Don’t Let Your DevOps Transformation Be a Parade of Tools
Choosing the right DevOps tools should be a careful, thoughtful process. On May 12, 1848, a store owner named Sam Brannan held a “one-man parade” to announce the start of the San Francisco Gold Rush. “Gold! Gold from the American River!” Brannan shouted up and down the market street in San Francisco. He held his […]
Best of 2018: 11 Popular Open Source DevOps Tools Worth Knowing
As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Companies implementing the best practices of DevOps have demonstrated that they are more effective and flexible in implementing as well as designing […]
The Time for Time Series Data
More than four years ago, we launched InfluxDB, an open source time series platform. In the years since, time series technology has become increasingly popular; according to DB-Engines, over the last 24 months time series has been the fastest growing database category. This popularity is fueled by the “sensorification” of the physical world (i.e., IoT) […]
Anaxi Delivers Project Management App for DevOps
Anaxi, a provider of project management software designed specifically for DevOps teams, has made its web application generally available. The web application complements an existing iPhone application, while an Android version of the company’s project management application is still under development. Company CEO says Marc Verstaen said that as DevOps has evolved around multiple repositories, […]
Atlassian Brings Postmortem Analysis to DevOps
Atlassian has added a postmortem capability to JiraOps, which gathers a list of all the key events from any IT incident in chronological order to make it easier to analyze what happened, identify root causes and raise issues directly within the JiraOps platform to ensure subsequent actions are taken. At the same time, Atlassian is […]
InfluxData Video Series: Dealing with Large Amounts of Data
The data deluge is becoming a daily issue, as companies collect ever more data from ever more devices and endpoints. But collecting data is one thing; deriving value from it is another. In this video, InfluxData VP of Products Tim Hall discusses some of the considerations in dealing with large amounts of data and how […]
Using Continuous Backup to Keep Pace in an Increasingly DevOps World
How continuous backup can help DevOps teams keep working with the right data The world of software engineering has changed; in fact it’s constantly changing. We’re moving on from the days of waterfall when big-budget releases with multiple features per version were the norm. Now, to compete, organizations have to implement agile development, with shorter […]
The Benefits of a Purpose-Built Platform
When it comes to storing metrics and events, a time series database provides a number of benefits that general purposes databases don’t, including high velocity, range scans over large chunks of data, efficient data eviction and compression. But time series isn’t just about the database; it’s also about the ecosystem of tools built around it. […]
InfluxData Video Series: ‘Time to Awesome’ with Mark Herring
InfluxData firmly believes an awesome experience is fundamental in developing and curating its developer community. After all, the company’s platform is designed for developers, said CMO Mark Herring, and so delivering a great experience is in the company’s DNA. “We want them to have an awesome experience from the first download to the first interaction […]
Bots: ‘Like a CLI on Steroids’
Overheard in a Palo Alto coffee shop: “… so, we tokenize the utterances, lemmatize the tokens, vectorize with StarSpace embedding, and run the featurized input through the neural net. The softmax activation layer tells us what the user intent was.” “Sorry, you what the what and then what?” “Or, you can say the user types […]
InfluxData Video Series: Time Series Data with Chris Churilo
Time series data can bring value to organizations in many ways, beyond simply metrics to help them understand how their infrastructure is performing. It also can help illuminate other issues that can have an impact on performance, such as customer usage. In this video—the first in a series of four—Chris Churilo, director of Product Marketing […]
VMware Wavefront Adds AI, Distributed Tracing
VMware has updated its Wavefront monitoring service to include support for distributed tracing along with anomaly detection capabilities enabled by machine learning algorithms. Stela Udovicic, senior director for product marketing for Wavefront by VMware, said the addition of the distributed tracing support, now available as part of a public beta, means that a single monitoring […]
Red Hat Injects DevOps Flexibility into RHEL 8
With the beta release of the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat is setting the stage for making it easier for DevOps teams to consume emerging operating system services without having to upgrade their entire operating system. The beta release of RHEL 8 adds an Application Streams capability designed to make […]
So Many DevOps Tools, So Little Time
I’ve received thousands of emails, ads and sales pitches for tools for every stage of the app life cycle, from automating infrastructure buildout to release planning to building and testing, to delivering applications. If you’re building or rearchitecting an application, you have a surfeit of choice of DevOps tools. Ironically, when an organization invests in […]
Boxes vs. Services: The Infrastructure Equation
Infrastructure is changing as more services replace the need for hardware-based architectures There has been a lot of change in the last few years, and that change shows no sign of slowing down. I’m one of those people who likes to know they could work offline if needed, yet in this day and age if […]
Virtual Instruments Extends Scope of AIOps Platform
Virtual Instruments has extended the reach of its AIOps platform to add application service assurance, predictive capacity management, workload infrastructure balancing and problem resolution and avoidance capabilities. Based on a combination of machine learning, statistical analysis, heuristics and expert systems technologies, VirtualWisdom is designed to enable DevOps teams to be able to apply analytics to […]
CircleCI Automates Configurations Across CI/CD Platform
CircleCI has unveiled what it describes as the first package manager designed specifically to address configuration tasks involving software delivery automation. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the Orbs package manager condenses commands, executors and jobs into single, reusable lines of code that automate tasks on the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform […]
Back to DevOps School: What Tools are in Your Backpack?
The 2018-19 school year is in full swing, and just like the kids are going to the bus stop with their new backpacks and shoes, it’s time to refresh your DevOps tool chain and look to the future. Remember, just like education, DevOps never ends. It’s a lifetime pursuit that constantly improves your life. The […]
How GitOps Can (Sometimes) Save DevOps
A lot has been written about GitOps since its release by Weaveworks more than a year ago as a “single source of truth for the whole system” for using Git for Kubernetes deployments on the cloud. Aptly described by Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks co-founder and CEO, as “90% best practices and 10% cool new stuff,” GitOps […]
Unlocking the Power of AIOps
AIOps is becoming quite the hot topic lately. It seems as though everyone is realizing that Ops is difficult. As we have to deal with more big data at greater velocity with more automation and complexity, there is no way humans alone can tame the beast. AIOps seems to be the answer. I recently sat […]
Chef Extends Scope of Compliance Automation
Chef has extended the reach of its InSpec compliance automation framework by adding a plug-in architecture that makes it easier for developers to programmatically generate compliance controls that can be applied to automation frameworks. The Terraform configuration management framework developed by HashiCorp is the first framework supported via the plug-in architecture. InSpec previously was integrated […]
Akamai Further Extends Reach into DevOps Realm
Akamai is extending its campaign to make content delivery networks (CDNs) a natural extension of DevOps processes by adding more application programming interfaces (APIs) and other automated functions to simplify a variety of tasks. Specifically, Akamai has added an Akamai Sandbox that makes it simpler to conduct tests within the context of the Akamai continuous […]
Adobe Looks to Drive DevOps Adoption via the Cloud
Adobe has been building out a managed service that includes continuous integration/continuous development capabilities on the Adobe cloud service. Now Adobe is extending the DevOps processes enabled by its CI/CD platform to make them more customizable in addition to expanding the scope of the application development tools it provides to include support for single page […]