Microservices Explained: Not Your Father’s SOA
Microservices are frequently referred to as a variant or derivative of service-oriented architecture (SOA), if not essentially the same thing. While there are similarities and both are designed around the concept of services, that’s where the similarities end. Each was created around a different set of principles and intended to address different problems. Microservices architecture […]
Allstacks Adds Alert Capability to VSM Platform
Allstacks has added an alert capability to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) value stream management platform that automatically notifies DevOps teams when software project goals and deadlines are likely to be missed. The core Allstacks platform employs machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) models to keep track of pull requests, commits and card changes via a […]
BMC Survey Surfaces DevOps Mainframe Progress
A global survey of 1,000 executives and IT professionals that rely on mainframes found 70% are now employing DevOps processes to build and deploy applications on the venerable platform, with 60% of those respondents now deploying applications faster. A full 80% of respondents also wanted to deploy mainframe applications faster, according to the survey. The […]
Endor Labs Applies Graph Analysis to Secure Software Supply Chains
Endor Labs exited stealth mode today to launch a platform that applies graph analysis to identify the depth of dependencies that exist within an application. Fresh from raising $25 million in funding, Endor Labs CEO Varun Badhwar said the Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform makes it simpler for organizations to manage dependencies within applications that can […]
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 […]
Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region
In this week’s The Long View: Linux 6.0 promoted to Stable, Debian 12 will include closed-source binaries, and Google Cloud opens its first Africa region.
How to Prevent Turnover in DevOps Teams
Turnover is all too common in software engineering. The Bureau of Labor Statistics 2021 report found that the average software engineer turnover is 57.3%. It’s a programmer’s market, and these sought-after folks might jump ship for a higher salary, better work-life balance, different team dynamic or perhaps even for a company with a better ESG […]
Driving Organizational Success With the 2022 State of DevOps Report
“Ship it!” We have just completed the research and analysis for the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) and oh boy, do we have some interesting things to share! First, let me take a short step back for those of you that may be new to the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and our […]
ServiceNow Acquires Era Software to Unify Observability
ServiceNow today announced it has agreed to acquire Era Software as part of an effort to add support for log data to the Lightstep observability platform the company acquired last year. Ben Sigelman, general manager for the Lightstep business unit at ServiceNow, said rather than reinventing the same log management capability that Era Software already […]
EvolveWare Further Automates App Modernization Tasks
EvolveWare today announced it has added an Agile Business Rules Extraction capability to its Intellisys application modernization platform. EvolveWare CEO Miten Marfatia said the Agile Business Rules Extraction capability eliminates the need to freeze code development while applications are either being shifted to the cloud or refactored. Instead, the Intellisys platform will now keep track […]
Dynatrace Adds Grail Data Lakehouse to Observability Platform
Dynatrace today announced it has added a data lakehouse, dubbed Grail, to the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to make it simpler to aggregate all the observability data an IT team collects. Bob Wambach, vice president of product marketing for Dynatrace, said Grail will initially drive analytics of log data but in time will also be […]
Is DevOps Dead? I Don’t Think So!
A lesson I have learned over my 30 years in the tech world is that technology and frameworks never truly die—they evolve and they grow. When I read a recent article proclaiming, “DevOps is dead!” and that we should all be embracing platform engineering, I had a chuckle. No, DevOps isn’t dead, and rumors of […]
Cosmonic Previews Deployment Platform for Distributed Wasm Apps
Cosmonic has made available a preview of a platform for deploying applications built using the portable WebAssembly (Wasm) binary format that enables applications to be deployed on any platform. Cosmonic CEO Liam Randall said the company is providing early access to the Cosmonic Platform Developer Preview platform to enable developers to experiment with a new […]
Business Leaders Will Trade Speed for Security
A global survey of 600 C-level executives conducted by CloudBees found that when it comes to building software, more than three-quarters of respondents said it is more important to be secure and compliant than fast and compliant. As a result, more than three-quarters (77%) also noted their organization is implementing a shift left strategy for […]
Five Great DevOps Jobs 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 […]
Atlassian Aims to Improve Collaboration With DevOps Teams
At an Atlassian Presents: WorkLife event today, Atlassian furthered its efforts to integrate the tools technology and business professionals use to manage processes. Erika Trautman, general manager and vice president of product for Work Management for All at Atlassian, said that as organizations increasingly rely on digital processes to engage customers, partners and employees, the […]
‘The OG App’ Devs’ Facebook Ban | WFH Vs. NYC Real Estate | Calif. Pay Law is GO
In this week’s The Long View: A third party Instagram app causes ructions, remote work causes office slump, and more on Cali’s salary transparency law
5 Reasons to Adopt DevOps
DevOps IT methodologies are taking the development industry by storm. Some call DevOps great for software development. Others find it ideal for pushing out regular software updates and pursuing continuous delivery for clients. If you do not know what DevOps is or why your business should adopt DevOps, read on. We’ll break down five reasons […]
Latest DORA Report From Google Surfaces Raft of DevOps Challenges
The annual Accelerate State of DevOps 2022 report published today by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team at Google found the percentage of high performers is at a four-year low, with the percentage of low performers rising dramatically from 7% in 2021 to 19% in 2022. Based on a survey of 1,350 DevOps professionals, […]
CloudBees Acquires ReleaseIQ to Advance DevOps Orchestration
CloudBees announced today it has acquired ReleaseIQ, a provider of an orchestration platform for automating software delivery via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Sacha Labourey, chief strategy officer for CloudBees, said the addition of ReleaseIQ to the CloudBees platform will provide more visibility into and control over software delivery on an end-to-end basis. CloudBees already provides […]
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 […]
Wipro Fires 2-Job Staff | Python Bug from 2007 | Lite Layoffs
In this week’s The Long View: Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting at competitors, Python has a nasty 15-year-old bug, and companies are finding new ways to lay people off without calling it a “layoff.”
DevOps World 2022: A DevOps Retrospective
With the seminal IT conference DevOps World 2022 in Orlando September 26 to September 29 upon us, I think about the pivotal industry conferences and events critical to my path to the cloud, DevOps and cloud-native. It brings me to this brief retrospective, highlighting some of the most significant influences that still guide my path […]