Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
Report Identifies Top 10 Open Source Software Risks
Endor Labs, a provider of a platform for managing open source software, published a report that classifies the top 10 open source software risks of 2023. The company published the list as part of an effort to better educate application development teams about issues that can lead to software supply chain compromises. That list includes: […]
Checkly Adds Monitoring-as-Code to Testing Platform
Checkly this week added a monitoring-as-code (MaC) workflow capability to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that is used to create synthetic tests for applications. The Checkly platform spins up browsers to test and can now monitor how applications are performing at both the user interface and application programming interface (API) level. That capability, currently available in […]
Sysdig Launches Wireshark Foundation
Sysdig this week announced there is now a Wireshark Foundation that will oversee future development of the widely used open source traffic protocol analyzer. Gerald Combs, who is now director of open source projects at Sysdig, along with Loris Degioanni, CTO of Sysdig, launched Wireshark in 2006 to enable teams to monitor network traffic, learn […]
LinkedIn Job Scams: Out of Hand ¦ 4-Day Workweek: Let’s Get Serious
In this week’s #TheLongView: Don’t get scammed looking for a job, and momentum grows for the 32-hour working week.
Despite Tech Layoffs, Developer Shortage Continues
Well over one-third (37%) of respondents to a recent industry survey reported that recruiting developers with the needed skills would continue to be a challenge through 2023. More than 2,000 developers and IT professionals participated in the Infragistics survey from December 2022 to January 2023. The survey also found developers and IT professionals are just […]
Vercel Adds Observability Tools to Web Application Framework
Vercel today announced it has added a suite of observability tools to its platform for building web applications using Next.js, an instance of the open source React framework based on a JavaScript library. Vercel CTO Malte Ubl said the Vercel Monitoring tools make it simpler for developers to troubleshoot applications without relying on a DevOps […]
The Economic Downturn and DevOps Hiring Trends
An analysis of more than 494,000 interview requests for software engineers coupled with a survey of more than 1,300 software engineers and 120 hiring professionals found a lot more employers prefer to hire DevOps professionals who work in the office—but resistance to working in an office (rather than working remotely) remains high. The survey also […]
Day in the Life of a Chief Developer Experience Officer (CDXO)
Developer experience (DX) has become essential to modern enterprise software development. As more companies become software companies, more are opening up their software both for internal reuse and externalized consumption. As part of this process, making developer-facing tools consumable and friction-free becomes more necessary to both perform well and stand out in the market. To […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)
In this week’s #TheLongView: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure.
Strategies To Consider When Adopting Platform Engineering
Platform engineering helps centralize the responsibilities associated with maintaining internal infrastructure. And it continues to be an emerging discipline—according to the 2023 State of DevOps Report, 51% of organizations have already adopted platform engineering within the last three years, and 93% said it’s a step in the right direction. I recently met with Hope Lynch, […]
Tabnine Extends Generative AI Platform Reach to Testing
Tabnine today announced it extended its generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform that enables developers to write code faster to now include the ability to automatically generate tests for that code. Available in beta, this capability promises to make it easier for developers to test code at the time it is being developed. That approach should […]
Nobl9 Adds Service Level Analyzer to SLO Management Platform
Nobl9 today added a free tool for analyzing service level objectives (SLOs) to its platform to enable DevOps team to more accurately set reliability goals. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said Service Level Analyzer collects metrics and observability data from more than 24 DevOps tools and platforms that can then be used to […]
Tricentis Extends Mobile Testing Reach
Tricentis has added the ability to test native iOS and Android applications to its Testim software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Previously, the Testim platform was designed to test web applications, but is now being extended as organizations build and deploy more native mobile applications. Capabilities of the Testim Mobile platform include codeless authoring of mobile tests to […]
How Will Low-Code and AI Coexist?
Over the last few years, low-code solutions have become important to help organizations widen programming accessibility to a broader base of users and help fill development gaps. And these technologies are still gathering steam—Gartner estimated the market for low-code development technologies would grow to a total of $26.9 billion in 2023 and that 65% of […]
Logz.io Integrates ChatGPT With Observability Platform
Logz.io has integrated the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform with its Open 360 observability platform to extend its automated recommendation capabilities to reduce mean-time-to-remediation. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is based on a large language model that Logz.io uses to enrich crowdsourced data. That approach enables ChatGPT to surface links to related information and best […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
Tips For Standardizing API Life Cycle Management
Software life cycle management is becoming more critical for today’s technology-fueled organizations—because you can’t just release software into the world and expect it to work perfectly for years to come. More often than not, development teams must constantly adapt their software, progressively add features and cater to new use cases as they arise. This is nothing […]
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.
Technical Debt is a Major Threat to Innovation
A survey published today suggested that technical debt is starting to take a heavier toll as IT environments continue to become more complex to manage. The survey of 400 IT leaders at organizations with 1,500 employees was conducted by Foundry, the market research arm of International Data Group (IDG) on behalf of Insight Enterprises, a […]
Fiberplane Adds Wasm Plug-in Framework for DevOps Notebook
Fiberplane today announced it is extending the reach of a real-time collaboration notebook designed for DevOps teams by making available tools for building plug-ins based on the WebAssembly (Wasm) framework. Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, Fiberplane CEO, said these plug-ins, dubbed providers, will make it much simpler for anyone to connect the Fiberplane notebook to other […]
More Java Apps Are Migrating to the Cloud
A survey of 879 enterprise developers and architects from Vaadin, a provider of framework for building Java applications, found that, as part of modernization efforts, the pace at which Java applications are moving to the cloud is now accelerating. The survey found more than one-third (36%) of Java applications are already deployed in the public […]