Trends and Benefits of Serverless Computing
Gartner estimated that by 2020, 20% of the world’s organizations will have gone serverless. Serverless computing initiates a mind shift in the way businesses are run and improves the accuracy and impact of technology services. Leading to higher functionality, reduced AWS bills, increased delivery speed and multi-cloud support, serverless computing paves the way into the […]
Four Ways to Modernize Processes and Measure Performance With APM
Change is everywhere and the stakes are high. For 2019, businesses are on track to spend over a trillion dollars on digital modernization, according to a recent study from IDC. A crucial part of modernization is the growing number of IT organizations using the latest in dynamic, cloud-scale technologies to develop applications. As a result, […]
Looking Back on 20 Years of Enterprise Java
It is hard to believe, but enterprise Java has existed as we know it for more than 20 years. In December of 1999, the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (formerly J2EE, now called Java EE or Jakarta EE) was introduced. J2EE built on the “write once, run anywhere” mentality of the Java programming language, but […]
LogicMonitor Acquires Unomaly to Advance AIOps
LogicMonitor this week revealed it has acquired Unomaly, a provider of tools infused with machine learning algorithms that make it easier to analyze large volumes of log data. Tej Redkar, chief product officer for LogicMonitor, said the acquisition of Unomaly will advance a previously announced AIOps initiative through which LogicMonitor will embed advanced analytics and […]
The Difference Between Capacity and Scalability Planning
Not only does the tech industry love terms, we love to make them super nuanced. For example SecOps versus DevSecOps, continuous delivery versus continuous deployment, hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud, etc. These terms may seem similar on the surface, but when you dig in they are quite different. Here are two more: capacity planning versus scalability […]
Software Supply Chain Attacks: How to Disrupt Attackers
Supply chain attacks—compromising an organization via insecure components in its software supply chain—are a growing concern for organizations. Throughout the past three years, an increasing number of open source software package repositories have been found to contain malware, making it clear that all installation and update pathways for software and library code must have security […]
How to Use DevOps for Compliance
Picture this: You’ve been working in an organization’s IT department for a couple of years and tasks have become quite a routine. Some documentation here and there, code reviews, end-user training, routine meetings with the developers and so on. You can do literally everything with your eyes closed. Then, all of a sudden, the company […]
Why Is QA so Important in Executing a DevOps Implementation Strategy?
In a rapidly growing global digital landscape, enterprises are facing many challenges. These include changing customer behavior and the need to be in line with the latest technology trends. To address these challenges and to stay up the competition curve, enterprises are adopting a slew of strategies. These comprise expanding the capacity of processes, quick […]
DevSecOps: 10 Best Practices to Embed Security into DevOps
For companies that employ the agile approach, DevOps seems like a natural extension. Traditionally, enterprises started with integration, development and test automation early in the product lifecycle. Gradually, the agile delivery team took care of iterative development and monitoring practices that increase code quality. Today, organizations work in unison to bridge the gap between development […]
Five IT Ops-tackles that Stifle Business Growth
I was recently asked about the top five IT obstacles that stifle business growth, and I want to help clear a path too often lined with fear, uncertainty and doubt. In the not-so-distant past, IT was all about the tools. Solutions were more straightforward, teams were less globally connected, and the ever-present data deluge was […]
Is COBOL Here to Stay? Five Signs IT is Ready to Modernize
With increased demands and challenges around compliance and regulations, plus growing expectations for IT to provide more value-added services, companies are looking for more flexible and collaborative options. Interestingly though, while some IT departments have updated legacy systems, COBOL code has continued to be a mainstay. In fact, COBOL just turned 60 and many are […]
The Role of Developers in Digital Transformation
Developers are an integral part of digital transformation. They architect the modular systems that overcome legacy and build the applications and solutions that allow firms to deliver products and services in new and innovative ways. Yet, when it comes to business decisions, many organizations overlook their developer talent. Developers come from a variety of different […]
A Developer’s Task: Minimizing Challenges Created by Fragmentation
Over the past decade, there has been a wellspring of apps, services and platforms to help developers build custom solutions for businesses. Some are great, some not so much. Regardless of quality, the quantity of options and each one’s varying level of sophistication has made it difficult for developers to separate the wheat from the […]
Building a Real-Time App: 13 Open Source Projects You Should Be Tracking Right Now
Open source is the dominant model of software consumption in the modern era. Cutting-edge startups and entrenched incumbents alike find open source software development and community building a significant part of their overall business strategies. For many open source projects, independent steering committees ensure that projects remain stable and are not beholden to a single […]
The Disservice of Cloud Consolidation
There’s no secret that over the past five years especially, the major (“tier 1”) cloud infrastructure players—Amazon, Microsoft and Google—have been snatching up smaller specialty providers, particularly cloud migration and security services. While this acquisition strategy immediately aims to strengthen and expand the provider’s direct and tangential cloud infrastructure offerings, the long-term goal is customer […]
Service Meshes: Improving Security, Delivery and Availability
Containerized microservices are taking over the software world. These services provide developers a way to quickly create and deploy cloud-native applications. However, containers aren’t perfect. Orchestrating and managing container deployments can be a serious challenge. To help ease this challenge, service meshes were developed. In this article, you’ll learn about service meshes components and architecture […]
DevOps Versus ITIL: How to Win the Battle Over Change Management
Ever since DevOps came on the scene a decade ago, ITIL has been under siege. ITIL lays out a number of IT service management (ITSM) best practices, including release management, change management, incident management, problem management and many other aspects of running an IT shop so that its priorities align with the business’s. For many […]
How the Nuts and Bolts of the Internet Are Evolving to Change the Way You Code
2019 was a big year for internet infrastructure, programming languages and platform development. In the last 12 months, we saw things like new connectivity in the sky and the sea and greater security of those connections with the growth of TLS 1.3 and certificate transparency. But three trends in particular stood out as having some […]
DevOps Unbound: How DevOps has Changed Testing Forever
DevOps has changed the game in almost every aspect of testing: who, what, when, where and even why. What’s working, what needs to change immediately, and what challenges—and opportunities—lie ahead? Hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Abel Wang from Microsoft, Tracy Miranda from CDF, Caroline Wong from Cobalt, Kurt Chase and Ben Simo from Tricentis to share a variety of perspectives on how testing fits into the ever-evolving world of DevOps. The video is below, followed by a transcript.
Breaking Down the OWASP API Security Top 10, Part 2
Due to the widespread usage of APIs, and the fact that attackers realize APIs are a new attack frontier, the OWASP API Security Top 10 Project was launched. From the beginning, the project was designed to help organizations, developers and application security teams become increasingly aware of the risks associated with APIs. This past September, […]
The 2020 Digital Leader Priorities
When it comes to digital transformation, 2020 promises to be full steam ahead as many of the trends are already well underway. However, it’ll be those businesses that can execute at the quickening rate of technological change that will set the leaders and laggards apart for the years ahead. A survey conducted earlier last year […]
Secure Your Network: How to Integrate EDR and DevOps
DevOps and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions converge when no human element is required while deploying applications or detecting the threat and executing preventive measures. In this article, I am evaluating how the DevOps process integrates EDR solutions for securing services operations at various endpoints in the network. What is DevOps? DevOps has an […]
Best of 2019: Breaking Down the OWASP API Security Top 10, Part 1
As we close out 2019, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. As a result of a broadening threat landscape and the ever-increasing usage of APIs, the OWASP API Security Top 10 Project was launched. […]