to occur in the final […]
Improving Mainframe Agility With DevOps
Mainframe workloads were on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic, and transaction-processing mainframes became vital as lockdowns went into effect and every aspect of business and personal life occurred online. Mainframes are reliable, secure, highly available and affordable, and it is essential for organizations to ensure their mainframe can achieve peak agility to enhance […]
7 Trends Influencing DevOps and DevSecOps Adoption
Enterprise technology adoption trends can be broadly categorized under three pillars: infrastructure, architecture and technology. Let’s explore what these trends are and how they influence DevOps and DevSecOps adoption in tech corporations worldwide. Trends in Architecture In computing, architecture is the collection of protocols encompassing the utility, structure and execution of software applications. Architecture defines […]
How Healthcare Companies Can Optimize Software for Improved Patient Outcomes
Healthcare companies are more reliant than ever on software to help them achieve good patient outcomes. Recent research reveals that the use of software as a service (SaaS) solutions is growing exponentially in health care, covering a wide range of areas including: Patient diagnosis Medical imaging Therapy and patient self-care Data collection and analysis Hospital […]
Unlocking Your DevOps Automation Mindset
In the new digital normal, where remote working has upended conventional software development cycles, the role of DevOps is central. Many enterprises have an accelerated digital agenda, but are often underinvested in rebooting DevOps for several reasons, including a lack of experience and insight into how it can help businesses recover from the new challenges […]
Rapid Strategic SRE Assessments Accelerate IT Transformations
A Strategic SRE Assessment is critical in helping organizations successfully transform traditional IT operations to SRE Site reliability engineering (SRE) is rapidly becoming more important to organizations that need to scale IT operations while maintaining or improving reliability and security, and to modernize operations to match the growth of DevOps in the organization. Without sufficiently […]
Best of 2020: Don’t Do Agile and DevOps by the Book
As we close out 2020, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our series of the Best of 2020. In software development, we talk a lot about the importance of Agile and DevOps. Agile aims for rapid releases, positively encourages involvement from customers […]
Best of 2020: Dear Staging: We’re Done
As we close out 2020, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2020. Dear Staging, I’ve been thinking a lot lately, and I’ve come to the decision that it’s time for us to go our separate […]
Best of 2020: Cybersecurity: What Programming Language Is Better for Your Career?
As we close out 2020, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our series of the Best of 2020. As a novice developer, you may be thinking about learning a programming language and starting a fantastic career. In fact, this question on Reddit […]
Best of 2020: 5 Project Management Skills Every Developer Should Have
As we close out 2020, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our series of the Best of 2020. The days of the siloed project manager and “skilled” development team are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to the increasing complexity of […]
Why Boring Tech is Best to Avoid a Microservices Mess
Microservices are all the rage. A Forrester study found that 76% of enterprises were rearchitecting applications for microservices. At the same time, microservices are definitely not a silver bullet. Among those already using microservices in production, one study found that 59% said each microservice added increased operational challenges such as data management. Even more concerning, […]
Up Your DevOps Game: It’s Time for NoOps
NoOps is here and it’s more than just a buzzword or an ideal. The next generation of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) platforms are evolving to minimize the developers’ operational burden and reduce dependency on DevOps for deployment. Dev teams that don’t want to deal with operations or don’t have in-house operations resources should consider deploying applications on […]
6 Tips to Survive the World’s First Holiday Lockdown Gaming Crunch
‘Tis the season to be jolly … especially if you’re a gamer. The upcoming holiday gaming release schedule is a joy to behold for locked-down, socially distanced or just plain pandemic-fatigued game enthusiasts. For game studios and game developers, however, holiday releases have an entirely different connotation—the infamous crunch time. While views differ on the […]
Split Allies With AWS to Advance Feature Flagging Adoption
Split today announced it has integrated its namesake platform for managing feature flagging with the Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as part of an effort to streamline the process of adding new capabilities to applications. Company CTO Pato Echagüe said one of the most challenging aspects of feature flagging is providing a way for […]
Leading Effective Incident Response Without Interminable Bridge Calls
There are easier ways to manage incident response without creating war rooms and packing IT staff onto bridge calls Your phone vibrates at 11 p.m., and you know that can only mean another major incident with one of the business’ critical systems. You get geared up for the war room, dial into the bridge call […]
Change Management in a Fast-Paced DevOps World
While DevOps speeds up software release cycles, change management often slows them down. So, how do you do change management in a fast-paced DevOps environment? Change control enables organizations to meet compliance and governance while managing changes at the speed of business. In this interview for TechStrong TV, Greg Sanker, former CIO, IT Operations specialist, […]
How Impact Mapping Can Align Remote Teams for Success
Impact mapping is ideal for creating effective cross-functional groups in a remote work environment Around the globe, teams have been adjusting to the current remote work environment. Those adopting a DevOps way of thinking may have had an easier time adapting to the rapidly changing situation. Yet, even for organizations used to remote work, there’s […]
3 Ways to Support DevOps Teams in Remote Work
As we settle into remote work for the long haul, it’s crucial to consider how best to support DevOps teams. While DevOps employees face similar challenges working remotely as any other department, they also face increased pressure to deliver as IT professionals, supporting the entire organization through an ever-changing work environment. By nature, remote work […]
DevSecOps Implementation: Interactive Testing
This is the fourth installment in this series on DevSecOps. Read the first installment, on static analysis, here the second installment, on source composition analysis, here, and the third installment, on dynamic scans, here. Dynamic testing looks at the running application, poking and prodding to see how it reacts to known vulnerabilities. A complete dynamic […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: ServiceNow and DevOps, One Year In
It’s now been a year since ServiceNow launched its DevOps integration initiative. Since then, thanks to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, the way organizations manage IT has utterly changed. With more employees now regularly working from home, more organizations have shifted toward relying on IT service management (ITSM) platforms that, like ServiceNow, run in […]
Out of the Silo: Big Data and DevOps Meet in the Middle
Given the myriad benefits they provide, it seems crazy that big data and DevOps have been implemented independent of each other If you have been working from home during the recent lockdowns, you probably don’t feel like you are making many new connections, but when we come to look back on this time in a […]
BVSSH and the Digital Zeitgeist
I like the book, “Better Value Sooner Safer Happier” (BVSSH), by Jon Smart with contributions from Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie and Simon Rohrer. It is not only a punchy title that captures much of what we do in IT, but it also has the depth and nuance that is sorely needed. It focuses on outcomes […]