Grafana Labs Advances Open Source Visualization and Observability
During the online GrafanaCONline conference today, Grafana Labs announced that version 8.0 of its open source visualization software widely employed by DevOps teams is now generally available. In addition, version 1.0 of Grafana Tempo, an open source back end platform for collecting distributed traces that are needed to drive observability across an application environment, is […]
HashiCorp Increases Terraform’s Enterprise Appeal
During the online HashiConf Europe conference today, HashiCorp debuted the general availability of a 1.0 release of HashiCorp Terraform along with updates to HashiCorp Terraform Cloud service. Meghan Liese, senior director of product marketing for HashiCorp, said in both cases HashiCorp is moving to enable organizations to better secure and govern IT infrastructure-as-code provisioned using […]
Digital Customer Experiences: The Future is Modular
With the proliferation of microservices and APIs, will UIs go modular too? Some technologists note a rising trend around smaller, intent-based customer experiences that more directly mirror API endpoints. I recently met with Adam Evans, co-founder and CTO of Airkit, to better understand what’s broken with today’s digital customer journeys and how they need to […]
GitLab Acquires UnReview to Further AI Ambitions
GitLab announced this week it has acquired UnReview, a provider of a tool that employs machine learning algorithms to identify which expert code reviewers to assign to a project based on both the quality of their previous efforts and current workloads. David DeSanto, senior director for product management at GitLab, said the acquisition of UnReview […]
Cribl Automates Observability Efforts
Cribl today announced it has updated the Cribl LogStream observability tool in addition to generally making available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering dubbed LogStream Cloud. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy and competitive intelligence at Cribl, said Cribl LogStream provides the means to aggregate log data collected from multiple platforms and applications in a format […]
10 Actions IT Can Take to Curb Climate Impact
Digital technology is responsible for 3.7% of total CO emissions, according to estimates from The Shift Project. This could increase, as cryptocurrency mining is leaving a massive carbon footprint. With the world’s climate at stake, every percentage point matters. Thankfully, many tech companies have announced significant climate pledges to reduce emissions or offset their carbon […]
Atlassian Delivers on Forge App Dev Platform Promise
Atlassian this week made available a Forge platform for building applications that complements its existing portfolio. Mike Tria, head of platform engineering for Atlassian, said Forge is intended to provide an application development environment to both IT organizations and third-party partners. It provides developers with access to an integrated Atlassian DevOps toolchain to accelerate testing, […]
Unifying Partner Ecosystems With a Distributed Ledger
Blockchain has become famous in recent years for powering the cryptocurrency craze. But the fundamentals behind blockchain could prove helpful in other areas of the data economy, too. Because, as the value of data rises, so does the need for accurate, real-time data sharing across multiple partners. As we saw recently, global trade is surprisingly […]
Digital.ai Deepens Value Stream Management Integration
Digital.ai announced today it has expanded usage of machine learning algorithms within its namesake value stream management (VSM) platform to include modules to optimize flow and improve application quality in addition to enhancing its risk prediction and process optimization modules. In addition, Digital.ai has expanded the number of pre-built integrations it now provides for hundreds […]
JFrog Adds Private Distribution Network for App Binaries
At its online swampUP conference today, JFrog launched a Private Distribution Network (PDN) that makes it simpler and faster to distribute application binaries across an extended enterprise. Yoav Landman, JFrog CTO, said the PDN provides the equivalent of a content delivery network (CDN) designed specifically for distributing application binaries using a peer-to-peer network managed by […]
Oracle and Allies Launch ARM-Based Cloud Service
Oracle announced today it will make available for the first time ARM-based processors on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that will also be supported as targets for deploying applications using GitHub, GitLab or Jenkins platforms. The latest Oracle service is based on processors from Ampere Computing. The company also revealed today it has joined the […]
API Security by Design
“APIs are nothing new,” said Secure Code Warrior co-founder and CTO Matias Madou, but they have recently become more widely used. And where they were once a local mechanism, they are increasingly used in a distributed manner, partly because of changes to application architectures. Another reason is that users are increasingly likely to access systems […]
Unqork Extends Automated No-Code SDLC Platform
Unqork today announced it has extended a no-code platform for managing the software development life cycle (SDLC) to include the ability to automatically document changes to application programming interfaces (APIs) and data models in addition to adding a point-in-time rollback capability. Ken Gavranovic, head of strategy and engineering for Unqork, said Unqork 2021.5 also adds […]
Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek to Streamline App Feedback Process
Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both inspect a web application developed using JavaScript and leave comments for developers. Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, said Netlify will embed that collaboration capability in the […]
ZenHub Brings More Science to Sprint Planning
ZenHub today revealed it has added a Planning Poker capability to its platform for managing software development projects that is designed to make it possible to prioritize sprints based on feedback collected from members of the application development team. That capability extends a sprint planning capability the company added this year to a project management […]
Our API Mess is Coming
APIs are the satisfaction of a long and deep need to be able to create consistent and reliable integrations between disparate systems, operating systems and datasets. As we started to use REST-based APIs, we also realized they fulfilled a previously little-addressed gap in automation. Frankly, they are a force multiplier in DevOps delivery. Early efforts […]
Nobl9 Makes SLO Specification Open Source
During an online SLOconf event today, Nobl9 revealed that the platform it created to enable IT teams to achieve service level objectives (SLOs) is now available under an open source Apache license. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said the goal is to make a YAML specification format for defining SLOs that includes a […]
Despite Cloud Adoption, Enterprises Demand On-Premises Software
A recent report from Dimensional Research reveals that the demand for on-premises software is equal to that of public cloud. The report, which was commissioned by Replicated, a company specializing in on-premises software modernization, queried 405 participants in software development, executive, product management, sales and services roles to determine the needs, usage and challenges of […]
Will App Dev Become a Normal Competency?
With a shortage of available developers, companies are considering low-code methods to meet massive application development needs. As a result, by 2024, citizen developers will be responsible for 65% of applications, Gartner predicted. So, if technical ability rises across the board, will application development become an expected skill set for tomorrow’s digital workers? And if […]
Perforce Acquires 21 Labs to Advance Mobile App Testing
Perforce Software announced today is has acquired 21 Labs, a provider of a suite of tools that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a no-code approach to testing mobile applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tim Russell, chief product officer for Perforce Software, said the 21 Labs tools complement a set of similar […]
WhiteHat Security Allies With Bit Discovery on Vulnerability Intelligence
WhiteHat Security, a subsidiary of NTT, has announced an integration with Bit Discovery to make it easier for developers and cybersecurity teams to discover the extent to which the attack surface they need to defend might be impacted by a vulnerability. Bit Discovery maintains a database made up of more than 5 billion internet-connected assets […]
The Role of APIs In Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is increasingly propelled by rapidly changing user expectations. Release frequency is increasing, as is the need to connect a growing number of applications and digital experiences. As a result, 83% of IT specialists consider API integration critical to their business, found the State of API Integration Report. Application programming interfaces (APIs) hold powerful […]
Consider Telemetry When Rearchitecting Applications
Australia and New Zealand have seen a big move to the public cloud, and “… when I talk to customers, I see huge interest in rearchitecting applications rather than doing a lift-and-shift right into public cloud,” said Scott van Kalken, F5 ANZ solution architect for DevOps and modern applications. That migration to the public cloud […]