Maximizing Capabilities and the Importance of Value Stream Management
Even if we don’t use them to the full extent, applications shape our entire lives. And more than half the time we have no idea what our applications are capable of. On a daily basis, the average person uses seven to eight apps on their mobile phone. Throughout the week, the average person uses 30 […]
A Special Message from Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian for TechStrong Con
As TechStrong Con approaches, Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian has shared an inspiring message for all developers and tech enthusiasts attending the virtual event. In the Cameo clip below, he reflects on his own journey in the tech realm and gives high praises to all the developers who spend every day doing the often “thankless” work […]
Change Is Knocking: The Future Readiness with Ian Khan
In preparation for TechStrong Con next week, MediaOps media guru Rebecca Auguste sat down with featured keynote speaker, CNN technology futurist, Forbes contributor and CEO and founder of Futuracy, Ian Khan to talk about future readiness. A globally recognized technology futurist and creator of the Future Readiness Score, Ian will be hosting a live session […]
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Org-as-Code
We are all familiar with ‘everything-as-code’—a pattern that started with infrastructure-as-code and has now extended to other areas such as architecture-as-code, security-as-code and more. However, all the incarnations we have seen so far have been less than ambitious! The dawn of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology is moving us firmly toward organization-as-code. Org-as-code is […]
Survey Finds Biggest DevOps Obstacles are Organizational
A survey of 600 IT professionals published this week by mabl, a provider of a test automation platform, finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are more closely related to organizational issues rather than any technology. The survey identified non-technological issues as the main inhibitor to DevOps by a wide margin (82%). Only 11% […]
No More Status Quo: Disruption and Reinvention through The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche
Everyday we’re reinventing ourselves. Whether we’re reinventing knowledge through learning, or technology through development, nothing stays stagnant and disruption makes sure of that. In a TechStrong TV segment, MediaOps Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel sits down with Brad Feld, current managing director at Foundry Group and author of “The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for […]
CircleCI CEO Sees Growing Need for Developer Experience Engineers
There is no shortage of titles to go with all the tasks that make up a DevOps workflow, but given the critical role developers now play within any organization, it might be time for organizations to start creating a developer experience engineer (DXE) function within DevOps teams that is specifically tasked with increasing developer productivity. […]
Does it Matter That We’re Still Working in Silos?
Seventy-two percent of business leaders believe that cross-departmental working at the enterprise level benefits their employees’ experience and engagement. However, 68% of these same organizations admit to working in silos—the complete opposite of collaboration. So, there seems to be a conundrum. We know that working in silos is detrimental to our employees, customers and the […]
Using Chaos Engineering to Build Resilient Systems
Over the past decade, chaos engineering has become one of the most popular approaches in DevOps. It’s uniquely adapted to complex cloud-based systems and has the potential to succeed where more conventional approaches may not. Chaos Engineering Explained Traditionally, DevOps teams worked with systems hosted on single servers. They would analyze logs with a fine-toothed […]
Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt
Technologists are always espousing new, trendy development solutions. More robust frameworks, increased delivery, better integration. But rarely do these proponents consider the long-term side effects of introducing new technologies. As a result, technical debt is an all-to-common occurrence in most companies. Nearly a third of IT budgets are dedicated to addressing technical debt. Devoting so […]
What Biden’s Cybersecurity EO Means for DevOps Teams
On May 12, 2021 President Biden issued Executive Order 14028, also known as the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. This EO covers a lot of ground, and like all executive orders, it instructs agencies of the U.S. Federal Government to perform specific actions. What it doesn’t do is appropriate funding or create industry […]
Best Practices for Building Next-Gen Software Teams
Technology is moving faster than ever before. The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across every organization in every industry. Creating new remote working environments or developing new digital revenue channels has taken place at lightning speed over the past year. At this time of rapid change, software development teams are continuing to help organizations adapt […]
Cloud Governance Can Trim Cloud Costs
The abrupt need to transition to remote work last year caused many companies to migrate to the cloud or accelerate an in-process migration. Cloud has become an essential part of company operations and budgets. Last year, worldwide end user spending on public cloud services was $257.5 billion, making up 9.1% of total global enterprise IT […]
Why DevOps Needs Mandatory Vacations
“If a team doesn’t have time for retrospectives, you should hold them twice as often.” It’s 5:00 p.m. on Friday, and you’re just shutting down your computer to kick off the weekend. A message pops up in Slack: “Congratulations, you’ve been selected to take the next week off! We’re cutting off access to all work-related […]
Why We’re Swimming in Dashboards and Drowning in Data
Knowing how to use a dashboard is table stakes in the enterprise. Information technologies generate countless volumes of data from multiple sources, and dashboards are meant to harness all of that information, reduce the noise and display the stats you need to do your job. Yet businesses are still struggling to unlock the value of […]
How IT Ops Can Exceed Service Level Objectives in Digital Transformations
The pace of change can be managed successfully by defining service level objectives and more in dev environments Mobile applications, data lakes, microservices, data visualizations, SaaS integrations, automations, IoT data streams, machine learning models—in proof of concepts, pilots and scaling production environments, for customer-facing capabilities and employee workflows—all of these technical capabilities are developed, deployed […]
Why You Must Lead With AI
AI will soon be a necessary part of doing business. Every company will have an AI strategy in the same way that they have a social media strategy, branding strategy, talent strategy, etc. So if you want to stand out from the competition and gain an edge, you can’t just use AI; you must lead […]
Lessons in User Engagement From Game Development
Quarantine measures forced most of the world to stay physically distant — a shift that has forever changed consumer behaviors, and especially how humans interact and spend their free time. A clear change over the past year was the rapid boom of gaming, which saw a massive increase in both console and mobile games — […]
More and More Enterprises Go Headless
IT faces high expectations for building and supporting omnichannel digital experiences. Simultaneously, web developers hold an evolving toolkit of architectural approaches to deliver content. One such framework gaining mindshare is headless, a style that decouples front end user experiences from back end application logic. Legacy options for content delivery can be somewhat cumbersome in that […]
Successful Digital Transformation: It’s About Strategy
While having a mature digital enterprise helped organizations to better survive – and even thrive, in some cases – the pandemic, that’s not the primary reason why organizations will continue to invest in their digital transformation efforts. According to new research from consultancy Deloitte, businesses will continue to invest in their digital transformation capabilities to […]
Data Needs and Challenges with CData
The data businesses and applications need are everywhere and access through a multitude of technical interfaces, including APIs, database queries, data layers like ODBC, cloud services and SaaS applications (to name a few). In this episode of TechStrong TV, Jerod Johnson, technical evangelist at CData, joins Mitch Ashley to discuss the challenges of meeting the […]
Are Developers Responsible for Open Source Governance?
There are lots of factors in the open source software world converging to make it a big year for “shift left” in software development. Heightened security concerns, an increasing need for software supply chain visibility and the growth and complexity of open source ecosystems will continue to push the responsibility for ensuring code is secure […]
Reducing Friction in Developer Collaboration
Given how the individual unit of deployment has gotten increasingly smaller, such that the unit of deployment is usually a microservice, it would be tempting to think that individual developers are more able to control how well the code they write (the service they deploy) will work in production. In fact, though, almost the opposite […]