AppSmith Adds Git Support to Low-Code App Dev Framework
AppSmith has added support for Git repositories to an open source framework for building custom applications using a low-code platform based on the JavaScript programming language. Rishabh Kaul, head of marketing for AppSmith, said the Git support will make it simpler for developers to manage version control as they iteratively build applications using a set […]
CDF Report Surfaces DevOps Workflow Gains
At its cdCon 2022 conference today, the Continuous Delivery Foundation shared a State of Continuous Delivery in 2022 report that found nearly half of developers (47%) use either continuous integration or continuous deployment platforms—but only about 20% report using both to automate all application build, testing and deployment. Overall, only a little less than a […]
Verizon’s Legionella Bugs | Bolt’s Dot-Bomb Echo | Yandex’s Russian CEO Quits
In this week’s The Long View: Verizon fined for spreading disease, Bolt Financial repeats the mistakes of the past, and the founder of Yandex resigns.
Contrast Security Adds Free Code-Scanning Tool
Contrast Security this week made available a free security tool that enables developers to scan their code using the same core engine used by the cybersecurity team within their organization. Steven Phillips, vice president of product marketing for Contrast Security, said while there is no shortage of free tools for scanning code these days, the […]
Orca Security Adds CLI to Improve Cloud Security
Orca Security has extended its cloud security platform via a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it simpler to integrate with a wide range of DevOps tools. Rather than relying on agents, the Orca Security platform creates a risk profile using read-only access to block storage accessed via a runtime hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), […]
LogicMonitor Expands Reach and Scope of Observability Platform
At its LM Elevate user conference, LogicMonitor today formally launched LM Envision, an observability platform that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) to both discover and then remediate issues. LogicMonitor CEO Christina Kosmowski said LM Envision is the only observability platform available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that can be applied to both on-premises and cloud applications. […]
Catchpoint Enables Experimentation by Automating Web App Testing
Catchpoint this week expanded its open source WebPageTest performance testing suite of tools to enable IT teams to run instant tests that surface suggestions for improving overall web application and site performance. In addition, Catchpoint is now providing support for private tests, bulk tests and priority testing capabilities within the WebPageTest tool suite. Tim Kadlec, […]
3xFAIL: IPv6 Fails | Fintech Fails | Firefox Fails
In this week’s The Long View: IPv6 gets stabbed in the back, Fintech firms’ valuations are falling, and the latest browser war seems to be over—Firefox lost.
Broadcom’s Software Strategy: Milk the Cash Cow, Exploit ‘Synergies’
The week began with rumors that Broadcom would acquire VMware and ended with the news that the deal is all but done. The VMware board, along with Michael Dell (who still owns about 41% of VMware’s stock), have a 40-day “go-shop” option; however, I don’t believe there will be other suitors. On Tuesday, I published […]
Eclipse Foundation Opens Marketplace for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation this week opened an Adoptium Marketplace through which DevOps teams can access Java binaries based on the OpenJDK specification. OpenJDK was created based on the Java standard edition (SE) of the programming language and virtual machine. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the goal is to make it easier […]
JFrog Aims to Push DevOps to the Edge
At its swampUP event, JFrog launched a JFrog Connect platform for updating, managing, monitoring and securing remote Linux and internet of things (IoT) devices. The JFrog Connect platform is based on a lightweight agent JFrog gained last year with the acquisition of Upswift and that has now been integrated with the JFrog Artifactory repository. DevOps […]
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
In this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing.
JFrog Launches Blockchain Project to Secure Open Source Software
At its swampUP event, JFrog today launched Project Pyrsia, an open source project that uses a blockchain platform and Sigstore Cosign and Notary V2 cryptographic signature software to secure software packages. In addition to JFrog, other contributors to the project include Docker, Inc., DeployHub, Futureway and Oracle. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations for […]
Could Buying VMware Bring Broadcom Hybrid Cloud Bona Fides?
Rumors are swirling that Broadcom wants to buy its way into the growing hybrid cloud market by acquiring VMware. The deal won’t come cheap—after news of the potential deal surfaced, VMware’s market cap soared to around $50 billion. Yes, billion with a ‘B’. As interest rates increase and investors reevaluate many of the lofty software […]
Survey Surfaces Challenges Ahead on National DevOps Day
A survey published today for National DevOps Day found nearly two-thirds (63%) have seen an increase in the frequency of service incidents that have affected their customers over the course of the last 14 months. The survey polled 1,046 engineering, IT operations, DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) professionals at organizations with more than 300 […]
Survey Surfaces Multi-Cloud Computing and Cost Challenges
A survey of 360 CIOs and IT leaders in the U.S. and the United Kingdom found that, as the number of cloud platforms an organization employs expands, the number of tools they are required to deploy and master does, too. The survey, published this week by Virtana, a provider of a platform for managing cloud […]
Datadog Adds Support for OpenTelemetry Protocol
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 event, Datadog announced it made support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) generally available in the agent software it provides to instrument applications. Ilan Rabinovitch, senior vice president of product and community at Datadog, said that capability eliminates the need to install a separate OpenTelemetry collector to aggregate metrics, […]
Continuous Delivery Foundation Adds Interoperability Project
At a CDEventscon event this week, the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced it is hosting a CDEvents project through which it hopes to create a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data across multiple services, platforms and systems. Andrea Frittoli, open source developer advocate at IBM, co-creator of the CDEvents project and member […]
Splunk Survey Surfaces Gains in Observability
A global survey of 1,250 observability practitioners, managers and other experts published today by Splunk found that sophisticated observability practitioners are able to cut downtime costs by 90%. That figure is based on an estimated cost of $23.8 million annually for comparative newcomers to $2.5 million. However, only 9% of respondents are advanced enough to […]
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
In this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double salaries.
Observe, Inc. Dives Deeper Into Observability
Fresh from picking up an additional $70 million in funding, Observe, Inc. announced this week it has added multiple tools, dubbed Data Universe Maps, to its observability platform to visualize all datasets and surface underlying event data. The company also added pre-built applications for Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Jenkins environments with editions for […]
Nobl9 Shares SLO-as-Code Methodology
Nobl9 has released version 1.0 of an open specification for defining service level objectives, dubbed OpenSLO, and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology. Kit Merker, Nobl9 COO, said the Service Level Objective Development Lifecycle (SLODC) methodology represents an effort to create a set of best practices for achieving and maintaining SLOs that are […]
Progress Expands Scope of Compliance-as-Code Capabilities
Progress this week extended its DevSecOps portfolio—built atop the Chef automation framework it acquired in 2020—to now include the ability to programmatically address compliance mandates. At the same time, Progress has updated the Progress Chef InSpec framework for automating the discovery of compliance issues to add support for SAP ASE, IBM DB2, Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle, […]