Testlio Adds Fused Testing to Automate Testing Platform
Testlio announced today it is adding fused testing capability to its application testing platform; Testlio is used by IT organizations to manage application testing teams consisting of internal employees and external contractors vetted by Testlio. Fused testing describes the combination of automated and manual testing IT organizations use to improve overall productivity. Fused testing strikes […]
The Life and Times of Feature Flags
A while back, I had the opportunity to look closely at DevSecOps tools (as the market currently defines them). There was a lot to like, and they are moving forward to a “Find all of the vulnerabilities, all of the time” future … Except there will be new vulnerabilities that aren’t as easy to catch […]
White House Meeting Puts Spotlight on OSS Sustainability
A recent meeting between IT industry leaders and White House officials highlighted open source software sustainability concerns as high-profile breaches and zero-day attacks have many organizations reviewing their software supply chains. The White House published a statement describing, among other things, how participants had a “substantive and constructive” discussion on how to make a difference […]
GrammaTech Adds SBOM Analysis Capability to CodeSentry
GrammaTech today updated its CodeSentry code inspection platform to include the ability to create a software bill of materials (SBOM) by analyzing application binaries. Walter Capitani, director of technical product management for GrammaTech, said version 3.0 of CodeSentry leverages the algorithms the company uses for binary software composition analysis to enable organizations to better address […]
How Are API Management and Service Mesh Different?
The use of APIs and microservices is increasing—a recent study from F5 estimated that the industry is approaching 200 million total APIs. As organizations expand their use of APIs and microservices, they inevitably require some form of service management architecture. There are primarily two major design options for implementing this: An API management system or […]
2022 Predictions: AI, Security and Cloud
It is difficult to find a single area of the technology landscape that isn’t incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into products and services. As we move into a world where distributed computing is the norm for business operations, AI is a requirement given the increasing level of complexity in computing environments. While there are many different […]
EEEWW—Green iMessage Bubbles | ‘Great Resignation’ Redux | Faster Firefox 96
In this week’s The Long View: iMessage lock-in lessons, attrition-rate fixes, and more on Mozilla.
Continuous Delivery Challenge Looms Large in 2022
As 2022 kicks off, it’s becoming apparent that the major DevOps challenge organizations will face is mastering best practices that enable continuous delivery. A global survey of more than 19,000 software development professionals conducted by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation found 44% of respondents use either continuous integration or deployment. However, less than one in […]
Shift Left: Right or Wrong?
The term DevOps emerged into mainstream software development communities roughly 10 years ago. It represented a combination of tools and techniques which helped solve many pertinent issues of the time, namely responsibility for code in production and lack of a positive feedback loop. As of today, DevOps is a massive movement. It is considered the […]
NPMs Sabotaged as OSS Sustainability Crisis Continues
A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were deliberately sabotaged this week, allegedly by a primary contributor. Colors.js is an npm that has been downloaded more than 3.3 billion times, with more than 19,000 projects depending on […]
CNCF Takes LitmusChaos Platform to the Incubation Level
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it is elevating the open source LitmusChaos application testing platform to the incubation level. LitmusChaos is a chaos engineering platform donated to the CNCF by ChaosNative in 2020. Since then, it has seen adoption within production environments by more than 25 […]
GitLab Revamps Observability Strategy After Acquiring Opstrace
GitLab plans to make observability a more integrated element of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform after acquiring Opstrace. Opstrace’s open source project exposes a horizontally scalable application programming interface (API) created by Cortex for Prometheus, an open source monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It then […]
Intel Expands Scope of OneAPI Toolkit Initiative
Intel has made available a 2022 edition of its oneAPI toolkit through which it makes processor extensions accessible to DevOps teams. James Reinders, chief evangelist for Intel software products, said the goal is to make it simpler for DevOps teams to expose extensions to any company’s processors in the runtimes developers use. At its core, […]
Theranos’s Holmes VC Reverb | 5G C-Band Marches On | Mozilla Jumps Shark
In this week’s The Long View: The conviction of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leads to greater scrutiny of startups, higher-frequency 5G NR is creeping towards reality, and Mozilla gets criticized for promoting climate-harming scams.
DevSecOps Will Cross the Chasm in 2022
We’ve been talking about DevSecOps and shift-left security for years. Although this approach probably didn’t “cross the chasm” in 2021, we did see some very telling milestones. Cybersecurity VC funding surged to record heights with a focus on DevOps and cloud security and the need for DevSecOps became glaringly evident with the Log4j vulnerability. On a […]
LogDNA Survey Surfaces Observability ROI Concerns
A Harris Poll of 200 senior engineering professionals suggests it may be a while before most DevOps teams are able to achieve true observability in their IT environments. The survey was conducted on behalf of LogDNA, a provider of an observability platform, and found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) are struggling to achieve their observability […]
Predict 2022: Back to the Future
After a year of innovation, rapid digital transformation efforts, new challenges and settling into a new normal, it is time to look back at all the lessons learned and look forward to the future. What does 2022 has in store for us? Will 2022 be a breakthrough year in terms of progress and opportunity? At […]
New Relic: Observability Tops 2022 DevOps Agenda
If 2021 was the year when IT organizations became aware of the need for observability, then the coming year should see observability aspirations realized. A report published by observability platform provider New Relic postulates that there are no less than 11 factors converging in a way that will make observability an absolute requirement for organizations. […]
Best of 2021 – From Agile to DevOps to DevSecOps: The Next Evolution
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the ninth in our series of the Best of 2021. As the workforce shifts to remote locations, networks are becoming more diffuse as the edge gets farther away. At the same time, the number of […]
Best of 2021 – 11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the […]
Only 30% of Orgs Fully Implement DevSecOps
With the pressure to release more rapidly, security is shifting left within the continuous development pipeline at most organizations. This imperative is increasing with the rise of cyberattacks. Yet both a lack of training and poor visibility are stalling many DevSecOps rollouts, a recent CSA study found. DevSecOps is still a relatively new practice and […]
Best of 2021 – Seven Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a DevOps Engineer
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps is a culture, not a title. Therefore, companies should follow DevOps principles, rather than hiring one savant to fix an entire organization’s delivery model. […]
Best of 2021 – 7 Popular Open Source CI/CD Tools
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps is a software development strategy that incorporates agile practices for fast, efficient product creation and release. It focuses on integration of development and operations […]