Perforce Charts Testing Course After BlazeMeter Acquisition
Perforce Software has acquired BlazeMeter from Broadcom as part of an effort to extend the scope of its testing tools beyond the Perfecto tools for testing mobile and web applications it acquired in 2018. Broadcom gained control over BlazeMeter after it acquired CA Technologies in 2018. CA Technologies acquired BlazeMeter in 2016. Terms of the […]
How to Pivot and Join Time-Series Data in Flux
Merging multiple time-series in InfluxDB using Flux may seem like a daunting task. This in-depth Flux tutorial will explain how to pivot, time shift and join time series in InfluxDB. In this InfluxDB tutorial, we will show you how to create an accurate overview of multiple time series with industrial data captured in consecutive production […]
Global Next-Generation Software Engineering Conference
GNGSEC sounds the clarion call for software engineering change! The pandemic made 2020 the year where we see some of this decade’s most exciting digital technologies become commercially viable, and others finally go mainstream. Software is the core of digital transformation. In the digital era, the methods by which we produce software also need to […]
ReleaseIQ Adds Orchestration Tool for Multiple Instances of Jenkins
ReleaseIQ has launched an orchestration framework for the open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment that makes it possible for DevOps teams to orchestrate pipelines across multiple instances of Jenkins. Seetharam Param, ReleaseIQ CEO, said ReleaseIQ Essentials for Jenkins is an implementation of an existing orchestration platform that enables DevOps teams to orchestrate pipelines across […]
Perforce Melds Artifact Package Manager with Version Control Platform
Perforce Software has added a universal package manager, dubbed Helix Artifacts, to its portfolio that enables users of its Helix Core version control platform to store and track source code. Gerhard Krüger, product manager for Helix Core digital asset management at Perforce Software, said the goal is to enable DevOps teams that employ Helix Core […]
Why an Embedded Analytics Maturity Framework is Essential
Contextual analytics, or embedding analytics directly into a business application’s transactional environment and core workflows, is the most sophisticated stage of business intelligence (BI) currently available to organizations today. It is one level ahead of the traditional integration of analytics, which is a standalone capability presented as a separate dashboard or reporting module. Today, there […]
Sumo Logic Extends Observability Scope and Reach
During the online Illuminate user conference, Sumo Logic revealed how it is integrating capabilities it gained with the June 2021 acquisition of Sensu, a provider of open source monitoring tools, with its continuous intelligence platform in addition to adding support for data collected via open source OpenTelemetry software. Sensu Go, a set of tools for […]
Harnessing the Value of Log Data Analytics
Each day, the average enterprise’s cloud applications, containers, compute nodes and other components throw off millions of tiny logs. Each log is a file whose data describes an event such as a user action, service request, application task or compute error. Logs also capture messages that applications and other components send to one another. There’s […]
DataOps: How to Turn Data into Actionable Insights
Enterprises have struggled to collaborate well around their data, which can impact everything from digital transformation to advanced concepts like AI and ML. DataOps is not without challenges; building, managing and scaling data pipelines requires careful thought around reusability, portability across infrastructure and applications and long-term maintenance and governance. And these are just a few […]
Clubhouse Becomes Shortcut to Transform Software Project Management
Shortcut, formerly known as Clubhouse Software, today announced that its project management software for software development teams has been expanded to include additional workflow capabilities. CEO Kurt Schrader said team-to-workflow functionality is being added to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform and will make it easier to share workflows across software development teams in a more standardized […]
5 App Modernization Best Practices
An organization’s digital transformation is ineffectual if it doesn’t bring out the best from its applications. This is a near-universal concern since most enterprises still have core applications that are architected primarily to work in legacy IT landscapes in an on-premises dedicated environment, slowing down IT and business performance, stymieing innovation and increasing vulnerability to […]
Zero-Trust Network Access Platforms Slash DevOps Bottlenecks
In a prior article, I indicated why a new remote zero-trust platform is needed to support DevOps teams. Traditional remote access configurations are not well-suited for DevOps given a shifting user population comprised of employees, contractors and other third parties often using their own devices; the large number of tools and systems to which access […]
MongoDB’s Atlas Turns Five
In June 2021, Andrew Davidson, VP of cloud products at MongoDB, talked with Alan Shimel about MongoDB and the fifth anniversary of launching Atlas, the company’s database-as-a-service offering. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Alan Shimel: Hi, everyone. Welcome to another segment here on TechStrong […]
DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021 Nominations Now Open
The DevOps Dozen² Awards are back and open for nominations. This past year has been quite a journey and we are very proud of the DevOps community in their ability to pivot, innovate, adapt and think ahead in these challenging times. Some outstanding leaders and vendors have worked nonstop to reach their goals and achieve […]
Choosing the Right Metrics for DevOps Adoption
DevOps adoption has skyrocketed in recent years. Its impact on traditional development platforms has long been well-documented, but in more recent years it has started to influence low-code platforms, too. In its recent survey on the state of Salesforce DevOps, Gearset found that 69% of teams are already using source control and another 20% plan […]
4 Benefits of Integrating a Language With a Database
One of the hallmarks of a truly modern programming language is the coupling of a language—for creating applications, devising algorithms and solving business problems—with an underlying database. When there is practically no separation between a database and its programming language, developers immensely increase their productivity, maximize the effectiveness of the code they write and provide […]
Avoiding Budget Overruns During Cloud Migration
Many organizations have already started their migrations to the cloud, or soon plan to. It makes sense: The cloud is an attractive option for multiple reasons, including its potential for cost savings, scalability and support of continuous application development. However, benefits aside, it can be very easy for enterprises to lose financial control of a […]
3 Pillars of Autonomous IT Ops
Imagine a future where human IT operators and intelligent systems work together in a virtual operations room; the systems do the heavy lifting while the humans supervise. This may seem like science fiction, but the truth is we are already on the way to that future with AIOps. While actual AI-augmented teams are still quite […]
Google Donates Sqlcommenter to OpenTelemetry Project
Google announced today that Sqlcommenter, an open source project that provides access to an object-relational mapping (ORM) auto-instrumentation library, is being merged with OpenTelemetry, an open source project for building agent software to instrument applications. Nimesh Bhagat, a product manager for Google, said Sqlcommenter is designed to make it simpler to correlate application and database […]
Progress Expands Chef Automation Portfolio
In advance of its ChefCon 2021 conference, Progress today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Progress Chef automation platform that includes managed services and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its offerings as well as tighter integration with cloud services and other third-party tools. Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for the Chef business at […]
CircleCI Bets on Webhooks to Streamline DevOps Integrations
CircleCI today announced CircleCI webhooks, a feature that enables software engineering teams to build integrations that react to CircleCI job and workflow status notifications in near-real-time. Tom Trahan, vice president of business development at CircleCI, said this latest iteration of the company’s implementation of webhooks, which send messages any time an event occurs, will become […]
CNCF Advances OpenTelemetry Initiative
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as an incubating project as part of an ongoing effort to simplify instrumentation of software using open source agent software. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) that can be […]
How to Achieve AWS Competency Accreditation
For businesses in the early stage of their ventures, proving that they have the expertise and technical know-how when it comes to cloud technology can be difficult. An acceleration toward digitization due to COVID-19 and an increasingly crowded cloud market, dominated by the big players, means that simply shouting about your skills in cloud engineering […]