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Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)
In this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again ...

Survey Sees App Testing More Widely Distributed
A survey of 900 application testing professionals conducted by PractiTest, a provider of a platform for managing testing tools, suggested the number of organizations that have dedicated testing teams is declining at ...

5 Steps to More Sustainable DevOps
The rise of remote workforces, cryptocurrencies and super-sized data centers brings to the forefront a concern in tech development that doesn't get enough attention: The impact of computing and advanced technologies on ...

A Closer Look at Azure DevOps
Microsoft's Azure DevOps Server is emerging as one of the most popular cloud application development environments. Like most continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, it provides features such as version control, reporting, project ...

CSS-Tricks Sells Out | Peloton Spins Out | ARM Axes 1,000
In this week’s The Long View: CSS-Tricks gets bought by DigitalOcean, Peloton fiddles while its business burns, and Arm lays off up to 15% of staff ...

Log Management Challenges Grow With Observability Adoption
It appears that, in many IT environments, observability is becoming too much of a good thing. A global survey of more than 315 IT executives, cloud application architects, DevOps professionals and site ...

Sometimes, You Should Fix What Isn’t Broken
DevOps has been with us long enough now that there is a lot of legacy DevOps stuff running in all of the places I have eyes into. Ignoring items that are not ...

Survey Surfaces Observability Challenges in the Cloud Era
A recent cloud observability survey found nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents reported the adoption of public clouds has made it more difficult to achieve observability. Nearly half of respondents (48%) said they ...

CircleCI Report: Pipeline Optimization Best Practices
CircleCI today published a report that found most successful software engineering teams have average workflow durations of five to 10 minutes, with any failed run being fixed or reverted in under an ...

ServiceNow Launches Incident Management Platform Infused with Observability
ServiceNow added an incident management platform based on the Lightstep observability platform it acquired last year to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) portfolio. Ben Sigelman, general manager of Lightstep at ServiceNow, said Lightstep Incident ...

Survey Finds Widespread Adoption of DevOps in Mainframe Sites
A survey of IT leaders by the market research firm Global Surveyz found a full 100% of respondents are modernizing their mainframe applications, but the reasons behind and approaches to achieving that ...

Google Focuses on Enterprise Cloud With Mandiant Acquisition
Thomas Kurian became the CEO of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a modest mandate: Turn Google Cloud into an enterprise cloud platform behemoth. Easy, right? By 2019 “Google” was already a verb ...