Sometimes, You Should Fix What Isn’t Broken
DevOps has been with us long enough now that there is a lot of legacy DevOps stuff running in all of the places I have eyes into. Ignoring items that are not actually working; those pieces that pose a serious security threat because they house vulnerabilities that have been fixed—there is a lot of “It […]
Survey Finds Widespread Adoption of DevOps in Mainframe Sites
A survey of IT leaders by the market research firm Global Surveyz found a full 100% of respondents are modernizing their mainframe applications, but the reasons behind and approaches to achieving that goal vary widely. The research was conducted on behalf of Model9, a provider of tools for migrating mainframe data, and polled 100 companies […]
Google Focuses on Enterprise Cloud With Mandiant Acquisition
Thomas Kurian became the CEO of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a modest mandate: Turn Google Cloud into an enterprise cloud platform behemoth. Easy, right? By 2019 “Google” was already a verb because of its search engine dominance and the company’s revenue was north of $136.8 billion. So, why have I been closely tracking Google […]
DevOps and Containers
“Works on my machine!” We’ve all had that co-worker. I have had one at pretty much every company I’ve worked for. At several jobs, it devolved into a running joke. There is a belief that containers alleviate this issue. And they may—or they may simply mask the issue. The choice is up to IT. Inevitably, […]
TikTok Shuns Russia | War on Patent Trolls | Chrome is ‘Faster than Safari’
In this week’s The Long View: ByteDance restricts TikTok in Russia, Unified Patents escalates the fight against trolls, and Google Chrome beats the magic 300.
Linux Foundation Lists Top Open Source Libraries
The Linux Foundation today published a report that provides access to eight lists of the top 500 open source libraries being used by organizations as part of an ongoing effort to help better secure software supply chains. The Census II of Free and Open Source Software—Application Libraries report is based on usage data from providers […]
Best Practices for Modernizing App Modernization
Modernizing legacy systems to embrace a loosely-coupled microservices architecture is the biggest predictor of success for continuous delivery, according to Google Cloud’s 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps report. Studies continue to show that the most elite DevOps performers enjoy more frequent code deployments, faster lead times to deploy, low change failure rates and faster time-to-recovery. […]
Where Has All the Testing Gone?
Testing has long been a problem child of IT in general, AppDev in particular, and now it is DevOps’ problem. There are things that DevOps can do to improve the chances of tests actually occurring for your application(s). Interestingly, there are some that think we no longer need testing; the argument is that because new […]
Multi-Cloud Computing is a Major IT Headache
A CloudBolt Software survey of 500 senior IT, DevOps, security and finance leaders found 79% are struggling under the weight of managing multiple cloud computing environments. The survey from CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, found specifically that more than three-quarters of respondents (78%) said they have too many cloud tools throughout […]
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office.
Natural Language Query (NLQ) is Key for Self-Service BI
Modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics software solutions offer more ways to explore data and find insights than ever before. However, ensuring everyone in the enterprise can use analytics independently, when they need it, remains a challenge. For analytics to be adopted across the full enterprise, your tools need to be tailored for all users. […]
Automation is Key for Success of 5G at Scale
5G is more than a progressive step; it is a catalyst for individuals, society and industries to meet their digital aspirations. 5G goes beyond connectivity by providing a platform to collaborate across industries, and 5G networks will be at the center of an ecosystem that pushes society’s continued digital transformation forward. By design, 5G networks […]
The Past, Present and Future of OpenStack
OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 12-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization to manage and promote the technology—a watershed moment for a project announced just two years earlier. Today, with contributions from more than 34,000 […]
Snyk Acquires Fugue to Secure Cloud Infrastructure
Snyk today announced it has acquired Fugue as part of an effort to embed security within an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) provisioning tool. The Fugue platform combines a unified policy engine with an implementation of the open source Open Policy Agent (OPA) software, dubbed Regula, to ensure security and compliance policies are consistently enforced. OPA provides IT […]
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
CircleCI Adds CI/CD Service for macOS Development
CircleCI today added a dedicated continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) edition of its namesake platform for developers building applications on the macOS platform. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, said this offering is aimed at developers that either want dedicated resources to speed up their build processes or have to address compliance and security requirements that prevent them […]
Watch Your Language(s)
Just about every organization I am familiar with today is using more languages, frameworks, libraries, etc. than they were a decade ago. Back then, most organizations were doing a lot of Java, and maybe a little bit of PHP or .NET (almost always VB.NET). Now we have Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, etc. And etc., […]
Graph CDN for GraphQL APIs
Alan Shimel talks with Max Stoiber from GraphCDN, the CDN for GraphQL APIs. GraphCDN is now available to everyone with edge caching, query analytics, error tracking and protection from malicious queries for your GraphQL APIs. A video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. […]
Will Splunk be Gobbled up by Cisco?
Word on the street is that Cisco and Splunk are in discussions about a possible acquisition. Splunk, the technology monitoring, search and analytics company could be acquired by Cisco—originally a networking company but now a complex hardware and software conglomerate. Splunk has generated quite a reputation as a ‘dealer’ over the years. The company, much […]
IBM Shifts Mainframe App Testing to the Cloud
IBM this week revealed it has added the ability to set up testing environments on the IBM Cloud for z/OS mainframe applications. In addition, on March 15, IBM will make available an IBM Z and cloud modernization stack to make it simpler to modernize mainframe applications by adding application programming interfaces (APIs) using a cloud-native […]
Dynatrace Advances Application Environments as Code
Dynatrace, at its online Perform 2022 event, launched a bevy of updates to its portfolio that make it easier for DevOps teams to programmatically embed observability and other software intelligence capabilities within applications. At the same time, Dynatrace also revealed that it has extended the reach of its observability platform to now include all the […]
Kong Enterprise 2.7 Simplifies API Management
Kong Inc. this week advanced its service connectivity platform strategy with an update to Kong Enterprise that makes it simpler to collectively manage groups of application programming interfaces (APIs). Michael Heap, director of developer experience for Kong, Inc., said that capability will make it simpler to, for example, assign rate limits to different tiers of […]
No Matter How Things Change, Have a Plan
Had enough change yet? It is almost amusing that I and some other tech people had that conversation a decade ago, and since then, nothing has slowed down. Our conclusion was that, for the near future, change would be constant. That conclusion was right; I’d have to ping everyone else to see what they think, […]