Integrating Security in the Development Process With DevSecOps
Occasionally, it’s worthwhile to reflect on how we develop and deliver software during times of rapid change and significant disruption. In those moments of reflection, we learn from the exciting trends and changes that are taking place. Recently I had the opportunity to commiserate with two technical thought leaders at Perforce: Stuart Foster, product manager, […]
The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy
While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams that have been employing Slack to collaborate for years is significant. Salesforce owns both Heroku and Force.com in addition to providing developers with […]
Governance, Quality Critical in the New Digital Norm
The shift to digital is certainly not new. But the speed of digital adoption has been accelerated as organizations react to the COVID-19 pandemic and implement remote working and contactless or self-service channels for customers. What’s more, the evidence shows that trend is here to stay. Analyst Gartner’s CIO Agenda 2021 report shows that 76% […]
Q&A: Database Security in Financial Services with Yaniv Yehuda
As financial institutions are adopting DevOps best practices to speed up application delivery the database remains the stumbling block causing delays, introducing risks, slowing down release cycles and wasting valuable internal resources. At the same time, compliance and audits are managed manually, complicating the process even further. It is time to bridge the gap between […]
Antipatterns That Hurt DevOps Implementations
Avoiding these DevOps antipatterns can help organizations reap the benefits of implementations faster It’s a given that all organizations at some point will suffer from poor development practices when trying to find the perfect balance between software development and IT operations. The good news, however, is that implementing DevOps can help you improve these processes […]
InfluxDB to Revamp Storage Engine for Time-Series Database
InfluxData has launched an open source InfluxDB IOx project that it said will become the foundation for the next generation of the company’s time-series databases. At the same time, the company has made InfluxDB Open Source 2.0 generally available. This version of the company’s database comes in the form of a single binary that makes […]
Design Systems: Development Choices for Meeting User Expectations
Modern software development trends involve design systems and modernization, and if we drill down further, the trend within the trend is about creating better user experiences. This means improving usability, emerging technology and performance enhancements. This is easier said than done. What does it mean for developers? Employing Design Systems What a designer sketches, a […]
DevSecOps Implementation: Dynamic Scans
This is the third installment in this series on DevSecOps. Read the first installment, on static analysis, here and the second installment, on source composition analysis, here. One weakness of static analysis is its failure to account for environment and use. Running static analysis on a code base as the only check before production deployment […]
What Children Can Teach Us About Coding
Redgate’s Code Club for kids ended up teaching their parents to love coding again Like lots of people in IT and other office-based jobs, I’ve been working from home since the pandemic started to hit in March 2020. In some ways it’s been hard because I’m the technical lead on a software engineering team, and […]
FinConDX: The State of DevOps in FinTech
The FinTech space has grown dramatically this year as more consumers shift their financial transactions online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial services companies are learning how to ship better code, faster by adopting DevOps methodologies. DevOps helps companies develop fast, fail fast and learn fast so they can fulfill customer expectations and deliver quality […]
7 Important Truths About Chaos Engineering
As a relatively new practice, chaos engineering has plenty of myths surrounding it, from randomly shutting down production systems to requiring huge investments of time and money. There’s a lot of confusion over the purpose, the value and the practice of chaos engineering. This presents a problem for DevOps teams, especially since more than half […]
3 Steps to Turn a Data Deluge Into Actionable Intelligence
Digital transformation is creating even more data for organizations to manage effectively. Here’s how to find the intelligence needle in the data haystack Data and analytics transform how companies across all industries identify and act on opportunities to gain a competitive advantage. But many organizations are discovering that ever-growing volumes of the former make the […]
Low Code: A Modern Approach to Software Development
Low-code development is not a new concept, but since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, it has become increasingly popular. Low code helps businesses adapt to ever-changing environments quickly by allowing them to build, customize and deploy apps with little to no coding. It enables organizations to accelerate their innovation, automation and transformation […]
How to Cut Design Sprints in Half
Any company that has created a product in the digital sphere will no doubt be familiar with the purpose of design sprints. Traditionally both back-end and front-end developers, designers, marketing teams and other stakeholders in the company come together over the course of five days to prototype ideas, gather insights on users and validate them […]
How Low Code Is Transforming Software Development
Low code/no code is a business catalyst enabling technologies to automate processes and allowing developers to create real-time solutions for their business. With low code, businesses are able to build, customize and deploy apps with little to no coding. In this interview, Rackspace CTO Jeff DeVerter explains how low code is transforming software development and […]
Accelerate Digital Transformation With Low Code
This year many organizations have gone through a lot of changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses need to be more agile, adapt to the new normal and accelerate their digital transformation. We have a new future of work we need to be ready for, and that requires more automation than ever before. Low code […]
DevSecOps Implementation: Static Analysis
One of the things I’ve done for Accelerated Strategies Group recently is looking into DevSecOps toolsets. This is a fun area for me, as development and security fit together well in my mind. Having a separate security group is useful, even necessary in some scenarios, but letting developers crank out code and looking for vulnerabilities […]
Empowering Citizen Developers With Low Code
Adopting low-code/no-code technologies enables businesses to quickly build and deploy applications. Low code empowers non-technical teams to build custom applications for their business and customers, accelerating their digital transformation efforts. In this interview, Kianda Chief Operating Officer Derya Sousa explains how low code accelerates digital transformation and empowers citizen developers. Derya is one of our […]
CircleCI Report Finds DevOps Teams Adjusting to New COVID-19 Normal
An annual State of Software Delivery report published today by CircleCI suggests that after a spike in developer activity last spring at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pace at which code is moving through a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has returned to normal levels even as developers continue to work from home. […]
Low Code and Change Management with Max Rudman
Many organizations trying to accelerate their digital transformation are turning to low-code technologies to respond quickly to the constant market changes. Low-code technologies facilitate application development by offering drag-and-drop components that require little to no hand-coding. Low code creates a seamless integration between cloud platforms, tools and utilities. As low-code applications increasingly become a shared […]
Accessibility and Feature Flags
Being able-bodied is a temporary condition. Some of us are born with disabilities, and some of us develop them. At some point in your life, you will get old enough to need reading glasses, or you will break your arm, or you will develop hearing problems. Are you reading this page through glasses? Are you […]
How to Solve 3 Significant Development Challenges
As products, systems, and software grow in complexity, so does the development process. This can lead to an increased risk of flaws and can result in expensive and potentially reputation-harming mistakes or recalls. These new complexities have shifted the product development process entirely, requiring optimization from end to end. Engineering and design teams need solutions […]
DataOps: The Key for Real-Time Data Application Development
Data engineers and developers face challenges every day to help their organizations digitally transform. To do this, they must deliver real-time data applications faster, better and cheaper. With businesses in every industry now data-driven, data professionals must work more efficiently and accelerate time to market for their products. That’s where DataOps comes in. Development of […]