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Armory Aims to Turn Continuous Delivery Into a Service
Armory this week made generally available a continuous delivery-as-a-service (CDaaS) offering that promises to make it simpler for a much wider range of organizations to programmatically deploy applications. The Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service ...

TechStrong Con 2022: Exploring What’s Next in Tech
We have become increasingly reliant on technology and it’s hard to imagine life without all the great tech inventions we use in our daily lives. As technology keeps progressing, more is expected ...

Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
In this week’s The Long View: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer ...

Survey Surfaces Raft of Application Security Issues
A global survey from ReversingLabs found 87% of respondents agreed that software tampering has become a more frequently-used cybersecurity attack, but only 37% said they have any means to detect it. The ...

Jit Emerges to Address Cybersecurity Policy-as-Code Orchestration
Jit today emerged from stealth with a free namesake orchestration platform beta that automatically implements security plans as code. Aviram Shmueli, chief product officer for Jit, said the company will both make ...

Splunk Adds Data Management Tools to Observability Platform
At its .conf22 event, Splunk today announced it is making it easier to both onboard data and then manage it across hybrid IT environments via the Splunk Cloud Platform. In addition, Splunk ...

Grafana Labs Adds Visual Tools to Simplify Prometheus Queries
At its GrafanaCONline event, Grafana Labs today announced an update to the open source Grafana dashboard. The update adds visual query tools to make it easier for IT professionals of any skill ...

CDEvents Aims To Standardize CI/CD Interoperability
Companies are under mounting pressure to continuously release new applications and features. And as software development life cycles become more iterative, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a necessary ingredient ...

AppSmith Adds Git Support to Low-Code App Dev Framework
AppSmith has added support for Git repositories to an open source framework for building custom applications using a low-code platform based on the JavaScript programming language. Rishabh Kaul, head of marketing for ...

Why is Security Still in the Way? A Look at DevSecOps Right Now
According to industry trend reports for 2022, DevSecOps is now considered to be one of the most effective approaches to building software quickly and securely. This effort, of course, means development, security ...

Technical Debt: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Every software team has probably faced technical debt—the accumulation of little development deficiencies that will require rework down the line. Just like financial debt, they accrue interest as they build up, in ...

There are Few Enough Silver Bullets
I was working through this week’s blog this morning, and it was laser-focused on a narrow topic. I had examples of why too much of a good thing is bad, how absolutism ...