DevOps Dozen² 2021 Finalists Announced
Today, we are delighted to announce the finalists of the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021, celebrating the greatest innovators and their achievements in the DevOps space. Despite the many challenges of the past year, these individuals and companies have taken an active role in the DevOps community, demonstrating their leadership and commitment to the improvement of […]
Plutora Enhances VSM Platform with Release Insights
Plutora has enhanced its value stream management (VSM) platform to provide dashboards that enable DevOps teams to better optimize application delivery. Jeff Keyes, vice president of product marketing and strategy for Plutora, said dashboards added to the platform will make it possible for application release managers to leverage predictive analytics to manage application delivery in […]
Nobl9 Adds Hydrogen Platform to Surface Technical Debt Issues
Nobl9 today unveiled a Hydrogen platform that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to identify technical debt issues as they manage service level objectives (SLOs) as code. Hydrogen enables DevOps teams to define SLOs using a simple wizard or by embedding code within their application as part of a DevOps workflow. That code is then […]
Era Software Adds SaaS Edition of Log Management Platform
Era Software has unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its platform for collecting and managing log data that is based on a time-series database it built. At the same time, the company has revamped the user interface of the underlying EraSearch log management platform that IT teams can deploy themselves to make it simpler to […]
Google Makes Fuzz Testing Integration Tool Available
Google today made available a ClusterFuzzLite tool that makes it simpler to incorporate fuzz testing into a DevOps workflow. Fuzz testing refers to an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected or random data as inputs to an application to discover issues such as potential memory leaks. Jonathan Metzman, a senior software engineer […]
Akamai Brings Web Application and API Security Together
Akamai Technologies, Inc. this week launched a service that consolidates the process of securing both web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs). Amol Mathur, vice president of product management and strategy for Akamai, said with the launch of App & API Protector the managed security services provider is making it easier for IT teams to […]
Data Theorem Adds Runtime Protection Enabled by Observability
Data Theorem, Inc. this week added an Active Protection offering to its portfolio of application security services that makes it possible for DevOps teams to embed observability and runtime defenses in their applications via a software development kit (SDK). The Data Theorem cloud services are based on Trustkit, an open source framework the company created […]
Dynatrace Adds Security Gates to Advance DevSecOps Adoption
Dynatrace today added a security gates capability to its observability platform to make it easier to automatically embrace DevSecOps best practices within an application delivery pipeline. Steve Tack, senior vice president for product management at Dynatrace, said the security gates function much the same as the quality gates that Dynatrace previously added to that platform […]
Allstacks Adds Free Dashboard to Track Software Dev Benchmarks
Value stream intelligence platform provider Allstacks today added a free live dashboard populated with anonymized data that DevOps teams can use to benchmark their own progress. Hersh Tapadia, Allstacks co-founder and CEO, said the company is making this data available to make it easier for DevOps teams to uncover bottlenecks in their software development processes. […]
Grafana Labs Expands into Incident Management Realm
During its online ObservabilityCON 2021 conference, Grafana Labs this week previewed an incident management platform in addition to making available an on-premises edition of its distributed tracing tool. Tom Wilkie, vice president of product for Grafana Labs, said the Grafana OnCall incident management platform is a natural extension of the observability tools the company already […]
How Dispersed Can We Be?
It is interesting to consider DevOps from the storage perspective. DevOps in general—and specifically newer development and deployment models—tried to pretend that long-term storage was not a necessary component of software delivery. In short, it appears that because there wasn’t a good answer to long-term state in stateless development models, the storage and databases that […]
Digital CxOs Have a Home, as Digital CxO Joins the Techstrong Group Family
Hello, and welcome to the launch of Digital CxO, the premier destination site and community dedicated to fostering collaboration among business and IT leaders driving digital transformation initiatives. As part of Techstrong Group, which also includes DevOps.com, Container Journal, DevOps Institute, Security Boulevard, Techstrong TV and the newly formed TechStrong Research Group, Digital CxO creates […]
Microsoft Expands Azure DevOps Portfolio
Microsoft has made available a bevy of updates to its DevOps portfolio that, collectively, are intended to increase its share of a wave of applications that will be rolled out across the extended enterprise. Additions to the Microsoft DevOps portfolio were announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference and include DevOps Workflow Generator, a free […]
Oxeye Platform Helps Fix Code Vulnerabilities
Fresh from raising $5.3 million in seed funding, Oxeye emerged this week from stealth to launch a namesake application security testing platform that, in addition to pinpointing issues in code, also provides advice to best remediate the issues it found. The Oxeye platform requires developers to download an observer tool that scans code for vulnerabilities. […]
DevSecOps Progress: Slow and Steady
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NextArch Foundation Launched to Focus on Microservices
The Linux Foundation this week launched the NextArch Foundation to define frameworks and specifications that promote interoperability between microservices that span multiple cloud computing environments. More than 40 organizations, including Tencent, Arm, Kong and Ampere, have committed to contributing to 10 technology projects in 2022 in addition to frameworks for three vertical industries. Mark Shan, […]
DevSecOps Tech Radar Highlights Diverse Tooling Adoption
The DevSecOps Technology Radar showcases the opinions cloud-native groups have about DevSecOps tools. To review, The Technology Radar is a periodic report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a burgeoning host for new open source projects that are becoming pivotal underpinnings to cloud-native architecture at large. Just like previous radars, the DevSecOps Technology Radar […]
Apollo GraphQL to Provide More Control Over APIs
Apollo GraphQL today previewed an update to its Federation platform for tracking and managing application programming interfaces (APIs) based on the GraphQL query language to give organizations more control over how APIs are reviewed and ultimately approved. Matt DeBergalis, founder and CTO, Apollo, said the alpha edition of the Federation 2 platform provides a unified […]
Oracle Adds AI Services to Cloud Portfolio
Oracle today unfurled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI services, a collection of services that make it easier for developers to use application programming interfaces (APIs) to invoke a wide range of services based on algorithms trained by Oracle on their behalf. Elad Ziklik, vice president of product management for AI services and data science at […]
Organized Architecture
I’ve mentioned IT pendulums plenty of times before, but today I’m going to use them to explore a different angle on IT: The age of containers and microservices. It’s time to ask yourself if the current architectural design of the overall product offering of IT is the best one you can afford to offer. Agile […]
Newly Independent VMware to Focus on Multi-Cloud
As an independent company once again, VMware will focus its efforts on providing management planes that span multiple cloud computing environments after officially spinning out of Dell Technologies. Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president for the cloud-native apps business unit at VMware, said the company now has a unique opportunity to work closely with providers of […]
GraphQL’s Greatest Strength is Also its Greatest Weakness
Michael Scott: Why don’t I tell you what my greatest weaknesses are? I work too hard, I care too much and sometimes I can be too invested in my job. David Wallace: Okay. And your strengths? Michael Scott: Well, my weaknesses are actually strengths. David Wallace: Oh. Yes. Very good. GraphQL is a new query […]
FinOps 101: Demystifying Cloud Financial Operations for DevOps
In an ideal world, all organizations would have a dedicated FinOps team—or at least a single specialist who could work to ensure that the cloud was operating in a financially savvy way. Of course, in reality, most organizations are strapped for skills and are operating lean teams where responsibilities are spread thickly across employees. In […]