SREs Tasked With More To Improve Digital Experiences
The digitization of the enterprise has never moved so swiftly, and never have enterprise environments been as complex to manage. And, never have more businesses been as dependent on their infrastructure and operations being unfaltering. According to a new survey and accompanying report from Catchpoint and the DevOps Institute, site reliability engineers (SREs) and teams […]
Fastly Facilitates Observability at the Edge
Fastly this week announced it is adding the ability to collect tracing, customizable logging data and both real-time and historical metrics from a serverless computing framework designed to be deployed on edge computing platforms. Company CTO Tyler McMullen said the goal is to make it easier for IT to bring observability within the context of […]
SDM and the DevOps Delusion of Connected Organizations
How Software Delivery Management Clears Up the Confusion of Embracing and Implementing DevOps Since the term was coined back in 2009, it wouldn’t be a stretch to describe DevOps as an impactful if not tectonic shift in software development and delivery in the past two decades. The move to implement DevOps has encouraged, among other […]
How to Calculate ROI on Infrastructure Automation
Infrastructure and cloud automation. You know you want it. Infrastructure as code and programmable infrastructure are hot topics these days. The possibilities opened by applying software development practices to infrastructure make the vision of transparent infrastructure closer than ever. But before you start automating, you may want to look at the value you get from […]
Businesses Modernizing Apps in Wake of Pandemic
A survey of 5,000 business decision-makers, IT decision-makers and app developers published suggests organizations are taking advantage of the crisis created by the global COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the modernizing of apps using DevOps practices. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, the survey finds 80% of respondents said organizations must modernize the technologies […]
Why is Site Reliability Engineering Important?
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and set of operational practices for managing services at scale. During the Site Reliability Engineering SKILup Day June 18, I asked a group of the DevOps Institute Ambassadors why SRE was important to them. Below you will find some insightful responses, tips and calls […]
OpenLegacy, Boomi Simplify Legacy Application Integration
OpenLegacy, a provider of a platform through which application programming interfaces (APIs) are layered on top of legacy application processes, announced today an alliance with Boomi, an arm of Dell Technologies that provides organizations with access to an integration platform-as-service (iPaaS) that is made available as a cloud service. Zeev Avidan, chief product officer for […]
But Wait, There’s More! The Trouble With DevOps Tools
DevOps tools today increasingly are no longer out-of-the-box ready for use. And that’s an aggravating issue Imagine you bought a new power tool—a sweet battery-powered drill/screwdriver that did everything you needed. Imagine it looked as though it ran on its own, but when you got it out of the box, you discovered that it didn’t […]
How to Minimize Latency and Its Impact on UX
Latency can have an enormous impact on user experience. Here’s what you need to know to mitigate latency before it impacts your customer experience Businesses have been digitizing for decades, but recent events have accelerated the process beyond all expectations. Customers are now using more digital services than ever, and their switching costs are often […]
Survey Finds SRE Role Remains Largely Aspirational
Monitoring tools provider Catchpoint, in collaboration with the DevOps Institute, has published a survey that finds there is a significant gap between the tasks and duties that define the role of what a site reliability engineer (SRE) should be versus what is actually occurring within IT organizations that have hired SREs. Based on a survey […]
Puppet Launches Relay to Simplify Automating DevOps Workflows
Puppet today made available a public beta of Relay, an event-driven platform through which DevOps teams can automatically invoke pre-configured workflows. Company CTO Deepak Giridharagopal said Relay listens for DevOps events that can then trigger an automated workflow such as automatically deleting underutilized cloud resources, enforcing cybersecurity controls or remediating known issues. Relay connects to […]
3 Reasons Why Traceability Should Be a DevOps Priority
Traceability in DevOps is about ensuring clarity, accountability and the best possible end product for customers There’s a lot to think about when it comes to mobile DevOps. For a start, there’s the need for effective cooperation between members of different teams, perhaps even via team collaboration software for remote workers. With so many people […]
JFrog Extends Reach and Scope of CI/CD Platform
At its online JFrog swampUP Conference today, JFrog announced it has extended the reach of its ability to distribute software to include options based on peer-to-peer and content delivery network (CDN) mechanisms. In addition, JFrog expanded the reach of the JFrog Pipelines continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling DevOps teams to build their own library […]
Code Quality Doesn’t Have to Be Like the Weather
Sometimes code quality feels like the weather: everyone talks about it, but no one ever does anything. Of course, that’s not from a lack of good will; most folks would love to have a week or two set aside to just clean things up. Unfortunately, that’s not how the world works. The best course of […]
5 Ways Traceability Is Changing to Bolster the Remote Workforce
Traceability has always been a useful tool in the development process, but it has become especially important since the COVID-19 outbreak and the increased remote workforce. Where developers and engineers were once working side-by-side, with the ability to discuss their process and keep their team informed, they are now navigating a remote collaboration landscape. According […]
The Secret to Winning at DevOps: Are You Up for the Challenge?
The main idea behind DevOps is to enable companies to keep up with the increased software velocity and advancements in agile culture for a smoother end-to-end software delivery cycle. The main goal of DevOps is to accomplish integration and automation, which is why implementing this philosophy can be challenging. Not only do you need to […]
COVID-19 Long Tail Budget Impact
Technology budgets have shifted dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study from online CIO networking and information hub, Pulse. The pandemic, and its resulting shutdown, will likely continue to have a substantial impact on technology budgets for some time. The initial budgetary impact was substantial. When COVID-19 first arrived, […]
IT Modernization Yields Business Benefits Even in Early Stages
In recent years, with the emergence of newer technologies ranging from the cloud to machine learning, IT modernization has evolved from a replacement of end-of-life infrastructure to an enabler of innovation and business value. It is a complex process that can take months or even years, but a recent survey shows that the effort begins […]
A Thousand Salutes to SREs: Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic
Applications are the lifeblood of a modern business, and uptime is crucial — even more so during a pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis has shown us that we can adapt to a new normal. It has also shown us that customers will take their business elsewhere if an application experience does not meet their expectations. The […]
Pinpoint Dives Deeper into Software Delivery Analytics
Pinpoint has extended its platform for managing software delivery to include the ability to analyze historical events to facility team reviews as well as more accurately predict where bottlenecks are likely to emerge based on the past performance of the DevOps team. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said the company’s namesake software is employed today mainly […]
Rookout Extends Reach of Debugging Platform to On-Prem
Rookout, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to simplify the debugging of applications, has extended the reach of its tools into on-premises IT environments. Company CTO Liran Haimovitch said its new Data On-Prem capability extends the reach of a bytecode manipulation capability developed by Rookout to insert a snapshot capture of a specific […]
Fostering Better Collaboration Between ITOps and Security Teams Should Be Top Priority
Last year, the average business lost $13 million to cybercrime, which is 12% more than in 2017 and 72% more than in 2014. When Tanium recently asked IT decision makers how they planned to reduce that risk in 2020, they reported making multi-million dollar investments across operations and security. Over the last two years, they […]
How DevOps Can Save Your Business from COVID-19
COVID-19 drastically changed the landscape of the American workforce. Remote work went from something of a niche field to a way of life for millions of people. In fact, research shows that roughly half of all employed Americans began working from home as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. While some employers struggle to adapt […]