Back to DevOps School: What Tools are in Your Backpack?
The 2018-19 school year is in full swing, and just like the kids are going to the bus stop with their new backpacks and shoes, it’s time to refresh your DevOps tool chain and look to the future. Remember, just like education, DevOps never ends. It’s a lifetime pursuit that constantly improves your life. The […]
Integrating the Database into DevOps for Business Success
The benefits of DevOps have been known for some time, but this year’s “Accelerate: State of DevOps” report shows that successful companies are extending the advantages they get from adopting it. The longest-running research of its kind, the report from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) represents five years of work surveying more than 30,000 technical […]
Database Security: Best Practices for Keeping Data Safe
Database security is of utmost importance to sectors including IT, banking, finance and ecommerce. Every other transaction is based on how secure their database is, as it holds every detail including usernames, passwords, customers’ credit card information and so on. The term “database security” denotes a series of measures initiated by the service provider to […]
Microsoft Puts Upgrade Plan in DevOps Motion
Microsoft this week at its Ignite 2018 conference made it clear DevOps teams will have their hands full upgrading both databases and operating systems this Fall. Erin Chapple, corporate vice president for Windows Server, announced Windows Server 2019 will become generally available next month. As is the case with Windows Server 2016, there are three […]
Why Database Development is in a League of Its Own
Despite how the database is the lifeblood of many organizations, its management remains siloed and is more often than not left to a separate team of resident experts outside of the sphere of DevOps. Database developers also may work separately from the database administrators, thus further slowing down deployments. The end result, of course, is […]
Making the Database Key to DevOps
Here are three best practices for doing DevOps with the database The speed of business today demands that the development and deployment of applications is fast-moving, with frequent yet error-free releases. That’s why the adoption of DevOps is trickling down from Amazon, Facebook, Google and the other usual suspects to every company that relies on […]
Complementary Technologies: Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL
For enterprises in search of a relational database service that will effectively and consistently meet their requirements, Amazon RDS is probably worth a hard look. By making cloud-based relational databases straightforward to set up, operate and scale, Amazon RDS liberates businesses from the time-sink of internal database administration duties—in turn allowing for a clearer focus […]
Why NoSQL is the New Database Darling of DevOps
If developers are from Mars and testers are from Venus, your database administrator is stuck in Saturn. By nature, the database—and specifically the data it carries—has to remain stable even as the application code on top of it is changing faster than Donald Trump’s staff. When it comes to the speed of your release cycle, […]
Of DevOps, Databases and DBAs
If you’re on a DevOps team looking for additional efficiencies, you are likely to find them in the realm of database management. The arrival of DevOps did nothing to diminish the responsibilities traditionally associated with database administrators (DBAs). Rather, some of those duties have been redistributed across the team—sometimes explicitly, but more often implicitly. For […]
MongoDB Addresses Host of DevOps Issues
At its MongoDB Europe conference this week, MongoDB updated its open-source document database with the addition of MongoDB Ops Manager to simplify management of distributed instances of version 3.6 of its database. In addition, the company has added a capability that enables all updates to the database to be automatically reflected in the application in […]
Quest Software Aims to Mend DevOps Fences for DBAs
It’s no secret there’s been a lot of contention between application developers, who are under pressure to build applications faster, and database administrators (DBAs), who are charged with providing those developers with access to data. Historically, developers have been dependent on DBAs to create schemas that would allow them to access data. But it takes […]
Quest Software Extends DevOps Reach to MySQL Databases
Thanks mainly to the rise of DevOps, the number of open-source database deployments in the enterprise has risen sharply in the last two years. The driving force behind those deployments has been developers that have shown a marked preference for downloading an open-source database instead of requesting access to a commercial database from a database […]
Using Application Deltas in Deployments
Developers have been versioning their source files since the early days of Unix. Anyone else remember SCCS? Back in those days, storage was at a premium: Disks were small and very expensive and it was too inefficient to store a complete copy of each version of the source file. So version control tools would simply […]
Jobs-as-Code: The Business Processing DevOps Forgot
Developing web and mobile apps is cool. But in the words of a longtime ballad: “Don’t forget who’s taking you home and in whose arms you’re gonna be …” It’s the back-end services that underpin a lot of those cool apps and make them possible. So yes, servers and relational databases and enterprise applications and […]
8 Advantages of Using MySQL
MySQL is a free-to-use, open-source database that facilitates effective management of databases by connecting them to the software. It is a stable, reliable and powerful solution with advanced features including: Data Security MySQL is globally renowned for being the most secure and reliable database management system used in popular web applications including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, […]
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 […]
Database Bottlenecks: The Hidden Cause of App Slow Downs?
Performance problems can cripple mission-critical business apps. If you are lucky enough, your solution could be as easy as adding more WAN bandwidth, a few extra servers or a content delivery network, but the real problem arises when your database becomes your biggest bottleneck. When performance issues adversely impact the applications that keep your business […]
DevOps and Database Security
Osterman Research recently released a survey-based report on database security. The results don’t exactly instill confidence where username breaches are concerned: While more than 50 percent of respondents felt that a breach of the database would be a serious problem for their organization, 44 percent responded that it would take more than a day to […]
Where Does the Database Fit into Continuous Delivery?
Continuous delivery (CD) is increasingly becoming the norm in software development, with companies releasing updates more and more frequently. Those that aren’t are exploring how they can catch up. But in all of this push to DevOps and CD, it’s vital not to forget the database. Changes to applications or web services often require changes […]
Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments
We discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you scrap the traditional approach to back up and write scripts to handle the task, backup and recovery of next-generation applications and databases (Apache […]
A Modern Database Backup and Recovery Checklist
Do you have single points of failure? How do you handle deduplication? These questions and more need consideration when you’re dealing with database backup and recovery. Enterprises are quickly onboarding next-generation, mission-critical applications such as eCommerce, artificial intelligence, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) on non-relational databases and distributed local storage. However, as organizations […]
Evolving Data Requirements in Multi-Cloud Environments
By design or by accident, multi-cloud is a reality that most enterprise IT teams have to cope with today. Multi-cloud (or, cross-cloud, as Dell EMC calls it) refers to an IT model where an organization uses services of one or more public cloud service providers, sometimes in addition to using its own data centers. In […]
7 Best Practices New MongoDB Users Should Know
Being a developer in today’s technology landscape is tricky. While the proliferation of different cloud services makes it faster and simpler than ever to turn ideas into reality, this rapid development comes at a price. Developer responsibilities have grown to include not only product/feature development, but also other application-critical tasks such as configuring and managing […]