LogDNA Adds Usage Quota Tools to Help Control Costs
LogDNA announced today it will enable IT teams to apply usage quotas to help rein in log management costs. Tucker Callaway, CEO, LogDNA, said as applications become more complex – thanks, in part, to the rise of microservices – the amount of log data that a DevOps team can collect has significantly increased. IT teams […]
IaC Frameworks: Vendor-Specific or Multi-Cloud?
Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual machines (VMs) to cloud-native architecture, applications are much more complicated, making it much more important to automate infrastructure to respond with speed. In […]
DevOps Myths Debunked
Leaders need not be DevOps experts, but they need to distinguish DevOps myths and realities to lead their digital transformation projects. As I indicated in a recent article, Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges, leaders need to set an inspiring DevOps directional vision for the organization, and proactively stimulate and sponsor team activities toward goals. […]
Datadog to Meld Observability and DevSecOps
Datadog is planning to expand the scope of the security and observability services it provides following the acquisitions of Sqreen, an application security platform provider, and Timber Technologies, a provider of a tool, called Vector, for collecting and normalizing log data. Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Vector makes it […]
Puppet Adds DevOps Consulting Practice
Puppet has launched a DevOps consulting service that promises to help organizations implement best practices that will ultimately make their IT organizations more efficient. Nigel Kersten, field CTO, Puppet, said the Scaling DevOps Service is especially focused on improving workflows among organizations that have already started down the DevOps path. Most IT organizations that embrace […]
Too Many Organizations Get Public Cloud Wrong
The cloud has been getting a lot of press in the past few years—and with good reason. The elasticity and flexibility of resources are transformational for businesses. However, there are also drawbacks. For most enterprises, it’s a significant undertaking to migrate on-premises applications into a public cloud environment. Modern applications today are rarely self-contained entities. […]
New Monitoring Features in PostgreSQL 13
Every monitoring solution is limited by the information the system allows to be collected. PostgreSQL DBMS provides many metrics reflecting its internal state, running queries and background processes, and each release brings the community more monitoring-related features. PostgreSQL 13, which was released in September of 2020, added key improvements, including query sampling, improved WAL usage […]
Top Misconceptions About Low-Code Development
Accelerating the pace of development has become one of the biggest goals in DevOps. After all, having teams speed the creation and modification of applications is supposed to be one of the primary advantages of DevOps pipelines. Yet, far too many DevOps teams run into speed bumps that can derail the process. For some, turning […]
SolarWinds Unveils Revamped APM Platform
SolarWinds is unifying its various application performance management (APM) tools within a single suite accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Denny LeCompte, senior vice president for products at SolarWinds, said the APM Integrated Experience offering combines the company’s AppOptics, Loggly and Pingdom tools to collect metrics, traces and logs along with real user monitoring capabilities […]
Why Every DevOps Team Needs a Spot Instance Strategy
Most DevOps teams use the public cloud extensively and focus a lot of energy on reducing cloud costs. According to one estimate, U.S. businesses spent $14.1 billion in 2019 just on wasted, unused cloud resources. Spot instances are one of the most important ways to reduce the cost of public cloud services. Spot instances are […]
Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges
When I think about the challenges of DevOps transformations, I love the viewpoint expressed by Ryan Harmon, strategic accounts manager at Trace3: “DevOps is a complex maze that has many leaders frustrated. In many large enterprises, ‘DevOps’ is simply a buzzword they are striving to achieve but struggle with what the end state looks like […]
3 Common App Modernization Pitfalls to Avoid
Application modernization has been a consistent theme for organizations year after year. Businesses today still rely on their legacy applications for the majority of their revenue generation, from mainframes to Java EE. New digital transformation initiatives and mandates have pushed application modernization back to the forefront, as a new generation of automation platforms and best […]
Languages and DevOps: Embedded
Every once in a while, it is a good idea to take stock of the environment and the market around us to determine if what we are doing is what we should be doing. I’m a developer, not a prognosticator, so these observations are simply based on my experience in the development world, along with […]
The Digital Transformation of Decision-Making
The ability to make effective business decisions has historically relied on factors such as experience, qualifications, talent and, in many cases, luck. Strategic and tactical choices are also informed by ‘borrowing’ the insight and knowledge of others. In many situations, ‘follow the leader’ can be an effective approach, and one need only study any sector […]
Grafana Labs Adds On-Premises Observability Platform
Grafana Labs announced today the availability of a unified Grafana Enterprise Stack that enables IT teams to deploy a curated observability platform, based on open source tools such as Prometheus, in their own on-premises IT environment. Tom Wilkie, vice president of product for Grafana Labs, said Grafana Enterprise Stack, in addition to providing a version […]
DevSecOps Implementation: Patch Management
Patch management has been a thorn in IT’s side for decades. While it is undeniably necessary for security and stability purposes, the staggering array of patches that are available make managing them effectively nearly a full-time job – or a job better left to users. Few IT professionals want to be the “patch person,” and […]
Open Source Advocates Want Share of Wealth
The egalitarian spirit of the open source community might be starting to fray as individual developers begin to question who is really benefiting most from their efforts. A survey of 4,440 developers who actively participated in open source projects in 2020 finds more than half (54%) of respondents said they feel that individuals should be […]
Survey Shows DevSecOps Progress in Larger Organizations
A survey of 250 U.S. and UK large enterprises with more $1 billion in revenue conducted by Security Compass, a provider of a platform for automating security tasks as application are developed, finds three-quarters (75%) have implemented DevSecOps processes on current application development projects. Rohit Sethi, CEO, Security Compass, said the State of DevSecOps Report […]
Delivering True DevOps on the Mainframe
Mainframe-inclusive DevOps enables organizations to accelerate application development and delivery so they can stay ahead of market disruptors. Efficient and effective DevOps practices in your mainframe environment allows developers to build, analyze, code, test and manage applications with improved agility and precision. In this interview, Mark Schettenhelm, senior product manager for Compuware, a BMC company, […]
CNCF Graduates Open Policy Agent Project to Manage Compliance as Code
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week that the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project, which many IT teams are employing to manage compliance as code, has officially graduated. Torin Sandall, co-founder of the OPA project and vice president of open source at Styra, whose compliance management platform is based on OPA, said formal […]
CloudBolt Software Aims to Bridge DevOps and IT Divide
CloudBolt Software today released a Winter update to its cloud management platform that aims to bridge the divide between DevOps teams and traditional IT administrators. IT administrators can now employ the CloudBolt platform to invoke the open source Ansible framework for automating IT processes and workflows using a graphical user interface (GUI) surfaced via a […]
Oracle Includes GraalVM Support in Java SE Subscription
Oracle announced today it is adding a GraalVM Enterprise virtual machine for building Java applications to Java SE Subscription at no additional cost. Donald Smith, senior director of product management from the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said GraalVM Enterprise provides developers with a high-performance application runtime, built on Oracle Java SE, that includes a […]
Transforming Your Digital Transformation
Change is difficult, so most companies pull the bandage slowly, hoping to avoid the hard, painful part – especially with regard to digital transformation. But in the corporate world, cautious change inevitably leads to entropy. Progress gets made in one department at a time, at the expense of others. Leaders turn over, priorities shift, plans […]