Seeing the Bigger Picture With BizDevSecOps
Not long ago, if you can believe it, software was shipped on physical floppy disks and CDs. These physical relics contained dense paper instruction books that humans read diligently for hours on end (I guess they had more time to spare back then?). Complexity was a given for computer-based tasks. Fast forward past the consumerization […]
Survey Sees Application Testing Shifting Further Left
PractiTest, a test management platform provider, published a report today that suggests professional application testers have become more adept at working within DevOps workflows. The annual survey of more than 1,000 application testing professionals finds that 80% of all application testing within organizations is being done by test engineers, test leads, testers and automation testers. […]
EP 9: The Road to GitOps
GitOps takes DevOps best practices for development and applies them to infrastructure automation. In short, GitOps delivers a hermetic, immutable deployment. So, is GitOps replacing DevOps?
DevOps Skills Increasing Among Salesforce Developers
A survey of 521 attendees at a recent online Future of Salesforce DevOps Summit event hosted by Gearset, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce developers, found just under half (47%) of respondents now release software at least multiple times a week, with another 29% releasing software weekly or biweekly. More […]
GitLab Survey Surfaces Advances in DevOps Education
As more organizations clamor for employees with some type of DevOps education, higher education is responding in kind, according to survey findings. A survey of 843 students and teachers at various academic institutions who have had some exposure to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform suggests the number of individuals with DevOps skills graduating […]
The Surprising Secret to DevOps ROI
As a result of my many years of DevOps consulting, I have discovered a simple, but not well-understood, secret ingredient that drives ROI for all the Three Ways of DevOps. Measuring and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for DevOps is not well-understood. It is a proven fact that DevOps, when engineered well, delivers tremendous value […]
CircleCI Previews Support for Arm Platforms
CircleCI today previewed the ability to deploy applications on platforms based on Arm processors in a forthcoming release of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Tom Trahan, vice president of business development for CircleCI, said that Arm processors are rapidly being embraced by DevOps teams seeking to take advantage of the price/performance advantages they […]
EP 8: Testing Is Not a Monolith
With DevOps comes implementation of CI/CD, automation and testing. Is this sufficient to achieve “shift left testing”? Or does testing need to shift further left? Do we need new or additional tests for acceptance (ATDD) or behavioral testing (BDD)?
On-Premises Software Delivery Tool: Build or Buy?
The on-premises software market is four times larger than the SaaS market, but harder to reach. Every software vendor who wants to pursue it has to decide how they are going to package and deliver applications inside customers’ firewalls, automating away the complexity of keeping applications deployed and running. Should they build or buy a […]
Harness Revamps User Interface for CI Platform
Harness today announced it has updated the community edition of its continuous integration (CI) platform with, among other updates, a revamped user interface. Formerly known as Drone.io, the latest release also adds pipeline execution visualizations, governance and security controls and live CI pipeline debugging capabilities. Harness last year acquired Drone.io, an open source CI project, […]
DevOps Myths Debunked
Leaders need not be DevOps experts, but they need to distinguish DevOps myths and realities to lead their digital transformation projects. As I indicated in a recent article, Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges, leaders need to set an inspiring DevOps directional vision for the organization, and proactively stimulate and sponsor team activities toward goals. […]
GitLab Releases Updates to CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week made available a 13.9 update that adds more than 60 new features and updated capabilities to its namesake open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Brian Glanz, a product marketing manager for GitLab, said chief among those capabilities is a Security Alert Dashboard that enables DevOps teams to triage high-priority alerts more […]
Why Every DevOps Team Needs a Spot Instance Strategy
Most DevOps teams use the public cloud extensively and focus a lot of energy on reducing cloud costs. According to one estimate, U.S. businesses spent $14.1 billion in 2019 just on wasted, unused cloud resources. Spot instances are one of the most important ways to reduce the cost of public cloud services. Spot instances are […]
Survey: The State of Database DevOps
Enterprises are undergoing rapid changes. Throughout the past year, companies have been pressed to learn a diversified set of technologies and methods to remain agile in a changing economy. In this digital-first world, data plays a heightened role; in tandem, so does the delivery of data and the persistence of the database layer itself. Applying […]
Sauce Labs Acquires AutonomIQ to Advance App Testing
Sauce Labs is acquiring AutonomIQ, a provider of a scriptless test automation platform based on machine learning (ML) algorithms. Matt Wyman, chief product officer for Sauce Labs, said the acquisition of AutonomIQ will play a critical role in enabling Sauce Labs to push testing further left toward developers and, ultimately, “citizen testers” that are becoming […]
Enterprise Software Development Will Break the Speed Limit in 2021
For some, 2020 was the year for software development speed … but not for everyone. Startups and SMEs climbed on board the CI/CD, shift-left and agile development train en masse – and reaped the benefits of faster iterations and tighter release schedules. But the “big kids” got left behind. Core enterprise applications – the legacy […]
Rookout Tool now Debugs Third-Party Code
Rookout revealed today it has extended its eponymous debugging tools to include third-party applications. Shahar Fogel, Rookout’s CEO, says most organizations today are building applications that rely heavily on code or modules developed by a third party. Rookout now makes it possible to analyze and debug that code before it is incorporated within a larger […]
A Security Vulnerability Management Guide
Living in a container-native world is not easy. Containers have a reputation for being a point of entry for security vulnerabilities for many organizations. In 2015, according to a research paper, over 40% of Docker images distributed through Docker Hub had high-risk vulnerabilities; at that time there were more than 95,000 container images hosted on […]
What Does the Future Hold for DevOps and CI/CD?
After such a challenging year, we have finally made it to 2021. Although a new year has started, we are still trying to figure out what the “new normal” will look like once the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over. While the pandemic has affected many businesses and our daily lives in general, it also had […]
DevOps for the Development and Delivery of High-Performance Applications
Engineering teams that successfully implement DevOps practices often deliver software with higher business value. These organizations can easily identify areas where problematic code exists, quickly eliminate issues and deliver high-performance applications more quickly than their competitors that use traditional delivery methodologies. DevOps practitioners understand that creating an efficient model for performance testing goes hand-in-hand with […]
Continuous Integration Overview
To improve the efficiency of your software development workflow, you should use continuous integration. We’ll explain what continuous integration is, why it’s important and how it can help you. Continuous Integration in DevOps Continuous integration is the automation of building and testing code each time a change is made in the codebase, and then committing […]
What Is a CI/CD Pipeline? How to Improve CI/CD
The most effective way to ensure that your CI/CD pipeline is efficient is to use the right tool, like a static code analyzer. Here we explain what is a CI/CD pipeline and how a static analysis tool can help. What You Need to Know About CI/CD Pipelines The easiest way to understand a CI/CD pipeline […]