Why It’s Time to Migrate Away From COBOL
Every few years an alarm goes up about the shortage of COBOL programmers, and then it dies down. While it’s hard to tell whether this cycle occurs because programmers are found or because other solutions are identified, the latest resurgence of interest is at least in part due to the pandemic and state governments’ use […]
3 Steps for Organizational Agility in the COVID-19 Era
While COVID-19 forced a fundamental shift in the way we work nearly overnight, many companies have been able to continue operations with minimal disruption, effectively transitioning to a remote workforce with speed and agility. These organizations that were further along in their digital transformation journeys before the start of the pandemic faced minimal disruption in […]
How ‘Some-Code’ Platforms Perform a Balancing Act
Recently, there’s been a surge of interest in visual programming models, all with varying degrees of user-friendliness. These low-code platforms utilize drag-and-drop elements to help citizen developers stitch together applications, avoiding the complexities of hard-coding connections. Such platforms are crucial amid a developer drought and shine in their usability. But, how usable is too usable? […]
Mendix Adds Git Repository Support to Low-Code Platform
Mendix today updated its low-code development platform to add support for Git repositories as part of an effort to make it easier to share and reuse code, as well as a visual conflict resolution capability that enables developers to easily see the differences between multiple versions of the same code. Announced at its online Mendix […]
DevOps: Driving Innovation With Old Habits
DevOps can help drive cost-efficiency, greater productivity and innovation When software development and IT operations merge and work in a state of harmony, they create a flow that we call continuous product delivery. Ideal for project managers, this flow is the elixir to innovation and enables the agility needed to respond to changing market requirements. […]
OverOps Taps Into Git Repos to Accelerate Code Reviews
OverOps this week announced it has added support for a git blame and automated source attach capability to its namesake platform for analyzing code that surfaces both root cause data for every error as well as the identity of the developer who owns that code. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering at OverOps, said […]
5 Myths About Software Development
2020 has broken many rules about software development. Some perceived trends, however, remain myths Some trends come and go, some trends stick. I remember when Docker launched and it was barely mature enough to run unit tests, and now containers are a common way for modern orgs to deploy applications. We’ve seen the rise of […]
7 Forces Driving the Low-Code Movement
Why low-code? Why now? Here are some of the driving forces behind the burgeoning low-code movement If you’re keeping an eye on the tech tooling landscape in 2020, you may have noticed the buzz around low-code. Countless low-code platforms are being funded and coming to the market. In fact, Forrester estimates that spending in the […]
Z is for Zowe – the Open Path to Mainframe DevOps
The energy and excitement in the IBM Z mainframe community during the two years since the announcement of Zowe have not been seen in a generation. By enabling mainframers to work like technologists who work on the cloud, mobile and distributed platforms, Zowe unlocks the power of DevOps for mainframers, ensuring the vitality of the […]
Did Your Last DevOps Strategy Fail? Try Again
Let’s get one thing out of the way. DevOps isn’t a panacea—it isn’t magic, it isn’t a requirement for any enterprise and it won’t work for every team in every situation. Above all, it isn’t a yardstick by which an outsider can measure great operations, development or IT. And if anybody tries to tell you […]
DevOps and Compliance: A Recipe for Success
In today’s world, DevOps and compliance teams need to work together, not separately Imagine this: You organized a dinner party weeks ago, promptly forgot about it and just realized tonight’s the night! You have two hours to whip up a gourmet meal for 10 friends. Instead of panicking, you get smart and enlist your kids […]
The CMDB Is Dead – Long Live the CMDB
Many enterprise IT organizations have a configuration management database, or CMDB, in place. These systems are important for overall configuration management, governance and DevOps coordination. Yet, these legacy data repository systems can fall short in our dynamic IT environment. They require manual updating and can’t always support real-time decision-making. Furthermore, we have new requirements since […]
What Is Resilience Engineering?
Admitting things will go wrong isn’t easy for anyone or any team. But modern engineering practices have moved beyond this fear, giving birth to a new practice in DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) known as resilience engineering. Resilience engineering today isn’t thought of as a function. However, just as DevOps was a description of […]
VMware Expands Reach of IT Management Portfolio
VMware today announced a bevy of updates to its portfolio of IT management tools that is now at the heart of its overall approach to both DevOps and AIOps. VMware vRealize Operations 8.2 and VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, the on-premises and software-as-a-service (SaaS) editions of the same IT automation platform, provide deeper support for Kubernetes […]
How To Build a Business Data Map
Recently on DevOps.com, Anais Baig provided a brief overview of the privacy process and capabilities that developers need to think about to comply with new global privacy laws such as Europe’s GDPR and California’s CCPA. Top of the list for complying with these laws? The need to build a business data map. It’s no exaggeration […]
Oracle Launches Managed JSON Database Service
Oracle today unfurled as standalone Autonomous JSON Database service that it will manage on behalf of developers that require a document database. Gerald Venzl, a developer evangelist and distinguished product manager for Oracle, said the Autonomous JSON Database service is based on support for JSON data types that Oracle currently provides in its Autonomous Database […]
Pushing Beyond Agility: The Kanban Maturity Model
Kanban is not a novel idea. It is a well-practiced and known method for organizations to increase productivity and efficiency, reduce the lead time of processes and improve delivery flow. However, historically Kanban has been frequently misunderstood. Many people think that Kanban is just a whiteboard with stickies in columns of to-do, doing, and done. […]
Functional Safety in Embedded Design Starts with Code Development
With embedded software likely to become more complex, now is the time to start thinking about functional safety As the world has become increasingly more dependent on embedded systems in functional safety markets—such as rail, automotive, aerospace and medical—ensuring the safety of the software in those systems has become even more imperative. That assurance must […]
4 Steps To Achieve a 66% Reduction in Test Run Time
Here are ways organizations can reduce their test run times to improve speed and efficiency Consult any recent DevOps survey and the same theme emerges: Testing remains one of the biggest roadblocks impeding organizations’ collective efforts to deliver better software, faster. Unlike days past, however, when agile development was still in its relative infancy and […]
Healthcare Increasingly Embracing DevOps
Speed and efficiency rank high as reasons why among respondents to a survey of healthcare organizations that have adopted DevOps While the novel coronavirus pandemic has hurt many industries, few have faced the immediate difficulties that the healthcare industry has had to manage. While trying to deliver care during one of the most significant healthcare […]
CircleCI Adds to Salesforce CI/CD Orbs Collection
CircleCI today announced it has extended its CI/CD support for DevOps teams building applications that extend the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform from Salesforce. Company CEO Jim Rose said interest in building applications that complement the Salesforce platform is rising sharply in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than build […]
Government Has a DevOps Lesson for Private Sector
The missions of government organizations and DevOps are well-aligned, according to F5 system engineer Scott Van Kalken, who works with many organizations at various levels of government around Australia. That’s because government organizations provide services to the community, and DevOps is about providing services to a community of users. He sees more use of DevOps […]
How to Run a Remote GameDay
For those unfamiliar with the term, a GameDay is a dedicated day for running chaos engineering experiments on our systems with our team. The goal is cooperative, proactive testing of our system to enhance reliability. By getting the team together and thinking through your system architecture, you can test hypotheses and evaluate if your systems […]