GitLab Strengthens Remote DevOps Management
GitLab this week moved to provide remote developers with access to a more secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform while at the same time adding a dashboard that makes it simpler to track the overall status of application development projects. David DeSanto, chief product officer for GitLab, said GitLab Remote Development takes advantage of an […]
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed.
Harness Acquires Propelo to Surface Software Engineering Bottlenecks
Harness this week announced it has acquired Propelo, a provider of an analytics tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Propelo offering will be made available as a module, dubbed Harness Software Engineering Insights, that organizations can choose within the company’s overall continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) […]
What DevOps Needs to Know About ChatGPT
OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) bring powerful AI language models to every IT community. Within the past few months, ChatGPT has become an incredibly popular derivative of GPT. GPT also has the potential to shake up the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. This article will provide an overview of GPT, its history, current status and future […]
Dynatrace Survey Surfaces State of DevOps in the Enterprise
A global survey of 1,300 CIOs and DevOps managers working for organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today finds more than three-quarters of respondents work for organizations (78%) that deploy software updates into production every 12 hours or less, with more than half (54%) say they do so at least once every two hours. […]
Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration
Kubernetes continues to grow as the leading container orchestrator for high-performance, cloud-native DevOps, DevSecOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) use cases. While Kubernetes offers excellent orchestration capabilities, it does not, by itself, assure cloud computing costs are optimized. The current state of cloud expenditures for many organizations indicates a lot of waste. So much so […]
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 is still relatively […]
6 Ways To Empower Developers and Increase Productivity
A big goal of DevOps is to increase productivity. Yet many organizations still struggle with the efficiency of their software release processes. In fact, 54% of engineers stated they have too many manual steps within their deployment process, according to an Armory survey. And with the pervasiveness of multi-cloud, developers now face an escalating number […]
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
In this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going.
Top Three DevOps Tools for Cloud Infrastructure
A survey from Canonical of 326 IT executives found the most widely employed DevOps tool for managing cloud infrastructure is the Bash shell and command language (53%), followed by the Ansible automation platform (47%) and Terraform (40%). Another 27% reported they used tools they developed themselves. The survey also found 58% managed their cloud infrastructure […]
State of DevOps Report Finds a Rise in Platform Engineering
The speed of software development velocity is increasing, and to enable this, platform engineering is emerging to evolve the DevOps practice. Interest in platform engineering is rising—so much so that Puppet emphasized platform engineering in its 2023 State of DevOps Report. A whopping 94% of respondents agreed that platform engineering is helping their organizations better […]
Okta Makes No-Code Integration Tool for Identity Platform Available
Okta today made generally available an Actions Integration capability that makes it possible to integrate third-party tools without having to write any code. Shiven Ramji, chief product officer for Okta, said this no-code integration capability for the Okta Customer Identity Cloud extends a simpler approach for managing secrets that is invoked via an application programming […]
The API Economy: Increasing Potential to Monetize Public APIs
API-first strategies are becoming more commonplace throughout today’s digital strata. APIs connect microservices architectures, power new digital transformations and help development teams avoid reinventing the wheel for common functions. And although most are built to connect internal components, studies indicate a movement toward more externalization and monetization of public APIs. Over three-fourths of developers now […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted 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 is still relatively constrained, so […]
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad.
Meet the DevOps Dozen² 2022 Honorees
We are proud to announce the DevOps Dozen² 2022 honorees. For the past eight years, the DevOps Dozen Awards have celebrated the most outstanding individuals and companies in the DevOps community and their remarkable contributions to the industry. These honorees have demonstrated their leadership and commitment to our community during the past year. Congratulations to all those nominated […]
Devs Increasingly Rely on IaC to Manage Multiple Clouds
A survey of more than 300 DevOps professionals conducted by Firefly, a provider of a platform for automating cloud provisioning, found that more than a third of organizations (36%) have allocated the equivalent of two or more full-time engineers per month to writing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates. A full 82% are also deploying the templates within […]
Broadcom Survey Reveals Spike in VSM Adoption
Value stream management (VSM) is gaining traction as organizations look to find ways to engage customers more efficiently via digital business transformation initiatives. A survey of 500 executives, IT and business leaders conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Broadcom published this week found 39% of respondents implemented a VSM platform with another 16% having […]
Predict 2023: Stand and Deliver
It’s that time of year again—the New Year’s ritual: Time to predict the big trends in your world for the new year. By now you have probably seen dozens of headlines, articles, videos and interviews telling you what big trends will shape the coming year. Here at Techstrong Group, our Predict virtual event is built […]
5 GraphQL Trends to Watch in 2023
The GraphQL query language had a big year in 2022. We witnessed its increase in production use cases, solving overfetching and underfetching concerns that plagued traditional API integrations. GraphQL can significantly improve usability, aggregate multiple services and optimize how data is ported from system to system. Yet, GraphQL is also prone to new security concerns. […]
Cloudflare Adds Digital Experience Monitoring to CDN Portfolio
At an online CIO Week event, Cloudflare today added a digital experience monitoring capability to a portfolio of services layered on top of its core content delivery network (CDN). Corey Mahan, director of product management for Cloudflare, said the Cloudflare Digital Experience Monitoring service extends a Cloudflare Zero Trust platform based on agent software dubbed […]
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 […]
Survey Sheds Light On Cloud, API Expertise Skills Gap
Enterprise IT faces a three-pronged onslaught: Digital transformation, open APIs and security threats. First, most organizations are still navigating ongoing digital transformations and cloud migrations. Second, development teams continue to increase their use of open APIs, leading to sprawl concerns. And third, we’ve witnessed a slew of cybersecurity threats that appear to be growing in […]