Low-Code: An Oasis During Developer Drought
Key insights from Mendix’s 2020 Developer Drought Index You may have heard that Silicon Valley is in the midst of a developer drought. But the Valley is not alone; developer talent across the U.S. heartland has dried up. In fact, the top 10 U.S. counties with the highest developer demand per capita aren’t even in […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Google Roils Open Source Community
Google this week agitated the bulk of the open source community by launching the Open Usage Commons consortium to protect the trademarks of open source projects, starting with the Istio, Angular and Gerrit projects it launched. Launched in collaboration with SADA Systems and some independent contributors, the stated goal of the Open Usage Commons is […]
COVID-19 Long Tail Budget Impact
Technology budgets have shifted dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study from online CIO networking and information hub, Pulse. The pandemic, and its resulting shutdown, will likely continue to have a substantial impact on technology budgets for some time. The initial budgetary impact was substantial. When COVID-19 first arrived, […]
Metropolis Now: The Two Worlds of Employment in the Age of Automation
Current events have revealed that there are two worlds in the employment landscape. One is digital, the other analog. For the most part, those in IT—the digital workers—have been unaffected by the spike in unemployment due to the economic side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, it doesn’t mean they’ll be untouched in the long-term. As […]
Digital.ai: The Companies Formerly Known As XebiaLabs and CollabNet Plus
Another shoe has dropped in the continuing story of TPG Capital‘s foray into DevOps. The company formed by the merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne is now Digital.ai. Additionally, the company has acquired Arxan, a leader in application protection. I had a chance to catch up with Digital.ai’s CEO Ashok Reddy and Arxan COO Mark […]
Coronavirus Economic Shutdown: Analysts Hit the Brakes on Global IT Spending Estimates
By most accounts, 2020 was set to be a pretty good year for U.S. gross domestic product and enterprise IT budgets. That was before the novel coronavirus, and the subsequent economic shutdown that is designed to blunt its spread and avoid overwhelming the nation’s health system. Analysts are now slashing their economic growth rates and […]
Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of peripheral events that go on throughout the week as well, such as the Cloud Security Alliance Summit, the CIO/CISO Interchange, BSides San Francisco […]
IBM Doubles Down on Cloud, But Is Krishna an Interim CEO?
Big news from Big Blue yesterday: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down after eight years at the helm. In her stead, IBM is doubling down on the cloud by appointing Arvind Krishna as CEO and member of the board. The real move to watch, though, is the appointment of Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, […]
The Foundational Era of Open Source
Contrary to popular belief, software is not eating the world. Open source software is eating the world. This was very apparent at the Linux Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event recently in San Diego. Driving this phenomenon is what I call the Foundational era of Open Source. This Foundational era of Open Source has replaced what […]
Oracle v. Google and Its Impact on APIs and Code
What, if any, impact will the Supreme Court’s rulings on Oracle v. Google have on the industry at large? TL/DR: It is unlikely to impact the vast majority of us, vendor and enterprise developer alike. Disclaimer: I am a technologist, not a lawyer. I have done some research, and talked to lawyers, but all that […]
The Road Ahead for Security, DevOps Transformation
Qualys hosted its Qualys Security Conference 19 this week in Las Vegas. Hundreds of attendees from around the world have gathered at the Bellagio hotel to learn more about the current state of cybersecurity and what the future has in store. As you might expect, given the technology landscape today, many of the sessions and […]
Privileged Access Management at the Speed of DevOps
Privileged access management (PAM) is clearly a very important element of effective cybersecurity. PAM has been ranked number one on Gartner’s Top 10 Security Projects for two consecutive years, and it is number four on the CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls. The struggle for many organizations, however, is they have also embraced DevOps culture, […]
Survey Suggests DevOps Drives Digital Business Transformation
A survey published this week by New Relic, a provider of IT monitoring services, suggests there is a high correlation between organizations that have embarked on digital business transformation initiatives and adoption of best DevOps practices. Revealed at the Futurestack conference hosted by New Relic, the survey 750 global senior IT decision-makers of enterprises with […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Arms Race Heats Up
A massive amount of capital is pouring into DevOps companies as organizations finally begin to realize the extent to which they depend on software. While Marc Andreesen may have penned his famous “Software Is Eating the World” opinion piece way back in 2011, it’s only now that many organizations are starting to realize they are […]
GitLab Outlines Scope of DevOps Ambitions
At the GitLab Commit event in New York today, GitLab launched an ambitious effort to extend the scope of its DevOps platform to provide a view into the software development life cycle for not just developers but also designers, product managers and business leaders. Fresh off raising an additional $268 million in funding, GitLab now […]
DevOps Experience 2019: Peace, Love and DevOps
DevOps Experience 2019 is coming, and it’s gonna be groovy, man. This year’s virtual event is all about peace, love and DevOps understanding, with a heavy emphasis on understanding. As with last year’s event, DevOps Experience 2019, sponsored by DevOps.com parent company MediaOps, is chock full of information and education for those in the DevOps […]
DORA Report: DevOps Maturity Levels Rise
The annual DORA report on DevOps shows a marked increase among Elite performers compared to last year The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) arm of Google Cloud today published the results of an annual survey that suggests there have been marked gains in the level of DevOps maturity. The “2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report,” […]
How DevOps Training and Certification Benefits the Team
Cisco Systems recently announced sweeping changes to its training and certification programs to increase the real-world value of both. Cisco’s move demonstrates a trend by organizations that provide training and certification to place more value on the practical aspects of educating technology professionals—which, in turn, should have a major impact on those looking to build […]
AI for IT Operations: All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is becoming a critical tool for organizations attempting to bring automation quickly to network management and IT problem resolution. However, many organizations are still unsure how to deploy AIOps for the most value and to net the full, promised results. Perhaps the challenges come from not looking beyond data […]
Linus Torvalds Sees Lots of Hardware Headaches Ahead
Linux founder Linus Torvalds, today at the KubeCon + CloudNative + Open Source Summit China conference, warned attendees that managing software is about to become a lot more challenging, largely because of two hardware issues that are beyond the control of DevOps teams. The first, he said, is the steady stream of patches being generated […]
27-Factor Assessments Lead to Success With DevOps
October 2019 will mark the 10th anniversary of the first DevOpsDays, where the term “DevOps” began to catch on. In the world of information technology, 10 years is a long time and it is quite evident based on the amount of change that has transpired since then. To name a few, we have seen the […]
Mainframes: The Cloud Before the Cloud
Here’s something to think about: Despite the fact that IBM stopped manufacturing personal computers in 2005, deciding instead to focus on higher margin business services, the company continues to produce mainframes and by all estimates will continue manufacturing them well into the future. The question is, why? The answer: because there is still significant demand […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Goes All-In on Open Source
In front of next month’s ChefConf in Seattle, Chef has announced a major refinement to its business model. Affirming and clarifying its commitment to open source business models, Chef will now and in the future release all of its software as open source. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Corey Scobie, SVP of Products […]