SREs: The Happiest – and Highest Paid – in the Industry
According to the 2019 StackOverflow survey completed by 90,000 developers around the world, whether you are already a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or thinking about becoming one, looks like you are onto something. SREs, also called DevOps specialists, are a pretty unique type of talent; one that has knowledge in both software development and system […]
Different Organizations, Different DevOps Outcomes
The main motivation behind inventing DevOps platform was to help close collaboration between developers and IT operations. Basically, DevOps emerged as a great platform to bring closer together developers and beneficiaries of the app development process. DevOps initiates a cross-disciplinary practice spanning across development and operations. The ultimate benefit of the DevOps approach is removing […]
Dev and Ops: Not from Different Planets
At a conference, I heard a speaker remark that “Dev people are from Mars while Ops people are from Venus.” That’s catchy and captures what a fair number of managers believe instinctively. But is it really true? I’m not convinced. We all know that DevOps enables us to deliver software faster, with fewer bugs and […]
DevOps Chat: Customer Experience and DevOps with Cyara’s Alok Kulkarni
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Cyara CEO and co-founder, Alok Kulkarni, about how DevOps is helping in the customer experience arena. Cyara has carved out a leadership role in bringing DevOps to CX. Alok is a delight to speak with and very wired into this space. As usual, the streaming audio is immediately […]
5 Questions to Ask Remote Web Developers
Great web developers are waiting to be hired. Your company could seize upon the opportunity—but only if you’re willing to be patient, dedicated and a little creative. Don’t scare away qualified remote web developers with a few poorly worded questions or a mistimed probe. Ask direct and concise questions that can help you understand the […]
Successful Strategies for Hiring Full-Stack Developers
Full-stack development is a complex web programming discipline involving multiple levels of web design and coding. Due to the complexity of the skill, it may be difficult to strategize a method of attracting a full-stack developer. Full-stack developers are the full package—they understand the development of both the front end and back end of a […]
How to Troubleshoot CPU Problems
Diagnosing and troubleshooting CPU problems in production in cloud environments can be tricky. Your application might have millions of lines of code, so identifying the exact line of code that is causing the CPU to spike might be the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. This article shows how to find that needle […]
Logging: Turning Good DevOps Teams into Great Ones
The competition is on for DevOps teams that are expected to rev up production on a multitude of projects, with teams and companies aiming to stay atop the global software product marketplace. The complexity of code creation and the pace of deployment has picked up in recent years, and DevOps managers are starting to face […]
Should Your Company Hire Remote Full-Stack Developers?
Is your company seeking to hire a qualified full-stack developer? It seems like an easy enough task—create a job listing, read resumes, conduct technical interviews and make the hire. Finding engineers who understand every layer of the stack is difficult, however. Companies compete for the best and brightest full-stack developers and, unfortunately, they are in […]
Fintech: A Profitable and Growing Developer Career Path
What do you think when you hear the word “fintech”? It’s been around for almost five decades, yet it has only just been officially recognized as part of the English language. In the Merriam Webster dictionary, the word is defined as: “Products and companies that employ newly developed digital and online technologies in the banking […]
Understanding Pillar 1 of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework
AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides a wealth of incredibly valuable best practices and guidelines structured around five distinct pillars that more cloud-native organizations would do well to heed. The first of these pillars, Operational Excellence, recommends a number of particularly valuable techniques. However, successfully adopting the design principles and practices within Pillar No. 1 requires a […]
CollabNet VersionOne State of Agile Survey: Join the Fray
If you follow the news on Agile software development, topics such as adoption, scaling, Kanban, Scrum or certifications, it’s likely you saw statistics in your reading that were taken from the “State of Agile Report.” For the last 12 years, CollabNet VersionOne has been surveying the Agile software development community and providing this valuable body […]
Developers: Key to the User Experience in a Multicloud World
It’s amazing how many applications behave as if the network is always available, bandwidth is infinite and latency is zero. While optimistic, this approach to applications is ultimately rooted in fantasy. As it stands, there is a major proficiency gap between application developers and the networks in which they operate—but this can’t continue as our […]
DevOps and Collaboration: Fraternizing with the Enemy?
DevOps is all about collaboration, we hear. “You must collaborate,” say managers initiating DevOps adoption programs. HR make new posters declaring the corporate values “We value Collaboration & Teamwork.” Can’t fail! Then when it appears not to be as effective as we had hoped we tell teams they are “Empowered” to collaborate. Blank stares! When […]
Software Delivery: Shaking Loose of a Local Optimum
This is an article about software delivery, that magical or onerous field between pushing code to version control and using it in production. Why does software delivery matter? Because software matters, and because software developers matter. I don’t want my software delivery to get out of the way; I want it to make me a […]
Low-Code Application Development: A Catalyst to Digital Transformation
Low-code and no-code software development platforms have emerged as a focal point for CIOs, and it’s easy to see why. With an increasing emphasis on market disruption and continuous innovation across industries, tools such as these fit the bill in simplifying application development. Capabilities such as drag-and-drop integrations, out-of-the-box user interface (UI) templates and easy […]
DevOps: Making Developer Experience Reality
As DevOps professionals, among other things we are responsible for making developers’ lives a little bit easier. How many times have you heard, “Do you have a working vagrant box?” Or maybe you need to set aside a few days to onboard a new developer. Many times a development environment is created when a project […]
DevOps and Containers: A Network Divided
The growth of DevOps and containers has created some interesting split responsibility scenarios. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it is something that bears watching and fixing when it becomes problematic. Today’s topic is networking. Plenty of bits have been spewed about the situation, but it persists and is even getting more […]
Integrating DevOps: Avoid These Common Mistakes
DevOps, as the name implies, is a combination of two professional teams—software development and the IT experts. Both the teams collaborate well with the aim of creating a bridge that accelerates and automates the process of software development and a more intensive testing before releasing it into the market with high confidence. DevOps has been […]
OutSystems Infuses DevOps Processes into Low-Code Platform
OutSystems has turned its low-code platform into a framework for generating microservices that can run on-premises or in a variety of public clouds. Mike Hughes, senior director of product marketing at OutSystems, said applications generated using OutSystems 11 now can be deployed on both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments and container-as-a-service (CaaS) environments, including Amazon Web Services […]
How to Find and Hire Android Developers in 2018
A brilliant app idea demands no less a brilliant mobile development team. That means you have to take the time to search and recruit skilled Android developers and, correspondingly, overcome lots of challenges for this. Here are some tips to help you overcome the difficulties and mitigate possible problems in finding qualified Android developers. Roles […]
DevOps Chat: Open Source and DevSecOps with Azi Cohen, WhiteSource
The security of open source code is one many organizations are grappling with. Add to that the number of times that applications using open source code are updated and the integration issues that come with those updates, and it’s no wonder open source security comes into question. WhiteSource thinks it has a solution to the […]
The Value of APM in Application Building and Management
There are literally billions of smartphone users on the planet. Many of these users interact with apps on a daily basis. With all of the competition in the app market, developers have to stay on the cutting edge of technology to keep their programs both functional and popular. It is imperative that you adequately monitor […]