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What Chaos Engineering Is (and Isn’t)
The birth of chaos engineering happened somewhat accidentally in 2008 when Netflix moved from the data center to the cloud. The move didn’t go as planned. The thinking at the time was ...
Continuous Testing Practices (Part 1)
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing (CT) to help those understand what continuous ...
Hasura Extends Scope of GraphQL API Platform
During its online an HasuraCon ’21 conference, Hasura today announced that it has made it possible for developers to employ GraphQL application programming interface (APIs) to launch queries against data residing in ...
Salesforce Pilots Series of DevOps Initiatives
At its online TrailheaDX 2021 conference, Salesforce today unveiled a DevOps Center pilot that provides a portal through which organizations can track and manage changes to Salesforce applications along with a unified ...
Plutora Dives Deeper into Value Stream Analytics Data
Plutora announced today it has extended the capabilities of its value stream management (VSM) platform to include a common object data model that more efficiently normalizes data collected from multiple DevOps tools ...
GitLab Updates Approach to Integrating DevOps Workflows
GitLab today took the wraps off a major update to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that embeds analytics tools in workflows to identify the root cause of inefficiencies, among other additional ...
Report: The State of Cloud-Native Application Security
The cloud brings tremendous capabilities in terms of increased deployment fluidity and automation. Along with cloud adoption has come the use of cloud-native tools built specifically for developing applications for this domain ...
Linux Foundation Makes Available Software Manifest Tool
The Linux Foundation is making available a set of free tools for building software bills of material (SBOMs) based on the software data package exchange (SPDX) file format it curates. Backed by ...
Google Proposes SLSA Framework to Secure Software Supply Chains
Google is proposing organizations adopt a framework for securing the integrity of software artifacts across a software supply chain. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said ...
Survey Reveals Slight Decline in Level of SRE Toil
The amount of routine toil that site reliability engineers (SREs) perform declined slightly in the last year even though IT environments in general are becoming more complex to manage. An annual survey ...
Grafana Labs Acquires k6 to Add Open Source Load Testing Tool
During its online GrafanaCONline 2021 conference today, Grafana Labs revealed it has acquired k6, a provider of an open source load testing tool. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said load testing will ...
PagerDuty Allies with JFrog to Modernize IT Incident Management
PagerDuty has integrated its IT incident management platform with the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform from JFrog as part of an effort to streamline troubleshooting of application environments. Steve Gross, senior director ...
