Improving Software Security in 2022
The recent Log4j vulnerability showed just how quickly a security bug could disrupt not just an industry, but the entire world. Organizations, especially federal agencies, will always find themselves at some level of risk, but they can also do more to mitigate those challenges. In November 2021, the Biden administration issued a directive through the […]
Source Code Management Best Practices
Source code is, of course, the foundation of any software development practice. Managing that source code is the first task tackled by modern software development pipelines, with all subsequent stages of the pipeline dependent on the source code for their success and functionality. Thus, it is critical that source code is properly managed without introducing […]
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Comes of Age in 2022
The site reliability engineer (SRE) role is still gathering steam across organizations. In January 2022, LinkedIn listed SRE as the 21st job with the highest global demand throughout the past five years. That’s pretty high for such a specific tech role. And, looking to the future, it appears the SRE practice will only continue to […]
Low-Code SaaS Solutions Need Security at Their Core
Faster integrations. Accelerated software delivery. Elevated user experiences. These are only three of the benefits organizations gain by incorporating low-code platforms, apps and solutions into software development and business process management. Low-code platforms aren’t new, but demand for the technology soared in the last two years as companies were challenged to meet stakeholder demand for […]
CNCF Takes LitmusChaos Platform to the Incubation Level
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it is elevating the open source LitmusChaos application testing platform to the incubation level. LitmusChaos is a chaos engineering platform donated to the CNCF by ChaosNative in 2020. Since then, it has seen adoption within production environments by more than 25 […]
Best of 2021 – Scopes of Knowledge
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twenty-second in our series of the Best of 2021. ROELBOB
Best of 2021 – 6 Signs You’re Doing DevOps Correctly
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twenty-first in our series of the Best of 2021. A lot of organizations claim to be DevOps-focused because they use specific tools and loosely follow certain practices. But to really be a DevOps-centric organization, […]
Best of 2021 – Hiring When You’re Not FAANG
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twentieth in our series of the Best of 2021. Most of us are not FAANG, and we shouldn’t act like we are. Instead of using that, I’m going to use the term we used […]
Best of 2021 – The Torture Never Stops
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the nineteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. ROELBOB
Best of 2021 – Best Practices for Application Performance Testing
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. When done properly, software application performance testing determines if a system meets certain acceptable criteria for both responsiveness and robustness. Before you jump in to […]
Best of 2021 – How to Revoke JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the seventeenth in our series of the Best of 2021. One of the most common questions about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs): Once they’re issued, how can they be revoked? What Are JWTs? JSON Web Tokens […]
Best of 2021 – Transform Legacy Java Apps to Microservices
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the sixteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Velocity is one of the major tenets of DevOps, and anything that maintains or improves velocity benefits the overall process. Yet, there are still many […]
Best of 2021 – Automation Engineering
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. ROELBOB
Best of 2021 – Nine Pillars of DevOps Best Practices
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. In a prior blog I explained my 27-factor DevOps assessment model which includes nine pillars of DevOps and three dimensions of people, process and technology. […]
Best of 2021 – How to Combine DevOps and Agile
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the thirteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. In recent years, application development and deployment have become an increasingly critical part of business operations. Because of this, various entities have sought to optimize […]
Best of 2021 – Why DevOps Will Cease to Exist
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twelfth in our series of the Best of 2021. Nowadays I feel like there is no need to explain why DevOps as a methodology exists, as it is widely understood and accepted. But the […]
Best of 2021 – Software Developer Life Cycle
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eleventh in our series of the Best of 2021. ROELBOB
Best of 2021 – The ‘Great Resignation’ in DevOps? Bah, Humbug
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the tenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Like me, you have probably heard a lot about the “Great Resignation” lately. I’ll admit—at first I did not think it had anything to with […]
Best of 2021 – From Agile to DevOps to DevSecOps: The Next Evolution
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the ninth in our series of the Best of 2021. As the workforce shifts to remote locations, networks are becoming more diffuse as the edge gets farther away. At the same time, the number of […]
Best of 2021 – 11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the […]
Best of 2021 – How to Scale Your Website to Perform on Mobile Devices
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the sixth in our series of the Best of 2021. We all surf the internet mostly on our mobile devices because they are so handy and easily accessible. A vast majority of mobile device users […]
Best of 2021 – Seven Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a DevOps Engineer
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps is a culture, not a title. Therefore, companies should follow DevOps principles, rather than hiring one savant to fix an entire organization’s delivery model. […]
Rails 7 FTW | WFH is SOP | 586M Passwords Dumped
In this week’s The Long View: Ruby on Rails 7.0 is go, working from home is still de rigueur, and HIBP gets far, far bigger.