How to Prevent Turnover in DevOps Teams
Turnover is all too common in software engineering. The Bureau of Labor Statistics 2021 report found that the average software engineer turnover is 57.3%. It’s a programmer’s market, and these sought-after folks might jump ship for a higher salary, better work-life balance, different team dynamic or perhaps even for a company with a better ESG […]
ServiceNow Acquires Era Software to Unify Observability
ServiceNow today announced it has agreed to acquire Era Software as part of an effort to add support for log data to the Lightstep observability platform the company acquired last year. Ben Sigelman, general manager for the Lightstep business unit at ServiceNow, said rather than reinventing the same log management capability that Era Software already […]
The Whats and Hows of APIs: A New Developer’s Guide
For those who are new developers, you may not know a lot about application programming interfaces (APIs). However, it is likely that you’ve used them before as a consumer or an end user, whether purchasing online, using business communication software to reach colleagues or sharing images from a monogram logo maker on social media platforms, […]
Is DevOps Dead? I Don’t Think So!
A lesson I have learned over my 30 years in the tech world is that technology and frameworks never truly die—they evolve and they grow. When I read a recent article proclaiming, “DevOps is dead!” and that we should all be embracing platform engineering, I had a chuckle. No, DevOps isn’t dead, and rumors of […]
Cosmonic Previews Deployment Platform for Distributed Wasm Apps
Cosmonic has made available a preview of a platform for deploying applications built using the portable WebAssembly (Wasm) binary format that enables applications to be deployed on any platform. Cosmonic CEO Liam Randall said the company is providing early access to the Cosmonic Platform Developer Preview platform to enable developers to experiment with a new […]
Atlassian Aims to Improve Collaboration With DevOps Teams
At an Atlassian Presents: WorkLife event today, Atlassian furthered its efforts to integrate the tools technology and business professionals use to manage processes. Erika Trautman, general manager and vice president of product for Work Management for All at Atlassian, said that as organizations increasingly rely on digital processes to engage customers, partners and employees, the […]
GitBOM Tool Automatically Identifies Software Artifact Components
An open source GitBOM tool, discussed at the Open Source Summit Europe conference this week, can automatically track every source code file incorporated into each built artifact. Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal software engineer for Microsoft, told conference attendees via a video link that the GitBOM tool, based on a compact Artifact Dependency Graph (ADG) technology, […]
Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim
In this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations.
Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps
A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is highly sticky and makes future application improvements and migrations much harder. All three hyperscalers have storage services that present block, file and object-based […]
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
8 Web Development Trends to Follow
Since the inception of the internet in 1983, many web development tools have been introduced to simplify complex processes that would otherwise take months to finish and cost companies a great deal of money. According to internet live statistics, over 1.5 billion websites and more than five billion active daily internet users visit multiple sites […]
Where DataOps and Opportunities Converge
In today’s data age, getting data analytics right is more essential than ever. A robust data analytics implementation enables businesses to hit key performance metrics, build data and AI-driven customer experiences (think ‘personalize my feed’) and capture operational issues before they spiral out of control. The list of competitive advantages goes on, but the bottom […]
F5 NGINX Delivers Modern Management Platform
F5 NGINX has revamped an implementation of its management suite as part of an effort to make the platform both more accessible and simpler to use. Eric Braun, vice president of product management for F5 NGINX, said NGINX Management Suite 1.0 is based on a modular platform that makes it possible to dynamically scale instances […]
Free Dev Tools! But What’s the Catch?
Software companies, especially young startups, are always in a development race – by definition, they are trying to maximize achievements and minimize their burn rate. That means development teams naturally face an internal tug-of-war. On one hand, they seek to use the newest dev tools that the market can offer, targeting their applications to become […]
Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours.
Time-Series Database Basics
There’s been a lot of buzz about time-series data for the past few years. No matter what you’re monitoring—financial data, server performance, social media activity or something else entirely—time-series data can give you valuable insights into trends and patterns. But what exactly is a time-series database, and why do you need one? This article will […]
5 Ways to Prevent an Outage
In today’s always-on, ever-connected world, we all expect 100% availability. What gets in the way of this? The devil is in the details. Over time, everything breaks: Disks, nodes, containers, networks, DNS servers and configuration issues can all lead to major outages. Amazon’s 13 minutes of downtime in August 2021 translated to almost $5 million […]
CloudNativeDay: WASM to Drive Next IT Epoch
WebAssembly (WASM) is poised to drive the next era of development of cloud-native applications that can truly run anywhere. Liam Randall, CEO of Cosmonic, a provider of a platform for building and deploying WASM applications, told attendees at a virtual CloudNativeDay event that WASM will be at the core of a new IT epoch that […]
IBM Unveils Simulation Tool for Attacking SCM Platforms
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, IBM today revealed it is making available a toolkit for launching simulated attacks against source code management (SCM) platforms. The toolkit was launched as a proof-of-concept. Brett Hawkins, head of adversary simulation for the X-Force Red arm of IBM Security, said the SCMKit takes advantage of the REST […]
Armory Extends Scope of Spinnaker CD Distribution
Armory today updated both the self-hosted and managed editions of its distribution of the open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform. The updates support concurrent pipelines and provide tighter integration with open source Terraform infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to better enforce policies. Previously, the two platforms were known as Armory Enterprise and Armory Enterprise Managed. They are […]
Continuous Delivery Advances Come at Cost of Testing
A survey of 820 application development professionals conducted by Applitools, a provider of an application testing platform, found well over a third of respondents (38%) working for organizations that now deploy daily changes to production environments. The challenge is that application testing is not able to keep pace with that rate of continuous deployment (CD). […]
CircleCI Integrates CI/CD Platform With GitLab
CircleCI today announced it has integrated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a rival software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from GitLab. DevOps teams can now, for example, trigger pipelines in CircleCI from GitLab forked merge requests in addition to merging requests and making commits for specific branches. Other capabilities include the ability to access testing capabilities […]