DevOps Dozen² Awards 2022 Nominations Now Open
The DevOps Dozen² Awards are back for their eighth year and nominations are open. These awards highlight, recognize and honor the outstanding and inspiring leaders who have made significant contributions to the DevOps community over the past year. We are very proud of the explosive growth and continued success of our community and we are […]
GitBOM Tool Automatically Identifies Software Artifact Components
An open source GitBOM tool, discussed at the Open Source Summit Europe conference this week, can automatically track every source code file incorporated into each built artifact. Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal software engineer for Microsoft, told conference attendees via a video link that the GitBOM tool, based on a compact Artifact Dependency Graph (ADG) technology, […]
Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim
In this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations.
Linus Torvalds Signals Support for Memory-Safe Rust Language
Linus Torvalds told attendees of the Open Source Summit Europe conference today that he is hopeful the foundational work needed to add support for the Rust programming language will be laid in a forthcoming version 6.1 of the Linux operating system. It would take several additional releases of Linux to add full support for Rust, […]
New Relic Survey Unearths Observability Challenges
A New Relic survey found only 27% of respondents have achieved full-stack observability with only 5% claiming they have a mature observability practice in place. A third (33%) of respondents also said they still primarily detect outages manually or based on complaints, the survey found. The global survey polled 1,614 respondents, including 1,044 practitioners and […]
Survey Surfaces Massive Number of Application Vulnerabilities
A survey of 16,510 IT and IT security practitioners published today by Rezilion, a provider of a platform for automating the remediation of software vulnerabilities, found nearly half of respondents (47%) worked for organizations that have a backlog of vulnerable applications. More than half (66%) said their backlog consisted of more than 100,000 vulnerabilities and […]
Rust Foundation Allies With OpenSSF and JFrog to Secure Code
The Rust Foundation announced today it is working with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and JFrog to help maintainers secure open source software created using the Rust programming language. Rebecca (Bec) Rumbul, executive director at the Rust Foundation, said even though Rust is a memory-safe language, there are still security issues that maintainers need […]
DevOps World 2022: DevOps Tail Wags the Dog of Digital Business
As a methodology for building and deploying applications faster, DevOps has been around for more than a decade. But it’s only now that the methodologies and concepts pioneered years ago are starting to wag the dog of digital business transformation. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital business transformation has been all the rage. […]
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 […]
Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes. As part of this momentum, new roles are emerging to oversee cloud financial operations. Amid rising cloud costs, FinOps is emerging as a […]
DevOps World 2022: Developer and Security Links Protect Your Supply Chain
Ever since the SolarWinds attack back in December 2020, software supply chain attacks have been top-of-mind for any company that builds software. The idea of endangering not just your organization by being attacked but also your customers really sharpens your focus. Another complicating factor is that applications use a combination of open software components and […]
DevOps World 2022: Using SBOMs to Secure the Software Supply Chain
As supply chain attacks become increasingly prevalent, visibility is emerging as a necessity in cybersecurity. One way to improve visibility and secure your software supply chain is with a software bill of materials (SBOM). An SBOM is a list of all the components within a codebase. By providing insight into open source and third-party components, […]
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft.
Federal Agencies Share DevSecOps Guidelines
The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have published a set of DevSecOps best practices based on the Enduring Security Framework (ESF). Developed by a public-private cross-sector working group led by NSA and CISA, the ESF framework was created in the wake […]
How to Go Multi-Cloud: A Simple Three-Step Approach
Odds are your business already uses cloud technology for automation, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure updates and other purposes. But you don’t have to stick to a single cloud server or provider. In fact, you can take advantage of multi-cloud strategies for your organization and reap the benefits for years to come. That said, multi-cloud adoption and […]
Study: Real-Time Data Has A Transformative Effect
We all know that data is the heart of the modern digital business. And real-time data is arguably the next evolution—having up-to-date data can empower energy savings and optimizations to reduce cost. Real-time data processing also aids fraud detection and improves health care responsiveness. Especially in DevOps, access to real-time data is necessary to reduce […]
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 […]
Solving the DevOps Labor Deficiency
We all know there’s a chronic imbalance when it comes to DevOps talent: High demand and limited supply. Look no further than a 2021 DevOps Institute report which found that while 60% of organizations are hiring for such roles, 64% of IT leaders have a tough time finding skilled DevOps professionals. And it’s not just the […]
CodeSee Unveils Enterprise Codebase Visualization Platform
CodeSee this week launched an enterprise platform based on its codebase visualization and mapping tools that makes it easier for developers to navigate and learn how an application was developed. CodeSee CEO Shanea Leven said this capability makes it simpler to understand how a codebase is constructed, including the application programming interfaces (APIs), without having […]
90% Of Orgs Say Multi-Cloud Helps Achieve Business Goals
Multi-cloud is the new normal. And thankfully, this new normal isn’t just happenstance—it’s driving positive outcomes. New findings show that most organizations benefit from using multiple cloud providers. Multi-cloud adoptions are helping achieve business goals, such as improving reliability and scalability and increasing overall security and governance. However, nearly all organizations (94%) admitted that they […]
Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out
This week: A Stable Diffusion special. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ll have seen something about the new open source machine learning model for creating images.
VMware Embraces Graph Technology to Manage Multiple Clouds
At the VMware Explore 2022 conference today, VMware launched a portfolio of multi-cloud management tools, dubbed VMware Aria, based on a graph-based data store that captures the resources spanning multiple clouds and their relationship to one another. Accessed via a VMware Aria Hub platform previously known as Project Ensemble, VMware Aria Graph provides a common […]
TidalScale Enables Hot-Swapping of Failed Servers
TidalScale has updated its namesake software for automating server management to include the ability to detect and prevent impending failures and enable IT teams to hot-swap another server. Version 4.1 of TidalScale also adds server wear leveling and preventative health checks that identify servers that should be replaced based on their remaining estimated life span. […]