Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Three: Remotely Good
This installment of my off-and-on “Things We Should Acknowledge” series is going to focus on an area that most DevOps teams are skirting, but increasingly will not be able to: Remote work. For background, I have worked remotely for decades; my experience spans Fortune 100s, publishing companies and startups—and that’s just full-time work. I’ve worked […]
Atlassian Embeds Generative AI Across Cloud App Portfolio
At its Team 23 conference today, Atlassian announced it is adding an artificial intelligence (AI) capability to the enterprise editions of its cloud portfolio to automate a wide range of routine tasks. Sherif Mansour, distinguished product manager for Atlassian, said Atlassian Intelligence uses natural language to drive a virtual agent that resolves routine help desk […]
Start Automating Now
A bit of feedback I received from last week’s post is that I didn’t provide any background, I just jumped right in with examples. So let’s take a step back and talk about the bigger picture. It is always a surprise to me when I talk to enterprise friends and associates and hear that automation […]
AI Chatbots: Game Changers for DevOps Transformations
In today’s fast-paced digital world, organizations are constantly looking for ways to accelerate their software development processes and ensure the seamless integration of their development and operations teams. DevOps has emerged as a popular methodology to achieve this goal, but even with its adoption, many companies still face challenges in their transformation journey. AI chatbots […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Can ChatGPT Fix Bugs? ‘Wolverine’ Dev Says YES
In this week’s #TheLongView: Instead of AI aids for programming, what about for debugging? The pseudonymous “BioBootloader” says he’s persuaded GPT-4 to make his code self heal.
Harnessing the Power of AI Chatbots for Continuous Testing
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we develop and test software, especially with the advent of AI chatbots. These intelligent agents have the potential to streamline and automate continuous testing while improving software quality. However, software and QA managers must understand the urgency, opportunities, pitfalls and best practices associated with integrating AI chatbots into […]
Automation Relation
One thing that is absolutely true: This latest iteration of IT improvement is about automation. Whether making DevOps more automated, working on any of the various “X-as-code” movements or implementing AI, the idea is to create what one vendor portrayed as a “human-free zone.” A space where automation does everything that needs doing. And the […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Orgs Shift Toward Centralizing Automation Initiatives
A survey published today found that 75% of respondents recognized that automation silos hamper their ability to unify cloud operations across functions. Conducted by CloudBolt Software, the survey polled 350 senior IT and DevOps leaders at organizations with more than 3,000 employees. On a positive note, the survey found 57% of respondents were starting to […]
Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Two: Skills Are Less Relevant
This is perhaps the toughest issue for all of us to acknowledge: The longer you are in the space, the more skills you have filled out on LinkedIn (or wherever you are tracking your career for HR reps to look at) but the skills you possess today are, by definition, a subset of the skills […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust
In this week’s #TheLongView: The npm registry suffers spam infestation, and Microsoft makes Google sad.
The Right Tool for the Job: Alerting Edition
In high-tech, we have a terrible predilection for finding a good tool and abusing it until we hate it. I’ve written several “Use the right tool for the job” articles and posts over the years, most notably an examination of trying to make one programming language (or another) into an all-purpose solution. We’re thankfully past […]
Salesforce Spring 2023 Release: Out With the Old, A Lot of the New
Salesforce is the connector and enabler of so many critical business functions. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with its headaches. The environment is so complex that it really takes a conscious, focused effort to properly leverage all that Salesforce has to offer, as well as stay up-to-speed on everything that’s new and evolving. […]
Tabnine Extends Generative AI Alliance With Google
Tabnine has extended its alliance with Google Cloud to advance the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the writing and testing of code. The generative AI platform provider has already developed its own large language model that is hosted on Google Cloud. Tabnine is now also committing to leveraging the large language model […]
Data APIs: Realizing the Future of Data Warehousing
Data is the currency of business in today’s digital economy, with organizations collecting mountains of data from their customers, products and services. Enterprises are increasingly turning to data warehouses to store this valuable enterprise data and to make it useful and actionable. Data APIs–both GraphQL and REST–are emerging as a tool to power frictionless and […]
What DevOps Leadership Should Look Like
Implementing DevOps has become a major focus, but the practice’s attempt to provide organizational support and streamline production systems simultaneously leaves developers with no clear hierarchical structure. We know we need DevOps and we know it helps, but we also know that without proper leadership or structure, it can be misunderstood and undervalued. To build […]
Things We Should Acknowledge, Part One: Hiring Sucks
I was talking to some friends about hiring the other day, and a common thread seems to run through all of their hiring activities: It is hard to find “good” DevOps people. This thought got me thinking that we assume a lot in DevOps, and that we should stop assuming and openly discuss those things. […]
HPE to Acquire OpsRamp to Gain AIOps Platform
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week revealed it is acquiring OpsRamp to gain access to a platform for embedding artificial intelligence in IT operations (AIOps). Latha Vishnubhotla, chief platform officer in the office of the CTO for HPE, said the company would embed the machine learning technology developed by OpsRamp across its entire portfolio in addition […]
Oracle Makes Java 20 Platform Generally Available
At an Oracle DevLive Level Up event, Oracle today announced the availability of a Java 20 update that makes a range of innovations more accessible to application development teams. Georges Saab, senior vice president of development for the Java Platform and chair of the OpenJDK Governing Board for Oracle, said the latest version of the […]
How Database DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation
In today’s real-time, hyperconnected reality, data is a core driver behind most digital strategies. User data is constantly gathered and shared across various technology backends and platforms—as is system performance data to inform engineers. Data is pivotal for everything, from generating machine learning models, refining user experiences and even supporting new data-centric services. But although […]
Large Organizations Are Embracing AIOps
A survey of 265 IT leaders found the primary reason organizations are applying artificial intelligence to IT operations (AIOps) is to improve service and application availability and performance (60%), followed closely by automation of operations (58%) and processes (54%). Conducted on behalf of OpsRamp, a provider of an AIOps platform, the survey polled 138 IT […]