Open Source Observability Comes of Age in 2022
Observability is growing in importance to meet envisioned business objectives. Despite the benefits to performance data, organizations have faced challenges in realizing the full potential of observability based on implementation, distributed software tools, and other technological hurdles. But with new innovation, the era of true observability is upon us. Innovative changes The open-source observability landscape, […]
IoT Developers: Get Familiar With LoRaWAN for 2022
IoT Analytics forecast the global number of connected IoT devices would grow to 12.3 billion active endpoints in 2021. That number is expected to grow exponentially in the near future as more and more industries make use of long-range wireless capability. For example, president Biden’s infrastructure plan promised major investment in smart cities and smart […]
The Future of OpenTelemetry for Observability
The observability landscape is changing. Today’s digital transformation journey has highlighted the need for observability as organizations look to capture, analyze and correlate all data across every level of the application stack including logs, metrics, traces and events. With the rampant rise of data, collecting these signals is imperative to both business insights and system […]
New Relic: Observability Tops 2022 DevOps Agenda
If 2021 was the year when IT organizations became aware of the need for observability, then the coming year should see observability aspirations realized. A report published by observability platform provider New Relic postulates that there are no less than 11 factors converging in a way that will make observability an absolute requirement for organizations. […]
Best of 2021 – Hiring When You’re Not FAANG
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twentieth in our series of the Best of 2021. Most of us are not FAANG, and we shouldn’t act like we are. Instead of using that, I’m going to use the term we used […]
Best of 2021 – Transform Legacy Java Apps to Microservices
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the sixteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Velocity is one of the major tenets of DevOps, and anything that maintains or improves velocity benefits the overall process. Yet, there are still many […]
Best of 2021 – Nine Pillars of DevOps Best Practices
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. In a prior blog I explained my 27-factor DevOps assessment model which includes nine pillars of DevOps and three dimensions of people, process and technology. […]
Best of 2021 – The ‘Great Resignation’ in DevOps? Bah, Humbug
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the tenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Like me, you have probably heard a lot about the “Great Resignation” lately. I’ll admit—at first I did not think it had anything to with […]
Best of 2021 – 11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the […]
Best of 2021 – Programming Languages: Choose Wisely?
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our series of the Best of 2021. We’ve got decades of experience in programming and language adoption under our belt at this point, and there are a few things we can say […]
Red Hat Adds Service to Customize RHEL Images
Red Hat this week announced a public beta of an Image Builder service that streamlines the process of building customized instances of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. Scott Herold, director of product management for RHEL at Red Hat, said the Image Builder service enables an IT team to define a “gold” template […]
Log4j: It’s All About the Supply Chain, Baby!
In 2021, the security story in DevOps and DevSecOps has been the supply chain. So, it’s only fitting that we are currently experiencing the mother of all supply chain issues with the Log4j Log4Shell RCE vulnerability to close out the year. I won’t waste your time rehashing what Log4j is, why it’s so dangerous and […]
Speedscale Makes Free API Observability Tool Available
Speedscale today announced it is making a free edition of its observability tool for application programming interfaces (APIs) available to developers. Ken Ahrens, Speedscale CEO, said the goal is to expose more developers to the company’s API testing tool that can be accessed on their local machine via a command line interface (CLI). Dubbed Speedscale […]
Log4j: Is There Such a Thing as ‘Too Much’ Open Source?
The Log4j vulnerability got me thinking: Is there such a thing as too much open source? Before anyone immediately fires off a flaming email, rage tweet or scathing blog post, hear me out for a moment. If you know me, you know that I am an open source fanatic. I’ve been asked many times, “Should […]
The Graph Donates $48M to Advance GraphQL Platforms
The Graph, a provider of indexing and query tools based on the GraphQL language designed for blockchain platforms, today announced it has given $48 million to The Guild, a group of developers advancing an open source application programming interface (API) platform to further development of GraphQL-based technologies. Administered via The Graph Foundation, a nonprofit consortium […]
Log4j Puts Effective IT Operations at Center Stage
News of the Apache Log4j vulnerability exploit is striking fear into the hearts of both software makers and users. Log4j is the most popular Java logging service used today, with over 400,000 GitHub downloads and has been embedded in most internet services and products from companies all over the world, including Apple, Amazon, Cloudflare, Steam, […]
U.S. Govt. CX EO | Mozilla Revenue | Log4j Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Improving U.S. government CX, how much money Mozilla makes, and the latest on the Log4j/Log4Shell débâcle.
AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?
Canaries were once sent into coal mines as an early warning sign against danger—for me, it was my Roomba failing to automatically search out dog hair and clean the floor under my sons’ dining room chairs. Cloud-enabled apps also were acting “weird”. Some were down, while others were just slow—although, in my view, slow may […]
Extending GitOps to the Enterprise
GitOps is a relatively new term, but it continues to gain momentum as more organizations embrace the paradigm. In DevOps, GitOps lands on the software engineering side of the development and operations continuum. Even though GitOps is more likely to be adopted by smaller organizations, larger enterprises can successfully implement GitOps with just a few […]
NetApp Survey Shows Hybrid Cloud is Maturing
A small survey of 79 midsized to large enterprises conducted by NetApp suggests enterprise IT organizations might finally be embracing hybrid cloud computing beyond use cases involving backup and recovery. The survey finds 20% of respondents are currently employing both on-premises and cloud resources to support the same workload in a production environment, with another […]
Low-Code: Bridging the Gap Between DevOps and Business
The need to innovate faster, manage multiple environments, optimize an application’s life cycle and achieve continuous delivery are aspirational goals that a successful DevOps team strives for. But there are loads of challenges, as meeting these goals increases the pressure on DevOps teams to adopt improved application architecture, new tools and developer workflows. The overarching […]
Overcoming Challenges to Automating DevSecOps
In the last few years, DevSecOps has been widely adopted among organizations looking to get proactive with their security. Traditionally, development teams would continuously implement and deploy new applications into the enterprise and security was an additional bolt-on at the end. However, as the threat posed by cybercrime has increased, organizations have been ‘shifting left’ […]
Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Microsoft Azure Cloud
Red Hat this week announced that a private preview of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Tom Anderson, vice president of Red Hat Ansible automation, said making the Red Hat instance of the open source automation framework available on Azure is the first step toward making it […]