Continuous Testing Practices (Part 1)
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing (CT) to help those understand what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. […]
Hasura Extends Scope of GraphQL API Platform
During its online an HasuraCon ’21 conference, Hasura today announced that it has made it possible for developers to employ GraphQL application programming interface (APIs) to launch queries against data residing in multiple databases. At the same time, Hasura announced a preview of schema sharing capabilities along with support for workflows based on GitOps processes […]
Salesforce Pilots Series of DevOps Initiatives
At its online TrailheaDX 2021 conference, Salesforce today unveiled a DevOps Center pilot that provides a portal through which organizations can track and manage changes to Salesforce applications along with a unified command line interface (CLI) for all its applications. In addition, Salesforce plans to add Salesforce Functions to enable developers to deploy code in […]
Plutora Dives Deeper into Value Stream Analytics Data
Plutora announced today it has extended the capabilities of its value stream management (VSM) platform to include a common object data model that more efficiently normalizes data collected from multiple DevOps tools and platforms. Jeff Keyes, vice president of product marketing and strategy for Plutora, said the goal is to expand the level of scale […]
Harness Employs ML to Streamline DevOps Workflows
At the online {Unscripted} 2021 conference, Harness today announced an update to its namesake DevOps platform that includes support for feature flags that expose new capabilities to a select number of users for testing purposes along with the ability to prioritize the running of those tests based on the likelihood an application is likely to […]
Using Rust to Build Distributed Applications
Rust is an open source programming language that was initially developed at Mozilla Research and became increasingly popular for building distributed applications. It has been referred to in the Stack Overflow Survey as “the most-loved programming language” by software developers for five consecutive years. Moreover, companies like Amazon and Microsoft have recently revealed that they […]
Akamai Adds Service to Optimize API Traffic
Akamai today launched an API Acceleration service specifically designed to accelerate application programming interface (API) calls using special purpose hardware, reserved capacity and prioritized routing. At the same time, the company is also making available a globally distributed key-value store dubbed EdgeKV that enables stateful applications to be deployed on its EdgeWorker nodes. Finally, Akamai […]
Observe Seeks to Put More IT Metrics in Context
Observe, Inc. announced today it has updated it observability platform to add support for metrics based on time series data. In addition, the company is revamping how the platform generates alerts as part of an effort to surface more actionable intelligence. Jeremy Burton, Observe CEO, said rival observability platforms require IT teams to sift through […]
Grafana Labs Advances Open Source Visualization and Observability
During the online GrafanaCONline conference today, Grafana Labs announced that version 8.0 of its open source visualization software widely employed by DevOps teams is now generally available. In addition, version 1.0 of Grafana Tempo, an open source back end platform for collecting distributed traces that are needed to drive observability across an application environment, is […]
Digital Customer Experiences: The Future is Modular
With the proliferation of microservices and APIs, will UIs go modular too? Some technologists note a rising trend around smaller, intent-based customer experiences that more directly mirror API endpoints. I recently met with Adam Evans, co-founder and CTO of Airkit, to better understand what’s broken with today’s digital customer journeys and how they need to […]
Cribl Automates Observability Efforts
Cribl today announced it has updated the Cribl LogStream observability tool in addition to generally making available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering dubbed LogStream Cloud. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy and competitive intelligence at Cribl, said Cribl LogStream provides the means to aggregate log data collected from multiple platforms and applications in a format […]
Learning ‘The First Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Flow
Many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even ‘the first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. DevOps is an evolving body of knowledge. There is no one-stop shop that covers all roles and the complete range of skills required for DevOps. A DevOps-competent workforce requires an ongoing commitment to DevOps skills development and mastery. […]
How IT Can Use AI To Prepare For Uncertainty
The past year has been unpredictable for businesses – from migrating to remote work to planning for a return to offices to keeping pace with shifting government guidelines. With so much in flux, it was and is a good reminder that organizations must be prepared for the unexpected and have contingency plans in place. From […]
Turbocharge Enterprise Apps With Contextual Analytics
Software product managers and developers typically treat analytics as a standalone capability—something to be integrated into their application’s dashboard or reporting module. As a product feature, analytics is undoubtedly a valuable tool. But offering it merely as a tacked-on function is an approach that lags behind where your users are today. When data analytics is […]
Atlassian Delivers on Forge App Dev Platform Promise
Atlassian this week made available a Forge platform for building applications that complements its existing portfolio. Mike Tria, head of platform engineering for Atlassian, said Forge is intended to provide an application development environment to both IT organizations and third-party partners. It provides developers with access to an integrated Atlassian DevOps toolchain to accelerate testing, […]
Serverless Computing Brings New Security Risks
Attracted by lower costs and less operational overhead, serverless computing is an unmistakable undercurrent in the world of DevOps. Developers are drawn to the innovation because it requires no architecture to manage while offering continuous scaling for anything from a few requests per day to hundreds of thousands of requests per second. More than 50% […]
Digital.ai Deepens Value Stream Management Integration
Digital.ai announced today it has expanded usage of machine learning algorithms within its namesake value stream management (VSM) platform to include modules to optimize flow and improve application quality in addition to enhancing its risk prediction and process optimization modules. In addition, Digital.ai has expanded the number of pre-built integrations it now provides for hundreds […]
Oracle and Allies Launch ARM-Based Cloud Service
Oracle announced today it will make available for the first time ARM-based processors on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that will also be supported as targets for deploying applications using GitHub, GitLab or Jenkins platforms. The latest Oracle service is based on processors from Ampere Computing. The company also revealed today it has joined the […]
Rethinking Your Tool Chain in the Cloud
Every IT shop has a “tool chain” – all of the software other than the OS and the application that fills in the gaps and keeps everything running. This includes solutions for monitoring the application, data protection, software development, release management, provisioning and de-provisioning resources and more. These tools build up over time, often evolving […]
Tiering Cold Data to the Cloud Without Tears
The cloud provides inexpensive storage. But like everything else in the cloud, there are hidden costs. Cloud storage providers (CSPs) charge to put data into and retrieve data from the cloud. They charge for the API calls and they generally charge an egress cost when the data is extracted from the CSP. So, to keep […]
Unqork Extends Automated No-Code SDLC Platform
Unqork today announced it has extended a no-code platform for managing the software development life cycle (SDLC) to include the ability to automatically document changes to application programming interfaces (APIs) and data models in addition to adding a point-in-time rollback capability. Ken Gavranovic, head of strategy and engineering for Unqork, said Unqork 2021.5 also adds […]
What Data Catalogs Don’t Reveal
In today’s data intensive world, data catalogs, as the name implies, are simply catalogs of information (some human-entered and some extracted from metadata in systems). The importance of data in the enterprise has grown, and analytics plays an increasingly important role in generating value. So, while it’s important to collect and store and organize all […]
Consider Telemetry When Rearchitecting Applications
Australia and New Zealand have seen a big move to the public cloud, and “… when I talk to customers, I see huge interest in rearchitecting applications rather than doing a lift-and-shift right into public cloud,” said Scott van Kalken, F5 ANZ solution architect for DevOps and modern applications. That migration to the public cloud […]