How to Supercharge Your Engineering Teams
With the economy still bleak, data and engineering teams that were already struggling to keep pace with business needs are now facing a potential hiring freeze or worse in 2023. That’s why there’s never been a more important time to maximize the productivity and impact of your teams, but the question is how to identify […]
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs.
Strategies To Consider When Adopting Platform Engineering
Platform engineering helps centralize the responsibilities associated with maintaining internal infrastructure. And it continues to be an emerging discipline—according to the 2023 State of DevOps Report, 51% of organizations have already adopted platform engineering within the last three years, and 93% said it’s a step in the right direction. I recently met with Hope Lynch, […]
Platforming the Developer Experience
This article is part three of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in supporting a streamlined, positive developer experience. In a perfect world, the developer experience would be on that is completely free of obstacles. In the previous articles in this series, I argued that supporting and improving the developer experience […]
Technical Debt is a Major Threat to Innovation
A survey published today suggested that technical debt is starting to take a heavier toll as IT environments continue to become more complex to manage. The survey of 400 IT leaders at organizations with 1,500 employees was conducted by Foundry, the market research arm of International Data Group (IDG) on behalf of Insight Enterprises, a […]
DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One
Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]
The Evolution of DevOps: Developer Productivity and Platforms
This article is part two in a series of three on the rise of platform engineering and its role in improving the developer experience. Read part one here. Developer experience is business-critical in organizations of all sizes and across all industries. In the first article of this series, I make the case that the cloud-native […]
flox Unveils More Accessible Instance of Nix Framework
This week, flox launched a more opinionated implementation of the open source Nix framework that programmatically automates package management and system configuration. Fresh from raising an additional $16.5 million in funding, flox CEO Ron Efroni said the company will also make an enterprise edition of its namesake flox framework available later this year. The Nix […]
Platform Engineering: Creating a Paved Path to Reduce Developer Toil
This article is part one of a series of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in reducing cognitive load and creating a better developer experience. Developer toil and cognitive load in the cloud-native space is real. The complexity posed by microservices, Kubernetes, and “software-defined everything” almost necessitated that ops needed to […]
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 easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
Blameless Integrates Incident Management Platform With Opsgenie
Blameless this week announced it has integrated its namesake incident management solution with the Opsgenie alerting platform from Atlassian. Aaron Lober, director of product marketing for Blameless, said the Blameless platform is now integrated with both Opsgenie and PagerDuty, the two most widely used platforms for managing alerts. Blameless provides an incident management platform that […]
How To Build Anti-Fragile Software Ecosystems
Just as organisms are susceptible to diseases and viruses, software systems are susceptible to hacks and errors. And within many complex interconnected systems, a minor bug could have a cascading effect across an entire organism, causing it to break. As such, increasing the resiliency of a software ecosystem is something engineers continually strive for. But […]
GitLab Strengthens Remote DevOps Management
GitLab this week moved to provide remote developers with access to a more secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform while at the same time adding a dashboard that makes it simpler to track the overall status of application development projects. David DeSanto, chief product officer for GitLab, said GitLab Remote Development takes advantage of an […]
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed.
State of DevOps Report Finds a Rise in Platform Engineering
The speed of software development velocity is increasing, and to enable this, platform engineering is emerging to evolve the DevOps practice. Interest in platform engineering is rising—so much so that Puppet emphasized platform engineering in its 2023 State of DevOps Report. A whopping 94% of respondents agreed that platform engineering is helping their organizations better […]
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad.
Why SREs Are Critical to DevOps
Although a relatively new concept, site reliability engineers (SREs) have become crucial for DevOps teams, helping to solve an array of operational problems such as network availability and user experience. However, in previous years, some people have questioned the longevity of such a role. This article will discuss several reasons why site reliability engineering roles […]
4 Ways to Build With an Accessibility-First Mindset
Over 1.3 billion people live with some form of disability. This accounts for almost 20% of today’s workforce in the U.S. While great strides have been made in closing the disability inclusion gap in the workforce, more needs to be done. As the popularity of hybrid and remote work continues to grow, workers who live […]
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 […]
When Self-Service DevOps Forgets Who it Serves
For years, self-service has been touted as the salvation of DevOps. Why? Well, every department in your organization has its own reasons for putting self-service DevOps at the top of its wish list: ● Ops teams need to ensure high availability, performance and security ● Dev teams need speed, self-sufficiency and transparency ● Security teams […]
Is DevOps Dead? I Don’t Think So!
A lesson I have learned over my 30 years in the tech world is that technology and frameworks never truly die—they evolve and they grow. When I read a recent article proclaiming, “DevOps is dead!” and that we should all be embracing platform engineering, I had a chuckle. No, DevOps isn’t dead, and rumors of […]
Understanding the Importance of Developer Experience
If you’re creating a developer tool, you’re bound to run into this dilemma—you know the inner workings of it really well, but others don’t. And without solid documentation and samples to follow, it can be challenging for another person to get started. Friction with the tools we use can contribute to burnout, inhibit creativity and […]
Internal Developer Portal: What it Is and Why You Need One
One main advantage of the cloud is that it offers developers flexibility and a self-service solution. Instead of having to contact the central infrastructure team whenever a dev team needs a new server or a cluster, the dev team can do it themselves through a simple web UI. This change drastically improves productivity. But there’s […]