Securing Third-Party and Open Source Code Components: A Primer
The increasing popularity of open source code continues to be a boon for developers across the industry, allowing them to increase efficiency and streamline delivery. But there are security risks to be considered when leveraging open source and commercial code components, as each carries with it a significant risk of becoming the enemy within, creating […]
More App Dev Models Increase DevOps Pressure
A bifurcation in types of developers will become more pronounced in the years ahead as more application code moves to the network edge. As that transition continues occurring, the pressure on IT operations to be able to be able to flexibly manage different classes of applications by embracing DevOps processes will correspondingly increase. Mike Piech, […]
Akamai Extends Scope of DevSecOps Reach
Akamai pressed its case for becoming a strategic DevSecOps platform by adding a range of security capabilities to its network service platform that help isolate applications from cybersecurity threats. The company has added support for scripting to automate application security using its Kona Site Defender web application firewall as well as improved management and versioning […]
Code Yellow: When Operations Isn’t Perfect
Every now and then, engineering teams will get into trouble for any number of reasons. Sometimes, explosive growth catches the team by surprise. Or, on-call has gotten out of control, with alerts going off every five minutes. Or, development and operations teams simply have stopped seeing eye to eye. Regardless of why, the team is […]
HashiCorp Extends Secrets Management Reach
Secrets management is core to DevSecOps—how credentials are managed can make all the difference in preventing an application from being compromised in the first place. The challenge is making it as simple as possible for developers to access where most of those credentials are stored in the enterprise. HashiCorp this week released an update to […]
The Need for Rapid Development in a Post-App World
Gartner’s May 2017 report, “Preparing for a World Beyond Mobile Apps,” anticipates a post-app environment in which consumers have a wide variety of interfaces to choose from—including wearables, bots, ambient voice interfaces, IoT devices and AR/VR—that not only lend themselves to more immersive and seamless digital experiences, but also upend how businesses need to think […]
Hackathon: DevOps Q&A with Appian VP Malcom Ross
Hackathons are a great way to demonstrate the value of a platform. I had the chance to speak with Malcolm Ross, vice president, Product at Appian to share a bit more about Appian’s virtual hackathon to correspond with its upcoming user conference. Full disclosure: I’ll be one of the judges attending Appian World to judge […]
Building a Solid Foundation for Microservices Security
It’s often true that threats evolve faster than development practices and technologies can keep up with, which can be seen in the current microservices approach to application development. While microservices bring clear benefits to developers by enabling application deployment via modular, independently deployable services, they also open the door to new security vulnerabilities. Consequently, these […]
Oracle Unveils Autonomous Cloud Service
Oracle today unfurled at an Oracle CloudWorld event what it describes as a completely autonomous cloud service the company will manage primarily on behalf of application developers. The Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform is a managed service that makes extensive use of machine and deep learning algorithms across instances of Oracle software that can invoked on […]
DevOps Chat: ParkMyCloud Saves Wolfpack App Over 50 Percent on Cloud
In this DevOps Chat, find out how the developers of Wolfpack (wolfpack.run) are saving over 50 percent in cloud costs by using ParkMyCloud’s cloud management platform. Though the cloud offers many benefits to app developers and others, controlling the costs can sometimes elude organizations big and small. Cloud sprawl can quickly lead to large cloud […]
SAP Adds SDK to ERP Cloud Service
When most IT organizations think about DevOps it’s usually within the context of custom application development. But thanks to the rise of application programming interfaces (APIs), packaged applications are now becoming a much bigger factor. SAP, for example, just made available a software development kit (SDK) for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, an instance of its ERP […]
Survey Finds DevOps Teams Under Increasing Pressure
The fact that a much larger percentage of companies now recognize they are software companies that happen to specialize in a specific vertical industry is now putting a lot of pressure on developers, according to a new survey of 750 development team leaders in the United States and the UK conducted by Testplant, a provider […]
Building Security into Code and Culture
Organizations tend to have a very predictable approach to security: reactive. Most don’t really care about security until something bad happens. But with data regulations and requirements becoming more rigid around the globe and cybercrime only continuing to escalate, the notion of security as an “add on” or an afterthought is quickly becoming outdated. Today, […]
Making the Data Work for You: Data Visualization Techniques
When Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management, performed a two-year in-depth analysis of the General Motors corporation in the 1940s, he undertook what may have been the world’s most ambitious big data analysis ever at that time. However, when he gave the results to GM chairman Alfred Sloan, Al was not happy. In […]
CA Technologies Acquires Runscope for API Monitoring
There’s a pressing need for a variety of monitoring tools more than ever. But given the proliferation of application programming interfaces (APIs) inside the enterprise, demand for API monitoring tools in particular is rapidly expanding. To address that requirement, CA Technologies has acquired Runscope, a provider of an API monitoring service delivered as a software-as-a-service […]
OutSystems: Low-Code Apps Require Sound DevOps Processes
As more IT organizations embrace low-code application development platforms, many of them are discovering that accelerating the rate at which they develop applications can be too much of a good thing. António Barros, product manager for OutSystems, says most of the organizations that have adopted the company’s namesake low-code platform are just now coming up […]
VMware Ties Desktop Virtualization to DevOps Productivity
It’s no secret that when it comes to building applications, many developers prefer to use the Apple Macintosh. However, that preference can create multiple DevOps challenges. VMware is moving to reduce the friction with the release of VMware Fusion Pro 10, a desktop virtualization offering for Apple Macs that now supports REST application programming interfaces […]
Sonatype Report Spotlights Software Supply Chain Issues
Most application developers today don’t write much raw code. Rather, applications developed today are created mostly by combing various modules and widgets to create a custom application. But currently there is little oversight being applied to the provenance of application components, especially when it comes to open-source software. The third annual State of the Software […]
How AI Impacts DevOps Pipelines
The rise of machine- and deep-learning algorithms is about to create some interesting data-gravity challenges for IT operations teams. Over most of the last decade IT operations teams have been caught up in a public- versus private-cloud computing debate that has mostly been species. The truth is that most organizations wind up employing both. But […]
13 Best Practices of Successful Software Testing Projects
Thorough testing is vital for quality assurance, and best practices in software testing can yield high-end software at the end. The current post is giving fine clues regarding the prevailing best practices in software testing projects. Recent cyberattacks have proved that security has paramount importance for any software life cycle. The best QA and testing […]
Application Development: Ripe for Encryption
As businesses look to accelerate application innovation and move more and more workflows to the cloud, their needs can be at odds with the need to secure the data. This article will outline current challenges faced by application developers to protect data in this new cloud/DevOps environment. It will also provide insights on how to eliminate the burdens […]
DevOps Doesn’t Stop at the Database
DevOps has moved into the mainstream and practices such as continuous delivery now are being widely adopted. But what about the database? Applications often have a back-end database that needs to be developed and maintained at the same time. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be an issue. The recent “State of Database DevOps […]
IBM: DevOps, AI to Drive Digital Business Transformation
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the biggest challenges organizations face today is a chronic shortage of application developers. But as artificial intelligence (AI) advances, the process of writing code will become more automated. But rather than there being not enough developers to write all the code necessary, the shortage will be in software engineers […]