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Swinging the Pendulum of IT Back to QA
I was reading Nuria Manuel's excellent article about quality assurance (QA), and it got me thinking about the wide variety of 'pendulums' that impact IT. I call them pendulums because they follow ...

Puppet Survey Suggests DevOps Adoption is Stagnant
Puppet today published an annual State of DevOps report that suggests overall adoption of DevOps practices has stagnated. The survey of 2,650 IT, development and information security professionals finds 83% are implementing ...

Cycloid Brings Open DevOps Framework to the US and UK
Cycloid, a Paris, France-based provider of an open framework for implementing DevOps best practices, today announced it is expanding its operations into the U.S. and United Kingdom. Benjamin Brial, founder of Cycloid, ...

3 Reasons Your Digital Transformation Stalled
The more a company modernizes, the more value it gets from the cloud, but not all digital transformation efforts are created—and executed—equally. According to Gartner, “87% of senior business leaders say digitalization ...

NS1 Touts a Common Delivery Platform for Devs and Ops
NS1 has extended the capabilities of its DNS and network management platform with the release of NS1 Connect. The platform is designed to serve as a delivery platform that integrates developer and ...

Why You Should Embrace Incidents and Ditch MTTR
The cliché is that everyone in IT hates incidents, and the natural reaction when assembling incident response metrics is to look for numbers that you can lower over time. Fewer incidents and ...

Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 6)
This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series include: • Factors used to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • ...

Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 5)
This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Practices to ...

Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 4)
This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Practices to ...

Rocky Linux Emerges as a CentOS Replacement
Rocky Linux was created to offer the community an alternative following Red Hat’s recent decision to shift its focus away from CentOS—the open source version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). However, the ...

Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 3)
This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors used to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Practices ...

Aqua Security Acquires tfsec to Advance DevSecOps
Aqua Security today announced it has acquired tfsec, an open source project that provides a static analysis scanner for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) that is designed to be integrated within a DevOps workflow. Amer ...