Checkmarx Extends DevSecOps Reach to Repository Security and Secrets Discovery
Checkmarx this week extended the scope of its ability to protect software supply chains with tools that access how secure a repository is and find where application secrets have been shared in a way that is not secure. Ori Bendet, vice president of product management for Checkmarx, said the Repository Health and Secrets Detection tools […]
Security Concerns Loom as GenAI Adoption Grows in DevOps
Most security and software development professionals are using GenAI-based solutions for building or delivering applications, but despite its widespread use, significant security challenges persist.
Splunk Tightens Integration Across Observability Platforms
Splunk this week made a bevy of updates to its observability platforms including the addition of a revamped user interface that provides a more consistent experience across Splunk Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics.
Akka Unfurls PaaS for Building Distributed Java Applications
Akka, formerly Lightbend, today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference unfurled PaaS for building distributed Java applications.
PlatformEngineering.com Launches: A New Hub for DevOps and Platform Engineering Insights
The DevOps world has a new sibling: PlatformEngineering.com. As the latest addition to the Techstrong Group family, this site aims to be the premier resource for the platform engineering community. The launch signals an important milestone in the journey of platform engineering, a discipline that has evolved to complement and enhance DevOps practices. Platform Engineering: […]
Analysis Finds DevOps Engineers Are Being Promoted Faster
An analysis of a data set collected by SignalFire, a platform provider for recruiting employees, finds that IT professionals specializing in areas such as DevOps move into leadership roles within their organizations within two to three years.
Scarf Integrates Platform for Tracking Open Source Software Usage With Salesforce
Scarf today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference revealed it has integrated its platform for tracking consumption of open source software with the Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) platform
DevOps Dozen Awards 2024 Finalists Announced
We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the DevOps Dozen Awards 2024, recognizing this year’s top innovators and their standout contributions in the DevOps field. These exceptional individuals and organizations have shown true dedication to advancing DevOps, driving progress and excellence in our industry over the past year. Congratulations to all the finalists! Your hard […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Are you at a crossroads in your career? This week our highlighted DevOps job opportunities include a director role at Harley-Davidson.
Survey Sees DevOps Teams Focusing More on IT Sustainability Issues
A survey of 504 DevOps practitioners finds 59% work for organizations that have a sustainability initiative specifically tied to application development and deployment.
Redgate Embraces Machine Learning to Generate Test Data and Monitor Databases
Redgate this week previewed machine learning capabilities that it is adding to its test data management and database monitoring platforms that are scheduled to be made generally available in the first quarter of 2025.
IBM Develops AI Agents to Automate Software Engineering Tasks
IBM Research is testing a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that both discovers bugs in code found in a GitHub repository and recommendations to remediate them.
Survey Surfaces Software Supply Chain Security Gains
A survey of 106 leaders and practitioners involved in software supply chain security finds more than three-quarters of respondents (76%) work for organizations that have made software supply chain security a significant or top (24%) priority.
Symbiotic Security Platform Discovers Security Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code
Symbiotic Security emerged from stealth this week to launch a namesake platform that enables application developers to discover and remediate vulnerabilities and other errors in real-time as code is being written.
Kloudfuse Adds Raft of Additional Capabilities to Unify Observability
Kloudfuse today updated its namesake observability platform to add support for continuous profiling and real user monitoring (RUM) along with additional analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Incredibuild Acquires Garden to Streamline Continuous Integration
Incredibuild this week revealed it has acquired Garden, a provider of an open-source framework that makes it simpler to track the relationships between software components as DevOps teams build applications. Founded in 2018, Garden has been primarily focused on eliminating bottlenecks within continuous integration (CI) pipelines that slow the pace of application development and waste […]
Broadcom Strengthens Case for Integrated VCF Platform
Broadcom today revealed it is adding a raft of additional capabilities to the optional portfolio of services it makes available on top of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including a module that makes it simpler to deploy databases on top of instances of Kubernetes that are integrated with the VMware virtual machine platform.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
New Relic Relies on AI Agents to Launch Intelligent Observability Platform
New Relic this week unfurled a revamped observability platform based on an artificial intelligence engine that enables anyone from application developers to business analysts to employ natural language to surface insights.
DataStax Aims to Reduce Friction by Extending Support for GitHub Copilot
DataStax this week at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference revealed it has extended its support for the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to now include the ability to write data to its Astra databases-as-service (DBaaS) platform based on the open-source Cassandra database.
Survey: IT Teams Spend About a Third of Time Responding to Disruptions
A global survey of 1,700 IT professionals finds on average teams are grappling with 280 hours of median annual downtime a year, which at 12 hours of a 40-hour work week equates to about 30% of their time. Conducted by Enterprise Technology Research (ETR) on behalf of New Relic, the most common causes of downtime […]
Microsoft Engineers Highlight Git Repository Bloat Flaw
A Git functionality shortcoming means Git calculates changes between different versions of the same file, which ultimately creates repository bloat through the excess storage requirements that result.
Survey Shines Spotlight on Inability to Keep Application Secrets
A global survey of 1,000 IT leaders from organizations with more than 500 employees published today finds that 79% have experienced or are aware of secrets leaking within their organization.