OpenTelemetry Isn’t the Hero We Need: Here’s Why it’s Failing our Stack
OpenTelemetry promised to be a unified standard that would make it easier for everyone to collect and correlate traces, logs and metrics from distributed systems. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, here is the hard truth: OpenTelemetry is only satisfactory. When I compare it to deeper tracing technologies such as eBPF, OpenTelemetry feels bloated, inefficient, […]
SBOM as a Cornerstone of Secure Software Development
By providing transparency into the software supply chain, an SBOM helps organizations identify and manage vulnerabilities in third-party and open-source components.
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 […]
F5 Delivers on NGINX One Platform Promise
F5 this week made generally available an integrated application networking platform that centralizes the management of load balancing, web and application servers, application programming interface (API) gateways and cybersecurity.
Automating Web Application Security Testing to Combat Cyber Threats
Despite the hundreds of exposed web applications and APIs in our attack surfaces, many assets remain dangerously untested and vulnerable to cyberattacks.
CortexClick Leverages Generative AI to Automate Software Documentation
CortexClick today launched a content generation platform based on large language models (LLMs) that have been specifically trained to create documentation, tutorials and technical blog posts, including screenshots, for organizations building software.
Gearset Acquires Clayton to Add Salesforce Code Analytics to DevOps Workflows
Gearset this week revealed it has acquired Clayton, a provider of a code analysis platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications running on the Salesforce cloud service.
Bringing DevOps to the Edge
With networks rapidly expanding through edge device proliferation, managing these devices is becoming more arduous. I had the opportunity to sit down with Sudhir Reddy, CTO of Esper, to discuss the growth in edge device deployments and how bringing DevOps, a process discipline normally associated with software development, could help solve a number of today’s […]
Embracing DevSecOps: The Future of Secure Software Delivery
Register now for the OpenText DevSecOps Virtual Summit 2024 on Sept. 24 and step toward revolutionizing your software delivery process.
Leading the Charge: C-Suite’s Role in Cultivating DevOps and DevSecOps Culture
As the digital frontier evolves, it is becoming imperative for C-suite executives to cultivate a robust DevOps and DevSecOps culture.
Study Finds No DevOps Productivity Gains from Generative AI
A study of 800 software developers working on large engineering teams that have adopted the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool finds limited gains in productivity are being achieved.
Survey Surfaces Incident Management Gap Between DevOps and ITSM
A survey of 505 software developers, IT professionals and IT decision makers (ITDMs) in the U.S. finds that 70% of respondents work for organizations that hold developers responsible for deployments, with only 22% practicing conducting blameless post-mortems.
Copado Adds AI Agents to Automate DevOps Workflows for Salesforce Apps
Copado today revealed it has developed a series of generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents capable of automating specific tasks that DevOps teams routinely encounter when building and deploying applications on top of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platform from Salesforce.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
A weekly summary of DevOps job opportunities, including a Cloud Services Engineer role at Intel and an engineer role at Parsons Corp.
Cribl Extends Reach of Platform for Routing DevOps Telemetry Data
Cribl this week added support for multiple additional platforms to its cloud service for collecting and routing telemetry data collected from multiple DevOps tools and platforms.
Survey Sees AI and Automation Accelerating Pace of Software Development
A survey of 555 software executives published this week finds that 75% have seen up to a 50% reduction in development time by implementing various artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies.
Cloud Cost Optimization: Accounting Principles Meet Engineering Efficiency
Several techniques blend accounting principles with engineering practices to make cloud cost optimization practical and effective.
Navigating Agile Waters: Why Integrating Copilot Demands Methodological Adjustments
Changes to agile methodology are inevitable because GenAI and Agile are providing real competitive advantages.
JFrog CEO: Developers Need to Adapt to AI to Keep Their Jobs
JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim told attendees of the company’s swampUP 2024 conference that unless application developers adapt their jobs are indeed at risk because of the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
JFrog Extends GitHub Alliance to Provide Unified Dashboard
JFrog and GitHub today extended their alliance to provide a unified dashboard that makes it simpler to track and prioritize vulnerabilities from source code to the binaries that are ultimately deployed.
Has Splitting Into ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Loops Sent DevOps to the Dark Ages?
The pressure on software delivery leaders is palpable. Innovation is the competitive currency in decelerating markets, while legislation such as DORA and fines for poor business resilience reflect the regulatory scrutiny of software’s role in infrastructure and lives. Continuous improvement in enterprise software delivery is not a ‘nice-to-have’; its alternative is stagnation, negative risk and […]
