SoulCycle Flexes Its Muscles with DevOps and CI/CD
When SoulCycle wanted to improve application development and deployment, including improving services for customers across its 80-plus indoor cycling centers in the United States and Canada, the company turned to Mark Sost, a veteran developer and engineer who worked at several media companies, including Hearst. Over the last two-plus years, Sost, who now holds the […]
DevOps Chat: JFrog Acquires Shippable
The big news in DevOps today was the acquisition of Shippable by JFrog. This adds a CI/CD solution to the JFrog Enterprise+ platform and further expands JFrog’s end-to-end DevOps offering beyond Artifactory and more. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Shippable CEO Avi Cavale, JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim and JFrog VP of Marketing […]
Deploying into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
This article demonstrates how to deploy an application into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps (VSTS) continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. In this article, you’ll create a sample environment to: New build based on code commit to your Azure DevOps Repo. Automatically deploy your app into Azure. Prerequisites: Azure Portal Account, Azure subscription and Azure […]
In AI Initiatives and Hybrid Clouds We Trust
The 2019 State of the Union Address, delivered Feb. 5, was light on anything tech-related. But just a week later, Feb. 11, technology was the focus of an executive order that launched The American Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative. Why do we need a national AI initiative, and what does it have to do with DevOps? […]
Datadog Acquires App Dev Testing Platform Madumbo
Datadog announced it is extending its reach beyond IT monitoring to include application testing by acquiring Madumbo. Madumdo CEO Gabriel-James Safar said it’s become increasingly apparent that application testing needs to be more informed by the metrics gathered by IT monitoring tools. The combined Datadog/Madumbo will bring intelligence to automated testing processes using both application […]
Death of the Release: The Move to Continuous Delivery and Experimentation
As we move from continuous delivery to continuous experimentation, we also must develop new practices As software development processes have evolved, we have mostly said goodbye to the idea of defined product versions. Many modern product delivery teams are taking this a step further—even the concept of a “product release” is starting to fade. Instead, […]
DevSecOps Implementation Process and Road Map – Security at Every Step
DevSecOps is changing our perspective toward security and is equipping us to deal with its challenges in an intelligible manner. The systematic approach of DevSecOps helps us add value to our business processes while ensuring security. Here’s a summary of the key inputs and a recipe for a successful software development project. Implementing DevSecOps with […]
SolarWinds Survey Surfaces DevOps Disconnects
A survey of 336 developers, web product managers and DevOps practitioners published by SolarWinds, a provider of IT management tools, finds they spend most of their time troubleshooting applications—so much so that there is little time for strategic projects such as transitioning to DevOps practices. Joe Kim, executive vice president and global chief technology officer […]
Split Launches Free Managed Feature-Flag Service
As part of an effort to attract more DevOps teams, Split is making available a free managed feature-flag service for up to five users within an organization. Based on the same commercial managed service Split provides today, company president Trevor Stuart said the free service provides those five users with unlimited feature-flagging and unlimited usage […]
AIOps: How to Solve Performance Issues in Complex Data Pipelines
AIOps takes center stage to topple barriers as modern data application growth accelerates There seems to be a chasm between DevOps and big data teams in the enterprise, and the bridge over that chasm is long and treacherous. In fact, data analysts who are charged with managing and making sense of the growing volumes of […]
Best of 2018: 5 Best Node.js Frameworks to Know
As we close out 2018, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. When it comes to development platforms, the choices are wide and varied. It can be a difficult task choosing the right framework […]
DevOps Chat: App Modernization and Service Virtualization with IBM’s Matt Tarnawsky
While everyone wants to focus on building a new app, the fact is there are many, many apps already out there. They need to be maintained, updated and modernized. How do you upgrade these legacy apps to new infrastructure, frameworks, languages and more? App modernization is a thing. In this DevOps Chat we speak with […]
How DevOps Can Nurture the IoT Brownfield For Results
Your latest IoT project sailed through proof-of-concept but started running into problems during rollout. Fortunately, your DevOps superhumans got things running. Now, perhaps a year or more later, you’re seeing more and more issues crop up as the project grows. If this scenario sounds vaguely familiar, or you’re worried you may be headed there, you’re […]
Low-Code Application Development: A Catalyst to Digital Transformation
Low-code and no-code software development platforms have emerged as a focal point for CIOs, and it’s easy to see why. With an increasing emphasis on market disruption and continuous innovation across industries, tools such as these fit the bill in simplifying application development. Capabilities such as drag-and-drop integrations, out-of-the-box user interface (UI) templates and easy […]
DevOps Chat: The State of Software Security with Veracode’s Chris Eng
Every year CA Veracode publishes its “State of Software Security” report, chock full of research about how well software is being secured during development and beyond. It’s eye-opening stuff and definitely worth a read for anyone even remotely interested in helping make software more secure. In this DevOps Chat, Chris Eng, VP of research at […]
Chef Extends Scope of Compliance Automation
Chef has extended the reach of its InSpec compliance automation framework by adding a plug-in architecture that makes it easier for developers to programmatically generate compliance controls that can be applied to automation frameworks. The Terraform configuration management framework developed by HashiCorp is the first framework supported via the plug-in architecture. InSpec previously was integrated […]
The Benefits of Test-driven Development
It sounds like an oxymoron: Create test cases before coding. In the process of writing and using test cases before writing functionality, a developer can produce higher-quality software. That is the concept behind test-driven development (TDD), and it works. TDD Snapshot TDD has been around since at least 1999, and it is part of the […]
OutSystems Infuses DevOps Processes into Low-Code Platform
OutSystems has turned its low-code platform into a framework for generating microservices that can run on-premises or in a variety of public clouds. Mike Hughes, senior director of product marketing at OutSystems, said applications generated using OutSystems 11 now can be deployed on both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments and container-as-a-service (CaaS) environments, including Amazon Web Services […]
SAP Extends Effort to Modernize App Development
SAP this week expanded the scope of the SAP Cloud Platform to include support for the ABAP programming language and made available a beta version of a Kubernetes-as-a-service offering, in effort to update its app development portfolio. Announced at the SAP TechEd 2018 conference, these two offerings serve as bookends for an evolving SAP strategy […]
The Art of Software Performance Testing
When users turn away from applications or have critical feedback, it’s often because the application is slow, hangs/freezes or, worse, it isn’t available when needed. In this era of limited—or, zero—patience for app instability, delivery teams should ensure that their performance testing capability is sound. First though, let’s start with definitions. Despite popular opinion, performance […]
The Value of APM in Application Building and Management
There are literally billions of smartphone users on the planet. Many of these users interact with apps on a daily basis. With all of the competition in the app market, developers have to stay on the cutting edge of technology to keep their programs both functional and popular. It is imperative that you adequately monitor […]
OverOps Brings Machine Learning to DevOps
OverOps has launched a namesake platform employing machine learning algorithms to capture data from an IT environment that identify potential issues before a DevOps team decides to promote an application into production. Company CTO Tal Weiss said the OverOps Platform is unique in that, rather than relying on log data, it combines static and dynamic […]
DevOps: Making the Development Cycle More Secure
The promise of secure DevOps can be realized through security technologies such as dynamic authorization Fundamentally, DevOps is all about speed and agility. Customers expect companies to deliver and update applications at an accelerated pace and businesses must adopt modern technologies to meet customer expectations. With DevOps, organizations can implement a continuous development and deployment […]