Technical Debt: Don’t Buy Buzzwords
Buying into the ‘next big new shiny thing’ only increases your technical debt. Don MacVittie advises only buying what’s necessary.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Fidelity Investments, Caterpillar and more!
Innersourcing Open Source Principles in the Enterprise
Open source cultural principles are now permeating the enterprise – a movement known as innersource. Here’s why.
Generative AI: The 90% Rule
Don MacVittie explains his vision of generative AI – the 90% rule – and how it will help developers.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Scholastic, Motorola and more!
DevOps is Making Gains on Mainframe Platforms
A survey from BMC found organizations continue to invest in mainframe applications alongside distributed computing environments.
Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation.
Latest eBPF Advances Are Harbingers of Major Changes to IT
The open source community advancing eBPF gathered at a virtual eBPF Summit today that featured a demonstration of use in a Windows environment.
Unused Code: Proving a Negative
Don MacVittie says there’s a lot of unused code floating around out there – and that’s a big problem.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Deloitte, Cognizant, IBM and more!
Operational Intelligence: AI-Powered SRE Measurements and Observability
AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the SRE measurements and observability pillar of practice.
Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space
In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space?
Despite Concerns, AI Increasingly Used to Build Software
A GitLab survey found AI is increasingly used to build software despite concerns about introducing it into the SDLC.
Steady On. We Still Have a Job to Do
AI-generated change is not significantly different than the last couple decades where change has become IT’s constant companion.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, SPECTRUM and more!
Broadcom Survey Surfaces Drive to Consolidate Automation Platforms
A Broadcom survey found more than three-quarters of respondents are moving to consolidate cloud automation tools and platforms.
Embracing Chaos With AI: Reinventing SRE’s Anti-Fragility Practices
Incorporating AI tools in the realm of anti-fragility enables SREs to build systems that not only resist stress but thrive under it.
VS Code for Mainframe: The Enterprise Developer Tipping Point
With the free and open Code4z extension pack, VS Code is mainframe-ready and it’s a great tool for mainframe developers.
Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please!
IBM’s preview of an AI tool to convert COBOL to Java has Don MacVittie cheering.
IBM Previews Generative AI Tool for Converting COBOL to Java
IBM this week announced it will preview a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool for converting COBOL code running on mainframes into Java. The preview will be available next month during IBM’s TechXchange learning event, IBM said. Kyle Charlet, CTO for Z software at IBM, said watsonx Code Assistant for Z makes use of large language […]
VMware Previews Spring AI to Accelerate Java Development
VMware’s Spring AI project makes it simpler to build Java apps that invoke multiple AI components with minimal changes to code.
Strategic Roadmap for SREs: Software Deployments With AI
AI’s role in enhancing SRE practices, specifically software deployments, is revolutionizing the efficiency of deployment processes.
IBM to Provide Hybrid Cloud Service Based on VMware Cloud
At the VMware Explore 2023 conference this week, IBM announced that it will soon provide a fully managed service based on a streamlined edition of VMware Cloud.