How SRE Creates a Blameless Culture
People in tech love to praise failure as essential to innovation. But at far too many organizations, when failure happens, it is punished. When an IT system goes down, an individual or a team is immediately ID’d, blamed and shamed. This is counterproductive. Blame damages companies by creating a play-it-safe atmosphere and stifling innovation; even […]
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Richard Bradshaw
This is the sixth in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts, to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. Richard […]
Break-Even Analysis: Understanding the Impact of Automation
Determining whether automation is helpful beyond the CI/CD pipeline can be easier through a break-even analysis The pursuit of automating away all the operational tasks in your organization doesn’t stop after you finish building a solid CI/CD pipeline infrastructure using the myriad tools available and making it stable. There are many more one-off tasks not […]
DevOps: Don’t Let Detection Be a Bottleneck for Security
AI and automation can help ensure DevOps security doesn’t impact performance The world revolves around software and internet-based applications—and speed is crucial. Users have very little patience for delays and will quickly jump to something else if performance lags. Organizations have embraced DevOps and containers in an effort to accelerate development and deployment of software […]
Self-Service Integration: 3 Areas to Watch
Self-service integration is a priority—more enterprises are turning to it for help in retaining their customer base, delivering a delightful customer experience and making it easier to do business with. It has become a de facto standard for modern-day integration solutions. Enabling business users to build integrations strategically addresses a dire need to establish a […]
Tech, Legislative Changes Impacting Developers in 2019
In 2018, software development saw exponential growth in areas including blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, and the New Year has the potential to bring even more change through recent developments in automation, cybersecurity and legislation. Software development professionals have a unique opportunity to leverage these new developments this year, and the first step in doing […]
Minor Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Age of Automation
Giving automation the power to detect crime and enforce punishment has ramifications, even for minor infractions In November, I broke the law. I crossed over a solid white line to make a right turn at a traffic intersection. At the time I was unaware of my violation. I was on my way to a shopping […]
How to Automate HIPAA Compliance with DevOps
DevOps can help make HIPAA compliance more achievable Automating the provisioning of HIPAA-compliant server infrastructure enables compliant hosting service providers with the ability to provision and deploy infrastructure-as-code with minimal human intervention. Providing the automated process is thoroughly tested, revised and updated, it can offer a healthcare organization huge flexibility when enforcing a HIPAA-compliant server […]
Red Hat Adds Support for Nested Workflows to Ansible Automation Framework
Red Hat today announced it is adding support for nested playbooks created using the open source Ansible automation framework within one another, which, in turn, will make it easier to automate complex IT processes. Bill Nottingham, product manager for Ansible, said the goal is to enable DevOps teams to reuse existing Ansible playbooks to kick […]
Security and Speed: Why DevOps and Security Need to Play Nicely
It isn’t news that DevOps and IT security teams often struggle to align their departments and maintain a coherent balance between keeping a business secure and developing new applications to maintain customer interest. While security processes are a necessity, they can be deemed by DevOps teams to be manual and cumbersome, blocking the agility that […]
The 4 Keys to Effective Continuous Testing
In the digital era, products no longer can win on capabilities alone. Speed to market and buyer experience now matter just as much to customers as the extent to which a product meets a pressing need or outperforms competitive offerings. Against this backdrop, software developers find themselves under increasing pressure, left with no choice but […]
Revolutionize Software Delivery with DevOps and AWS
Technology is constantly evolving—every time we think we’ve got a complete hand-holding experience on some technological aspect, there emerges a better innovation. When the DevOps solution emerged, organizations were more than happy to incorporate its principles. But somewhere down the line, there came DevSecOps. Innovation is an upward curve that doesn’t see a decline but […]
Reducing Poverty in the Age of Automation
In 1966, more than half of the people in the world lived in extreme poverty. I don’t mean public housing, food stamps, subsidized school lunch, free health clinic poverty. I mean the type of poverty in which there’s no electricity, no running water, no toilets and open sewers, and most children never see a doctor […]
Toyota Research Institute Discusses DevOps Automation and Rapid Innovation
How TRI is using DevOps automation to drive its research and engineering Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is working to build a future where everyone has the freedom to move, engage and explore with a focus on reducing vehicle collisions, injuries and fatalities. Working tirelessly behind the scenes is TRI’s Infrastructure Engineering team, responsible for designing, […]
Stop the Domino Effect by Joining Build Engineering and DevOps
As DevOps has become more common, these teams are tasked with uniting everything from coding to deploying and monitoring applications. Build Engineering forms the foundation for all those processes and is essential for building code. Its tools vary according to the operating system you’re building on and by programming language. DevOps needs to work with […]
Image Management 101: The Web Developer’s Guide
How understanding the user experience can help web developers in managing images effectively Online experiences have in many ways supplanted in-person experiences. Today, no one would hesitate to buy a luxury watch online instead of from a jewelry brick-and-mortar store. But as these online experiences become the norm, user expectations for a seamless and “in-person […]
Survey: Rapid Automation of IT Ops Looms Ahead
The rate at which IT operations will become automated is about to accelerate significantly over the next two years. A global survey of 1,500 senior IT leaders conducted by Cisco Systems finds that 64 percent of respondents today would describe their approach to IT operations as either reactive (26 percent) or proactive (38 percent), but […]
CircleCI Automates Configurations Across CI/CD Platform
CircleCI has unveiled what it describes as the first package manager designed specifically to address configuration tasks involving software delivery automation. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the Orbs package manager condenses commands, executors and jobs into single, reusable lines of code that automate tasks on the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform […]
Life and Death in the Age of Automation
Has automation changed the way we perceive interaction with others? A few weeks back I got an email from an old friend, Jim. Typically, that’s no big deal; I get emails from old friends all the time. Except, in this case, it was different. According to a posting on Facebook, Jim passed away about a […]
SAP Embeds Integration Services in PaaS Environment
SAP, at its SAP Tech-Ed Europe 2018 conference, expanded the scope of the integration services it provides within SAP Cloud Platform, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment it provides for building custom applications based on the open source Cloud Foundry project. Dan Lahl, global vice president of product marketing for SAP Cloud Platform, said SAP is now […]
Solving the ‘Automagical’ Apps Automation Problem
The DevOps Revolution started with a handful of simple principles. A key one was that systems should be managed by code, not by humans, to eliminate complexity and ensure better security, compliance and scalability. To manage compute infrastructure at any scale, the process should be automated with logic captured in code. And, ideally, automation also […]
You’re Thinking Software Wrong
Like any industry, DevOps fosters its own unique culture. And like any culture it resists change, it has inertia. “This is how it has always been done” is an incredible force to reckon with. Even though the realities of DevOps have changed dramatically in recent years with the advent of new tools and services, many […]
Akamai Further Extends Reach into DevOps Realm
Akamai is extending its campaign to make content delivery networks (CDNs) a natural extension of DevOps processes by adding more application programming interfaces (APIs) and other automated functions to simplify a variety of tasks. Specifically, Akamai has added an Akamai Sandbox that makes it simpler to conduct tests within the context of the Akamai continuous […]