Best of 2022: CI/CD is the New Lock-In
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Welcome to 2022! Let’s start this year’s blogging off with a bang, and point out that we are in the process of creating the biggest […]
Best of 2022: Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE). The term was originally coined by Google and SRE has […]
Best of 2022: SRE Vs. Platform Engineering: What’s the Difference?
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Site reliability engineering (SRE) teams and platform engineering teams share similar goals—like maximizing automation and reducing toil—and similar methodologies. But they have different priorities, and […]
Opvizor Extends Monitoring Reach to the Cloud
Opvizor, a unit of Codenotary, has extended its monitoring capabilities to cloud computing environments starting with support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Codenotary CTO Dennis Zimmer said Opvizor aggregates data to provide a more efficient approach to applying analytics to surface performance and risk issues. Previously, Opvizor was optimized for instances of […]
How SASE Can Ease DevSecOps Adoption
DevSecOps is a software development methodology that merges development (Dev), security (Sec) and operations (Ops) into one team that integrates security throughout the entire software development life cycle (SDLC). The goal is to deliver high-quality applications quickly and securely. The traditional software development life cycle introduces security in the late phases of the SDLC. However, […]
How Enterprise Software Architects can Design for Sustainability
Organizations of all sizes are feeling the pressure to introduce more aggressive sustainability measures to combat climate change. For example, most cloud service providers have announced significant climate pledges to either reduce or offset their carbon emissions. But these initiatives can only go far to move the needle—it’s up to individual companies and departments to […]
Salesforce Launches Low-Code DevOps Platform
Salesforce made generally available today a low-code DevOps Center service on its infrastructure through which developers are provided an opinionated platform for building custom applications. The Salesforce DevOps Center service is based on the same object model Salesforce uses to construct its own applications. Karen Fidelak, senior director of product management at Salesforce, said after […]
EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work.
Why Backups and Compliance Go Hand-in-Hand
It’s hard to run a business. Besides the numerous challenges you have to deal with daily, ensuring the security of your business and customer information is essential for operating smoothly. In order to mitigate information security risks that would affect companies and their users, a number of security regulations have been created, including a set […]
Massive Number of Transitive Dependencies Traced to Open Source Code
An analysis of nearly 2,000 software packages published by Endor Labs found 95% of all application vulnerabilities can be traced back to a transitive dependency created when a developer used an open source component. The study, conducted by the Station 9 research arm of Endor Labs, a provider of a platform for identifying software dependencies, […]
5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it’s rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality. To make matters worse, engineers commonly create lengthy scripts that work in isolation but are […]
Codenotary Extends Dynamic SBOM Reach to Serverless Computing Platforms
Codenotary has extended the reach of its platform for automatically generating software bills of materials (SBOMs) to serverless computing platforms running software constructed using functions. Codenotary CTO Dennis Zimmer said because serverless apps are dynamically created, it’s not possible to generate SBOMs using traditional approaches. The TrueSBOM platform makes it possible to create an SBOM […]
Migration to AWS Cloud: Do’s and Don’ts
What if one day, you were told to migrate to AWS/GCP/Azure/any other cloud provider? It would likely introduce some stress, to understate the case, right? I’ve seen quite a few migrations in my career and, in this article, I would like to share some thoughts to help DevOps engineers, architects, managers or anyone else who […]
Introduction to MACH Architecture
In recent years, the need to construct end-to-end digital experiences has become increasingly important. But to deliver new features and services promptly, organizations must double down on agility and reusability. As part of this trend, applications have become increasingly modular, often constructed using pre-built microservices and integrating common SaaS to avoid reinventing the wheel. MACH […]
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option.
Chainguard Adds Private Edition of Code Signing Platform
Chainguard today added a private preview of a Chainguard Enforce Signing service, enabled by the open source Sigstore project, that allows developers to generate digital signatures for software artifacts using identities and one-time-use keys they create themselves. Kim Lewandowski, head of product for Chainguard, said Chainguard Enforce Signing provides an alternative to relying on a […]
How Devs Can Improve Open Source Security in the Enterprise
Modern applications are dynamic. They’re distributed and they’re often born in the cloud. These applications can be developed on the fly, spun up and scaled quickly to meet evolving user and market demands—enabling a level of business agility that allows users to make quick, informed decisions in real-time and take advantage of opportunities as they […]
AWS Makes Economic Case for Graviton Processors
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making available in preview a C7gn instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) based on AWS Graviton processors. The C7gn instances provide up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and as much as 50% higher packet-processing performance compared to previous-generation C6gn instances. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, […]
AWS Previews Amazon CodeCatalyst to Automatically Create Dev Environments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week launched a preview release of the Amazon CodeCatalyst framework that leverages blueprints to automatically provision and configure developer environments in its cloud. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, Amazon CodeCatalyst takes advantage of a Project Blueprints tool to launch a source code repository and a project management tracker […]
Nobl9 Adds Free Tier to SaaS Platform for Managing SLOs
Nobl9 this week announced it is making available a perpetual free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing service level objectives (SLOs). The free tier was announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference and the company also revamped its pricing. Nobl9 Teams Edition (formerly Nobl9 Hydrogen) now includes 50 SLOs, up from 25, for […]
GitLab Unfurls Dedicated SaaS Edition in the Cloud
GitLab today made available to a limited number of customers a single-tenant version of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. David DeSanto, vice president of product at GitLab, said the GitLab Dedicated option provides all the benefits of a cloud platform without running afoul of any potential compliance issues. Designed […]
Datadog Dives Into Universal Service Monitoring
Datadog, Inc. today made generally available a Universal Service Monitoring service that takes advantage of the extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) microkernel in a Linux operating system to automatically detect all the services that make up an application environment without changes to the code used to construct them. Yrieix Garnier, vice president of product at […]
Palo Alto Networks Buys Cider Security to Lock Down Pipelines
Palo Alto Networks this week extended its efforts to secure application environments by agreeing to acquire Cider Security, a provider of a platform for securing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, for approximately $195 million in cash. The acquisition of Cider Security, scheduled to close this quarter, will extend the reach of the company’s Prisma Cloud […]