LogDNA Previews Streaming Module for Observability Platform
LogDNA is making available on a limited basis the ability to process streaming data to its observability platform as part of an effort to give DevOps teams more control over log data. Tucker Callaway, LogDNA CEO, said the data ingestion pipeline that LogDNA already provides can ingest, parse and normalize massive amounts of structured and […]
Zero-Trust Network Access Platforms Slash DevOps Bottlenecks
In a prior article, I indicated why a new remote zero-trust platform is needed to support DevOps teams. Traditional remote access configurations are not well-suited for DevOps given a shifting user population comprised of employees, contractors and other third parties often using their own devices; the large number of tools and systems to which access […]
OpsRamp Extends AI Reach to Incident Management
OpsRamp today extended its IT operations platform infused with machine learning algorithms, also known as AIOps, into the realm of incident management. The Summer 2021 release of the company’s namesake platform adds alert predictions for preventing outages and incidents, alert enrichment policies for faster incident troubleshooting and enhancements for automatically ingesting metrics data collected from […]
Sentry Integrates Code Observability Tool with GitHub, GitLab
Sentry this week extended its namesake observability platform for code to provide tighter integration with the DevOps platforms provided by GitHub and GitLab. Application development project managers can now assign issues to DevOps teams by integrating directly with the CODEOWNERS file in GitHub or GitLab. Error messages, for example, can now be automatically routed to […]
New Relic Survey Shows Greater Appreciation for Observability
A global survey of 1,300 software engineers, developers, IT leaders and executives found half of respondents (50%) are in the process of implementing an observability platform. Another 23% of respondents said that they cannot gain end-to-end observability at all, while 26% said they believe they have mature observability practices in place. The survey, published today, […]
Choosing the Right Metrics for DevOps Adoption
DevOps adoption has skyrocketed in recent years. Its impact on traditional development platforms has long been well-documented, but in more recent years it has started to influence low-code platforms, too. In its recent survey on the state of Salesforce DevOps, Gearset found that 69% of teams are already using source control and another 20% plan […]
The Key Benefits of Observability for SREs
In today’s technology landscape, organizations strive to champion innovative ideas, techniques and technologies to achieve success and outshine their competitors. For this reason, site reliability engineering (SRE) has become one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and a set of organizational practices for fast and reliable software delivery. SREs use various tools and practices at their […]
Building DevSecOps With Value Stream Management
As teams develop software, testing for potential security risks and flaws is mission-critical, just as it has always been. Yet, cyberattackers continue to exploit code vulnerabilities as open source code remains the foundation for the majority of commercial applications across all industries. Security firms are churning out solutions at an aggressive rate, and both project […]
Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Even as technology continues to move into the cloud, a simultaneous shift is already underway in the opposite direction as computing increasingly moves to the edge. One key reason: by 2025, the number of connected devices in use is expected to exceed 56 billion units, according to IDC. Edge computing is not a successor to […]
Why You Should Use GitOps to Experiment With AI
As the pace at which artificial intelligence (AI) models are being constructed and inevitably updated starts to increase, it’s becoming more apparent that the pace at which data science teams are currently experimenting also needs to dramatically quicken. Many data science teams today are fortunate if they manage to successfully deploy two AI models in […]
Kentik Open Sources Five Projects to Advance Network Observability
Kentik today unfurled a developer hub, dubbed Kentik Labs, through which it is making five open source projects available as part of an effort to advance observability across network operations (NetOps). The five projects are: kTranslate: A system for pulling and pushing network data that is the basis of the Kentik Firehose integration the company […]
How to Prepare Your DevOps Environment for DevSecOps
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a deep, irreversible change within work environments, as most organizations are reimagining this “new normal” with a combination of fully remote or hybrid work. DevOps practices are being increasingly normalized and relied upon to respond to the needs of modern, digitized companies. Coming out of the pandemic, organizations now better […]
EP 17: Lies, Damn Lies and Metrics
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Helen Beal of the DevOps Institute, Viktoria Praschl of Tricentis, Frank Ohlhorst, principal analyst with Accelerated Strategies Group and Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9 to discuss how to use DevOps metrics effectively to improve delivery performance and help teams become high-performing with a culture of continuous improvement. The video is below and a transcript of the conversation follows.
Choosing an Incident Management Platform
When you’re feeling the stress and pain of manually managing incidents and incident response, making the decision to find an incident management tool is a no-brainer. But how do you choose the one that will work best for you, your team and your business? You might be asking yourself, “Where do I start? What do […]
DataOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
There is a mindboggling amount of data today; to even measure it requires using a byte measurement called a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes (that’s 21 zeros). Currently, because such a ridiculous amount of data exists, there is a growing urgency to end wasteful data processes. From this environment, DataOps was born. Similar to […]
Improving Resiliency by Creating Chaos
In the digital economy, preventing downtime is paramount. When digital systems fail, the consequences for business can be huge. The cost of downtime can run to thousands of dollars per minute for large businesses. That’s without taking into account the impact of customer dissatisfaction and reputational damage for the company and the IT careers involved. […]
Where Do SREs Go From Here?
Charlene O’Hanlon talks with Leo Vasiliou, director of product marketing at Catchpoint, about the results of a study the company fielded with VMWare Tanzu and DevOps Institute of nearly 300 site reliability engineers (SREs). This year’s report underscores the challenges of multi-cloud, calls out the underutilization of AIOps and shows a systemic shift in core […]
How to Build an Options-Based Observability Strategy
The global pandemic forced companies to accelerate their digital transformations, pushing them toward new technologies and architectures as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. Companies wanted fast development and deployment and were happy to trade off efficiency, reliability and sometimes, security, to pursue their goals. Now that the pandemic is receding in many […]
12 Ways to Bake Security Into a DevOps Transformation
Security has become an integral part of any DevOps transformation. According to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report, DevSecOps achieved a must-have percentage vote of 56% in the automation tool category. Security not only protects the business and its customers, but it enables companies to enforce internal and external policies. While considering how to […]
From One-Click Deployment to One-Click Feedback
What makes a group of individual contributors a team? You can look at today’s product development teams as an ensemble of craftspeople from different disciplines. Code builders, design artists, storytellers, and an orchestrator. Similar to an orchestra, their output is based on the ability of each and every one of them to work together in […]
DevOps Database Platforms Slash DX Bottlenecks
An enterprise with many databases and various data requirements for DevOps continuous delivery presents a problem. For example, test data provisioning is a challenge today, particularly in pre-release testing of database updates. Standard practices involve shared database environments that need to be maintained from one test to the next, slowing test cycles and generally not […]
Higher Mobile App Stability Begets Higher User Ratings
In the competitive mobile market, application stability is imperative. Downtime leads to poor user experiences, which stunts growth and revenue. Apps that have poor stability suffer the consequences. In fact, new studies show that just a 1% lower stability ranking can lead to nearly a one-star drop in App Store ratings. Bugsnag recently released its […]
Could Full-Stack Observability Help Lessen IT’s Burden?
The year 2020 was a landmark year for many reasons, other than the obvious. The IT world saw the first time that cloud service revenues dwarfed spending on data centers. Across the board, budgets have been increasing around cloud adoption. And in this ‘new normal,’ digital experiences are slated to remain just as crucial of […]