Grafana Labs Adds Visual Tools to Simplify Prometheus Queries
At its GrafanaCONline event, Grafana Labs today announced an update to the open source Grafana dashboard. The update adds visual query tools to make it easier for IT professionals of any skill level to launch queries against the Prometheus monitoring platform or the company’s Grafana Loki log aggregations framework. In addition, Grafana said the open […]
CDEvents Aims To Standardize CI/CD Interoperability
Companies are under mounting pressure to continuously release new applications and features. And as software development life cycles become more iterative, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a necessary ingredient to enable more rapid deployments. Many development teams now embrace DevOps, but fully automating a CI/CD pipeline from source code to production deployment […]
AppSmith Adds Git Support to Low-Code App Dev Framework
AppSmith has added support for Git repositories to an open source framework for building custom applications using a low-code platform based on the JavaScript programming language. Rishabh Kaul, head of marketing for AppSmith, said the Git support will make it simpler for developers to manage version control as they iteratively build applications using a set […]
Why is Security Still in the Way? A Look at DevSecOps Right Now
According to industry trend reports for 2022, DevSecOps is now considered to be one of the most effective approaches to building software quickly and securely. This effort, of course, means development, security and operations teams commit to addressing security as early as possible in the software development life cycle (SDLC). The goal of the shift […]
Technical Debt: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Every software team has probably faced technical debt—the accumulation of little development deficiencies that will require rework down the line. Just like financial debt, they accrue interest as they build up, in the form of difficult software modifications or challenges in adding new features. Time is the usual culprit; your development team has one timeframe […]
There are Few Enough Silver Bullets
I was working through this week’s blog this morning, and it was laser-focused on a narrow topic. I had examples of why too much of a good thing is bad, how absolutism about methodology is hurting the majority of organizations out there, and how to get past this issue to keep improving what IT does […]
CDF Report Surfaces DevOps Workflow Gains
At its cdCon 2022 conference today, the Continuous Delivery Foundation shared a State of Continuous Delivery in 2022 report that found nearly half of developers (47%) use either continuous integration or continuous deployment platforms—but only about 20% report using both to automate all application build, testing and deployment. Overall, only a little less than a […]
Verizon’s Legionella Bugs | Bolt’s Dot-Bomb Echo | Yandex’s Russian CEO Quits
In this week’s The Long View: Verizon fined for spreading disease, Bolt Financial repeats the mistakes of the past, and the founder of Yandex resigns.
When DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS) Meets Security
One of the most recent IT methodologies to be offered as a service is DevOps, a cultural and practical approach that brings development and operations teams together under one umbrella of work. DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS) ensures that everything related to the selection, management and maintenance of DevOps tools and infrastructure, including all policies and procedures, are […]
Contrast Security Adds Free Code-Scanning Tool
Contrast Security this week made available a free security tool that enables developers to scan their code using the same core engine used by the cybersecurity team within their organization. Steven Phillips, vice president of product marketing for Contrast Security, said while there is no shortage of free tools for scanning code these days, the […]
Orca Security Adds CLI to Improve Cloud Security
Orca Security has extended its cloud security platform via a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it simpler to integrate with a wide range of DevOps tools. Rather than relying on agents, the Orca Security platform creates a risk profile using read-only access to block storage accessed via a runtime hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), […]
5 Testing Strategies For Deploying Microservices
With rigorous development and pre-production testing, your microservices will perform as they should. However, microservices need to be continuously tested against actual end-user activity to adapt the application to changing preferences and requests. This article will cover five deployment strategies that will help developers and DevOps teams when releasing new features or making changes to […]
LogicMonitor Expands Reach and Scope of Observability Platform
At its LM Elevate user conference, LogicMonitor today formally launched LM Envision, an observability platform that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) to both discover and then remediate issues. LogicMonitor CEO Christina Kosmowski said LM Envision is the only observability platform available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that can be applied to both on-premises and cloud applications. […]
Catchpoint Enables Experimentation by Automating Web App Testing
Catchpoint this week expanded its open source WebPageTest performance testing suite of tools to enable IT teams to run instant tests that surface suggestions for improving overall web application and site performance. In addition, Catchpoint is now providing support for private tests, bulk tests and priority testing capabilities within the WebPageTest tool suite. Tim Kadlec, […]
The Risks of Shadow Code
As the economy struggles to recover after the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all learned a thing or two about supply chains—and what happens when they break down. But many people do not realize that modern websites also have digital supply chains, third-party ones that can be compromised in myriad ways. […]
3xFAIL: IPv6 Fails | Fintech Fails | Firefox Fails
In this week’s The Long View: IPv6 gets stabbed in the back, Fintech firms’ valuations are falling, and the latest browser war seems to be over—Firefox lost.
Three Common Testing Mistakes – And Solutions
A few weeks ago at SauceCon, DevOps.com talked to Matt Wyman, chief customer officer at SauceLabs. This year’s theme, Reimagine Test, emphasized the need to prioritize the user experience in testing. As Wyman put it, “We really focused on that customer experience, using the right type of test tool at the right moment.” After the […]
Broadcom’s Software Strategy: Milk the Cash Cow, Exploit ‘Synergies’
The week began with rumors that Broadcom would acquire VMware and ended with the news that the deal is all but done. The VMware board, along with Michael Dell (who still owns about 41% of VMware’s stock), have a 40-day “go-shop” option; however, I don’t believe there will be other suitors. On Tuesday, I published […]
Eclipse Foundation Opens Marketplace for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation this week opened an Adoptium Marketplace through which DevOps teams can access Java binaries based on the OpenJDK specification. OpenJDK was created based on the Java standard edition (SE) of the programming language and virtual machine. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the goal is to make it easier […]
Opportunities and Challenges of Observability
Observability platforms that unify metrics, logs and traces across applications and IT infrastructure are transforming how IT is managed. Most DevOps teams today are able to continuously monitor IT environments using tools that track a set of pre-defined metrics; observability platforms make it possible to aggregate data so that DevOps teams can launch queries that […]
JFrog Aims to Push DevOps to the Edge
At its swampUP event, JFrog launched a JFrog Connect platform for updating, managing, monitoring and securing remote Linux and internet of things (IoT) devices. The JFrog Connect platform is based on a lightweight agent JFrog gained last year with the acquisition of Upswift and that has now been integrated with the JFrog Artifactory repository. DevOps […]
Broadcom Acquires VMware to Expand Software Portfolio
Broadcom today pulled the trigger on an acquisition of VMware for $61 billion in cash and stock that could dramatically expand its software portfolio. Tom Krause, president of the Broadcom Software Group, told investors that the Broadcom infrastructure software group will become part of VMware once the deal closes. The deal, however, includes a 40-day […]
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
In this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing.