Sustainability No Longer Just a Buzzword for Cloud IT
A recent CloudBolt survey on IT sustainability finds that sustainability is no longer just a buzzword — the market is demanding real change, and it appears that environmental concerns finally are influencing large IT investments. For example, 67% say that a cloud provider’s sustainability initiatives are important in deciding whether to do business with them. […]
Salt Security Adds Support for GraphQL APIs
Salt Security has extended its platform for securing application programming interfaces (APIs) to include support for APIs built using GraphQL. GraphQL is an open source data query and manipulation language for APIs that was originally developed by Facebook. It provides a more efficient approach to querying data than the REST APIs that are widely used […]
Dynatrace Survey Sees Continuous Delivery Challenges Ahead
A global survey of 1,300 application development and DevOps leaders conducted by the research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Dynatrace finds, on average, organizations expect to increase the frequency of their software releases by 58% over the next two years. Andreas Grabner, director of strategic partnerships at Dynatrace, an observability platform provider, said that […]
Postman Survey Shows Focus on Building and Deploying APIs
A survey of more than 28,000 developers and application programming interface (API) professionals published today by Postman found nearly half of respondents (49%) are now spending the majority of their time developing APIs. More than a quarter (28%) now spend 20 or more hours per week working with APIs. Kin Lane, chief evangelist for Postman, […]
Intel Woos DevOps Teams with API and Processor Advances
During the online Intel Innovation 2021 event, Intel announced today a unified Developer Zone for accessing application programming interfaces (APIs) that it makes available via a oneAPI toolkit to IT teams that want to more easily invoke a wide range of processor types and classes. At the same time, the company also revealed it is […]
GitHub Expands Developer Productivity Tools Portfolio
During the online GitHub Universe 2021 conference, GitHub today unveiled a bevy of updates intended to boost developer productivity by making it easier for developers to write code faster and collaborate more easily. The GitHub Copilot tool that GitHub developed in collaboration with OpenAI, a research and development lab, to help developers write better code […]
BMC Looks to Advance ServiceOps Approach to Managing IT
During an online BMC Exchange event, BMC announced it expanded its portfolio of IT management offerings as part of an ongoing effort to unify traditional IT service management and DevOps processes under an integrated ServiceOps framework. The latest additions to the BMC portfolio includes an update to its Control-M workload automation platform that adds observability […]
Sysdig Adds Cloud Access Controls to DevSecOps Platform
Sysdig announced today that it is adding a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) capability to its Secure DevOps platform as part of an effort to better enforce least-privilege access within the context of a larger zero-trust approach to cybersecurity. Nick Fisher, vice president of product marketing for Sysdig, said this addition to the company’s core […]
Codenotary Uses Immutable Database to Verify Software Artifacts
Codenotary today unfurled a free notarization and verification service for open source artifacts and containers to enable IT organizations to track the provenance of the components that make up their applications. Dennis Zimmer, Codenotary CTO, said the Community Attestation Service is based on an immutable open source immudb database that cryptographically attaches an identity to […]
CircleCI Adds Test Insights Module to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today announced it has added a Test Insights capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to make it easier to identify tests that are either taking too long to run or simply exhibiting some form of anomalous behavior. Dawit Gebregziabher, product manager for data insights at CircleCI, said Test Insights is designed to […]
InfluxData Simplifies AppDev for Time-Series Databases
During an online InfluxDays North America 2021 Virtual Experience conference, InfluxData today expanded the capabilities of its application development tools using its Flux query language on top of its time-series database. The company has enhanced its InfluxDB Notebooks tool to enable developers to quickly set up an alert, build a task or write a Flux […]
Eclipse Foundation Launches Open Source Edge Computing Initiative
The Eclipse Foundation in collaboration with the OpenAtom Foundation today launched the Oniro project and working group to create an independent implementation of OpenHarmony, an open source operating system. Created by the OpenAtom Foundation, the OpenHarmony operating system is based on a HarmonyOS originally created by Huawei. It is designed to support multiple kernels but […]
Mona Allies with New Relic to Converge MLOps and DevOps
New Relic and Mona, a provider of a platform for monitoring the models used to provide artificial intelligence (AI), announced today they have formed an alliance to help bridge the divide between DevOps teams and data scientists. Most data science teams today build models based on machine learning algorithms using operations platforms that enable them […]
Authentication in Serverless Apps—What Are the Options?
Serverless applications are growing in popularity among DevOps engineers. They provide a convenient, predictable way to run simple processes like CI/CD builds or automation scripts with no need to stand up infrastructure. They are also commonly used to deploy microservices. However, serverless applications present unique security challenges, one of them being authentication. How can you […]
New Relic Acquires CodeStream to Close Observability Gap
New Relic today revealed it has acquired CodeStream as part of an effort to make observability data more accessible to developers. Buddy Brewer, group vice president (GVP) and GM at New Relic said New Relic CodeStream makes application telemetry data collected via the New Relic One platform directly available within an integrated development environment (IDE), […]
How do we Bring APIs Into Decentralized Web3?
Blockchain-based applications are growing in popularity and underscore the decentralized Web3 movement. Simultaneously, web APIs are helping port data and reusable functionality across application types and are driving microservices development practices. So, how do we bring these two paradigms together? There are many cases where a blockchain-based smart contract may require data updates that only […]
Atlassian Survey Shows Lack of Collaboration in Software Development
A survey of 750 IT and engineering leaders found that while a full 83% of respondents agree that interdepartmental communication is critical for successful software development, only 41% of respondents view cross-collaboration to be a priority. The survey gathered responses from within organizations that generated more than $50 million in annual revenue and was conducted […]
HashiCorp Previews Updates to Consul Service Mesh
During an online HashiConf Global conference, HashiCorp today made available a beta of an update to its open source Consul service mesh for virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters that makes it possible for multiple administrators to share the same instance of a multitenant service mesh. Version 1.11 of Consul will also add support for a […]
Pulumi Adds Registry to Share Secure IaC Code
Pulumi this week added a public registry to its portfolio that makes it easier to discover packages that have been created using its tools to manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, said the Pulumi Registry will make it simpler for DevOps teams to share and reuse IaC tools that have been vetted versus always […]
Learn a Bit About AI
Every once in a while, a trend becomes broad enough that I feel the need to offer career advice. This year it will be simple: Know enough about AI/ML to be dangerous. We are past the point where not having at least a basic understanding is a good idea. Looking around the data center, AI […]
Splunk Expands Scope of Observability While Lowering Costs
During its online .conf21 conference Splunk Inc. today revealed a bevy of updates that advance observability while at the same time reducing the total cost of deploying its platforms. As part of that effort, Splunk also announced it will now make workload-based pricing available to all customers. Previously, a select number of small customers had […]
Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF
Splunk Inc. announced during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it donated a data collector to the OpenTelemetry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Splunk’s data collector runs as a sandbox-level program at the kernel of a Linux operating system and takes advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology […]
Welcome to the New Field of Software Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management is the newest ‘shiny object’ in both the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. But what does it mean in relation to software development? Historically, supply chain management is a commerce term that refers to tracking the logistics of goods and services moving between producer and consumer. This would include the storage and flow […]