Cloudflare Adds Digital Experience Monitoring to CDN Portfolio
At an online CIO Week event, Cloudflare today added a digital experience monitoring capability to a portfolio of services layered on top of its core content delivery network (CDN). Corey Mahan, director of product management for Cloudflare, said the Cloudflare Digital Experience Monitoring service extends a Cloudflare Zero Trust platform based on agent software dubbed […]
No-Code Automated Software Solves a Host of Problems
There’s a huge disconnect in corporate America, and it’s costing companies big time. The disconnect involves software testing, or, more precisely, the lack of it. More than nine out of 10 CEOs are confident that their company’s software is tested regularly, yet roughly eight out of 10 product testers reported that up to 40% of […]
Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture.
Best of 2022: Microsoft Adds Raft of Tools and Azure Cloud Extensions
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. At its Build 2022 conference this week, Microsoft added a bevy of tools and platform updates as part of its effort to improve the productivity […]
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs.
Rezilion Updates Open Source MI-X Tool to Better Secure App Development
Rezilion has updated its open source MI-X vulnerability discovery tool to include mitigation and remediation recommendations. In addition, the tool can now produce machine-readable output in either a JSON or CSV format. Finally, the company added Windows support for Heartbleed and SpookySSL vulnerabilities in Windows environments. MI-X makes it possible to use a command line […]
EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work.
New Relic Extends Observability Reach to More DevOps Platforms
New Relic today expanded its ecosystem by adding integrations between its observability platform and a wide variety of DevOps and cybersecurity tools. The New Relic observability platform now integrates with offerings from Atlassian, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CircleCI, Confluent, GitHub, JFrog, Lacework and Snyk and the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Peter […]
Get Comfortable with Shifting Right to Improve Resiliency
The operations team receives a page at 2:00 a.m. Something isn’t working correctly. Do they know how to fix it? Perhaps more importantly, do they know whether it matters to customers or how it impacts the business? There are different techniques that companies implement to maximize the quality of their software. We talk about shifting […]
Shift Left Testing in Microservices Environments
By now, it’s common knowledge that the later a bug is detected in the software development life cycle (SDLC), the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to fix that bug. In 2017, the Ponemon Institute found that it cost around $80 on average to fix a defect detected early in the SDLC […]
5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it’s rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality. To make matters worse, engineers commonly create lengthy scripts that work in isolation but are […]
Introduction to Flutter
Flutter is a development tool for creating cross-platform applications. Flutter was created by Google to help developers create frontends that run on almost any operating system, including Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, Windows desktop and the web. Ready to check it out? You’ll first need to install the Flutter software development kit (SDK). Installing Flutter To […]
AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story.
GraphQL Vulnerability Analysis: The Top Threats
Publicly available vulnerability data can be a goldmine for insights into how DevOps and DevSecOps teams can prioritize threats and improve security across the pipeline. With this in mind, Inigo recently performed a deep-dive analysis of known vulnerabilities affecting GraphQL components—including GraphQL clients such as Relay and GraphQL servers such as Apollo, Graphene, Ariadne, GitLab […]
Key Findings From the 2022 State of GraphQL Report
GraphQL, the open source query language, has been steadily growing in popularity over the past few years. The language is excellent for frontend development, as it creates a usable interface to fetch precisely the data required for the specific client at hand. You can also use it to aggregate multiple backend services and data sources. […]
GitLab Unfurls Dedicated SaaS Edition in the Cloud
GitLab today made available to a limited number of customers a single-tenant version of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. David DeSanto, vice president of product at GitLab, said the GitLab Dedicated option provides all the benefits of a cloud platform without running afoul of any potential compliance issues. Designed […]
VMware Brings Java 17 Support to Spring Boot Framework
VMware this week made a Spring Boot 3.0 update for building microservices-based Java applications that is based on the latest long-term support release for the Java Standard Edition (SE) platform. Michael Minella, senior director of software engineering at VMware, said the latest edition of the framework supports Java 17. The hope is that adding this […]
DevOps, Drought and Climate | Meta❤️PTP
In this week’s The Long View: Data centers cause climate change, and Meta is rolling out Precision Time Protocol.
Palo Alto Networks Buys Cider Security to Lock Down Pipelines
Palo Alto Networks this week extended its efforts to secure application environments by agreeing to acquire Cider Security, a provider of a platform for securing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, for approximately $195 million in cash. The acquisition of Cider Security, scheduled to close this quarter, will extend the reach of the company’s Prisma Cloud […]
Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood
In this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out.
Infrastructure Abstraction Will Be Key to Managing Multi-Cloud
There’s no doubt we’re now living in a hybrid multi-cloud age. Companies are using major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP with niche cloud computing providers emerging within the market. Simultaneously, many organizations still retain workloads in on-premises data centers or embrace colocation. Regardless of deployment pattern, DevOps teams desire the same elasticity as […]
Atlassian Extends Jira’s Reach Into DevOps Workflows
Atlassian today added a range of capabilities to its Jira project management application that make it easier to manage software development projects, including a toolchain page that simplifies tool discovery for any given project. In addition, Atlassian is including a Discover tab on that page that makes it possible to track activities and set priorities […]
SAP Adds Low-Code Platform to Build Custom Apps Faster
At the SAP TechEd 2022 conference, SAP SE today announced it has added a low-code platform, dubbed SAP Build, to its portfolio to make it simpler for organizations to build custom applications. Sebastian Schrötel, vice president and head of low-code/no-code solutions for SAP, said SAP Build is designed to make the company’s low-code tools more […]