GitHub Extends Scope and Reach of Repository
GitHub today at its GitHub Satellite virtual conference announced it has made it easier for developers to either launch a project or join an existing project on its repository and has added collaboration tools directly within the platform. GitHub is also moving to advance DevSecOps by adding code scanning tools and making secret scanning tools […]
WordPress Hacks: Best Ways to Protect WordPress from Hacking
When it comes to website security, even an iota of prevention is really worth a large pool of measures to restore a website from its affected state. WordPress websites are most vulnerable to security attacks from sophisticated hackers as well as the bots that are capable of exploiting security vulnerabilities. These security vulnerabilities range from […]
TechStrong Con: 12 Hours Strong, June 4
In my previous article, I noted that as part of our COVID-19 response MediaOps has spun up TechStrong TV, a daily video stream. Additionally, we are hosting our biggest virtual event to date, TechStrong Con, for 12 hours strong on June 4. We want to make TechStrong Con our biggest, best virtual event to date. […]
Enterprise Kanban Implementation: Where to Start and How to Scale Across an Organization
The Evolution of Kanban At its core, Kanban is a management method designed to improve customer satisfaction by creating fast and reliable workflows capable of delivering products and services of superior quality. Kanban originated in the automotive industry of Japan and was originally developed as a method for improving manufacturing efficiency at Toyota. However, at […]
DevOps as a Service: Migrating Your Entire DevOps Stack to the Cloud
DevOps as a Service (DaaS) enables teams to centralize their tooling and workflow into one unified solution. This solution typically contains all necessary DevOps pipeline features, which replace legacy tooling. This article explains how DaaS works, including pros and cons, and an example showing how to migrate from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps in […]
5 Capabilities Network Infrastructure Must Have to Support DevOps
According to the Accelerate 2019 State of DevOps report, high-performing DevOps organizations achieve over 200 times more frequent deployments and over 2,600 times faster recovery times than low performers. These outcomes have been realized by both forward-leaning organizations such as Amazon, which deploys code every 11.6 seconds, and more traditional enterprises that have been in […]
Communicating with Management About Technical Debt
We’re all familiar with the challenges of technical debt. While it’s often unavoidable–due to time constraints, resource considerations or simply a lack of good information–it still weighs on our minds and puts us on the defensive. It makes future changes that much more difficult. As it builds up, it generates that nagging sense of an […]
How to Get Your Digital Data Game on with DataOps
As a new mindset, methodology and practice within data management, DataOps focuses on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows to simply and successfully help developers, IT and the business create real-time data experiences and reduce the risk of project failure. DataOps enables developers and organizations to better adapt to fast changing business […]
Kong Brings Collaboration to Designing APIs
Kong has launched an open source tool for designing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to make it easier for teams of developers to collaboratively edit an API specification that can be stored in a Git repository. Based on the open source Insomnia API management platform the company gained last year by acquiring Floating Keyboard Software […]
Software Development Management Drives Business Value
How much business value does your software group generate for your organization? That’s the existential question an international corporation’s software leader poses, kicking off the 2017 book “The Business Value of Software.” It’s also a topic we’ve all likely wrestled with from time to time. It’s the essence of the value we personally bring to […]
DevOps Trends for 2020 and Beyond
Since the ideation of DevOps, technologists have made great strides to benefit from it. Despite advancements and the success that teams have seen within pockets, many of its core challenges are still prevalent: scaling across the enterprise due to manual processes, poor visibility between dev and ops teams, and tool sprawl that hurts agility. Luckily, […]
Why You Can’t Have DevOps Without Test Automation
The rapid adoption of digital technologies by enterprises to stay nimble, competitive and quality-driven has given digital transformation wide currency. The process facilitates decision-making and allows organizations to innovate, accelerate the time to market and be responsive to customer needs. The world of today is for those enterprises that can quickly turn an idea into […]
Why the Public Versus Private Blockchain Debate Is the Wrong Conversation
When blockchain burst onto the scene in 2009/2010, we watched as Bitcoin forever disrupted our monetary system. As the technology hits critical mass—a recent Deloitte survey showed a 2000% increase in interest in blockchain since its inception—the revolution has forked into two sides. There are the purists who want to only keep blockchains public, and […]
DevOps Practices: How to Make Valuable Changes to Your Teams
DevOps has become a buzzword within the software development industry, promising rapid turnaround times for requested changes. As for developers, DevOps promises to increase productivity while reducing the risk of production failures. The book “The Unicorn Project” by Gene Kim describes this process for developers as The Five Ideals. In this article, we’ll focus on […]
5 Ways Your Business Can Benefit From DataOps
The amount of data that businesses generate and collect continues to soar, and enterprises that want to accelerate their end-to-end processes and obtain business insight can’t keep using the manual data management processes they have relied on for decades. And the situation will only get worse in the coming years. IDC expects the amount of […]
Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Tools
Red Hat today announced it has extended the analytics capabilities it makes available for instances of the Ansible IT automation platform and has made the Ansible Automation Services Catalog now generally available. In addition, Red Hat has increased the number of certified playbooks it makes available from both the company and third-party partners within the […]
A Prescription to End the Myopia of Software Metrics
“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!,” Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review. As someone who has purchased many drills in my life—and drilled my share of holes—this quote has always struck me as a bit, well, myopic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing with the sentiment behind the quote—that organizations […]
6 Common Pitfalls to Avoid While Building Out Your AI Tools
Enterprise-level companies, with thousands of employees across the globe, can have their AI framework replicated by B2B companies of nearly any size. In fact, even without access to a ton of proprietary data and immense computational power, you can build out effective AI tools. To begin with, you can introduce publicly available datasets from movie […]
3 Ways DevOps Can Increase the Value of Organizational Data
There’s a reason the term “data mining” came into existence. Enterprises sit on a vast resource of information—millions of digital gems that, if fully extracted, can not only answer many of their toughest questions, but also help them meet their most ambitious organizational goals. DevOps professionals have a unique opportunity to impact this mining process. […]
Software Testing: The Comeback Kid of the 2020s
The past 15 years have been rough on software testers. The rise and fall of outsourcing, Agile growing from a manifesto to a movement and ever-shrinking release cycles have all taken a toll. By 2011, Albert Savoia walked on stage at the Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) dressed as the Grim Reaper and declared testing […]
How SDM’s Holistic Approach Connects Organizations and Streamlines Delivery Processes
Since Jez Humble and David Farley popularized the term in 2010, continuous delivery has revolutionized software delivery practices. Creating mature continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines has helped enterprises deliver software that performs better, based on a long list of metrics. Failure rates have dropped from 50% to under 15%, and cycle times are measured in […]
Data: The Fabric of Developers’ Lives
We’re living in the golden age of application development. Developers can tap into more resources and enjoy greater flexibility than ever before. Multi-cloud environments offer them the freedom to pick and choose from a wide range of services based on the strengths and offerings of different cloud providers. They have unparalleled opportunities to achieve their […]
Pulumi Tightens DevOps Platform Integration
Pulumi today released the 2.0 release of its open source platform for automating the provisioning of IT infrastructure in the cloud, providing tighter integration with a dozen different continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms and source code management (SCM) systems. Via the latest update Pulumi also now includes CI/CD Apps, through which pull requests will trigger […]