Salesforce Adds RPA Bots to MuleSoft Integration Platform
Salesforce today announced that it is now using robotic process automation (RPA) to connect disparate data via a no-code tool developed by its MuleSoft unit. Shaun Clowes, chief product officer for MuleSoft, said bots created using an RPA-infused integration platform can now automate much of the effort previously required to integrate data residing in different […]
GitLab To Embed Observability in CI/CD Platform
The latest version of the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform added a range of monitoring and visualization capabilities as part of an effort to embed a full set of observability capabilities in the core platform within the coming year. As part of that effort, the latest version of GitLab, 15.1, has now added support […]
CodeSee Unveils Open Source Hub
CodeSee today launched a free Open Source Hub (OSH) community through which developers can more easily analyze the codebase that makes up an open source software project. Shanea Leven, CodeSee CEO, said that capability is crucial because making it easier to explore open source codebases reduces the level of effort required for developers to understand […]
Hasura SDK Integrates GraphQL Platform With More Data Sources
At its HasuraCon ’22 conference, Hasura today announced the early release of a software development kit (SDK) that extends the reach of its GraphQL platform to additional data sources. In addition, Hasura is making generally available integrations with the GitHub repository, support for OpenTelemetry Traces within the Hasura Cloud Platform and Microsoft SQL event triggers. […]
Dynatrace Adds Synthetic Tests to Validate App Experiences
Dynatrace today extended the application release management capabilities it provides to include synthetic tests for validating and assuring user experiences. Saif Gunja, director of product marketing for Dynatrace, said the user experience validation and user experience assurance (UXA) capability spans everything from application availability and performance to actual engagement with specific features based on the […]
Quality Is a Top Challenge for Data-Driven Projects
Software systems continue to produce more and more data. And making use of it has proven benefits — so much so that many analysts have, over the years, referred to data as the new oil. As a result, the majority of organizations are expending effort into refining their data — in fact, a recent study […]
ServiceNow Adds Lightstep Notebooks to Visualize Observability Data
ServiceNow today added a visualization tool to its Lightstep observability platform that will make it simpler for DevOps teams to correlate metrics, logs and traces. Ben Sigelman, general manager for Lightstep at ServiceNow, said Lightstep Notebooks will make it easier for DevOps teams to make sense of the massive amounts of data collected by the […]
TechStrong Con: Open Source Software Community Needs Security Help
The only way to make significant improvements in the state of open source security is if more organizations that benefit from open source projects commit to making more resources available to achieve that goal. At the virtual TechStong Con event, executives on an Open Source and DevOps panel called for more contributions from enterprise IT […]
Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports.
ShiftLeft Report Reveals State of Application Security
A report published today by automated application security testing platform ShiftLeft found only one in three applications has an attackable vulnerability. The report also found organizations that prioritized their remediation efforts based on the level of actual threat are fixing 76% of those vulnerabilities within two sprints lasting 12 days, on average. Based on millions […]
Survey Sees Alternative Cloud Service Providers Gaining Ground
A survey of 458 development professionals, managers and senior leaders conducted by Techstrong Research, a sister entity of DevOps.com, found 43% are considering adding additional cloud service providers in the next 12 months. In total, nearly two-thirds said they are at least considering, evaluating or are ready to buy from a trusted alternative cloud vendor, […]
Survey Shows Correlation Between Open Source, DevOps Skills Demand
A survey published this week by the Linux Foundation suggested enterprise IT organizations now prefer to hire IT professionals that have both open source software and DevOps experience. Conducted in collaboration with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., the survey polled 1,672 open source professionals and 559 respondents with responsibility for […]
The Age of Software Supply Chain Disruption
The software supply chain is swiftly becoming a widespread attack vector, and securing it is now in the spotlight. Software supply chain attacks have become a given in 2022, reports Darktrace. SolarWinds, Kaseya and GitLab are just a few examples of organizations that have been vulnerable to attack in recent years. We’ve also witnessed an increasing […]
Survey Uncovers Depth of Open Source Software Insecurity
A survey from Snyk and the Linux Foundation published today found that less than half of respondents (49%) work for organizations that have security policies in place for the use or development of open source software. The survey, which polled 550 software development professionals, was conducted by Snyk, a provider of tools for securing software, […]
TechStrong Con: Downturn Brings Additional Sense of DevOps Urgency
Regardless of whether the overall economy is experiencing a correction or is on the cusp of a recession, organizations are going to prioritize some projects over others as resources become more constrained. During the “DevOps: Has the Bubble Burst?” panel made up of DevOps executives and investors from venture capital firms that kicked off the […]
Supergraph: One GraphQL Schema to Rule Them All
GraphQL has been garnering much interest as a way to seamlessly interact with backend services. The query language is a boon for frontend developers, too, as it conveniently allows you to fetch the specific fields you require, thus eliminating the potential overfetching or underfetching concerns of REST APIs. And as GraphQL adoption matures within organizations, […]
Open Source Coder Tool Helps Devs Build Cloud Spaces
Coder today launched an open source project that gives developers and data scientists a way to create cloud workspaces in a matter of minutes to make it easier to build applications and models faster. Currently, Coder provides a cloud application development platform that enables developers to build applications using any editor or integrated development environment […]
Codenotary Adds SLSA Framework Support to Advance App Security
Codenotary this week announced it has integrated support for the Supply-Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) framework in its free notarization and verification service for ensuring the integrity of code. Moshe Bar, Code Notary CEO, said as the first application security platform to attain SLSA compliance, the company is making it easier for organizations to […]
Armory Aims to Turn Continuous Delivery Into a Service
Armory this week made generally available a continuous delivery-as-a-service (CDaaS) offering that promises to make it simpler for a much wider range of organizations to programmatically deploy applications. The Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service platform has been available in beta since March. It differs from Armory’s existing open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform in that it […]
TechStrong Con 2022: Exploring What’s Next in Tech
We have become increasingly reliant on technology and it’s hard to imagine life without all the great tech inventions we use in our daily lives. As technology keeps progressing, more is expected of IT teams, and security is a top priority. While we are still trying to get used to the new normal, the IT […]
Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
In this week’s The Long View: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer.
Survey Surfaces Raft of Application Security Issues
A global survey from ReversingLabs found 87% of respondents agreed that software tampering has become a more frequently-used cybersecurity attack, but only 37% said they have any means to detect it. The survey, which polled 300 IT and security professionals, was conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of ReversingLabs, a provider of a platform for […]
Jit Emerges to Address Cybersecurity Policy-as-Code Orchestration
Jit today emerged from stealth with a free namesake orchestration platform beta that automatically implements security plans as code. Aviram Shmueli, chief product officer for Jit, said the company will both make security plans it developed available as code within GitHub. In addition, Jit will make available a service through which customers can submit documents […]