Seven Effective Tips to Get the Most Out of your DevOps
It seems that every firm is trying to include DevOps in their software delivery cycle these days. This is understandable. According to the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, companies using DevOps are more likely to achieve elite performance in software development and delivery. Companies such as Google and Amazon can be deploying thousands of […]
The Increased Role of Colocation Providers in Data Centers
You would be hard-pressed to find something more complex than a modern data center. A state-of-the-art building stocked with all the necessary software for a major company might run into billions in costs if you decide to build and operate your own from the ground up. Even though many pundits had predicted data centers would […]
Shift-Right Testing: The Emergence of TestOps
The concept of shift-left has been a popular trend in continuous testing practices for a while. We are now beginning to see shift-right practices as an emergent trend in testing. Shift-right entails doing more testing in the immediate pre-release and post-release phases (i.e. testing in production) of the application lifecycle. These include practices such as: release […]
Universal Code Search Combinations
More potential searches than there are stars in the universe. Source code search is not like searching for text on the web—it is more complex and has many more nuances. When we set out to create a Universal Code Search engine, we knew there were many permutations that we had to account for—so many. So […]
How to Improve Your Uptime Strategy
Outages happen, it’s inevitable. But, unplanned downtime often comes with substantial costs—not only in terms of recovery and revenue loss, but also customer happiness, brand reputation and employee morale. While there is no foolproof way for companies to avoid outages, there are steps they can take to help improve uptime. Development teams should determine what […]
SRE (Part 1): A Modern Overview
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a topic that over the last several years has become a popular discussion across many companies I have interacted with. This article is the first of two that I’m passionate to share, as I’ve come across many organizations who are trying to build and implement this ideology, while all are […]
How to Build a Home-Screen Worthy CX
I’ve built apps, in some shape or form, for about 20 years now. During this time, I’ve always started the same way—design the user interface, build the backend services and connect everything together, adding in appropriate logic along the way. Recently, however, I’ve noticed that my design philosophy has changed. It’s less about how screen […]
Why SaaSOps Pros Need to Manage the New Perimeter
It’s a SaaS-driven world inside today’s workplace. Business users have taken control over their organization’s data within SaaS applications in search of a much more collaborative and responsive IT experience. This has caused a fundamental shift in the security paradigm. The user has become the new perimeter. IT and security must now monitor user activity […]
Bridging the Network Automation Skills Gap
With the introduction of network programmability and APIs for everything from management systems to devices themselves, the modern network landscape has evolved to being managed like software. This shift from hardware-focused networks to software-centric functions has had a profound effect on network management techniques and skillsets required to keep pace with the changing ecosystem. A […]
Benefits and Challenges of Bug Bounty Programs
Trying to get ahead of the bugs and vulnerabilities that cause security breaches and hacks has become an increasingly high priority in recent years across a variety of industries. With a growing cybersecurity skills gap and short-staffed security teams, many organizations are turning to bug bounty programs to expand their breach prevention capabilities beyond their […]
DevOps for the Rest of Ops
The IT pro gig usually includes a basic headwind. They’re part of a cost center, and budget for resources and staff are limited by design unless they’re managing a strategic initiative, which—at least for a while—is more generously funded. Early adopters of DevOps, Agile or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams have been budget beneficiaries when […]
Four Metrics Every Engineering Manager Needs to Monitor for Success
Engineering managers and leaders are charged with a challenging task every day: How do they support engineers to do their best work, and how do they know if their engineers are doing their best work? The former is easier than the latter. To enable an engineer’s best work, you’ll want to make sure they are […]
How to Secure Online Coding Platforms
Threat Modeling for Online Coding Platforms The evolution of DevOps teams and a greater reliance on cloud-based computing has completely changed the coding process. Now, with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), coding can be done entirely online. This is convenient, but are online IDEs secure? To answer this, we will focus on two popular cloud-based IDEs: […]
DevOps at Scale: Winning Strategy for Modern Enterprises
DevOps is a word that has generated massive interest over the last few years among the software-powered organizations and developers, yet many people don’t fully understand what it actually means. One thing is for sure, as cool as it sounds, DevOps is not some kind of top-secret developer army group, job profile or even a […]
DataOps and Beyond: How DevOps Methodology Transformed Our Approach to Data Science
The DevOps methodology has become synonymous with forward technical thinking–a workplace culture that reinforces best cultural practice and promotes more, better quality output by synchronizing the functions of development and operations teams. As a testament to its popularity, the term has expanded in reach to refer to a broader set of transformational software-related practices. The […]
We All Have to Have Standards
I was working on an e-book recently about the state of the market for certain DevOps toolsets, and got really interested in how standardized organizations are becoming. We have been on this roller coaster of changing technology and different teams making different choices in language, libraries, platforms and toolchains. We all knew that couldn’t go […]
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Integrations
Akamai today extended its DevOps strategy to provide tighter integrations with continuous integration/continuous (CI/CD) platforms and IT automation tools such as Terraform from HashiCorp. In addition, Akamai is adding support for serverless computing functions to Akamai EdgeWorkers, a JavaScript-based framework through which application logic can be executed on the edge of the Akamai content delivery […]
How to Upgrade Critical IT Infrastructure with Zero Impact
Modern problems require modern solutions. A problem might come up that your software isn’t equipped to handle. This is why enterprises around the globe are spending billions of dollars more today than they did a decade ago. It’s never a good idea to leave anything to chance, especially if we’re talking about essential software. Keeping […]
Six Steps Every Business Should Take to Protect Its Data
Data may or may not be the new oil but it is the growth engine of today’s digital age. Data about a company’s customers, products, services and sales is worth a lot to the company itself, of course, but also to its competitors, as well as to business-savvy hackers. This is why every business, regardless […]
Quick Base Makes Free Low-Code Platform Available for First Responders
Quick Base, a provider of a platform for building low-code applications, announced this week that it is making its platform available for free through Sept. 30 to first responder organizations that need to build applications quickly to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Jay Jamison, chief product and technology officer for Quick Base, said it’s apparent first […]
OverOps Allies With SonarQube To Improve Application Quality
OverOps, a provider of tools for dynamically analyzing code at runtime, has partnered with SonarQube, a provider of static analysis tools for source code, to enhance application quality by unifying code analytics. Chen Harel, vice president of product for OverOps, said the two companies have collaborated to create a plugin through which DevOps teams can […]
COVID-19 Pandemic: Appian Offers Free HR App
Appian, a provider of a low-code platform for building applications, has decided to make available a free application to help organizations with 1,000 or more employees track healthcare incidents stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Designed mainly for human resources (HR) professionals, the COVID-19 Response Management application is designed to track the health and work status […]
What the Best Developers Do to Be Great at Their Jobs
Good developers are in demand—great ones, even more so. With software development employment in the U.S. expected to grow by 21% by 2028, the need for engineers is only going to surge further. But this doesn’t mean that the labor landscape will become uncompetitive: Now more than ever, individuals with a passion for software are entering […]