Survey Sees Little Progress in Drive to Shift Testing Left
It looks like the drive to shift testing left toward developers to accelerate the development and deployment of applications has stalled. A survey of 102 IT professionals involved in application testing published by Perforce, a provider of testing tools, finds only 18% of organizations test applications solely within their development feature teams. The rest continue […]
Multi-Cloud Adoption to Better Enable the Developer Workforce
Over the past decade, we started to see a broader shift toward the use of multiple cloud providers by the enterprise. The need to reduce risk, optimize cloud usage, manage costs and the push to open source and cloud vendor-agnostic technologies are providing more options for developers, which will likely lead to an even steeper […]
Launchable Aims To Improve Delivery Velocity, With Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Harpreet Singh
A new company, Launchable, aims to improve your delivery velocity by helping you be much smarter about which tests you run and when. By applying machine learning (ML) and better use of the data output by your software development work, the two co-founders think they can make a meaningful impact on development efforts. Sure, you […]
JFrog ConanCenter Extends DevOps Reach to C++
JFrog this week announced it has updated ConanCenter, a repository for storing and discovering software packages that can be downloaded for free, to include support for C++ artifacts. Jagan Subramanian, vice president of community and partner engineering at JFrog, said ConanCenter provides a repository for the open source Conan package manager that JFrog includes as […]
How to Use DevOps for Compliance
Picture this: You’ve been working in an organization’s IT department for a couple of years and tasks have become quite a routine. Some documentation here and there, code reviews, end-user training, routine meetings with the developers and so on. You can do literally everything with your eyes closed. Then, all of a sudden, the company […]
Perfect Sense Open Sources Gyro to Automate Cloud Provisioning
Perfect Sense has launched an open source project dubbed Gyro that provides an alternative approach to automating cloud infrastructure provisioning and management. Gyro was developed as an alternative to other open source projects such as Terraform and Pulumi, said CTO Jeremy Collins. It is designed from the ground up around a programming language that allows […]
Compuware Extends Alliance With CloudBees
Compuware has become a premier member of the CloudBees Technical Alliance Partner Program (TAPP), as part of an effort to accelerate the adoption of best DevOps practices in mainframe environments. Sam Knutson, vice president of product management for Compuware, said his company has already developed six plugins for the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery […]
The Role of Developers in Digital Transformation
Developers are an integral part of digital transformation. They architect the modular systems that overcome legacy and build the applications and solutions that allow firms to deliver products and services in new and innovative ways. Yet, when it comes to business decisions, many organizations overlook their developer talent. Developers come from a variety of different […]
How Can IT Admins Maintain a Grip on Secure Access?
Today’s IT environment is evolving at a rapid pace, requiring production environments to be highly scalable and elastic and requiring faster software release cycles and cloud adoption. As a result, there’s a broad move toward Docker containers to make software deployment faster, easier and more consistent across computing environments. Bundling an application and its supporting […]
Can We Do Without DevOps?
Recently, DevOps has received so much hype and every respectable company sees it as its duty to have a DevOps team on and running. It is considered to be so beneficial to any company that a non-technician scrolling down posts at any tech website would think of it as a universal remedy for all the […]
Accenture Cloud Simulation Platform Advances DevOps
Accenture has launched a cloud simulation service through which DevOps teams can better determine which workloads will run best on different cloud computing environments. Kishore Durg, growth and strategy lead for cloud at Accenture Technology Services, said myNAV is a cloud service created by Accenture that leverages machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial […]
And the Builders Shall Inherit the Earth: The Democratization of IT
The democratization of IT is happening, and vendors need to recognize that if they want to survive Just back home from KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in San Diego, which can only be called a force of nature. I was joined there by more than 12,000 other folks to discuss, listen and learn about all things cloud-native and open. […]
Developers Are Gaining Clout, and We Need to Pay Attention
I’ve been watching the ascent of developers for quite some time. A few years ago, I wrote an open letter to developers in which I noted their power and collective influence over the direction of technology across industries. As creators of our digital future, developers hold incredible power—and with that power comes great responsibility. Developers […]
Harnessing the Power of Developers
In our fast-moving digital economy, organizations across just about every industry are faced with a stark reality: to remain competitive and deliver the best possible customer experience, they must evolve continuously. The fintech industry is a great example of this–the sector’s growth and focus on excellent customer experience has been driven by external developers rather […]
Red Hat Streamlines Operating System Update Cycle
Red Hat is looking to make it easier for DevOps teams to absorb leading-edge innovations as they are slipstreamed into a new distribution of CentOS. CentOS is a distribution of Linux based on a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The team that oversees CentOS operates independently of Red Hat. That team in collaboration […]
How to Overcome Resistance to DevOps Implementation
The number of businesses adopting DevOps to make software releases happen faster without compromising on software quality continues to grow. Within the next five years, the DevOps market is expected to reach almost $13 billion. If you are among those who’ve decided to make a shift to DevOps, you are likely to experience resistance coming […]
Better Together: Why Software-Development Toolmakers Should Embrace Integration
It’s getting harder for businesses that are building technology tools to get attention, traction and ultimately widespread adoption. You can’t just launch an amazing new developer tool and hope developers will find you; providers need to zero in on a specific use case that empowers developers while also ensuring those developers will still have access […]
5 Tips to Eliminate Knowledge Gaps in Dev and QA
To create and release high-quality software, the software development lifecycle (SDLC) was established using different roles and processes designed to work seamlessly together. This approach is of critical importance because it spans the initial planning phase, all the way through production release and monitoring. Roles vary within projects but typically include designers, business analysts (BA), […]
OverOps Integrates AI Code Analyzer With CI/CD Platforms
At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, OverOps announced it has integrated its namesake tools for analyzing Java and Microsoft .NET code at runtime with a variety of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms, including Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity, Atlassian Bamboo and Pivotal Concourse. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering for OverOps, noted that […]
A Culture-Driven Approach to DevOps Transformation
One of the most challenging aspects of a DevOps transformation isn’t automating and overhauling technology. The biggest challenge of DevOps is changing an organization’s culture and purpose. You can’t “buy a DevOps.” DevOps demands the involvement of people, process and tools working together. Unfortunately, I’ve seen too many companies get carried away with the latest […]
Helping Developers Win in the Shift-Left Revolution
The shift-left revolution is upon us. Just because it’s a cliche, doesn’t mean it’s not true. As software development organizations continue to implement DevOps culture, processes, and tools, developers are adopting the practice of testing and ensuring the security of their applications as early as possible in the DevOps pipeline. This is quite a change […]
Mendix Injects More AI to Accelerate Low-Code Development
The rate at which low-code applications are built and deployed will accelerate as developers begin to rely more on artificial intelligence (AI) to write code. The summer 2019 release of the Mendix low-code platform includes a revamped instance of Mendix Assist, which employs machine learning algorithms to make coding recommendations. Those algorithms have been trained […]
Stackery Smooths AWS Serverless Integration for DevOps
Stackery today announced a plug-in capability that will allow developers to build and debug code destined to run on the Lambda serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from within an integrated development environment (IDE) running on a local machine. Company CTO Chase Douglas said the latest Stackery tool can be dropped into […]