CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps
CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share updates with one another. SlackOps takes that preference for DevOps a step further to enable complex DevOps processes, also known as ChatOps, to […]
GitLab Releases Massive Update to CI/CD Platform
GitLab has updated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a raft of capabilities spanning everything from value stream management to cybersecurity. In addition, GitLab announced it is making generally available Gitaly Clusters, which enable DevOps teams to create a warm replica of a Git repository. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist at GitLab, said with […]
CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach
CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for SDM at CloudBees, said these integrations with Google Cloud Build and Tekton pipelines are being provided as part of a long-standing alliance between […]
DataOps and DevOps: A Match Made in Heaven
The adoption of IT technologies has increased exponentially over the last few decades. Nowadays, the need to create quality web applications while simultaneously managing their extensive data effectively is a major concern for any organization. As such, there have been continuous efforts to come up with better approaches to software development, data analysis and data […]
Increasing Software Velocity While Maintaining Quality and Efficiency
At Compuware, we have been exploring the need for continuous improvement across three key dimensions of software development: velocity, quality and efficiency. Given today’s current market demands and the importance of digital services, this discussion couldn’t be timelier. On my previous piece, I focused on quality — how to maintain and improve it as (supposedly) […]
Puppet Adds CIS Benchmark Compliance Service
Puppet this week announced it has added a service that makes it easier to achieve compliance with benchmarks defined by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). Yasmin Rajabi, global services strategy manager at Puppet, said the CIS Service offering from Puppet extends the ability to manage infrastructure as code into the realm of compliance. Via […]
Site Reliability Engineering 101: DevOps Versus SRE
Consider the following scenario. An Independent Software Provider (ISV) developed a financial application for a global investment firm that serves global conglomerates, leading central banks, asset managers, brokerage firms and governmental bodies. The development strategy for the application encompassed a thought through DevOps plan with cutting-edge agile tools. This has ensured zero downtime deployment at […]
Driverless Cars May Become an Integral Part of Our Lives Soon
If you live in the downtown areas of Pittsburgh, Palo Alto, Miami or other AV hot spots, you’ve probably been missing the Ford Fusion Hybrids with the bulky lidar sensors in your neighborhoods. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many job cuts as well as work from home orders from the government, and this has […]
Don’t Tool Up a Broken Value Stream
A well-known failure mode for business process automation is to automate a broken process. The same goes for tooling up value stream management (VSM). If you have an overly complex value stream – immobilized with dependencies, a clumsy way to move work from ideation to engineering or disagreements over who has power over the plan […]
Unlocking Enterprise Blockchain Potential with Low-Code Capabilities
Since the rise of Bitcoin more than a decade ago, companies have been trying to harness the potential of blockchain technology for enterprise applications. Industries that used to operate in silos are becoming increasingly connected, and the lines of where one ecosystem ends and another begins are blurring. In this connected age, blockchain can provide […]
GitLab Survey Sees DevOps Gains as Developers Exercise More Control
A global survey of 3,650 software professionals published by GitLab respondents indicates developers are exercising more direct control over IT environments. More than a third of respondents (35%) said developers define and/or create the infrastructure their applications run on, with 14% actually monitoring and responding to infrastructure events. Additionally, 18% of developers instrument code for […]
Report: Software Delivery Slowed During Pandemic
A survey of more than 500 IT and development professionals conducted by Atlassian finds two-thirds of respondents have slowed down the frequency of software delivery since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Hill, head of reliability process at Atlassian, said while developers may be creating more code than ever while they work from home, […]
How to Scale Microservices CI/CD Pipelines
As opposed to a traditional monolith, microservices architecture can theoretically bring many benefits. Microservices decouple software elements, enable reusable components and allow independent development cycles. However, in practice, microservices are prone to many issues. For example, teams accustomed to a traditional monolithic build process may find it difficult to reshape their established practices. Furthermore, as […]
LogicMonitor Releases IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Study
Although 99.999% availability may be IT’s ambition, it’s far from reality. In March 2019, Google’s Gmail experienced a 4.5-hour global outage. In the same month, Facebook suffered a 14-hour outage, its most massive outage to date, crippling app-accessibility worldwide. Downtime and low availability will likely occur to all systems eventually, especially when introducing code changes. […]
Atlassian Acquires Halp to Gain Help Desk Based on Slack
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp will provide organizations with a way to manage lightweight processes via an interface that is already commonly used within many organizations. The goal […]
The Secure Software Development Life Cycle: Syncing Development and Security
Over the last five to 10 years, the nature of software development has shifted dramatically. Whereas large software releases occurred every six to 18 months in the past, current release schedules have become much more frequent. The waterfall model of software development has morphed into what we now know as the DevOps model. As a […]
LaunchNotes Adds Communications Tool for App Release
LaunchNotes today launched a namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing the communications surrounding the release of an application. Company co-founder Jake Brereton said LaunchNotes streamlines internal and external communications for DevOps teams, eliminating the need to employ a collaboration tool such as Slack or a project management application. Each message can be designated as either […]
Low-Code and RPA With Appian CTO Michael Beckley
On the eve of the first virtual Appian World, we caught up with Appian founder and CTO Michael Beckley. Michael spoke to us about low-code and RPA as well as AI and robotics, all being leveraged to help organizations during the COVID-19 crisis. Obviously, given the current situation, developing applications quickly with a minimum of […]
Getting Past Legacy Software Pains in Requirements Management
If you feel like you have outgrown your requirements management (RM) software, you are far from alone. From complex systems, such as IBM Doors, to document-based tracking through Microsoft Office, legacy RM tools are having a hard time catching up to the innovation occurring in highly-regulated industries. As we see the line between hardware and […]
Decoding the Self-Healing Kubernetes
A business application that fails to operate 24/7 would be considered inefficient in the market. The idea is that applications run uninterrupted, irrespective of a technical glitch, feature update or a natural disaster. In today’s heterogeneous environment where infrastructure is intricately layered, a continuous workflow of application is possible via self-healing. Kubernetes, which is a […]
Why Aren’t Enterprises Developing More Mobile Apps?
We live in a mobile age, and enterprise IT leaders recognize it. But even though 64.5% of enterprises say that mobility is a top IT priority, most won’t deploy more than five mobile apps this year, according to a December study from Enterprise Mobility Forum. That’s a very small number, especially considering that large organizations […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Teams Adjust to New WFH Normal
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic the level of software development activity has remained relatively constant, but developers—who, like everyone else—are now largely working from home, are putting in more hours. Organizations are now grappling with whether working remotely on software development projects now represents the “new normal.” A report published this week by […]
CloudBees Brings Feature Flagging to On-Prem Environs
CloudBees this week announced an update to CloudBees Feature Flags that now makes it possible to deploy this capability in on-premises IT environments. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president and general manager for software delivery management and software delivery automation cloud at CloudBees, said CloudBees Feature Flags previously was available only as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application […]