Data-Driven Feedback Loops: How DevOps and Data Science Inform Product Iterations
The iterative process is greatly enhanced by data-driven feedback loops, which allow teams to systematically collect, analyze and act on data to inform product decisions.
Improving the Developer Experience by Deploying CI/CD in Databases
How can developers use CI/CD to improve their database software deployment process, and where should they begin?
Leaders – How to Support an Agile Transformation
A guide to assist leaders in the facilitation of their organization’s success in the endeavor of agile transformation.
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: […]
Proactive Dependency Management: Reducing Risk and Improving Software Quality
Managing dependencies isn’t just best practice, it is an essential ongoing process. Implement these strategies in your projects to stay ahead of potential issues and ensure your software remains reliable, secure and up to date.
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
5 Key Policies to Strengthen Runtime API Governance
These policies are essential to ensure optimal API performance, security and alignment with evolving business and technical demands.
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.
Chaos Engineering: The Key to Building Resilient Systems for Seamless Operations
In today’s highly interconnected and complex digital landscape the need to ensure that business-critical systems are resilient and reliable is now higher than ever. Such systems can have a direct influence on end customer experience, an organization’s brand image and customer loyalty and regulatory implications. Traditional quality assurance approaches might often fall short in uncovering […]
The High Price of A Digital Disaster: Is Your Site Ready for Black Friday?
Just as you ensure a physical store is fully staffed and stocked for the holiday rush, you must also ensure your digital presence is ready to meet and exceed customer expectations.
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.
Four Steps to Balance Agility and Security in DevSecOps
Balancing agility and security in DevSecOps is achievable with the right mix of automation, collaboration and continuous feedback. By embedding security into agile processes, organizations can deliver software that is both fast and secure, meeting the demands of today’s fast-paced tech environment.
Observability in 2030: A Practitioner’s Wishlist
Observability in 2030 will require integrated telemetry across layers, events for context, and decoupling telemetry collection from analysis, ensuring seamless multi-signal observability.
Developer Experience Has Always Been a Profit Story
The true business value of providing a best-in-class developer experience is not being articulated enough, and that is — improved developer experience is a profit driver, not a cost center.
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 […]
Goodbye, Git-Centricity: Getting to Green in an AI-Powered World
For decades in the software industry, we have focused on testing our applications under the reassuring streetlight of GitOps. It made sense in theory: Wait for changes to the codebase made by engineers, then trigger a re-test of your code. If your tests pass, you are good to go.
Ghosts in the Machine: How AI Agents Will Take Over DevOps
AI agents can transform DevOps practices, leading to more robust, efficient and cost-effective operations while freeing human engineers to focus on higher-level strategic tasks and innovation.