Eclipse Foundation Opens Marketplace for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation this week opened an Adoptium Marketplace through which DevOps teams can access Java binaries based on the OpenJDK specification. OpenJDK was created based on the Java standard edition (SE) of the programming language and virtual machine. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the goal is to make it easier […]
Opportunities and Challenges of Observability
Observability platforms that unify metrics, logs and traces across applications and IT infrastructure are transforming how IT is managed. Most DevOps teams today are able to continuously monitor IT environments using tools that track a set of pre-defined metrics; observability platforms make it possible to aggregate data so that DevOps teams can launch queries that […]
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
In this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing.
JFrog Launches Blockchain Project to Secure Open Source Software
At its swampUP event, JFrog today launched Project Pyrsia, an open source project that uses a blockchain platform and Sigstore Cosign and Notary V2 cryptographic signature software to secure software packages. In addition to JFrog, other contributors to the project include Docker, Inc., DeployHub, Futureway and Oracle. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations for […]
WhiteSource Becomes Mend, Launches Automated Remediation Platform
WhiteSource rechristened itself Mend today and launched a remediation platform that automatically resolves security issues for application developers. Rami Sass, co-founder and CEO of Mend, said now the company is going beyond just identifying vulnerabilities in open source software using software composition analysis (SCA) tools and is also fixing them. The overall goal is to […]
GitLab Gets an Overhaul
GitLab launched its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, which the company said pulls together new DevOps and data science capabilities into the platform. With GitLab 15, GitLab says it provides (or soon will provide) continuous security and compliance, enterprise Agile planning, visibility and observability, workflow automation and increased […]
DevSecOps Deluge: Choosing the Right Tools
In the last few years, DevSecOps has become the security process of choice for many forward-thinking enterprises. These organizations have come to understand that fixing bugs in the latter stages of product and application development offers no favors to anyone but cybercriminals. So, they have overhauled traditional processes and united development, operations and security teams […]
New Relic Expands Scope of Observability Reach
At its Futurestack conference, New Relic announced it expanded the integrations and tools it provides for its observability platform and added its first cybersecurity tool. The company now provides more than 470 integrations with cloud services, open source tools and other enterprise technologies, with support for offerings from Akamai, Atlassian, CircleCI, Cloudflare, Netlify, PagerDuty and […]
Is Your Future in SaaS? Yes, Except …
The growth of SaaS—including IaaS—was phenomenal when it came and it has become somewhat pervasive. Today, there are SaaS tools in use at just about every business, large or small. From sales to marketing to customer management, there is a SaaS tool that does it affordably and well. For now. The same is true of […]
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
In this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double salaries.
Increasing Use of SLOs to Enable Observability
Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are increasing their use of service-level objectives (SLOs) across the board—a recent study found that 82% of companies are increasing their use of SLOs. […]
Why Data Lineage Matters and Why it’s so Challenging
Change introduces risk. It’s one of those foundational principles of software development that most of us learned very early in our careers. Nevertheless, it always seems to keep cropping up in spite of those repeated life lessons. Our inability to foresee the impact of changes, even small ones, often leads to negative outcomes. As the […]
Observe, Inc. Dives Deeper Into Observability
Fresh from picking up an additional $70 million in funding, Observe, Inc. announced this week it has added multiple tools, dubbed Data Universe Maps, to its observability platform to visualize all datasets and surface underlying event data. The company also added pre-built applications for Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Jenkins environments with editions for […]
Top 3 Requirements for Next-Gen ML Tools
As the machine learning market matures, new tools are evolving that better match data science and machine learning teams’ needs. Vendors, both open source and private, have been quick to introduce new products that better meet requirements making it easier and faster to develop models and enable collaboration. These new offerings range from cloud-based platforms […]
Container Storage for DevOps: New Options With NVMe
The DevOps world is ripe for a storage paradigm change, both in how it operates within the enterprise and how it implements applications. NVMe, especially NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMeoF), is both a tool and a host target that can provide such a change—especially in the new world of microservices and containerization. NVMe can drastically improve application performance […]
The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Lasting Impact on Tech
The COVID-19 pandemic created major opportunities for innovation and ushered in new technology solutions, but even as the danger subsides, this tech may still serve a purpose. Whether it be face mask detection, temperature checks, facial recognition or AI surveillance, technology crafted to combat COVID-19 is here to stay. This may present a number of […]
Update Those Ops Tools, Too
We’re all pretty well settled on the idea that the rate of change in IT has been on the increase over time. From the advent of VMs to Agile to DevOps to containers, the movement has been faster—and the same is true for internal development. I’m going to approach this topic from three perspectives instead […]
Does GraphQL Introduce New Security Risks?
The GraphQL query language is an excellent tool for increasing the ease of data sharing. The premise is that you request the fields you need in a single bundled request, avoiding multiple network calls. Due to its usability, GraphQL is a growing area of development. Yet, as with any new technology, it comes with caveats. […]
OpenSSF Adds Open Source Package Analysis Tool Prototype
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has made available a prototype of a package analysis tool that has already identified more than 200 malicious packages uploaded to PyPI and npm software components. Caleb Brown, an OpenSSF maintainer of the project, said the goal is to understand the behavior and capabilities of packages available on open […]
Stytch Launches New, Flexibility-First SDK
Passwordless solutions have been a trend for a while now, improving user experience (UX) while reducing exposure to common attack vectors. Now, Stytch’s new JavaScript SDK aims to make password-free authentication a bit easier by increasing customization and flexibility while offering fully baked authentication out of the box. Julianna Lamb, Stytch CTO, said the solution […]
Twitter/Bluesky ADX Algorithm | Cloud Energy Use ‘Tripled’ | Apple Staff are Revolting
In this week’s The Long View: Bluesky—Twitter’s research spinout—opens its ADX algorithm, Irish data-center electricity worries grow, and Apple employees are the latest to rise up against hybrid working.
Internal Developer Portal: What it Is and Why You Need One
One main advantage of the cloud is that it offers developers flexibility and a self-service solution. Instead of having to contact the central infrastructure team whenever a dev team needs a new server or a cluster, the dev team can do it themselves through a simple web UI. This change drastically improves productivity. But there’s […]
Smoothing the Transition From REST to GraphQL
Since its open source release in 2015, GraphQL has taken the development world by storm. GraphQL, the query language originally developed by Facebook, is a big boon for frontend developers, as it enables you to grab the exact data you need with a single request. This solves the problems of over-fetching and under-fetching, which classical […]