Sumo Logic Extends Observability Reach
Sumo Logic, at its online Illuminate conference today, announced the availability of a bevy of extensions to its observability and security information event management (SIEM) cloud services that span everything from hybrid cloud computing to cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes. The company also announced the general availability of a free Software Development Optimization (SDO) service, […]
Maintaining Progressive Delivery Quality With Feature Flags
How does Netflix know exactly what you want to watch? How do social networks ensure major software updates are smoothly deployed across millions of users? The answer, in part, lies in progressive delivery. Progressive delivery, the incremental introduction of new features, has become key to rolling out new features. By testing unproven features on a […]
How to Consolidate Your IT Operations Management Tools
If your organization has more than 20 tools for IT operations management and DevOps, you’re not alone. According to one source, nearly 40% of IT teams are using more than 10 monitoring tools. There comes a time when you simply must clean house. This can be a painful chore, akin to cleaning out the garage […]
Low-Code, High Risk? Closing the Security Gap of Exposed Source Code
There’s no denying that low-code is a rising trend in application development that’s likely to stay for the long run. Its impressive benefits in terms of agility and development time are convincing the enterprise, so it’s no wonder that the industry is on its course to achieve fivefold growth between 2017 and 2022. In low-code […]
Financial Services Rise Above in Database DevOps
Financial services, pat yourselves on the back. A new study from Redgate shows financial services have superior database DevOps and database monitoring compared to other sectors. Financial IT appears to outperform other industries with high-quality database monitoring benchmarks consistently. For example, financial services on average are far quicker to detect and remediate failed deployments. Below, […]
COBOL Is Taking Heat, but These Other Legacy Languages Could Burn You
COBOL is under fire, and as states such as New Jersey make headlines following vital system crashes that its citizens depend on—such as unemployment benefits—organizations are pointing fingers at the programming language as the source of their technological woes. However, while COBOL is a 50+-year-old programming language, there are still many use cases for it […]
Twilio Expands Scope of Cloud Services Portfolio
Twilio today at its online SIGNAL 2020 conference launched Twilio Video Web RTC Go, a free toolkit that makes it easier to embed video within an application, and exposed an Event Streams application programming interface (API) through which the management of streams of messaging and voice can be centralized using the Amazon Kinesis platform. At […]
Help Us Low-Code, You’re Our Only Hope
Will low-code solve 2020’s most pressing issues? 2020 is a challenging year. IT timelines are accelerating. The global pandemic pushes more online interaction, and digital transformations slated for years are shortening down to months or even days. As many departments face a nationwide developer shortage, companies have turned to low-code tools to keep pace. Naturally, […]
Survey Surfaces High Reliance on DevOps to Build and Deploy APIs
A survey of 13,586 IT professionals who work with application programming interfaces (APIs) published today by Postman, provider of an API development platform, finds best DevOps practices are now widely employed to both produce and consume APIs. The primary method through which teams working on APIs collaborate is by sharing URLs (42%). However, publishing API […]
3 Ways Traceability Boosts Decision-Making, Accountability
Traceability can be a key tool to allow for a streamlined process of complex decision-making New software is being developed at an incredible pace to help make our lives easier. This doesn’t change the fact that humans are still held accountable for product development decisions, whether these are made with or without advanced analysis tools. […]
5 Steps to Avoid Shadow IT Around Low-Code
Shadow IT is far more pervasive than most CIOs think. Cisco Systems estimates that a typical firm has 15 to 22 times more cloud applications than authorized by the IT department. While shadow IT solves problems in the short-term for a select few, undocumented software ultimately encourages tribal thinking and siloed departments. This can stunt […]
TechStrong TV: How strongDM Helps Fintech MANTL With Access Management
The fintech space is growing by leaps and bounds, as more consumers shift their financial transactions online for both convenience and necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic. MANTL is a fintech startup providing banks and credit unions with the technology they need to meet the demands of their customers who want to do their banking from […]
How Logs Can Empower Your CI/CD Delivery Pipeline
Change is the currency of software success. This need to change and grow is the basis for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Each year, new industries embrace this philosophy of constant change, but without the necessary data underpinning their decisions, every deployment is a risk. When you enrich your software delivery with log data […]
DevOps World 2020: 5 Sessions to Put on Your Schedule
DevOps World has established a reputation for delivering compelling, high-quality sessions that challenge and inform its audiences year after year, conference after conference. DevOps World 2020 is continuing that pattern, offering what could be the best program yet. The conference, to be held virtually this year Sept. 22-24, is rolling out more than 100 keynotes, […]
ServiceNow Extends Reach Into DevOps Ecosystem
ServiceNow this week, as part of a massive Paris update to its core software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing IT operations, has extended its DevOps integration efforts by adding connectors for Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) and Atlassian Jira platforms. Pablo Stern, senior vice president for IT workflow products at ServiceNow, said those connectors are the latest […]
Crowdtesting: How to Ensure Quality in Disruptive Times
The practice of crowdtesting has taken on greater importance during the COVID-19 pandemic, for good reason Entering 2020, digital transformation projects and initiatives dominated tech spending for most companies. But, between a global pandemic and fiscal uncertainty around the world, spending must be shrinking, right? Think again. If anything, the pandemic has created a sense […]
xMatters Streamlines Incident Management
xMatters today announced it has expanded the capabilities of its incident management platform to better address the requirements of more complex IT environments. New capabilities include an Incident Console to better visualize and triage incidents, automate responses, improve collaboration and access to richer analytics to optimize response times. Incident metrics are now also automatically collected […]
OutSystems Employs More AI to Accelerate Low-Code Development
OutSystems today at its online NextStep 2020 conference announced it is making more extensive use of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the building and deployment of low-code applications. The company unveiled AI Assist to automate, guide and validate processes throughout the application life cycle and Architecture Dashboard, which employs machine-learning algorithms to enable IT teams […]
Oracle Proposes Replacing Mercurial SCM for Java With Git
Oracle today at its Oracle Developer Live—Java event proposed making a bevy of updates to Java that includes replacing the Mercurial source code management (SCM) platform, which is the repository Oracle created to share updates to the Java community, with Git starting with the initial availability of Java 16 and then migrating the project itself […]
TechStrong TV: The Low-Code Movement, With ServiceNow
ServiceNow is well-known for its IT transformation products and customer/employee workflows. But the company has another technology, App Engine, a low-code application platform that lets people build applications faster than they can on any other platform. In this TechStrong TV interview, I speak with Josh Kahn, general manager of the platform business unit at ServiceNow, […]
How Centralized Log Management Can Save Your Company
Through centralized log management, organizations can consolidate all log data into one central, data highway and directs logs wherever they need to go The digital transformation wasn’t gradual. It came crashing into industries worldwide in response to safety restrictions around the pandemic. Nearly a third of Americans are working remotely in light of the pandemic—drastically […]
Onboarding Is Science, Not Art
Make sure your new team members are getting a well-rounded onboarding In Fortnite: Save the World, there is a questline in which a character named The Cloaked Star answers, “Figure it out yourself,” to a variety of questions from a new hero who was a DBA before the end of the world came. It is […]
3 Ways To Tackle the Operations Complexity of DevOps
DevOps is challenging, some of its complexity requires a platform that is both SaaS and managed environments, running on top of several cloud providers and potentially on-premises as well. Is there a platform that connects applications and systems while supporting enterprises as they accelerate their digital transformation efforts? If done the traditional way, you have […]