Data Theorem Adds Runtime Protection Enabled by Observability
Data Theorem, Inc. this week added an Active Protection offering to its portfolio of application security services that makes it possible for DevOps teams to embed observability and runtime defenses in their applications via a software development kit (SDK). The Data Theorem cloud services are based on Trustkit, an open source framework the company created […]
Beyond IaaS: The Benefits of Using EaaS
Beyond IaaS: The Benefits of Using EaaS The market for cloud infrastructure is growing at a rapid clip. Driving factors include IT’s need to cut costs, provide more services, respond faster to business needs, and enable innovation and digital transformation. For many years, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings have been both the first and most used cloud […]
Securing Your Software Development Pipelines
Earlier this year, it was announced that the attack on IT management software provider SolarWinds had been used to compromise other organizations, including parts of the United States government. There were several reasons for alarm because of this news, but one of the biggest was the revelation that attackers breached SolarWinds’ software development process and […]
Dynatrace Survey Sees Continuous Delivery Challenges Ahead
A global survey of 1,300 application development and DevOps leaders conducted by the research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Dynatrace finds, on average, organizations expect to increase the frequency of their software releases by 58% over the next two years. Andreas Grabner, director of strategic partnerships at Dynatrace, an observability platform provider, said that […]
CircleCI Adds Test Insights Module to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today announced it has added a Test Insights capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to make it easier to identify tests that are either taking too long to run or simply exhibiting some form of anomalous behavior. Dawit Gebregziabher, product manager for data insights at CircleCI, said Test Insights is designed to […]
Software Design Patterns – Gary Gruver, Gruver Consulting & Dave Farley, Continuous Delivery Ltd.
Gary Gruver has partnered with Dave Farley, co-author of “Continuous Delivery,” to supply trainees with key software design patterns and an understanding of how to avoid common mistakes along the way. This curated, wiki-style content library is based on Farley’s breadth of knowledge and decades of experience; Alan, Gary and Dave discuss. The video and […]
A Blueprint for Securing Software Development
Software development has changed dramatically in recent years, as technologies like DevOps, application containers, and cloud-native transform how software is built and distributed. Unfortunately, attackers have been paying close attention to these changes, and have retooled their attack strategies to take advantage of relatively weak security controls in software development and build environments. Attackers recognize […]
Top 5 Must-Haves for IaC Automation Tools
These days, there are a lot of different DevOps tools to accomplish a lot of different jobs. Almost daily another startup comes out with a new and innovative product or a newer (maybe even better) version of existing tools. One of the biggest innovations has been infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Giving infrastructure admins and developers alike the […]
Perforce Charts Testing Course After BlazeMeter Acquisition
Perforce Software has acquired BlazeMeter from Broadcom as part of an effort to extend the scope of its testing tools beyond the Perfecto tools for testing mobile and web applications it acquired in 2018. Broadcom gained control over BlazeMeter after it acquired CA Technologies in 2018. CA Technologies acquired BlazeMeter in 2016. Terms of the […]
Achieving Business Maturity with Database DevOps
Companies have seen unprecedented change over the past year and a half, with IT teams trying to help businesses weather the storm by meeting customer demands for services and products to be delivered in new ways while adjusting to remote work. As more companies introduced hybrid approaches to their workplace, a particular trend began to […]
Relyance AI Shifts Compliance Left Using ML Algorithms
Relyance AI emerged from stealth this week to unveil a namesake platform for managing privacy and data governance in real-time within the context of a larger DevOps workflow. Fresh off raising $30 million in seed capital, Relyance AI co-CEO Leila Golchehreh said organizations can now quickly and accurately answer essential privacy questions and ensure compliance […]
DevOps World: Forget Doc, it’s All About Dev
This year for DevOps World, we’re heading back to the future. Doc Brown won’t be there with his souped-up time machine, but plenty of devs will. As the world is coming to realize, developers are keeping everything running, from the apps we use on a daily basis to check the weather, bank online or order […]
3 Building Blocks for Enterprise Digital Transformation
DevOps has gone from a new idea to a buzzword in every boardroom over the last decade. With society increasing its reliance on digitization and pushing their preferences for speed and convenience, enterprises of all types have had to change their business culture to help their teams to work together with greater speed and autonomy. […]
Do’s and Don’ts of Phased Rollouts Software Delivery
When it comes to app stability and user experience, the “move fast and break things” approach is a recipe for disaster. To protect brand reputation and to stay ahead of evolving needs and customer expectations, leading Silicon Valley companies’ software engineering teams have adopted phased rollouts, a software development method that involves the gradual implementation […]
CloudBolt Survey Shows DevOps Frustration in the Enterprise
A survey of more than 200 senior IT leaders at organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today finds only 4% consider their organizations to be experts when it comes to continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). Conducted by CloudBolt Software, a provider of a platform for many IT environments, the survey also found only 11% consider […]
How CIOs Can Measure Digital Transformation ROI
To fully grasp how to measure success and gauge progress toward goals in any digital transformation, it’s important to understand the shifting expectations of CIOs who must report these objectives and outcomes. The pandemic has substantially changed the role of the CIO, giving them heftier goals and a shift away from IT. Today’s CIO is […]
Real-Life BDD: Getting the Best Out of Dev Teams
If we want our software to have value, we need to improve it every day, rather than wait three months for the next release. If someone finds a bug and we know how to fix it, we want to deliver the fix that day. The challenge is deploying to production many times a day. If […]
Continuous Delivery: The Secret to 5G’s Success
New technologies are evolving the way societies function, and as a result, how businesses are carried out. In the networking industry, these emerging technologies coupled with the long-lasting impact of the past year–such as remote working–are changing the way customers and communication service providers (CSPs) interact. To that end, these shifts in behavior subsequently bring […]
Report: Lots of Room for Continuous Delivery Improvement
A report published by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation suggests that, in terms of achieving that goal, most organizations still have a long way to go. Based on analysis of the Developer Nation survey data collected by SlashData, nearly two-thirds of developers said it takes at least one week to go from code committed to […]
EP 10: Observability & Continuous Improvement
Observability at enterprise scale brings with it additional application life cycle management requirements. Success requires knowing which changes result in improvements and which don’t produce positive results and how that information must make it back to the DevOps team through feedback loops. In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley talk with Kurt Chase, senior director, global release management at Tricentis, Charity Majors, co-founder at Honeycomb and Ravyn Manuel, senior application manager at the Smithsonian as they discuss observability and continuous improvement.
CircleCI Survey Shows the Need to Prioritize DevOps
A CircleCI survey of 2,013 business leaders in the U.S. and UK published today finds nearly all respondents (97%) recognize that the success of their business within the next year depends on their software development teams. Despite those findings, well over one-third of respondents (39%) admit their organization is challenged when it comes to innovation […]
From One-Click Deployment to One-Click Feedback
What makes a group of individual contributors a team? You can look at today’s product development teams as an ensemble of craftspeople from different disciplines. Code builders, design artists, storytellers, and an orchestrator. Similar to an orchestra, their output is based on the ability of each and every one of them to work together in […]