ngrok Adds Load Balancing to Programmable Network Service
ngrok added a global server load balancing capability to its service for managing ingress via an API.
Latest eBPF Advances Are Harbingers of Major Changes to IT
The open source community advancing eBPF gathered at a virtual eBPF Summit today that featured a demonstration of use in a Windows environment.
Nitric Adds Support for Additional Languages to IaC Alternative
Nitric today announced it has added support for the Go and Kotlin programming languages to its application framework. The framework automatically creates code to provision infrastructure based on the way the code used to write an application has been developed. Rak Siva, vice president of engineering for Nitric, said that approach eliminates the need to […]
JFrog Extends DevOps Reach to Manage and Secure AI Models
JFrog added additional security capabilities to its CI/CD environment and made it possible to manage ML models within a DevOps workflow.
Operational Intelligence: AI-Powered SRE Measurements and Observability
AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the SRE measurements and observability pillar of practice.
Embracing Chaos With AI: Reinventing SRE’s Anti-Fragility Practices
Incorporating AI tools in the realm of anti-fragility enables SREs to build systems that not only resist stress but thrive under it.
CDF Report: Steady Growth in Number of Jenkins Jobs Run
The Jenkins Project reported that pipeline usage grew 79%, with total workloads running in the CI/CD platform growing 45%.
Apica Acquires LOGIQ.AI to Unify Observability
Apica has just raised an additional $10 million in funding and has agreed to acquire LOGIQ.AI.
Strategic Roadmap for SREs: Software Deployments With AI
AI’s role in enhancing SRE practices, specifically software deployments, is revolutionizing the efficiency of deployment processes.
What Are You Securing?
In the case of information security, we need to ask, “What, exactly, are we trying to protect?”
VMware Preps Generative AI Assistants to Automate IT Workflows
VMware previewed what will become a suite of intelligent assistants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of a wide range of IT tasks.
AI: A Game-Changer for SRE Work-Sharing and Technical Debt
AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the SRE work-sharing and technical debt pillar of DevOps practice.
80% of Bosses ‘Regret’ Stopping WFH ¦ PSA: Disable STS!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Rethinking return-to-office mandates and a ridiculous, ancient Windows bug.
Unleashing AI in SRE: A New Dawn for Incident Management
In my recent blog, Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE with AI-Engineered Tools, I indicated that AI could assist with incident management by automating the detection and triage of incidents and helping to quickly identify the root cause. In this blog, I explain in more detail how AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the […]
Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. Project IDX is not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to production.”
Datadog Updates Aim to Improve Logging, Testing Efficiency
Datadog’s new Flex Logs and Intelligent Test Runner are aimed at improving logging and testing efficiency for engineering teams.
DevOps Guide to the Salesforce Summer 2023 Release
The second installment of Salesforce’s 2023 releases provides some great eye candy for DevOps pros. From new admin features to user enhancements and the anticipated Flow updates, a lot is covered in the nearly 700-page Salesforce Summer ‘23 release. Let’s break down the highlights of some appealing features, why these updates will save all Salesforce […]
How to Prevent Zombie APIs
There is a growing reliance on web APIs. A full 92% of organizations plan to increase their investments into APIs over the next year, the 2023 Postman State of the API Report found. APIs are powering everything from internal microservices strategies to partner strategies and fully-fledged products. Yet, this newfound API sprawl has consequences; a […]
Datadog Adds Additional Generative AI Capabilities to Platform
Datadog Bits uses generative AI to provide real-time recommendations to resolve issues surfaced by the company’s observability platform.
2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink
In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas.
Using AI to Shift Production Wisdom Left
Shifting the wisdom of production left is all about bringing production considerations into the development process as early as possible.
Snyk Survey: AI Generating More Vulnerabilities in Code
A Snyk survey finds the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to write code is creating a software security paradox.
Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick
In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators.