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Open Standards Are Key For Realizing Observability
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations ...
Cloud-Native: It’s One Thing
This Wednesday, August 10, 2022, starting at 9:00 a.m. ET, Techstrong Group is hosting an awesome virtual conference: CloudNativeDay. I am sure most of you already know a lot about the many ...
Leverage Empirical Data to Avoid DevOps Burnout
Burnout is possible in any industry. But it seems to be especially rampant in tech, a space bursting at the seams with inflated expectations and ever-accelerating trends. Nearly 60% of tech workers ...
Learn Something New Every (Cloud-Native) Day
Being the new guy at Techstrong Group, the first couple of weeks was spent trying to find things. Like the bathroom when I’m at HQ in Boca Raton or the login to ...
Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive ...
Orgs Struggle to Get App Modernization Right
A survey published today found 93% of IT leader respondents admitted that application modernization efforts are either extremely or somewhat challenging. The survey, which polled 150 IT leaders at organizations with at ...
GitHub Adds Tools to Simplify Management of Software Development
GitHub has made generally available Projects powered by GitHub Issues, a set of tools for managing application development projects based on a spreadsheet interface. Mario Rodriguez, vice president of product management at ...
Armory Extends Scope of Spinnaker CD Distribution
Armory today updated both the self-hosted and managed editions of its distribution of the open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform. The updates support concurrent pipelines and provide tighter integration with open ...
Palo Alto Networks Extends Checkov Tool for Securing Infrastructure
Palo Alto Networks has added support for GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, CircleCI and Argo Workflows to Checkov, an open source tool that scans programmatically provisioned infrastructure for misconfigurations. Guy Eisenkot, senior director ...
Who Controls Your Build Process?
We have come a long way in a short time in IT, and are currently in a 'digestive' state, where we take a bit of a break and prepare for the next ...
What Are the Seven Layers of the OSI Model?
Working in the software field, it's not uncommon for engineers to refer to different "layers." Perhaps you're working with protocols at the "networking layer" or evaluating a solution that sits at "Layer ...
Continuous Delivery Advances Come at Cost of Testing
A survey of 820 application development professionals conducted by Applitools, a provider of an application testing platform, found well over a third of respondents (38%) working for organizations that now deploy daily ...

