XebiaLabs Injects Predictive Analytics Into DevOps Platform
XebiaLabs is moving to take the guesswork out of DevOps following the launch of a set of tools that leverage machine learning algorithms to predict when and how the release of an application is most likely to go awry. The Risk Prediction Module being added to the XebiaLabs DevOps platform comes on the heels of […]
Alerting Consolidation: What’s the DevOps Impact?
Over the last 12 to 18 months, the monitoring and alerting piece of the DevOps toolchain has been going through some serious consolidation. Companies are bracing to compete with the world or getting picked up by larger DevOps players, making their product more appealing through integrations. In general, if such changes don’t impact your toolchain, […]
DevOps and Security: Be Ready to Shield Your Application
All of us have heard of continuous improvement/continuous delivery (CI/CD). There are many benefits to implementing CI/CD, as it helps seamless integration from end to end for development and deployment processes. CI/CD helps in rapid improvement, shorter release cycles and more, but it also helps with the challenge of handling security effectively at DevOps speed. […]
Monitoring the DevOps Toolchain
DevOps has grown in popularity among many companies seeking greater agility and higher-quality code. When using different tools for automation, these organizations need monitoring and tracking of these tools and metrics from different portals on a common dashboard. Toolchain monitoring helps to bring all reports into a common portal. Enabling monitoring tools from a centralized […]
SmartBear Integrates Test Tools with Atlassian DevOps Platforms
At the Atlassian Summit 2019 conference this week, SmartBear announced it has integrated the Zephyr test automation tools it acquired last year with the Jira portfolio of tools from Atlassian. In addition, SmartBear announced it has integrated Zephyr with the rest of the company’s SoapUI Pro, TestComplete, CrossBrowserTesting and LoadNinja testing tools. SmartBear committed to […]
5 DevOps Trends Worth Knowing in 2019
DevOps today is more than the buzzword it was 10 years ago. Back then, the idea of combining development with production in your IT infrastructure was not common; the logistics were nonexistent and most of the time businesses decided it was far too much effort. However, if the last nine years has taught us anything, […]
Atlassian Integrates DevOps Portfolio
At its Atlassian Summit 2019 conference, Atlassian announced updates to all the DevOps tools that make up Atlassian Data Center as well as upgrades to its Opsgenie incident management software to provide deeper integration with the rest of the company’s portfolio. At the same time, Atlassian revealed it has rebranded the AgileCraft business planning application […]
Using Jira Software Search to Accelerate DevOps Workflows
Imagine driving down the highway and seeming to get a traffic jam at a distance. You realize your car is equipped with GPS to have clear visibility into what’s next and can show exact directions for alternative routes and estimated travel time. It is very easy to pick the fastest and most favorable route to […]
xMatters Looks to Meld DevOps and ITIL
With the launch today of a flow design tool from xMatters, the divide between DevOps and ITIL-based approaches to managing IT is narrowing. xMatters Flow Designer is a drag-and-drop graphical tool that either developers or IT operation teams can employ to create incident management workflows on top of xMatters incident management software. Doug Peete, chief […]
TypeFox Ties Cloud-Based IDE to GitHub
TypeFox has launched a GitPod.io service that melds the integrated development environment (IDE) based in the cloud from TypeFox with the open source GitHub repository. Sven Efftinge, co-founder of TypeFox, said this level of integration will make it easier for developers to navigate multiple projects from which they pull code from GitHub into an Eclipse-based […]
Gremlin Brings Chaos Monkey Testing to Spinnaker CD Platform
Gremlin this week announced it will integrate its hosted chaos engineering service with continuous delivery platforms starting with the open source Spinnaker project developed by Netflix. Chaos engineering traces its roots to a resiliency testing philosophy that posits applications should be able to keep functioning regardless of any service or infrastructure failure. Most IT organizations, […]
Sauce Labs Combines Functional and Performance Testing
Sauce Labs announced it is now moving beyond functional testing, adding a front-end testing tool it has dubbed Sauce Performance to make it easier to accelerate testing within the context of a DevOps process. Lubos Parobek, vice president of products for Sauce Labs, said the goal is to enable developers or testers to begin testing […]
VMware Doubles Down on IT Automation
VMware this week moved to inject application and operating system monitoring capabilities into the VMware vRealize cloud management platform to make it easier to employ dashboards to map the relationships between applications and the underlying IT infrastructure they run on. In addition, VMware enhanced its capacity optimization tools to enable IT teams to run “what […]
Using Jenkins Configuration as Code
Using the following code, we can configure Jenkins Master to integrate Sonar, Nexus and Jira and manage them as a code. Code as configuration is a plugin in Jenkins, which is very popular and simple to use. First, we need to install plugins from Jenkins Market place. Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins > Advance After […]
Pivotal Software Previews Automation Framework
At the North America Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 conference, Pivotal Software announced it is beta testing an automation framework that promises to keep its distribution of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment continuously updated. In addition, Pivotal revealed it will be adding support for open source technologies including Envoy load balancing and Istio service mesh software developed […]
Chef Commits to 100 Percent Open Source Code
Chef has decided to open source its entire portfolio of IT automation software as part of an effort to make it easier for organizations to construct a DevOps pipeline using the company’s software. A part of that effort, Chef also launched the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack—which combines Chef Infra for managing infrastructure, Chef InSpec for […]
Compuware Advances DevOps on Mainframes
Compuware has updated its Topaz for Total Test suite to enable organizations applying best DevOps practices to the development of mainframe applications to combine unit, functional, integration and regression testing within a single test scenario. In addition, Compuware is making it easier to test multiple applications simultaneously. The latest update to Topaz for Total Test […]
Comparing Nuclio and AWS Lambda
With serverless, you delegate the responsibility of running your infrastructure to a platform provider as much as possible. This frees your engineers to focus on building what your customers want from you—the features that differentiate your business from your competitors’. For this philosophy to work, however, the platform needs to not only give you the […]
Using Spark and Jenkins to Deploy Code into Hadoop Clusters
This article illustrates how to deploy an application into a Hadoop cluster using GitLab/Jenkins/Spark application. In this article, we will cover the following: Auto-triggering Jenkins build when code is committed in Git. Pulling the latest code from the repository through Jenkins. Building, compiling and packaging the “.jar” using SBT tool. Uploading the .jar to the […]
ABO and the Mystical Art of Source Code Compilation
Compilation can make or break the performance quality of an application. A developer might spend weeks creating the most elegant, efficient algorithm known to man, only to have it run at a snail’s pace in production because the compiler used to create the application’s executable binary is old, and not optimized to take advantage of […]
Perfecto Applies AI to Writing Test Scripts
Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to be applied to the writing and update test scripts. Perfecto has unfurled Perfecto Codeless, which employs machine learning algorithms to automate writing of test scripts in a way that allows them to not only run continuously, but also adjust to changes made to the application. Eran Kinsbruner, chief evangelist […]
Blameless Launches DevOps Platform Based on SRE Principles
Blameless has emerged from stealth to launch a platform for managing DevOps based on the site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices defined by Google. Fresh off raising an additional $20 million in funding, the Blameless platform provides across-the-board visibility into the complex network of application programming interfaces (APIs) and applications distributed across an organization, said […]
SolarWinds Adds Ability to Profile Live Code to APM Platform
SolarWinds is advancing its campaign to become a leading provider of DevOps tools by adding the ability to profile live code to SolarWinds AppOptics application performance monitoring (APM) platform. Keith Kuchler, vice president of engineering for SolarWinds, said live code profiling provides a breakdown of the most frequently called functions and methods in a transaction, […]