Knowledge Is Power
I was doing some research over the weekend, and it became abundantly clear that you can find an Ansible script to do pretty much any repetitive task in your infrastructure. This is good news for Ansible users, and the pool of available scripts will, no doubt, continue to grow as critical mass effect kicks in. […]
How DevOps Tools Are Contributing to Automation Initiatives Across the IT Landscape
Prolific advancements in IT, specifically in agile methods and culture over the years, has led to burgeoning needs for a more holistic end-to-end software delivery approach. Agile development is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous incremental and iterative software development practices — including Kanban, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Development, among […]
Why DevOps and Federal Agencies Need Each Other
In times of crisis, the U.S. government needs to bring in tech tools fast to help solve the problem. First, now is a vulnerable time and weaknesses are exposed in telework infrastructure as the government rapidly shifted to remote work. Cyberattacks are up as adversaries try to exploit the weaknesses. Second, federal agencies are also […]
Measuring DevOps Performance
As IT becomes increasingly central to our organizations, it is increasingly important to improve our ability to deliver innovations efficiently and safely. DevOps is a movement to reimagine the way we deliver software, with an emphasis on delivering value to end users through automation and collaboration. In the midst of complex changes to complex processes, […]
AWS Aligns With Slack to Foster Dev Team Collaboration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies have formed an alliance through which they are moving to transform the way development teams collaborate. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Slack will migrate voice and video calls to the Amazon Chime real-time communications service. In addition, AWS and Slack are integrating Amazon AppFlow integration with […]
COVID-19, the New Normal and the Indisputable Importance of Mobile App Security
As the United States emerges from COVID-19 lockdown, it’s not back to business as usual. COVID-19 remains a very serious risk, and until a vaccine or treatment arrives, we will all need to remain vigilant. Further, it’s also certain that the new normal post-COVID-19 world represents a fundamental transformation in how businesses operate, with mobile […]
3 DevOps Security Best Practices Your Organization Can’t Afford To Ignore
CI/CD pipelines are at the core of daily operations for many businesses today. These processes, when set up correctly, help to keep the delivery process consistent by automating many manual tasks and providing visibility into how the software is being worked on. DevOps is also the place in your technology stack where your infrastructure has […]
Review, Review, Review
Ossification is an issue in IT, and always has been. It is borne largely out of staff and management knowing what to expect from existing software/infrastructure, and the deep product knowledge that allows teams to make existing systems do what is needed. But this becomes a series of rocks that the ship of progress smacks […]
Using this Time to Optimize Your Dev Team’s Workflow
As Andy Warhol once said, “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” This more than ever resonates with the change that companies have found themselves experiencing of late. The more the world embraces digital methods of work, the more that change becomes paramount to a successful workflow. It […]
The Linux Foundation Adds Free Jenkins Training Course
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), today launched a free introductory course to the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform as part of what it plans will become a series of free and paid online DevOps tools courses. Clyde Seepersad, general manager of training at the Linux Foundation, […]
The Top 5 Challenges to Overcome with Heroku Logging
Heroku can be a very powerful tool for monitoring the massive amount of data generated by your applications, systems, APIs and add-ons. One thing you may have discovered with Heroku logging is that making sense of data within your log files can be time-consuming. When you’re running large numbers of applications which process tons of […]
Working with SAFe and Microservices: Learnings from Developers
As developers, the prospect of working for a big company might bring about feelings of oppression, rather than opportunity. Envisaging endless team syncs, pointless meetings and processes wrapped up in bureaucracy inside a set of procedures. It’s easy to imagine why some are put off. For many though, the fear comes from the thought of […]
Quality at Speed During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Think back to 2015. The U.S. economy was in the early phases of a growth spurt that would continue for years. Ninety-five percent of organizations were practicing agile, to some extent (State of Agile, VersionOne). And the proportion of the IT budget allocated to QA and testing had just increased from 18% to 26% (World […]
How DevOps Powered by AI and Machine Learning Is Delivering Business Transformation
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is fundamentally changing the way we think about DevOps. Most notably, it is delivering a new form of DevOps that recognizes the need to have systems that are intelligent by design and underpinned by comprehensive security (DevSecOps). For many, this will be the crucial next […]
Chef Extends IT Automation Reach
Chef, at its online ChefConf 2020 event today, launched Chef Compliance and Chef Desktop as well as additional enhancements to the tools it provides for application deployment automation. John Wyss, vice president of product for Chef, said Chef Desktop enables IT teams to write their own configuration and compliance requirements as human-readable code using YAML […]
Survey Surfaces Tension Between Software Speed and Quality
A survey of 600 software professionals at organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today by OverOps, a provider of software analytics tools, finds the need to ensure quality still trumps the need for speed within most organizations. According to the survey results, 70% of respondents say quality is their paramount concern and they would […]
How Embedded Real-Time Engagement Makes the Internet More Inclusive
We hear the word “inclusivity” thrown about quite a bit these days. Some would call it a buzzword, but inclusivity is important to consider given all the innovation we have seen in the past decade. From powerful smartphones to VR video games, technological capabilities keep moving ahead in leaps and bounds. However, factors like geographic […]
BMC Software Closes Compuware Deal, Sets Course
BMC Software today announced it has formally completed its acquisition of Compuware as part of an expanded effort to modernize mainframe environments. Bill Miller, president of ZSolutions at BMC, said now that the deal has been closed the combined companies will be able to more tightly integrate Compuware’s Topaz application development and deployment platform with […]
5 Reasons Why Your App Needs an Error Monitoring System
All software applications have errors. Bugs are simply part of software development. That’s why engineering organizations need to know exactly what errors are occurring so decisions can be made around which bugs to fix. The fastest way to identify and fix application errors is to implement error monitoring software. However, not all solutions are created […]
Pega Low-Code Platform on Display at PegaWorld iNspire
Low code enables developers to create applications using visual tools and models. Developers looking for resources to improve their productivity might find Pega’s low-code platform quite helpful. Jennifer Gill, senior director of technical product marketing at Pega, joined ASG’s Mitch Ashley for an interview on the benefits of low-code in designing applications. During the pandemic, […]
Survey Sees Increased Agile Adoption During COVID-19
A report published by Digital.ai, the parent company of CollabNet VersionOne, finds 43% of organizations have increased their reliance on agile application development methodologies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 15% saying it has increased significantly in the last 90 days. The report also notes 33% of respondents say they have increased or […]
How FaaS Is Disrupting Workflows: New CSP vs. CDN Services
Function as a Service (FaaS), the popular incarnation of serverless computing, along with containers, has played an important role in the migration from monolithic application architectures to those based on microservices. Its introduction has changed the way developers think about infrastructure and application development. While at the same time, it has also driven evolution in […]
Netlify Makes Build Plugins Available for Jamstack Platform
Netlify, at a Jamstack Conf Virtual event, announced the general availability of open source Netlify Build Plugins that provide IT teams with a set of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows for building websites and web applications using JavaScript, application programming interfaces (APIs) and static HTML files without employing web servers, otherwise known as a Jamstack. […]