BMC Adds Support for DORA Metrics to Mainframe Tools Portfolio
BMC this week announced it has added support for DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics within its portfolio of DevOps tools for mainframe environments. John McKenny, senior vice president and general manager for intelligent Z optimization and transformation at BMC, said the latest edition of BMC Compuware zAdviser now includes a DORA KPI Dashboard that […]
ERP Modernization: How Devs Can Help Companies Innovate
In this post-pandemic world, large enterprises are looking to streamline and improve business processes within a storm of marketplace constraints. Companies in asset-heavy industries such as oil and gas, energy, retail, or distribution and logistics have especially been working to reconfigure their supply chain processes to better manage inventory and operations. The focus in the […]
Dev Job Phisher Steals $540M | Patch OpenSSL NOW | Systemd Dev Joins Microsoft
In this week’s The Long View: Spear-phishing causes $540 million loss, a high severity bug in OpenSSL might be “worse than Heartbleed,” and Lennart Poettering is now working for Microsoft.
Survey Shows Increased Reliance on DORA Metrics
A new survey found just under a quarter (23%) of respondents are now tracking all four of the DevOps metrics defined by the DevOps Research and Assessment Team (DORA), with another 17% now tracking three. The State of Developer Experience survey polled 129 IT professionals that play a role in software development and was conducted by […]
Salesforce Adds RPA Bots to MuleSoft Integration Platform
Salesforce today announced that it is now using robotic process automation (RPA) to connect disparate data via a no-code tool developed by its MuleSoft unit. Shaun Clowes, chief product officer for MuleSoft, said bots created using an RPA-infused integration platform can now automate much of the effort previously required to integrate data residing in different […]
Quick! Define DevSecOps: Let’s Call it Development Security
For a good long while, DevSecOps referred specifically to vendors like Veracode that did static application security scanning, dynamic application security scanning, software composition analysis and some form of runtime monitoring (usually interactive scanning). Then we realized that DevSecOps was potentially a lot more than that and, like DevOps, we drove the word to encompass […]
Quality Is a Top Challenge for Data-Driven Projects
Software systems continue to produce more and more data. And making use of it has proven benefits — so much so that many analysts have, over the years, referred to data as the new oil. As a result, the majority of organizations are expending effort into refining their data — in fact, a recent study […]
What Is User Acceptance Testing and Why Is it so Important?
Anyone involved in software development knows how important it is to ensure a positive end-user experience. One way to do that is through the use of user acceptance testing (UAT). UAT is one of the types of testing that you can execute as part of your overall quality assurance process. Source It’s essential in helping […]
TechStrong Con: Open Source Software Community Needs Security Help
The only way to make significant improvements in the state of open source security is if more organizations that benefit from open source projects commit to making more resources available to achieve that goal. At the virtual TechStong Con event, executives on an Open Source and DevOps panel called for more contributions from enterprise IT […]
Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports.
Survey Shows Correlation Between Open Source, DevOps Skills Demand
A survey published this week by the Linux Foundation suggested enterprise IT organizations now prefer to hire IT professionals that have both open source software and DevOps experience. Conducted in collaboration with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., the survey polled 1,672 open source professionals and 559 respondents with responsibility for […]
At Some Point, We’ve Shifted Too Far Left
Those of us involved in DevOps have a tendency to see the world with blinders on. It is rather easy to fall into the “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” trap. We have used the phrase “shift left” with the attitude that this is the solution to every problem […]
Survey Uncovers Depth of Open Source Software Insecurity
A survey from Snyk and the Linux Foundation published today found that less than half of respondents (49%) work for organizations that have security policies in place for the use or development of open source software. The survey, which polled 550 software development professionals, was conducted by Snyk, a provider of tools for securing software, […]
TechStrong Con: Downturn Brings Additional Sense of DevOps Urgency
Regardless of whether the overall economy is experiencing a correction or is on the cusp of a recession, organizations are going to prioritize some projects over others as resources become more constrained. During the “DevOps: Has the Bubble Burst?” panel made up of DevOps executives and investors from venture capital firms that kicked off the […]
Supergraph: One GraphQL Schema to Rule Them All
GraphQL has been garnering much interest as a way to seamlessly interact with backend services. The query language is a boon for frontend developers, too, as it conveniently allows you to fetch the specific fields you require, thus eliminating the potential overfetching or underfetching concerns of REST APIs. And as GraphQL adoption matures within organizations, […]
Armory Aims to Turn Continuous Delivery Into a Service
Armory this week made generally available a continuous delivery-as-a-service (CDaaS) offering that promises to make it simpler for a much wider range of organizations to programmatically deploy applications. The Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service platform has been available in beta since March. It differs from Armory’s existing open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform in that it […]
Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
In this week’s The Long View: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer.
There are Few Enough Silver Bullets
I was working through this week’s blog this morning, and it was laser-focused on a narrow topic. I had examples of why too much of a good thing is bad, how absolutism about methodology is hurting the majority of organizations out there, and how to get past this issue to keep improving what IT does […]
Saying Goodbye to Legacy Systems
Are you still using a rotary phone, tube television or Rolodex? Probably not. But if you were, you’d still be using newer technology than what many enterprises still rely on every day to drive mission-critical applications that we use every day when shopping, banking or hundreds of other normal tasks. At least two-thirds of large […]
Catchpoint Enables Experimentation by Automating Web App Testing
Catchpoint this week expanded its open source WebPageTest performance testing suite of tools to enable IT teams to run instant tests that surface suggestions for improving overall web application and site performance. In addition, Catchpoint is now providing support for private tests, bulk tests and priority testing capabilities within the WebPageTest tool suite. Tim Kadlec, […]
The APIs You Really Don’t Know About
A few years ago, we were rightly warned about the amount of exposure our APIs created. A massive attack surface that often used “security by obscurity” as its primary method of protection. We’ve come a long way since then, building secrets, tokens, RBAC and even more into our API interfaces. We’re still behind in getting […]
3xFAIL: IPv6 Fails | Fintech Fails | Firefox Fails
In this week’s The Long View: IPv6 gets stabbed in the back, Fintech firms’ valuations are falling, and the latest browser war seems to be over—Firefox lost.
JFrog Aims to Push DevOps to the Edge
At its swampUP event, JFrog launched a JFrog Connect platform for updating, managing, monitoring and securing remote Linux and internet of things (IoT) devices. The JFrog Connect platform is based on a lightweight agent JFrog gained last year with the acquisition of Upswift and that has now been integrated with the JFrog Artifactory repository. DevOps […]