Pinpoint Simplifies Managing Remote Dev Teams
Pinpoint today added a User Dashboard to its namesake platform for managing software projects that makes it easier for remote developers to stay focused. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said the User Dashboard provides developers with a personalized view of their work priorities and schedule for the day. It also provides a means to employ their […]
TechStrong TV: strongDM With Betterment
Betterment is a goal-based financial advisory company that provides robo-advising services to help customers make the most of their money, taking away all the complexities of investing and saving. In this interview for TechStrong TV, strongDM co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Zalman and Chris Becker, SRE manager at Betterment, joined us to discuss how strongDM helps […]
Microsoft Advances DevOps Agenda
Microsoft, at its online Ignite 2020 conference, has launched a bevy of updates that collectively further adoption of best DevOps practices on the Microsoft cloud platform, including for the first time a preview of an ability to store artifacts created using low-code Power Apps tools on GitHub. In addition, Microsoft announced a preview of an […]
3 Ways Traceability Boosts Decision-Making, Accountability
Traceability can be a key tool to allow for a streamlined process of complex decision-making New software is being developed at an incredible pace to help make our lives easier. This doesn’t change the fact that humans are still held accountable for product development decisions, whether these are made with or without advanced analysis tools. […]
TechStrong TV: How strongDM Helps Fintech MANTL With Access Management
The fintech space is growing by leaps and bounds, as more consumers shift their financial transactions online for both convenience and necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic. MANTL is a fintech startup providing banks and credit unions with the technology they need to meet the demands of their customers who want to do their banking from […]
How Logs Can Empower Your CI/CD Delivery Pipeline
Change is the currency of software success. This need to change and grow is the basis for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Each year, new industries embrace this philosophy of constant change, but without the necessary data underpinning their decisions, every deployment is a risk. When you enrich your software delivery with log data […]
PagerDuty Applies AIOps to IT Incident Management
PagerDuty, at its online Summit20 conference today, unveiled a bevy of updates that apply machine learning algorithms across a wide range of workflows across the PagerDuty incident response platform. In addition, PagerDuty today announced it will acquire Rundeck, a provider of an IT automation platform that auto-remediates incidents by enabling playbooks to automatically execute whenever […]
The 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Nominations Are Now Open
The DevOps Dozen Awards are back for their sixth year and open for nominations. We are excited to celebrate the hard work and continued success of DevOps leaders, whose achievements over the past year deserve recognition. This year, we have expanded our awards program to include two different DevOps Dozen sections; hence, the name DevOps […]
TechStrong TV: Credentials Management, with strongDM and Software.com
Now more than ever, businesses around the world should pay close attention to how they manage their credentials and control access to their sensitive data, in order to protect it from being hacked or compromised in any way. During this interview for TechStrong TV, Mason McLead of Software.com and Elizabeth Zalman of strongDM, discuss the […]
Tricentis Extends Testing Reach to ServiceNow Applications
Tricentis has extended the reach of its portfolio of testing tools to now include software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications from ServiceNow. Martin Klaus, vice president of product marketing for Tricentis, said testing has become a larger issue because in addition to patch updates ServiceNow is now on a cadence to deliver to two major updates to its […]
TechStrong TV: strongDM Helps Kustomer Go Remote
For a procurement process to be effective, the relationship between the customer and the product team is almost as important as the functionality and features of the product itself. During this interview for TechStrong TV, strongDM CEO Elizabeth Zalman and Steve Flinchbaugh, senior SRE at Kustomer (a customer support CRM platform for managing high support […]
How Centralized Log Management Can Save Your Company
Through centralized log management, organizations can consolidate all log data into one central, data highway and directs logs wherever they need to go The digital transformation wasn’t gradual. It came crashing into industries worldwide in response to safety restrictions around the pandemic. Nearly a third of Americans are working remotely in light of the pandemic—drastically […]
How Continuous Transformation Can Deliver More Value
Continuous transformation in IT operations is more than just an industry buzzphrase. In fact, continuous transformation is a critical survival tool for any cloud and IT solution landscapes today. To achieve continuous transformation, innovation must continue well beyond a migration to the cloud. This continuous innovation during day-to-day IT operations is the most critical aspect […]
Postman Employs Browsers to Simplify API Collaboration
Postman today announced it is making its namesake platform for managing application programming interfaces (APIs) available via a browser to make it easier to share and inspect APIs. Previously, Postman required DevOps teams to download a desktop application to access the Postman platform. Kin Lane, chief evangelist for Postman, said agent software developed by Postman […]
TechStrong TV: How strongDM Helps mParticle in Secure Remote Access
In this interview for TechStrong TV, I am joined by strongDM CEO Elizabeth Zalman and mParticle CISO Dave Anderson. Dave shares with us how mParticle uses strongDM proxy services to rapidly enable the expanding mParticle team to access infrastructure, assets and applications necessary for mParticle to fulfill its mission to its customers. With the rapid […]
CircleCI Looks to Advance DevOps Best Practices Adoption
CircleCI today launched a developer hub as part of an effort to further advance adoption of DevOps best practices. Company CEO Jim Rose said CircleCI developer hub provides access to a set of resources for optimizing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. In many cases prior to the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations had only […]
Gitpod Open Sources Automated Local Development Environment
Gitpod announced today it is making available an instance of its Gitpod integrated development environment (IDE) available under an open source license. Company CEO Sven Efftinge said DevOps teams will now have the option of deploying Gitpod themselves as an alternative to the existing cloud service provided by the company. Designed to be used in […]
Did Your Last DevOps Strategy Fail? Try Again
Let’s get one thing out of the way. DevOps isn’t a panacea—it isn’t magic, it isn’t a requirement for any enterprise and it won’t work for every team in every situation. Above all, it isn’t a yardstick by which an outsider can measure great operations, development or IT. And if anybody tries to tell you […]
The Role of AI, ML-Powered DevOps in Digital Transformation
Global businesses are in the midst of an enormous digital transformation wave. As we step into the realm of industry 4.0, exponential technologies are becoming a fundamental segment of traditional business settings. Despite having access to transformative technologies, however, many organizations fail to embrace disruption and harness their potential to stay ahead of the curve. […]
What Is Resilience Engineering?
Admitting things will go wrong isn’t easy for anyone or any team. But modern engineering practices have moved beyond this fear, giving birth to a new practice in DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) known as resilience engineering. Resilience engineering today isn’t thought of as a function. However, just as DevOps was a description of […]
Spotify Adds Custom Deployment Templates to Service Catalog Project
Spotify has entered the next phase of the open source Backstage catalog project by adding support for templates through which the process of deploying software components now can be automated. Backstage was developed by Spotify to create an open source catalog through which DevOps teams could build portals through which developer tools are centrally managed. […]
Oracle Launches Managed JSON Database Service
Oracle today unfurled as standalone Autonomous JSON Database service that it will manage on behalf of developers that require a document database. Gerald Venzl, a developer evangelist and distinguished product manager for Oracle, said the Autonomous JSON Database service is based on support for JSON data types that Oracle currently provides in its Autonomous Database […]
Pushing Beyond Agility: The Kanban Maturity Model
Kanban is not a novel idea. It is a well-practiced and known method for organizations to increase productivity and efficiency, reduce the lead time of processes and improve delivery flow. However, historically Kanban has been frequently misunderstood. Many people think that Kanban is just a whiteboard with stickies in columns of to-do, doing, and done. […]