Is Release Management Dead in the DevOps World?
In the world of enterprise application development and delivery, release management was born from the operations team attempting to reduce risk in the delivery pipeline. It’s the operations team’s job to ensure all production runs are stable, while the development team focuses on creating and shipping new products and applications. While this seems well-defined, integrated […]
Building Your Data Science Team from Within
The global machine learning (ML) industry is increasing at a compound annual growth rate of 42% and will be worth $9 billion toward the end of 2022. Despite this figure, there are many cases of data science teams’ failure to deploy a reliable artificial intelligence (AI) product or service. Part of the failings and shortcomings of AI […]
Fast Data is Forcing New Strategies in DevOps
DevOps has established itself as a critically important discipline, developing and leveraging unique tooling and processes to deliver many types of applications more rapidly, efficiently and reliably. As data has become a more central component in these applications, DataOps has emerged to work hand-in-hand with DevOps to better support the role of data in the […]
Rethinking Data Management in a DevOps Environment
You often hear data is the new oil. This valuable, ever-changing commodity has begun to play a starring role in many cloud-native applications. Yet, according to a number of DevOps teams, data issues continue to plague their efforts to continuously integrate, test and deploy frequent software releases. More specifically, issues with persistent data (and its […]
What is so Special About AIOps for Mission Critical Workloads?
As the wave of digitization sweeps more enterprises with each passing day, the threats posed to organizations, particularly IT organizations, have never been more complex and pressing. With cybercrime statistics, including those for more targeted crimes (such as phishing) pointing towards an alarming frequency of attacks, the stakes for securing enterprises have been higher. However, […]
Building Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures for Analytics and AI
We are in the early stage of the data revolution. Today’s conventional wisdom states that hybrid latency prevents you from running analytic and machine learning workloads in the cloud with the data on-prem. As a result, most companies either do not burst their workloads into the cloud or have to copy their data into a […]
Why Mobile App Security is Like a Rubik’s Cube
Now more than ever, mobile applications are driving modern business, and developing and launching them are top priorities for companies across industries. As of 2018, more than 194 billion applications had been downloaded from app stores, according to Credence Research. The global mobile app market was valued at $109.67 billion in 2018 and, at the […]
Kubernetes and Service Mesh With StackRox
DevOps and Kubernetes enable organizations to “go with security,” adding security to the code instead of on top of it. In other words, security is built-in rather than bolted on. This is one of the aspects of security in the DevOps world with a Kubernetes system that Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, explained […]
How Enterprise IT Teams Can Win the Hearts of DevOps
Take your average IT team in a young enterprise in the midst of skyrocketing growth. There’s a good chance the workflows they’ve used since the outset can’t keep up with the ever-increasing volume of requests from the business. In the minds of some DevOps and app development teams in particular, the IT department of the […]
Achieving Application Health Through Integrated APM
Performance and availability mean everything to application users at both the enterprise and consumer level. Think about how much we rely on technology for our everyday communication—when Slack suffered from an outage this summer, it affected thousands of business professionals across the globe who use Slack to communicate, organize tasks and share information. In a […]
Applying Secrets Management to DevOps
DevOps has changed the way enterprises operate, allowing for quick and efficient product development. In order for companies to keep up with market competition, many companies that are not structurally prepared to implement DevOps will still put together a team just to meet demand, which in turn creates vulnerabilities and gaps within their security posture. […]
Quality Engineering Has DevOps and Agile in the Driving Seat
As opposed to the traditional software development lifecycle (aka waterfall), today’s Agile and DevOps-based software development process is more outcome-oriented. The unrelenting pace of the changing market landscape has made the hybrid, Agile plus DevOps way of software development absolutely critical in addressing customer demands and staying competitive. The focus on Agile and DevOps is […]
The Relationship Between Feature Flags and DevOps
From 2017 I’ve started most DevOps conversations with, “DevOps is now boring, and I love it!” What I mean by boring is that we are arguing less and less about why you should embrace DevOps principles and practices and having more and more conversations about how to implement DevOps in the real world. As a […]
Low-Code Meets DevOps: A Smart Way to Manage Modern App Delivery Demands
In a fast-moving and often fiercely competitive marketplace, companies need to embrace technology to stay relevant and drive growth. To this end, the business community is increasingly placing a high priority on digital transformation. In fact, more than 80% of organizations believe that digital transformation is crucial to business success. Digitally driven processes can power […]
What Developers Must Know About Threat Modeling
Threat modeling is a process that far few developers seem to pursue, but it is a process that helps you and your team to model all potential threats to your application. Essentially, threat modeling is your thinking through all of the potential threats against an application. Doing so is virtually as easy as putting together […]
Optimism Matters and so Does a Sense of Wonder
I’m a terrible video game player. For as much fun as people have with me at the table for Table Top RPGs (TTRPGs), I’m a pain when playing video games. As a guy with a masters in computer science, and years of experience ranging from embedded drivers to enterprise architecture, I see bugs or bad […]
From Automated Cloud Deployment to Progressive Delivery
Your team is on its agile journey and you can more or less track a deployment from a story, through git commits, to an automated builder, to an artifact repository, into a container and then onto the cloud. Or, in fact, any other of the many valid variants that lead you to believe your deployments […]
DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Programming Highlights: What I’m Looking Forward To
I am so excited about the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) Las Vegas. As a programming committee, we seek to make each event better than the last, as measured by how much we learn and how it helps enable the DevOps Enterprise community to achieve their goals. As a programming committee, we thought London 2019 was our […]
Common Cloud Security Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Over the last few years, it’s become apparent that traditional on-premise security policies are not a good fit for newer cloud-native environments. Even though the writing has been on the wall for a long time, the brewing security crisis still hasn’t been resolved. Far too many organizations continue to use security measures that are ineffective […]
The New Era of Kubernetes, With StackRox
Orchestrators are becoming the operating systems of cloud for the future. Which one do you think has become the dominant one? Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, placed his bet on Kubernetes right from the start. StackRox is a Kubernetes-native security platform that helps DevOps and security teams operationalize security, providing richer context, native […]
Understanding and Implementing the APM Puzzle – Performance and Availability
While every organization is unique, there’s one universal goal everyone can get behind—creating and delivering an exceptional end-user experience. For both classic IT organizations and companies built in the age of cloud, delivering continuous availability and appropriate application performance is key. Although digital transformation has become a buzzword some would say is meaningless, the idea […]
The Real-Time Innovation Dividend
Time is compressing. The attention span of individuals and organizations is becoming ever shorter. There are only brief windows that can be devoted to any given transaction. Expectations around situational knowledge, updated in real-time, are compounding. Customers expect the applications they interact with know where they are, what they are looking for and what their […]
Continuous Optimization: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Agile makes development deliver code faster. CI makes testing move faster and CD makes delivery faster, but what keeps track of the volume of change all of this introduces and delivers optimizations faster? That is the question Opsani wants you to be asking. And it’s a valid question. Optimization in a complex and constantly changing […]