Cribl Simplifies Telemetry Data Analytics
Cribl today announced general availability of a search capability that makes it simpler to query observability data where it resides without having to first collect and centrally store it. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy for Cribl, said Cribl Search makes it possible to analyze telemetry data at its point of origin or when […]
VMware Extends Equinix Alliance to Drive Managed Hosting Service
VMware today announced it has extended its alliance with Equinix to launch a managed distributed cloud service that runs instances of its cloud computing platform in hosted IT environments. Announced at the VMware Explore 2022 Europe conference, the VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal service takes advantage of more than 240 Equinix data centers in 71 […]
OutSystems Acquires Ionic to Further Automate App Development
OutSystems this week revealed it has acquired Ionic, a provider of an open source framework that provides developers with a higher level of abstraction for building and deploying mobile and desktop applications. OutSystems CTO Patrick Jean said Ionic will accelerate the company’s ongoing efforts to extend the reach of its platform for building low-code applications […]
SRE Survey Reveals Major Technical and Cultural Challenges
Catchpoint, in partnership with Blameless, today published an annual survey of 559 site reliability engineers (SREs) that found 59% of respondents didn’t view tool sprawl to be a major concern. Another 40% said tool sprawl is a moderate (33%) to serious problem (8%). More than half of respondents said they build as much as 30% […]
Snowflake Makes Case for Building and Deploying Apps on Platform
During a Snowday 2022 event, Snowflake this week moved to make it simpler to build applications on top of its cloud platform for managing data in addition to enhancing the overall security of the platform. The company has made generally available Snowpark, a framework for building Java, Scala, SQL or Python applications. Snowflake also committed […]
Cisco Adds Open Source Tool to Validate Serverless Functions
Cisco has launched an open source project, dubbed FunctionClarity, that makes it possible to verify signatures before code is deployed in a serverless computing environment. Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies and incubation at Cisco, said that one of the application security issues that has emerged in serverless computing environments is the lack of […]
Developers Continue to Prefer Remote Work
A survey found 83% of developers are working remotely more than half of the time, with more than three-quarters (76%) reporting they have maintained or increased the frequency of remote work in the last year. In fact, three in five respondents (62%) work remotely at least 90% of the time. The survey, published by Netlify, […]
2023 Application Security Budgets on the Rise
A survey of 500 DevSecOps professionals in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters (73%) of organizations plan to increase investment in application security in 2023. The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Invicti, a provider of dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools, also found 97% of DevSecOps teams said they ignored a real vulnerability […]
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 […]
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
In this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow.
Momento Launches Elastic Cloud Caching Service
Momento this week emerged from stealth to launch an elastic Serverless Cache platform that promises to improve the performance of applications running on databases deployed in the cloud while simultaneously reducing costs. Fresh from raising $15 million in seed funding, Momento CEO and co-founder Khawaja Shams said Serverless Cache gives IT teams access to a […]
Gitpod Looks to Drive Application Development Into the Cloud
Gitpod today revealed it will add an application programming interface (API) to make cloud development environments (CDEs) more extensible. Gitpod also said Johannes Landgraf assumed the role of single CEO for Gitpod, as the previous co-CEO, Sven Efftinge, becomes the company’s first technical fellow. Fresh from raising an additional $25 million in funding, Gitpod’s Landgraf […]
Tanium Uses SBOMs to Automate Vulnerability Remediation
Tanium this week added the ability to detect libraries and software packages with known vulnerabilities within a software bill of materials (SBOM) manifest that can then be used to automate remediation of endpoints running vulnerable code. Pete Constantine, senior vice president of product management for Tanium, said the Tanium Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) module […]
Pulumi Adds Deployment Capability to IaC Platform
At the Pulumi Cloud Engineering Days event, Pulumi announced today it has added a code deployment capability to its Pulumi Cloud platform for managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Deployments will make it possible for DevOps teams to provision infrastructure and deploy applications via a single Git commit that can be invoked […]
Octopus Deploy Tightens Integration With GitHub Actions
Octopus Deploy announced today it has tightened the integration between its automated deployment platform and GitHub Actions continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform. Harsh Sabikhi, senior vice president of revenue for Octopus Deploy, said GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy v2 adds support for a push-build-information-action capability GitHub added to its platform that enables DevOps teams to […]
Opsera Brings DevOps Intelligence to GitHub Actions
Opsera today announced it has extended its platform for collecting DevOps intelligence to include support for the GitHub Actions continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Opsera CEO Kumar Chivukula said as GitHub Actions is adopted more widely, there is a growing need to provide greater visibility into Git-based workflows in real-time. A GitHub Actions Insights module […]
InfluxData Delivers Revamped Database for Real-Time Processing
InfluxData has made good on a promise to deliver a next-generation time-series database that enables observability and monitoring tools used by DevOps teams to ingest high volumes of data more cost-efficiently. In addition, for the first time, the latest iteration of the InfluxDB database supports the de facto standard SQL query language. Developers can run […]
Nobl9 Simplifies SLO Identification
Nobl9 today added a Replay capability to its service level objectives (SLO) management platform that makes it simpler to collect the historical data a DevOps team needs to get started. Nobl9 COO Kit Merker said Nobl9 Replay makes service level indicator (SLI) data instantly available in minutes using 30 days of historical data collected from […]
Update to Open Source ZAP Tool Improves DAST Performance
An update to the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) open source dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool made available today improves performance by employing a multi-threaded passive scanner engine. Version 2.12.0 of ZAP also adds support for HTTP/2 and should make it simpler to update the vulnerability scanning tool by making the spider that discovers […]
The Scariest Things About SCA
It is a time of ghouls, mischievous spirits and David S. Pumpkins. In the spirit of Halloween, here are the top five scariest limitations of software composition analysis (SCA) tools that are enough to send shivers down your spine. Read on … if you dare! 1. SCA Scans Only Your Application Code SCA’s scope is […]
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 […]
Mezmo Adds Observability Pipeline to Analyze DevOps Data
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, Mezmo launched an Observability Pipeline platform that promises to make it simpler to manage, enrich and correlate machine data. Previously known as LogDNA, Mezmo is expanding the scope of its reach to add the ability to augment and analyze data on top of its core […]
Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
In this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux.