The Role of DevOps Feedback Loops in Your Value Stream
Feedback loops are found in all systems, organic or inorganic. They propel the recirculation of hot or cold air to raise or lower temperatures; they drive the idea exchange that helps businesses fine-tune operating strategies. Yet, nowhere are feedback loops more important but also misunderstood than in software delivery. Attaining the “holy grail” of software […]
Nobl9 Ties Business Goals to Observability Data
Nobl9 today announced it has made available via an open public beta program a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for correlating business goals against data collected by observability tools. Unlike observability platforms that only aggregate metrics, the Nobl9 Service Level Objective (SLO) Platform applies that data to specific reliability targets defined by the business, company CEO Marcin […]
Mob Programming During a Pandemic: Lessons Learned
Despite limitations, mob programming can be effective, even during COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has many of us considering the long-term impact on our personal and working lives. Shaking hands with new colleagues or clients? Buffet lunches? I’ve recently wondered how social distancing will affect mob programming, which is a development practice we implemented at Bonitasoft […]
Application Modernization Video with IBM’s Rosalind Radcliffe
Application modernization is the process of updating existing legacy applications and modernizing their infrastructure, architecture and features, by using modern technology stacks. Monolithic applications are difficult to update and expensive to scale. In response to today’s business requirements of growth and innovation, enterprises must deliver new applications in an agile fashion while minimizing risk. Many […]
Azul Adds OpenJDK Migration Services
Azul today announced today it will provide migration services for IT organizations looking to transition from the proprietary Oracle Java Standard Edition (SE) developer platform to the Zulu edition of an open source OpenJDK equivalent. OpenJDK is based on the HotpSpot edition of the Java virtual machine, the Java Class Library and the Java compiler. […]
How To Foster a Culture of Citizen Developers
What can leaders do to encourage a thriving environment of citizen developers in their organization? Over the last several months, businesses of all sizes have had to embrace rapid change, as have their workforces. When it comes to IT departments, even before the pandemic many were fielding requests to implement new technology, customize solutions to […]
Winning DevOps in the Finance Industry
DevOps is making its impact on almost every software-powered company these days. Companies in the finance domain, however, have been perhaps the slowest to embrace DevOps because of concerns regarding governance, security, compliance and regulatory regulations. But it is safe to say that they are currently leading the digital innovation in this era of cloud-native […]
Survey Surfaces Lots of Edge Computing Diversity
A global survey of 1,652 published today by Eclipse Foundation suggests a flood is lifting all platform boats as IT organizations begin to build and deploy a wide range of edge computing applications. The survey finds artificial intelligence (30%) is the workload organizations plan to deploy on edge computing platforms, followed closely by control logic […]
Bootstrapping DevOps for the Internet Computer
All startups face unique sets of challenges and issues at each stage of their existence. The DFINITY Foundation, a Swiss-based not-for-profit with the remit to extend the functionality of the internet, is no exception. Like any new organization, we have had to evolve and adapt our DevOps and other practices in response to different obstacles. […]
Runtime Security and Incident Response with Loris Degioanni
By adopting DevOps, Kubernetes and containers you can accelerate innovation and deliver a better experience for customers and employees. While Kubernetes adoption simplifies application deployment, security needs to adapt and be cloud-first, open and frictionless as a new set of complexities may surface. Check out this interview with Sysdig Founder and CTO Loris Degioanni to […]
Why It’s Time for Site Reliability Engineering to Shift Left
By adopting a multilevel approach to site reliability engineering and arming your team with the right tools, you can unleash benefits that impact the entire service-delivery continuum In today’s application-driven economy, the infrastructure supporting business-critical applications has never been more important. In response, many companies are recruiting site reliability engineering (SRE) specialists to help them […]
Has the Time Come for IT Predictive Analytics?
Predictive analytics technologies have become critical to compete in manufacturing (predicting machine failure), banking (predicting fraud), e-commerce (predicting buying behavior) as well as to address horizontal use cases such as cybersecurity breach prevention and sales forecasting. Using data to predict and prevent IT outages and issues is also a growing best practice—especially as advances in […]
6 Advantages of Microservices
Microservices have recently gained in popularity, but you may be unsure whether this architecture is right for your environment. What’s great is microservices are not necessarily a new beast, as the concepts behind them have been a solid part of software development for decades. Topics such as modular programming, separation of concerns and service-oriented architecture […]
Cloud Orchestration Language Roundup: A Comparison
What cloud providers do you work with? Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Amazon AWS? Microsoft Azure? Which services? Are you using a managed Kubernetes such as GKE, AKS, Openshift or EKS? How do you manage your cloud resources? How do you manage the release cycle of the infrastructure and applications that you deploy? If the above […]
Q&A: Implementing DevOps at Scale with Akash Tayal and Bob Vuong
Enterprises may be successful adopting DevOps initiatives but adopting DevOps at scale could become a challenge for some organizations. In this Q&A session, Akash Tayal, principal and U.S. cloud strategy and operating model leader at Deloitte Consulting, and Bob Vuong, principal at Deloitte Consulting, discuss the benefits and challenges of adopting DevOps at scale. Akash […]
How to Automate Testing for Optimal Customer Experience
During a sudden surge in online traffic like the one many companies have seen over the past few months, automated testing can help organizations optimize the customer experience Imagine you manage an e-commerce office supply company and are dealing with a sudden surge in traffic—with more people working from home, demand for your products has […]
Akamai Enables Microservices Deployment at the Edge
Akamai today announced it is adding the ability to deploy microservices on its edge computing platform to enable developers to run latency-sensitive applications faster. David Theobald, principal product manager at Akamai, said developers can now code dynamic content assembly at the edge to create microservices on the Akamai Intelligent Edge platform that include external requests […]
Bringing Agility to Mainframes in COVID-19 and Beyond
Of the many ways this pandemic has shifted resources online, financial transactions are among the most critical. With the use of cash and checks grinding to a halt, transactions generated with our devices are increasing, and most of them are being completed on a mainframe. It’s not hyperbole to state that mainframes—the systems of record […]
Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with IBM
DevOps practices, processes and solutions help businesses accelerate their digital transformation by improving the speed and quality of software development. DevOps tools enable teams to do their job more efficiently by embracing automation, increasing agility and building speed, versatility and security into the framework. At the IBM DevOps Virtual Summit, attendees will learn how to […]
Bringing DevOps to SAP, With Basis Technologies
DevOps has not only reached mainframe groups in enterprise but also to large applications such as SAP. Organizations are moving away from waterfall methods and mega releases that take many months to deliver. What’s needed are many more rapid release cycles and deployments that support the accelerating pace necessary to do business. In this conversation […]
New Survey Highlights Codebase Size Problems
Sourcegraph and Dimensional Research have released a survey of developers at large organizations, which shows a massive growth in codebase size, number of repositories in use and complexity concerns. “The Emergence of Big Code – A 2020 Survey of Software Professionals” is definitely intriguing reading, and a few of the results are eye-opening—such as the […]
Gitpod Allies with GitLab to Automate Setting Up Dev Environments
Gitpod announced today that its open source tool for automating the setup of development environments is now integrated to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. The Gitpod platform treats a version control system as the canonical source of truth from which it then automates everything a developer needs to start coding, including the integrated […]
Developers Are Running With Scissors. Here’s How to Do It Safely
We’ve all heard the stories. It takes too long to make changes to applications, right? Well, until COVID-19, that was true. Many enterprises have found that the global pandemic brought on by the novel coronavirus has given them the will to find the way to move faster. As one customer recently relayed: “Before COVID it […]