Open Banking Shouldn’t Be Open Season on Your APIs
Open banking has become the latest technological advancement for financial services applications that’s modernizing the industry. For instance, Mastercard recently began its Start Path Open Banking program, which provides select startups the opportunity to use Mastercard’s expertise while learning how to apply open banking to their own business. Open banking is creating new opportunities for […]
Fastly Adds Observability Tools for Edge Computing Environments
Fastly, Inc. this week added a set of observability tools to its portfolio that are optimized for edge computing platforms connected to its content delivery network (CDN). Laura Thomson, senior vice president of engineering at Fastly, said the company is now providing a set of tools that enable DevOps teams to capture logging data and […]
Rust Momentum Intensifies | Elon Says No WFH
In this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office.
CloudBees Demos Orchestration Capabilities of ReleaseIQ Platform
At the online DevOps World 2022 event today, CloudBees demonstrated for the first time the capabilities of the application release management platform it gained last month through the acquisition of ReleaseIQ. Shawn Ahmed, chief marketing officer and interim chief product officer at CloudBees, told conference attendees that the ReleaseIQ platform will provide application development teams […]
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
In this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow.
Gitpod Looks to Drive Application Development Into the Cloud
Gitpod today revealed it will add an application programming interface (API) to make cloud development environments (CDEs) more extensible. Gitpod also said Johannes Landgraf assumed the role of single CEO for Gitpod, as the previous co-CEO, Sven Efftinge, becomes the company’s first technical fellow. Fresh from raising an additional $25 million in funding, Gitpod’s Landgraf […]
Pulumi Adds Deployment Capability to IaC Platform
At the Pulumi Cloud Engineering Days event, Pulumi announced today it has added a code deployment capability to its Pulumi Cloud platform for managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Deployments will make it possible for DevOps teams to provision infrastructure and deploy applications via a single Git commit that can be invoked […]
Know What You Want and Need
Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, install and configure the software and, in most cases, spend the majority of time on the project getting it to work correctly in […]
InfluxData Delivers Revamped Database for Real-Time Processing
InfluxData has made good on a promise to deliver a next-generation time-series database that enables observability and monitoring tools used by DevOps teams to ingest high volumes of data more cost-efficiently. In addition, for the first time, the latest iteration of the InfluxDB database supports the de facto standard SQL query language. Developers can run […]
Nobl9 Simplifies SLO Identification
Nobl9 today added a Replay capability to its service level objectives (SLO) management platform that makes it simpler to collect the historical data a DevOps team needs to get started. Nobl9 COO Kit Merker said Nobl9 Replay makes service level indicator (SLI) data instantly available in minutes using 30 days of historical data collected from […]
The Dog Ate My DevOps Dozen
As the new Techstrong Group team member, I wasn’t familiar with the DevOps Dozen awards. The basics: It’s a cool program that recognizes excellence across a number of categories in the DevOps world. The winners will be announced during our Predict 23 conference on January 12. I have to tell you that the submission process was […]
Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
In this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux.
Fermyon Adds Managed PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Fermyon Technologies this week launched a hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, dubbed Fermyon Cloud, that promises to make it simpler to build WebAssembly (Wasm) applications. Announced during the Cloud Native Wasm Day event during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Fermyon Cloud is now available in open beta. Fresh from raising $20 million in funding, […]
JFrog Gives Pyrsia to CD Foundation to Secure Software Supply Chains
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, JFrog announced it contributed the Pyrsia project, which uses blockchain technologies to secure software packages, to the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations at JFrog and governing board member for the CD Foundation, said the goal is to increase the […]
Introduction to Cloud Custodian
Organizations continue to increase their footprint in the cloud. Yet, applying governance and enforcing policies across multiple cloud environments at scale is a challenging endeavor. Organizations typically have governance policies written in English, but translating them into enforceable code has historically required some custom workarounds. In the same vein as infrastructure-as-code (IaC), DevOps engineers now […]
Why You Should Consolidate Your IAM
It’s not often you can get a win that makes your IT processes easier while simultaneously improving your cybersecurity. In fact, oftentimes making improvements in one area (for example, improving IT processes) comes at the cost of the other (cybersecurity). But there’s one area, in particular, where these improvements aren’t mutually exclusive: Identity and access […]
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing.
Four Causes of Technical Debt in DevOps
Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem. Without routinely addressing technical debt, DevOps teams can easily face inconsistencies during deployments. Versioning can get out of hand without consistent upgrades and […]
Datadog Extends Reach of Integrated DevOps Platform
At its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, Datadog has made available in beta a Data Streams Monitoring tool that makes it simpler to identify upstream issues that are likely to […]
JFrog Adds Module to Better Secure Software Supply Chains
JFrog today added a JFrog Advanced Security module to its Artifactory repository that enables DevOps teams to scan both binaries and source code for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations for JFrog, said that approach will enable DevOps team to ensure applications are secure before they are deployed in a production […]
Dell Launches Project Frontier Initiative to Advance Edge Computing
Dell Technologies this week launched Project Frontier initiative that promises to make deploying software at the edge simpler using integrated platforms that will be available in 2023. Announced at a Dell Technologies Summit event, Project Frontier will create an integrated edge computing platform for vertical industry segments such as manufacturing and retail. Dell CEO Michael […]
Choosing the Right API Solution
There are more choices than ever when it comes to APIs–and that’s a good thing. But it also means you’ll need a strategic plan for choosing the right API solution. Two questions I’ve found can help guide that decision: What problem are you trying to solve right now? What functionality will you need in the […]
Microsoft Expands DevOps Portfolio in the Cloud
At the Ignite conference this week, Microsoft launched a slew of updates to its DevOps portfolio as part of an effort to make it simpler to build, manage and secure cloud applications. Microsoft is adding Azure Deployment Environments, available in preview, that enable developer teams to invoke a set of best practices to quickly spin […]