Survey Finds Speed of Software Deployment Outpacing Security
A survey of 5,315 individual contributors and leaders in development, IT operations and security finds two-thirds (66%) are releasing software faster than they were a year ago.
Lightrun Adds Generative AI Tool to Debug Code in Runtime Environments
Lightrun this week added a runtime debugging tool that makes use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the root cause of issues in runtime environments.
ZEST Security Brings Generative AI to Cloud Infrastructure Security
ZEST Security has launched a platform that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to remediate code created using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.
Report: High Risks to Software Supply Chains are Commonplace
A nine-month analysis of more than 100 million alerts, tens of thousands of code repositories, and 140,000 real-world applications finds 95% of organizations have at least one high, critical, or apocalyptic risk within their software supply chain.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
A weekly DevOps jobs report from devopsy.kinsta.cloud with highlighted opportunities, including the latest engineer roles at Roche and GSK.
CrowdStrike CEO: 97% of Windows Systems Back Online After Crash
More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but the pain from the worldwide outage will continue to be felt.
Backslash Security Adds Simulation and Generative AI Tools to DevSecOps Platform
Backslash Security today added an ability to simulate upgrades to a higher version of an application to its application security platform for scanning code and creating software bills of materials (SBOMs).
Survey Surfaces Mass Open Source Java Migration
A global survey of 663 IT professionals with Java expertise finds 86% are migrating some portion of their applications to an open-source edition of the Java platform or have already migrated (25%).
Survey Surfaces Wide Generative AI Adoption Among Software Engineers
A survey of 509 software engineers finds nearly three-quarters (72%) are leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities somewhere in a software development process, with nearly half (48%) reporting they use these tools every day.
Coralogix Extends Reach of Observability Platform to Mobile Applications
Coralogix this week extended the reach of its observability platform to add real-time user monitoring (RUM) capabilities for mobile applications.
CrowdStrike: Faulty Test Software Led to Global Windows Crash
A tool for validating Rapid Response Content updates to the Falcon software improperly let one with “problematic content” get through.
Secure Code Warrior Unveils Agent to Manage Commit Permissions
Secure Code Warrior (SCW) today added an agent to its portfolio of application security that assesses the security competency of developers as they commit code to a repository.
CrowdStrike Software Update Sparks Microsoft Outage, Global Chaos
Airlines, hospitals, banks and other businesses were disrupted when a faulty software update knocked Windows users of their systems.
Quali Bakes Generative AI into Environment as Code Platform
Quali has added a generative artificial intelligence (AI) capability to its Torque platform for managing infrastructure-as-code that enables DevOps teams to use natural language to describe a template, that is then automatically created and implemented.
Survey Surfaces Troubling Signs of Software Supply Chain Insecurity
A survey of software engineering professions has uncovered disconcerting signs of software supply chain insecurity.
Survey Surfaces High DevOps Burnout Rates Despite AI Advances
The results of a survey of software developers and engineering professionals surfaces high DevOps burnout rates despite AI advances.
Venue.sh DevOps Tools Extend To Orchestration & Standardization
Venue.sh has launched its own DevOps platform. Initially presented as a tool catalog for software engineering teams to access throughout their development and delivery phases, the company has lofty ambitions for extending the platform’s functionality, remit and scope.
GitLab Fixes Security Flaw That Lets Attackers Run Pipeline Jobs
If left unpatched, the vulnerability in the code repository could let threat actors run malicious code and access sensitive information.
Survey Surfaces Lots of Software Supply Chain Insecurity
A global survey of 900 application security professionals finds nearly two-thirds work for organizations that have had their software supply chains compromised in the past two years.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud 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 […]
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability.
Shhhh! It’s a Secret
In one of our regular back-and-forth breaks, Lori and I were talking shop a week or two ago, and she shared an excellent report by GitGuardian with me. Frankly, none of the information in the report was a huge surprise for me–Git is filled with information that companies probably don’t want out there, but that […]
Transition to DevOps Increasing Across IT Firms
Demand for faster product development and quick market release created a need for increased collaboration between Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) teams, which eventually led to “DevOps.” With this, transition to DevOps has become one of the key points of discussion across many IT firms. This article gives you an overview of the demand and […]