Serverless: Helping the Enterprise Scale DevOps
Serverless is the paradigm shift that allows engineers to innovate and move faster DevOps has been around for more than 10 years and it’s still misunderstood by many companies. You can’t buy “a DevOps,” but DevOps is critical to your business. In some ways, serverless is similar: a name that markets well but creates confusion […]
DevOps Unbound: Exploring Acceleration and Automation, Setting DevOps Free
We are launching a new video series Thursday, Aug. 6, called DevOps Unbound. DevOps Unbound will focus on DevOps, automation, CI/CD and testing, featuring leaders in these areas as we explore the challenges and issues software delivery and IT teams face every day. How do we go faster, smarter with better quality? DevOps Unbound! The […]
How to Build an Accessibility-First Design Culture
When it comes to digital experiences, every one of us can recount a frustrating interaction with a website or app. For the 61 million American adults with disabilities, lack of website accessibility can transform a frustrating experience to one that inhibits essential activities such as working, shopping and socializing. To improve customer experiences and ensure […]
Top Pressing Concerns for CI/CD in 2020
The tech landscape is changing rapidly. With the need for increased development velocity, CI/CD has become ubiquitous among most organizations. Yet, with the growing number of microservices, CI/CD may be tough to wrangle without the right strategy. At the same time, it’s difficult to keep pace with the constant evolution around CI/CD. So, what is […]
Shifting to Product-Centric Work in Utilities
Large organizations across the services spectrum are transforming from project-centric operations to product-centric way of working. Customer centricity is driving this transformation, as product-centric organizations put customers at the center of everything they do. Such a transition is largely dependent on how information technology solutions are deployed in the said organization. This article looks at […]
Survey: DevOps Haves Benefiting Over Have-Nots
A global survey of 400 global IT executives and practitioners conducted by Longitude, an arm of Financial Times Group, on behalf of New Relic suggests organizations that have embraced best DevOps practices are starting to enjoy material financial benefits over rivals that have not yet made similar investments in modernizing application development processes. The survey […]
A Developer’s Guide to CCPA, GDPR Compliance
Here’s what developers need to know to ensure compliance with the two biggest privacy laws The digital landscape is continuously evolving, and privacy regulations such as CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) and the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) are in effect to give consumers their fundamental right to data privacy. These regulations force […]
No-Code/Low-Code: Empowering Collaboration
No-code/low-code will create seamless integration between cloud platforms, tools and utilities Recent developments have created a massive shift to working remotely, which, according to a recent Gartner survey, is not a temporary move. The survey indicates that 74% of CFOs plan to continue some form of permanent remote working. This in turn paves the way […]
A Daily Gemba Walk for a Software Delivery Organization?
Lean thinking has had a substantial influence on helping enterprises to improve the flow of value across their software delivery organization. Yet, for many companies in what industry visionary Brian Solis calls the “Novel Economy,” where market conditions have yet to be identified or understood, the degree of responsiveness and agility required to adapt and […]
Documenting: Don’t Build Your Replacement’s Nightmare
Want to reduce headaches tomorrow? Document everything today About once a year I feel the need to remind you that you are creating technical debt. DevOps is good stuff, and most shops got over the “whatever a given project team decides” multiplication of services pretty quickly, but every line of DevOps code you write is […]
Vercel Makes Front End Applications Faster
Vercel this week extended its effort to redefine how front-end applications are developed to reduce dependencies on backend systems. The company has created Next.js, which makes it possible to build web applications using a framework based on the React library for creating user interfaces that enable both static generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR). The […]
APIs: The Secret Sauce for Low-Code Platforms?
As companies become increasingly talent-strapped, APIs are helping spur a low-code movement to help them remain competitive Low-code platforms have the potential to alter how software is built and delivered. By focusing on visual flows and drag-and-drop UIs, low-code platforms dramatically lower the barrier to software development. Yet, anyone with a toe in the no-code […]
Balancing UX and Privacy With IoT
As more IoT devices track data to improve customer UX, privacy concerns are becoming more prevalent. How can developers strike a balance? The internet of things, or IoT, is a system that has changed the way we perceive technology. While it has made the usage of technology easier than ever, it does come with its […]
Apollo GraphQL Brings Caching to Client Software
Apollo GraphQL this week updated its namesake GraphQL client software that among other things improves performance using in-memory caching application programming interfaces (APIs). GraphQL has emerged as a popular alternative to REST APIs because it provides developers with a query engine that provides more control over what data is requested. Similar in concept to SQL, […]
OverOps Partners With GitLab to Analyze Code Earlier
OverOps has allied with GitLab to integrate a tool that analyzes code at runtime to identify issues with a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering for OverOps, said the plugin for the GitLab CI/CD will make it easier to surface issues with code earlier in the DevOps pipeline. OverOps’ […]
DevOps Was Supposed to Kill Developer Jobs. Here’s Why it Didn’t
The rise of DevOps is more an evolution than a revolution, and developer jobs aren’t going anywhere Development died a long time ago and was replaced by DevOps. Or, at least that was the way it was supposed to happen. In reality, developers are doing just fine. There are currently almost 150,000 development jobs right […]
Solving the DevOps Dilemma in the COVID Era
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing businesses to double down on DevOps transformation initiatives across the enterprise, pushing companies to be more agile and implement software changes throughout their organization at a much faster rate. However, too many IT departments rely on older, complex processes to approve software changes coming from DevOps teams and simply cannot […]
Has the Pandemic Made DevOps Tougher or Easier?
How has COVID-19 impacted the way DevOps professionals approach their work? The current, unpredictable economic climate as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a glaring need for organizations to be able to do more with less. They have fewer resources and even less margin of error now to maintain customer relationships, keep […]
Features or Quality? App Survey Shows Surprising Results
Software is an essential part of our everyday lives, but that doesn’t mean that people are always happy with the app experiences that they’re having. We at DeepCode conducted a survey to learn more about what people really think about software quality today. Is it getting better or worse? How important are bugs and security […]
Learning DevOps: All You Need Is a Browser
One of the most exciting things about a career in IT is the constantly changing landscape, providing almost infinite opportunities for learning. But this is also one of the great challenges IT careers: It’s just so hard to stay on top of everything. Hence, it’s not uncommon for people to learn some skills, find a […]
Keysight Technologies Jumps into App Testing by Acquiring Eggplant
Keysight Technologies, a provider of tools to test and measure embedded systems and mobile computing devices, has acquired Eggplant, a provider of a platform that automates application testing, for $330 million. Dr. John Bates, CEO of Eggplant, said the acquisition enables Keysight to expand the scope of its testing portfolio beyond hardware. Keysight traces its […]
AWS Brings Machine Learning to Code Optimization
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made generally available a tool dubbed Amazon CodeGuru that employs machine learning algorithms to recommend ways to improve code quality and identify which lines of code are the most expensive to run on its cloud service. Peder Ulander, director of open source for AWS, said Amazon CodeGuru not only helps […]
How No-Code Software Development Speeds Digital Transformation
More organizations are democratizing software development through no-code solutions that empower anyone to write applications In today’s fast-paced and digital business world, organizations must revise their goals and processes to achieve digital transformation and remain a viable business. However, most transformation efforts fail. Recent McKinsey research shows that 70% of complex, large-scale change programs don’t […]