CircleCI Acquires Ponicode to Gain AI Testing Tool
CircleCI today revealed it has acquired Ponicode to gain control over a unit testing platform infused with artificial intelligence (AI) that makes it simpler to review application code prior to uploading it into a build. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Jean-Philippe (JP) Leblanc, senior vice president of engineering at CircleCI, said the […]
DevOps and Containers
“Works on my machine!” We’ve all had that co-worker. I have had one at pretty much every company I’ve worked for. At several jobs, it devolved into a running joke. There is a belief that containers alleviate this issue. And they may—or they may simply mask the issue. The choice is up to IT. Inevitably, […]
TikTok Shuns Russia | War on Patent Trolls | Chrome is ‘Faster than Safari’
In this week’s The Long View: ByteDance restricts TikTok in Russia, Unified Patents escalates the fight against trolls, and Google Chrome beats the magic 300.
Pulumi Adds Business Critical Edition to Infrastructure Management Platform
Pulumi today added a Business Critical edition of its Cloud Engineering Platform that provides large enterprises with additional security and compliance features, premium 24×7 support, training, professional services and a self-hosting option. In addition, the company announced that Pulumi Enterprise and Business Critical editions are now available via the online marketplace run by Amazon Web […]
Why the Built World Needs Standard APIs
Lately, new ESG initiatives have come front-and-center as companies seek to contextualize and limit their business’s impact on the environment. This is especially true for the built world—a term that refers to the human-made environment that provides the setting for human activity, including homes, buildings, zoning, streets, sidewalks, open spaces, transportation options and more—where monitoring […]
Tabnine, GitLab Build Custom Apps Faster With AI
Tabnine today revealed it has integrated its code completion tool with the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Tabnine’s platform employs artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate application development. Brandon Jung, vice president of ecosystems and business development at Tabnine, said the goal is to make it easier for developers to automatically write code based on […]
Linux Foundation Lists Top Open Source Libraries
The Linux Foundation today published a report that provides access to eight lists of the top 500 open source libraries being used by organizations as part of an ongoing effort to help better secure software supply chains. The Census II of Free and Open Source Software—Application Libraries report is based on usage data from providers […]
Ukraine Asks for DNS Censorship | Ukraine Snapchat Staff Danger | #BoycottKaspersky?
In this week’s The Long View: Censoring the Russian internet, Snap fears for hundreds of Ukrainian employees, and Eugene Kaspersky acts like a ****.
Where Has All the Testing Gone?
Testing has long been a problem child of IT in general, AppDev in particular, and now it is DevOps’ problem. There are things that DevOps can do to improve the chances of tests actually occurring for your application(s). Interestingly, there are some that think we no longer need testing; the argument is that because new […]
Multi-Cloud Computing is a Major IT Headache
A CloudBolt Software survey of 500 senior IT, DevOps, security and finance leaders found 79% are struggling under the weight of managing multiple cloud computing environments. The survey from CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, found specifically that more than three-quarters of respondents (78%) said they have too many cloud tools throughout […]
What to Expect When Transitioning to DevSecOps
How do you ensure your DevOps pipeline is secure? Does DevSecOps protect you against serious breaches or is it just a way to allay the concerns of stakeholders about security in DevOps? A data breach can cost an average of $3.92 million USD, as per IBM’s study Cost of a Data Breach. In this report, […]
Tricentis Expands Scope of Cloud-Based Testing Tools
Tricentis this week extended a suite of cloud-based testing tools that promise to make it simpler to both develop cloud-native and mobile applications and migrate existing applications to the cloud. New capabilities added to the portfolio include integrations for cloud-based planning tools and a wider range of testing capabilities for mobile applications. DevOps teams can […]
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office.
How to Seamlessly Transition to DevSecOps
In the last few months, the cybersecurity world has been taken by storm following the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability. The zero-day had the potential to put much of the connected world at risk and left security teams scrambling to quickly apply security patches to software just before Christmas 2021. As a result of the […]
Netlify Leverages GraphQL to Simplify Access to Backend Services
Netlify this week added a Netlify Graph tool to its portfolio that makes backend services available to developers via a single click. The tool aims to simplify DevOps teams’ access to those services when building their applications. Netlify Graph is based on the GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (APIs) and enables developers to […]
Snyk Acquires Fugue to Secure Cloud Infrastructure
Snyk today announced it has acquired Fugue as part of an effort to embed security within an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) provisioning tool. The Fugue platform combines a unified policy engine with an implementation of the open source Open Policy Agent (OPA) software, dubbed Regula, to ensure security and compliance policies are consistently enforced. OPA provides IT […]
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
Cloudify Integrates DevOps Automation Platform With Terraform
Cloudify this week announced a free user interface (UI) module that extends its infrastructure provisioning platform and enables DevOps professionals to integrate unlimited Terraform modules. Nati Shalom, Cloudify CTO, said Terraform UI provides a familiar construct for DevOps teams using the open source DevOps automation platform to provision infrastructure-as-code (IaC). The module enables DevOps professionals […]
CircleCI Adds CI/CD Service for macOS Development
CircleCI today added a dedicated continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) edition of its namesake platform for developers building applications on the macOS platform. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, said this offering is aimed at developers that either want dedicated resources to speed up their build processes or have to address compliance and security requirements that prevent them […]
Watch Your Language(s)
Just about every organization I am familiar with today is using more languages, frameworks, libraries, etc. than they were a decade ago. Back then, most organizations were doing a lot of Java, and maybe a little bit of PHP or .NET (almost always VB.NET). Now we have Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, etc. And etc., […]
Will Splunk be Gobbled up by Cisco?
Word on the street is that Cisco and Splunk are in discussions about a possible acquisition. Splunk, the technology monitoring, search and analytics company could be acquired by Cisco—originally a networking company but now a complex hardware and software conglomerate. Splunk has generated quite a reputation as a ‘dealer’ over the years. The company, much […]
IBM Shifts Mainframe App Testing to the Cloud
IBM this week revealed it has added the ability to set up testing environments on the IBM Cloud for z/OS mainframe applications. In addition, on March 15, IBM will make available an IBM Z and cloud modernization stack to make it simpler to modernize mainframe applications by adding application programming interfaces (APIs) using a cloud-native […]
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer financial services provider expects to make Talon Polly available as an open source project next year. Written in the Rust programming language, Pounder […]