Editorial Calendar

IBM Confirms: It’s Buying HashiCorp

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 24, 2024 | acquisition, Hashicorp, ibm, infrastructure as code, opentofu, Terraform

Everyone knew HashiCorp was attempting to find a buyer. Few suspected it would be IBM ...

AIOps Success Requires Synthetic Internet Telemetry Data

Mike Vizard | April 22, 2024 | AIOps, ipm, ITSM, performance monitoring, telemetry

The data used to train AI models needs to reflect the production environments where applications are deployed ...

GitLab Adds AI Chat Interface to Increase DevOps Productivity

Mike Vizard | April 19, 2024 | automation, build cycle, Code Generation, GenAI, gitlab, GitLab Duo Pro AI

GitLab Duo Chat is a natural language interface which helps generate code, create tests and access code summarizations ...

low/no code, platforms, ChatGPT, low-code, IT

Exploring Low/No-Code Platforms, GenAI, Copilots and Code Generators

Varun Goswami | April 18, 2024 | code generators, Copilots, Gen AI, low-code platforms, software development

The emergence of low/no-code platforms is challenging traditional notions of coding expertise. Gone are the days when coding was an exclusive skill set reserved for a knowledgeable few. Low/no-code platforms have democratized ...

Datadog DevSecOps Report Shines Spotlight on Java Security Issues

Mike Vizard | April 17, 2024 | datadog, devsecops, vulnerabilities

Datadog today published a State of DevSecOps report that finds 90% of Java services running in a production environment are vulnerable to one or more critical or high severity vulnerabilities introduced by ...

CDF Survey Surfaces DevOps Progress and Challenges

Mike Vizard | April 16, 2024 | CI/CD, Continuous Delivery Foundation, issue tracking, source control management

Most developers are using some form of DevOps practices, reports the CDF survey. Adopting STANDARD DevOps practices? Not so much ...

How to Migrate an Observability Platform to Open Source

Hemant Sachdeva | April 16, 2024 | application architecture, how-to, microservices, migration, observability, open source, OpenTelemetry, telemetry

Migrating to an open source stack gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs. Here's how to do it with open source ...

OpenTofu Denies Hashicorp’s Code-Stealing Accusations

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 11, 2024 | copyright, Hashicorp, infrastructure as code, intellectual property, Law, open source, opentofu, Terraform

The legal battle between the faux-open-source HashiCorp and the open source OpenTofu heats up ...

Hashicorp Versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 9, 2024 | Hashicorp, IaC, Law, legal, open source, opentofu, Terraform

Hashicorp is accusing the open source OpenTofu Project of swiping some of its BSL-licensed Terraform code. Enter the lawyers ...

observability, 2.0, developers, observability, datadog, your, observability, customers, blind spots, telemetry, New Relic, Observe, Gen AI, Generative AI, modern, applications, risk, observability, AI, unified observability, binoculars

Grafana Labs Makes Observability More Accessible

Mike Vizard | April 9, 2024 | application observability, automation, grafana, monitoring, Prometheus

The updates promise to make it easier to invoke the capabilities of a Grafana Cloud platform based on open source software ...

open-source, users, experience, DevEx, business, technical, leadership, teams, devops, small, team, product, devops,DevEx, CI/CD pipelines, developer, experience, Backstage, developer, GitHub productivity Roadie DevX developer experience DPE open source team lead Agile hybrid developer GitLab DevRel developer GitHub BDD CircleCI Rust developer

Is Backstage the Right Internal Developer Portal for You?

Jay Crystal | March 27, 2024 | Backstage, configure8, devops, internal developer portal, platform engineering, TicketOps

There has never been a better time to be a software developer. There is a language and framework to solve virtually any challenges we encounter. New tools, architectural patterns and methodologies like ...