Container Storage for DevOps: New Options With NVMe
The DevOps world is ripe for a storage paradigm change, both in how it operates within the enterprise and how it implements applications. NVMe, especially NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMeoF), is both a tool and a host target that can provide such a change—especially in the new world of microservices and containerization. NVMe can drastically improve application performance […]
Techstrong Live! Days, DC: Upskilling DevOps, Cloud-Native and Cybersecurity
DevOps and cloud-native are key for organization looking to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. Techstrong Live! Days, a two-day, in-person event, explores the latest DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud-native technologies and trends that are shaping the way we do business. The first stop of the Techstrong Live! Days conference tour will take place in Washington, DC […]
Updating and Managing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Infrastructure-as-code (IaC), often embodied by open source Terraform, is an essential ingredient to cloud and cloud-native strategies. But without the ability to scale, secure and manage IaC, you very quickly experience drift. Tim Davis, DevOps advocate with env0, pronounced “N zero”, discusses establishing a single source of truth and reigning in drift by updating and […]
Predict 2022: Back to the Future
After a year of innovation, rapid digital transformation efforts, new challenges and settling into a new normal, it is time to look back at all the lessons learned and look forward to the future. What does 2022 has in store for us? Will 2022 be a breakthrough year in terms of progress and opportunity? At […]
Mastering the Shared Responsibility Model
It’s no secret that cloud-native application development is growing exponentially, with Agile development, IaaS and PaaS from providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google, enabling innovation at a pace that is challenging for security to keep up with. A global pandemic and the resulting remote work mandates have only accelerated this movement. And with this change […]
What Does the Future of DevOps Look Like?
During the past couple of years, we have seen a rapid acceleration of digital transformation. Many businesses have been leveraging the benefits of DevOps and the cloud to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. With so many changes going on in the industry, it is time to take a look ahead at what DevOps is becoming […]
The Inevitability of Multi-Cloud-Native Apps
We all know the story: Enterprises moved to the cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self-service developer provisioning. Along came Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud-native, where they learned about automation, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Now, even though most enterprises are still figuring out how to do cloud-native at scale, there’s […]
Mastering API Gateways for the Modern Cloud-Native Enterprise
As modern enterprises continue migrating to the cloud and the need for connected applications and devices dramatically increases, API-driven architectures are being widely adopted. In addition to the convenience of being able to efficiently connect and share resources, organizations benefit from the innovation and accelerated development speed that APIs bring in multi-cloud environments. APIs are […]
Securing Microservices Vs. Monolithic Apps
New requirements for Securing Microservices Vs. Monolithic Apps Enterprises are migrating from monolithic applications to microservices, hoping to accelerate software deployment and improve scalability. Security is sometimes glossed over in these transitions. Simple best practices like authenticating users and using SSL are still important to follow. But teams need to think through important differences between […]
Open Your Ears and Get Ready to Listen: Cloud-Native Days with Kubernetes
If you think all the way back to primary and secondary school, you may remember hearing something like, “open your ears while your teacher is talking to you.” It’s true that someone tuned in to listening learns more than someone who doesn’t, but opening your ears is a lot more important than that. Open ears […]
Mark Your Calendars and Meet the Best in Tech at Cloud-Native Days with Kubernetes
After over a year of dreaded isolation, many of us are ready to return to the networking and social atmosphere of pre-COVID life. While physical proximity continues to be a struggle, virtual proximity through events like virtual summits and teleconference meetings, is getting increasingly more helpful amidst the transition. Here are the top 10 reasons […]
Learning from Loris Degioanni: Cloud-Native Days with Kubernetes Virtual Summit
Keeping up with information can be challenging. With all these changes, you’re probably left wondering, “who can guide me through all this information?” Fortunately, Cloud-Native Days with Kubernetes is focused on giving attendees the tools they need to become proficient in cloud-native technologies. At the virtual summit, attendees can tune into our expert-led featured sessions […]
HCL Launches SoFy, the Cloud Native Solution Factory and HCL Now, a Cloud-Native-as-a-Service Offering
New York, USA/Noida, India, July 20, 2021: HCL Technologies, (HCL), a leading global technology company, today unveiled HCL SoFy, the Cloud Native solution factory and HCL Now, a Cloud-Native-as-a-service offering. The two new additions further enhance the company’s #HCLCloudSmart offering. SoFy and HCL Now offerings are a result of the significant investments HCL has made towards evolving and […]
Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 6)
This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series include: • Factors used to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Practices to engineer designs for DevOps. • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services. • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • DevOps […]
Report: The State of Cloud-Native Application Security
The cloud brings tremendous capabilities in terms of increased deployment fluidity and automation. Along with cloud adoption has come the use of cloud-native tools built specifically for developing applications for this domain. However, cloud-native tools carry some nuanced security concerns, such as misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities and leaked secrets. As such, 83% of organizations recognize security […]
Why Businesses Need to Transform From DevOps to DevSecOps
The need for modern applications to support continuous integration, delivery and deployment spawned the need for DevOps. Increasingly, as cyberthreats evolve and grow and application development methods and time frames change, security now needs to be an integral part of today’s application life cycle. As a result, businesses should move from DevOps to DevSecOps. DevSecOps […]
Secure Kubernetes Architecture: Six Factors Essential to Success
Kubernetes has become the go-to container orchestration tool for businesses. Check out these telling stats [source: Enterpriser’s Project]: 84% of companies are using containers in production. Of those, 78% are using Kubernetes to manage their containers. 69% of companies have found security holes due to misconfiguration of their Kubernetes environment. Your Kubernetes architecture is like a […]
Why Browser and API Testing is Shifting Left
For developers working with cloud-native technologies, software testing and quality assurance is a key part of product development. For most teams, testing has “shifted left,” so the quality of the code can be assessed as it moves through the CI/CD pipeline. This approach to quality assurance reflects the rise of DevOps and other modern development […]
Achieving Reliable Observability Part 1 – Making Cloud-Native Observability More Robust
I was having a conversation with a CxO level customer as part of an AIOps/Observability workshop, and from what I could tell, most are confused about how to properly operationalize cloud-native production environments – especially the monitoring/observability portion. Here is how the conversation went. “Andy, we are thinking about getting [vendor] to use for our […]
Oracle Updates Java Development Platform
Oracle announced today the availability of Java 16, which adds 17 enhancements to a software development kit that is now being updated every six months. Georges Saab, vice president of development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said while most Java development teams are still using Java 8 or earlier editions of the platform, […]
3 Common App Modernization Pitfalls to Avoid
Application modernization has been a consistent theme for organizations year after year. Businesses today still rely on their legacy applications for the majority of their revenue generation, from mainframes to Java EE. New digital transformation initiatives and mandates have pushed application modernization back to the forefront, as a new generation of automation platforms and best […]
Ambassador Insights: Cloud-Native
Cloud-native is a methodology and a mindset that’s been gaining traction in the DevOps and application development space as more organizations look to leverage the benefits of cloud infrastructure, including scalability. As with many other topics in the DevOps space, however, cloud-native isn’t easily definable; rather, it is loosely described by the technologies it utilizes, […]