Up Your DevOps Game: It’s Time for NoOps
NoOps is here and it’s more than just a buzzword or an ideal. The next generation of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) platforms are evolving to minimize the developers’ operational burden and reduce dependency on DevOps for deployment. Dev teams that don’t want to deal with operations or don’t have in-house operations resources should consider deploying applications on […]
6 Tips to Survive the World’s First Holiday Lockdown Gaming Crunch
‘Tis the season to be jolly … especially if you’re a gamer. The upcoming holiday gaming release schedule is a joy to behold for locked-down, socially distanced or just plain pandemic-fatigued game enthusiasts. For game studios and game developers, however, holiday releases have an entirely different connotation—the infamous crunch time. While views differ on the […]
Antipatterns That Hurt DevOps Implementations
Avoiding these DevOps antipatterns can help organizations reap the benefits of implementations faster It’s a given that all organizations at some point will suffer from poor development practices when trying to find the perfect balance between software development and IT operations. The good news, however, is that implementing DevOps can help you improve these processes […]
What Children Can Teach Us About Coding
Redgate’s Code Club for kids ended up teaching their parents to love coding again Like lots of people in IT and other office-based jobs, I’ve been working from home since the pandemic started to hit in March 2020. In some ways it’s been hard because I’m the technical lead on a software engineering team, and […]
Two-Part Training Required for Developers to Slay the Security Beast
Developers’ defensive qualities are only as good as the training they receive The playing field between the heroes and villains in cybersecurity is notoriously unfair. Sensitive data is the new gold, and attackers adapt quickly to circumvent defenses, exploiting security bugs large and small for potential paydirt. The volume of code being produced is too […]
Survey Sees Long DevSecOps Ahead
A survey of 250 developers working at leading technology companies paints a bleak picture of the current state of application security with 85% admitting applications on average have 10 or more vulnerabilities, with nearly half saying they have on average more than 20 per application. Conducted by Contrast Security, a provider of an observability platform […]
Survey Sees Faster Shift to Open Source Software
A survey of 638 IT professionals finds the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is, like other slumps, driving increased adoption of open source software. Conducted by Tidelift, a provider of commercial support and maintenance for open source projects, the survey finds 44% of respondents reporting their organizations are now more likely to […]
Engaging Developers in a Post-COVID-19 World
The time for platforms to rethink how they engage developers is now How we communicate, socialize, look up information, work, shop and travel have all been transformed by platform companies. COVID-19 has only increased our reliance on these platforms, as people spend more time on the internet and businesses migrate from offline to online offerings. […]
How to Secure Fintech Applications and Protect Customer Data
All industries are feeling the pain of preventing rising risks to their applications, private information and customers’ data, and it is not surprising that this is especially true in the financial services sector. In fact, fintech companies on average spent more than $18 million in 2019 battling cybercrime, while other markets’ companies spend an average […]
How to Build a Highly Qualified Cloud-Native Team
If you’re reading this, you more than likely are aware of the struggles involved in recruiting and building a team of technical professionals skilled in cloud-native computing technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus and service mesh. The Linux Foundation and edX’s “2020 Open Source Jobs Report” found 93% of hiring managers are having difficulties filling […]
Help Developers Thrive by Finding the Right Platform
If our developers have what they need to create the best possible applications, they—and our customers—benefit Goji Investments was founded on the principle of democratizing access to real estate, business lending, renewables and other alternative investments. The idea is to allow financial service organizations to provide traditionally unavailable investment opportunities to private investors on a […]
How To Foster a Culture of Citizen Developers
What can leaders do to encourage a thriving environment of citizen developers in their organization? Over the last several months, businesses of all sizes have had to embrace rapid change, as have their workforces. When it comes to IT departments, even before the pandemic many were fielding requests to implement new technology, customize solutions to […]
The Low-Code/No-Code Revolution: Join the Conversation
Make plans to take part in the low-code/no-code conversation at an upcoming daylong virtual conference MediaOps, the company behind DevOps.com, is excited to announce it will be producing Low Code Today, a new live virtual event taking place Nov. 19. The call for speakers is now open and actively accepting submissions. The low-code/no-code market has […]
Bootstrapping DevOps for the Internet Computer
All startups face unique sets of challenges and issues at each stage of their existence. The DFINITY Foundation, a Swiss-based not-for-profit with the remit to extend the functionality of the internet, is no exception. Like any new organization, we have had to evolve and adapt our DevOps and other practices in response to different obstacles. […]
Open Source License Compliance Tips for DevOps Pipelines
Open source components are used in most modern organizations, either included directly into software as code or as tools integrated into workflows. In DevOps environments, often a combination of the two occurs. These components can help speed development processes, provide functionality that isn’t otherwise available and decrease operating costs of teams. To successfully implement open […]
Low-Code the ‘Connective Tissue’ of Transformation
Low-code is helping enterprises bridge siloed data, systems and workers for faster digital transformation Enterprises today are racing to digitally transform their business-technology systems. Those enterprises that create the most satisfying digital customer experiences and successfully streamline internal processes in their back offices will be rewarded with not only increased sales but a more agile […]
Survey Surfaces Impact of COVID-19 on DevOps Teams
A survey of 500 IT and engineering professionals across software and finance industries published today by Harness, a provider of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, suggests there is significant room to improve application development processes now that most DevOps teams are working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey finds only 43% of […]
Balancing UX and Privacy With IoT
As more IoT devices track data to improve customer UX, privacy concerns are becoming more prevalent. How can developers strike a balance? The internet of things, or IoT, is a system that has changed the way we perceive technology. While it has made the usage of technology easier than ever, it does come with its […]
DevOps Was Supposed to Kill Developer Jobs. Here’s Why it Didn’t
The rise of DevOps is more an evolution than a revolution, and developer jobs aren’t going anywhere Development died a long time ago and was replaced by DevOps. Or, at least that was the way it was supposed to happen. In reality, developers are doing just fine. There are currently almost 150,000 development jobs right […]
Code Quality Doesn’t Have to Be Like the Weather
Sometimes code quality feels like the weather: everyone talks about it, but no one ever does anything. Of course, that’s not from a lack of good will; most folks would love to have a week or two set aside to just clean things up. Unfortunately, that’s not how the world works. The best course of […]
5 Ways Traceability Is Changing to Bolster the Remote Workforce
Traceability has always been a useful tool in the development process, but it has become especially important since the COVID-19 outbreak and the increased remote workforce. Where developers and engineers were once working side-by-side, with the ability to discuss their process and keep their team informed, they are now navigating a remote collaboration landscape. According […]
The Secret to Winning at DevOps: Are You Up for the Challenge?
The main idea behind DevOps is to enable companies to keep up with the increased software velocity and advancements in agile culture for a smoother end-to-end software delivery cycle. The main goal of DevOps is to accomplish integration and automation, which is why implementing this philosophy can be challenging. Not only do you need to […]
CNCF Elevates SPIFFE Spec to Secure App Services
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the open source Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) specification and the SPIFFE Runtime Environment (SPIRE) have become incubation-level hosted projects. Andrew Harding, SPIRE maintainer and a principal software engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), said the elevation of a […]