How Open Source Can Benefit AI Development
Enterprises are increasingly reliant upon open source software. A full 95% of IT leaders say open source tools are key to their enterprise infrastructure. Simultaneously, we’ve witnessed a sharp increase in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Most IT divisions want to take advantage of AI in some form, and open […]
Modern DevOps is a Chance to Make Security Part of the Process
I’ve mentioned before, and many of you have lived through, the slowly changing beliefs around DevOps versus security. We are past the days of “Security slows us down” and into “How can we bake security into the development process?” which is essential. Indeed, I would say it’s more essential every day as the number of […]
Eclipse Foundation Touts Java SE Temurin Certification Momentum
The Eclipse Foundation revealed today the number of downloads for Java Standard Edition (SE)—dubbed Eclipse Temurin—certified using both a technology compatibility kit (TCK) and compatibility tests for evaluating associated runtimes reached 12.3 million in February. Tim Ellison, a project lead for creating compatibility tests for the Eclipse Foundation, said that level of activity suggests the […]
Microsoft Power Platform Integrates ChatGPT: What This Means
Microsoft recently announced it integrated ChatGPT into its low-code Power Platform developer suite. This follows the news of ChatGPT-powered Bing search and Microsoft’s pledge to invest billions into its partner company, OpenAI. ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM), has reached viral status due to its ability to generate impressively complex textual outputs given simple prompts. And […]
Raise Those (Feature) Flags
I’ve written about feature flags before, but I think it’s time for a solid bit of advice: “If you are not yet using feature flags for DevOps, it is past time to reconsider.” I say this because feature flags have been a slow-growth item, with a few spikes here and there in usage, but mostly […]
AWS Delivers on Latest Graviton3 Price/Performance Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the number of virtual machines based on the latest generation of its Graviton processors to include instances that support DDR-5 memory. The latest Amazon EC2 instance types, dubbed M7g and R7g, that are now generally available are based on the AWS Graviton3 processors developed using an architecture created by […]
Before ChatGPT, AIOps Powered Enterprises for Years
Led by OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, a new era of consumer use cases for artificial intelligence is here. These exciting new tools have made AI more accessible to more users than ever before. No longer is this technology the exclusive domain of wealthy corporations. However, while the world is now focused on the potential […]
LinkedIn Job Scams: Out of Hand ¦ 4-Day Workweek: Let’s Get Serious
In this week’s #TheLongView: Don’t get scammed looking for a job, and momentum grows for the 32-hour working week.
In DevOps, Chatbots are a People Problem
By now, you are undoubtedly aware that you can call up a chatbot or install an AI assistant into your IDE and generate entry-level code and deployment scripts. Indeed, if you just go to a site like ChatGPT and enter “generate Python code to do X” where X is something you need to be done–or […]
Day in the Life of a Chief Developer Experience Officer (CDXO)
Developer experience (DX) has become essential to modern enterprise software development. As more companies become software companies, more are opening up their software both for internal reuse and externalized consumption. As part of this process, making developer-facing tools consumable and friction-free becomes more necessary to both perform well and stand out in the market. To […]
DevOps Use Cases for AI-Assisted Kubernetes
As indicated in my prior blogs Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Kubernetes and Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration, an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator is needed to optimize cloud costs for DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE. This blog describes DevOps-specific use cases for an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator. The blog also describes a roadmap […]
Managing Risk
We have built some beautiful toolchains that crank out a finished product on the fly without needing anything close to the level of intervention that was historically required. The most advanced organizations on an automation journey could change a line of code and then wait for the new version to hit production without doing a […]
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.
Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Kubernetes
As indicated in my prior blog, Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration, an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator is needed to optimize cloud costs for DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE. This blog describes the landscape for cloud-native optimization approaches and a features requirement blueprint for an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator. The blog also describes a roadmap for […]
Organizations Prioritizing Java Application Modernization
A survey found that modernizing existing Java applications is a higher priority than other projects for 87% of respondents, with more than 80% of these applications expected to be re-engineered over the next five years. The survey polled 450 IT professionals working in organizations in the U.S. and United Kingdom that have more than 500 […]
DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One
Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]
Akamai Makes Case For Next Era of Cloud Computing
Akamai Technologies today unveiled a cloud computing service that combines its ability to deploy applications at the edge with the cloud platform it gained via its acquisition of Linode. Shawn Michels, vice president of product management for compute and apps at Akamai, said Akamai Connected Cloud will provide the foundation for running a new generation […]
We Are Living in an Ephemeral World
We are lucky to live and work in the times that we do. Oh, we have our challenges, and I talk about them a fair amount here on these pages. But the things we can do in IT today have not been possible in the past, and the change isn’t over. Soon you will be […]
Azure Migration Strategy: Tools, Costs and Best Practices
Azure migration refers to the process of moving applications, data and other resources from on-premises or other cloud environments to Microsoft Azure, which is a cloud computing platform and service offered by Microsoft. Azure migration can include migrating virtual machines, databases and storage to Azure, as well as re-architecting applications to take advantage of Azure […]
Looking Ahead, 2023 Edition
DevOps is in a perpetual state of change that keeps all of us engaged and busy, but makes a mess of things overall. Do you cloud-first? Are your APIs GraphQL yet? Are you doing SDN to connect to the VPN so you can put files on the CDN and build closer to the market? Sorry, […]
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed.
Don’t Hire for Product Expertise
We all know the jokes about talent recruitment that “requires a century of experience in AI/ML.” With the number of layoffs, no doubt this type of approach will get worse. But that is not generally a tech problem; it is an HR problem–the problem of having people hire in tech that aren’t active in or […]
Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration
Kubernetes continues to grow as the leading container orchestrator for high-performance, cloud-native DevOps, DevSecOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) use cases. While Kubernetes offers excellent orchestration capabilities, it does not, by itself, assure cloud computing costs are optimized. The current state of cloud expenditures for many organizations indicates a lot of waste. So much so […]