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Pulumi Adds Registry to Share Secure IaC Code
Pulumi this week added a public registry to its portfolio that makes it easier to discover packages that have been created using its tools to manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, ...

Learn a Bit About AI
Every once in a while, a trend becomes broad enough that I feel the need to offer career advice. This year it will be simple: Know enough about AI/ML to be dangerous ...

Splunk Expands Scope of Observability While Lowering Costs
During its online .conf21 conference Splunk Inc. today revealed a bevy of updates that advance observability while at the same time reducing the total cost of deploying its platforms. As part of ...

Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF
Splunk Inc. announced during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it donated a data collector to the OpenTelemetry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Splunk's data collector ...

Welcome to the New Field of Software Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management is the newest 'shiny object' in both the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. But what does it mean in relation to software development? Historically, supply chain management is a commerce ...

Energy Efficiency and the Data Center
The IT industry has historically been a leader in the ongoing race to reduce CO2 emissions. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line. The data center ...

CNCF Adopts Meshery to Advance Service Mesh Management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week during the ServiceMeshCon/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference that Meshery, a service mesh management plane created by Layer5, has become a sandbox-level project. In addition, ...

Top 5 Must-Haves for IaC Automation Tools
These days, there are a lot of different DevOps tools to accomplish a lot of different jobs. Almost daily another startup comes out with a new and innovative product or a newer ...

Rethinking Your Approach to Ops Governance
The “You build it, you run it" approach has changed the mindset of modern organizations that are increasingly adopting DevOps practices. No longer completely beholden to the requirements of operations, engineering teams ...

New Relic I/O Aims to Simplify Instrumentation
New Relic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference launched a New Relic Instant Observability (I/O) initiative through which it is making available open source tools to simplify application instrumentation ...

Security is About People, not Technology
Just a random thought of the day: We have the world’s best example of how many of our security woes are actually people problems, not technology problems. We all know that. We’ve ...

The Inevitability of Multi-Cloud-Native Apps
We all know the story: Enterprises moved to the cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self-service developer provisioning. Along came Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud-native, where they ...