Using this Time to Optimize Your Dev Team’s Workflow
As Andy Warhol once said, “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” This more than ever resonates with the change that companies have found themselves experiencing of late. The more the world embraces digital methods of work, the more that change becomes paramount to a successful workflow. It […]
Who’s Responsible for Security? Apparently, It Depends
More than 10 years after organizations began implementing DevOps, responsibility for security still resembles the proverbial chicken and egg dilemma. GitLab’s 2020 Global DevSecOps Survey asked developers, security team members, operations pros and testers about sole responsibility for security in their organizations. About 28% of developers, 33% of security teams, 21% of ops pros and 23% […]
CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps
CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share updates with one another. SlackOps takes that preference for DevOps a step further to enable complex DevOps processes, also known as ChatOps, to […]
GitLab Survey Sees DevOps Gains as Developers Exercise More Control
A global survey of 3,650 software professionals published by GitLab respondents indicates developers are exercising more direct control over IT environments. More than a third of respondents (35%) said developers define and/or create the infrastructure their applications run on, with 14% actually monitoring and responding to infrastructure events. Additionally, 18% of developers instrument code for […]
Report: Software Delivery Slowed During Pandemic
A survey of more than 500 IT and development professionals conducted by Atlassian finds two-thirds of respondents have slowed down the frequency of software delivery since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Hill, head of reliability process at Atlassian, said while developers may be creating more code than ever while they work from home, […]
Eclipse Foundation Moving to Brussels
The Eclipse Foundation announced today it will begin to transition its headquarters from Ottawa to Brussels as part of an effort to advance international expansion. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said with so many open source organizations based in North America, there is a clear need for an open source organization to […]
Accurics Makes Infrastructure as Code More Secure
Fresh off raising $5 million in funding, Accurics today launched a platform that analyzes the code employed to manage infrastructure as code for vulnerabilities as well as indicators of drift to create a threat model for cloud application workloads and then, if necessary, automatically roll back cloud settings to their last known approved state. Accurics CEO […]
Data: The Fabric of Developers’ Lives
We’re living in the golden age of application development. Developers can tap into more resources and enjoy greater flexibility than ever before. Multi-cloud environments offer them the freedom to pick and choose from a wide range of services based on the strengths and offerings of different cloud providers. They have unparalleled opportunities to achieve their […]
Pulumi Tightens DevOps Platform Integration
Pulumi today released the 2.0 release of its open source platform for automating the provisioning of IT infrastructure in the cloud, providing tighter integration with a dozen different continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms and source code management (SCM) systems. Via the latest update Pulumi also now includes CI/CD Apps, through which pull requests will trigger […]
JFrog Makes Free DevOps Resources Available for COVID-19 Projects
JFrog is providing free access to cloud-based DevOps tools to teams or organizations that have launched projects to actively research and fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Ido Green, vice president of technology for JFrog, said this initiative will be made available via its FrogCare program mainly to nonprofit organizations. The goal is to make it easier […]
The Key to Embracing DevOps: A Real-Time Roadmap
While the term “DevOps” has become somewhat of an industry buzzword, it represents an important shift in the way teams think about planning, building and deploying software. Drawing its inspiration from the Agile movement, DevOps extends many of Agile’s core principles beyond development to how teams deploy, monitor and inform their next round of product […]
GitHub Makes Private Repositories Free for Unlimited Users
GitHub this week announced is making available private repositories for an unlimited number of collaborators available to all GitHub accounts for free. Kelly Stirman, vice president of product strategy and marketing, said that subsidiary of Microsoft could make this move because it is now generating enough revenue from the enterprise edition of its platform to […]
2020 DevSecOps Community Survey: Of 5,045 Developers, Guess How Many Are Happy?
We just released the seventh annual DevSecOps Community Survey. We captured the pulse of over 5,000 developers in 102 countries. What we learned about trends in DevSecOps will surprise you—especially the parts about how happiness influences company culture, software security and business competitiveness. When we tallied up the results we quickly saw some interesting correlations. […]
Six Tips for a Successful DevOps Implementation
As we expand our digital world, there is an ever more urgent need to look after businesses that need to operate faster and with more agility. Because of this, DevOps has grown quickly and become central to a lot of organizations as they pursue a competitive advantage. However, some organizations struggle to implement DevOps as […]
Development Versus QA: Ending the Battle Once and for All
It’s an accepted norm in software engineering that quality assurance (QA) engineers and developers will be perpetually at odds. We are so used to this dynamic that some organizations have decided it’s a good thing. They believe some animosity is beneficial, because QA has to hold developers accountable for good quality, and developers need to […]
Putting Customer Communication at the Core of New Apps
As developers and entrepreneurs create new products and services, it is critical for a powerful communication solution to sit at the heart of the solution and support all customer engagement. Reason being, when customers begin to engage with the application, they’ll expect easy access to troubleshooting tools like live support chat. Neglecting to offer such support could […]
DevOps for the Rest of Ops
The IT pro gig usually includes a basic headwind. They’re part of a cost center, and budget for resources and staff are limited by design unless they’re managing a strategic initiative, which—at least for a while—is more generously funded. Early adopters of DevOps, Agile or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams have been budget beneficiaries when […]
Four Metrics Every Engineering Manager Needs to Monitor for Success
Engineering managers and leaders are charged with a challenging task every day: How do they support engineers to do their best work, and how do they know if their engineers are doing their best work? The former is easier than the latter. To enable an engineer’s best work, you’ll want to make sure they are […]
IT Services and DevOps: Friends, Not Foes
Development and operations, aka DevOps, is the marriage between software development and IT operations. The goal of a DevOps team is two-fold: to more quickly make products that are better for customers, and to align more closely with business goals. While it sounds pretty great, something doesn’t sit well. What about your service department? Service […]
OverOps Allies With SonarQube To Improve Application Quality
OverOps, a provider of tools for dynamically analyzing code at runtime, has partnered with SonarQube, a provider of static analysis tools for source code, to enhance application quality by unifying code analytics. Chen Harel, vice president of product for OverOps, said the two companies have collaborated to create a plugin through which DevOps teams can […]
What the Best Developers Do to Be Great at Their Jobs
Good developers are in demand—great ones, even more so. With software development employment in the U.S. expected to grow by 21% by 2028, the need for engineers is only going to surge further. But this doesn’t mean that the labor landscape will become uncompetitive: Now more than ever, individuals with a passion for software are entering […]
The Role of Soft Skills in Building Strong DevOps Leads
As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about the process and technology that make up a good DevOps practice. We have a strong focus on the development, IT operations, QA” and security roles. We debate tools and automation strategies. We wax philosophical about DevOps culture. What is either lacking entirely or simply […]