WhiteHat Security Looks to AI to Advance DevSecOps
WhiteHat Security is now embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into the application security review services it provides, as part of an effort to advance adoption of DevSecOps processes. Joseph Feiman, chief strategy officer for WhiteHat Security, said the biggest resistance factor to DevSecOps has been the amount of time it takes to test applications for vulnerabilities. […]
Do Your Engineers Need a Degree? If So, You’re Missing Out on Great Hires
For more than a decade, tech team leads have lamented the fact that software engineers are among the toughest jobs to fill. But in some ways, their frustration is self-inflicted. It is almost a given that a lack of higher education represents a deal-breaker for hiring decision-makers. The same goes for job seekers—it can feel […]
How ‘Mature’ is Your Data Integration Competency?
To succeed with their digital transformation initiatives, companies need to use data to the full extent of their capability. Having the right data and applying it to the right problems can help companies gain new insights, create new models and disrupt stagnant processes. No argument there. The problem is, not everyone is putting their data […]
OverOps Brings Machine Learning to DevOps
OverOps has launched a namesake platform employing machine learning algorithms to capture data from an IT environment that identify potential issues before a DevOps team decides to promote an application into production. Company CTO Tal Weiss said the OverOps Platform is unique in that, rather than relying on log data, it combines static and dynamic […]
Bridging the Multi-Cloud, DevOps Skills Gap
The cloud is driving a digital transformation revolution throughout the world, as traditional “brick and mortar” companies morph into software companies. This is easy to see with retailers and publishers, but it’s also happening at companies such as ZipCar, Boeing and Liberty Mutual (more about them later). This transformation, while driving radical performance and cost […]
Reinventing Talent Acquisition, DevOps Style: 7 Ways to Become a ‘Destination Company’
Just as brilliant drummers have their pick of bands, top cloud-native developers and project managers can be choosy about their employers. They’re the rock stars of the business and they know it. If you’re not a “destination company” like Amazon, Facebook or Google, how do you entice top talent to work for you? And if […]
Cloud Performance Management Needs Precedence Over APM in a Cloud World
A majority of today’s businesses follow a cloud-first strategy. DevOps engineers with these businesses prefer using infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) or cloud services from leading cloud services providers (CSPs). Given the rate at which the IT is evolving now, from on-prem to XaaS, the future seems a lot more […]
The State of the Kotlin Programming Language in 2018
Pusher, the communications and collaboration API provider, recently released the findings of its “State of Kotlin 2018” research report. Over the past 24 months, adoption and use of the Kotlin programming language among developers has seen tremendous growth. Pusher has seen this growth firsthand, with more developers using Kotlin while building applications with the company’s […]
Get Serious About Building Out Your Ecosystem of Developers
Scratch a hypergrowth software company and you’ll likely find an organization focused on building an ecosystem of developers that will help it achieve platform status. Getting there requires understanding that when it comes to developers, your API is your product. APIs aren’t just about integrating tools and apps; increasingly, they are the new way of […]
How to Cultivate a Loyal Developer Community
With the number of developer focused companies and products growing, building communities among engineers has become a key strategy to stay competitive. Augmenting and often surpassing traditional marketing techniques, this approach—although challenging—can be an incredibly effective way to engage users and get engineers excited about a product. Since our inception over six years ago, DigitalOcean […]
DevSecOps: Embedding a Security Practice into your DevOps Approach
It’s a no-brainer that the element of security cannot be compromised even to the smallest of extents in today’s competitive, fast-paced, modern technology-driven IT infrastructure. However, to keep up with the rapid developments of other processes in this agile world, security is often given relatively less importance and in some cases, even left behind. As […]
Spring Cleaning 101: Polishing Up Your DevOps Processes
Dev teams should take time to tune up agile processes and continue advancing their shift toward DevOps Release cycles are accelerating, but not as fast as development teams want. Customers’ desired release rates are moving at an unimpressive pace; those looking to push out new updates on a weekly basis often find it looks more […]
Microsoft Snaps Up GitHub for $7.5 Billion
Recognizing the role GitHub plays in the larger developer and DevOps ecosystems, Microsoft is acquiring the software development platform for a cool $7.5 billion, the two companies have announced. GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform, has more than 28 million users who “learn, share and collaborate to create the future,” according to the press […]
Blockchain: A Threat to DevOps—and How Engineers Can Respond
Blockchain is one of the hottest topics in the IT world today—and that creates a challenge for DevOps professionals. Here’s why, and what DevOps engineers can do to remain relevant. Blockchain, Fat Protocols and a New Generation of Applications To understand why blockchain threatens to decrease the role played by DevOps engineers in software platforms, […]
Securing Third-Party and Open Source Code Components: A Primer
The increasing popularity of open source code continues to be a boon for developers across the industry, allowing them to increase efficiency and streamline delivery. But there are security risks to be considered when leveraging open source and commercial code components, as each carries with it a significant risk of becoming the enemy within, creating […]
4 Bad Habits DevOps Administrators Fall Into
The concept of DevOps is central to any organization’s ability to deliver applications and services quickly and efficiently. As it gains traction in many high-profile organizations, DevOps administrators must work to integrate DevOps practices, tools and techniques into a wide range of teams, from development and support to operations and management. Completing this implementation seamlessly […]
What Google’s ‘Digital Wellbeing’ Means for Every App Developer
One of the big themes to emerge from Google’s recent I/O conference was Digital Wellbeing—the notion that technology should be a positive force in our lives, and that we need ways to disconnect from apps when they suck up too much time or distract us in other ways. Google is taking the idea seriously, and […]
Red Hat Positions PaaS as Cure to Heal DevOps Divide
Red Hat is making a strategic bet that IT organizations increasingly will rely on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments to make a broad range of distributed services available to developers, which would eliminate friction without enabling IT operations teams to maintain control. Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies for Red Hat, said IT organizations are realizing […]
Open Source: Is Your DevOps Org Vulnerable to an Equifax-Style Hack?
More than half of the Fortune 100 could be at risk of falling prey to the same kind of hack that caused devastation at Equifax last year, and it all comes down to poor open source component governance. A new report out from Fortune reports that in the year after Apache Software Foundation issued an […]
DevOps Transformation: Leave No Ops Behind
In adopting DevOps, it’s easy to forget what you know Have you ever found yourself struggling to explain something that you know how to do without a moment’s thought? I’m not talking about the amygdala, the part of our brain that initiates the automatic “fight or flight” response. No, I’m referring more to the muscle […]
5 Resources for JavaScript Developers
Javascript (JS) is one of the most widely used and beloved programming languages in history. This can be attributed to its fairly light learning curve and impressive functionality. Designed by Brendan Eich in 1995, the language has seen steady gains in use for more than 20 years. JS itself is a high-level and weakly typed […]
Salesforce Details Integration Plan Post-MuleSoft Acquisition
Salesforce this week announced it will plunk down $6.5 billion to acquire MuleSoft, a provider of application integration software currently used by more than 1,200 organizations. Once the deal is complete, MuleSoft will continue to operate as a unit of Salesforce with current MuleSoft Greg Schott continuing as CEO. However, there will be two integration […]
DevSecOps: How Security Teams Can Better Support Their Developer Counterparts
Much of the conversation around digital transformation revolves around technology. But the new wave of technology this era has ushered in has also made a big impact on the way organizations, and the teams that comprise them, function. This impact on corporate culture has paved the way for the widespread adoption of DevOps, which has […]