The DevOps Pendulum: Agility Vs. Control
Engineering, like everything else in life, is all about balance. In DevOps, the balance is between control and agility.
4 Things Engineering Leaders are Thinking About Right Now
Spiderman and engineering leaders have something in common: They both have great power and great responsibility. Engineering leadership is more critical than ever, with more than 4.4 million software developers in the United States building our experiences daily. Leaders do more than just manage the day-to-day. They are called to influence, empower and motivate their […]
Considering Scriptless Automation: iOS App Dev in 2023
According to Statista, over 31,000 apps were released on Apple’s App Store in March 2023. As impressive as that is, it’s considerably smaller than the number of apps submitted to the Apple store during the same month. And it’s probably less than the number of apps removed from the App Store. Why? According to Apple, […]
Automation in DevOps: Advancements, Platforms and Examples
Automation is the backbone of DevOps. By facilitating seamless integration and continuous delivery, it revolutionizes the ways organizations deliver software, products and services. When applied correctly, automation can significantly enhance productivity, reduce time-to-market, improve software quality and minimize the risk of human error. A range of automation tools support these goals, each tailored to a […]
Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Generative AI for Developers
Many organizations are experiencing deficits in technical skills and gaps in productivity that ultimately harm their bottom line. To overcome those obstacles and drive growth, businesses can use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard to handle large volumes of data and increase the speed and output of basic tasks without draining valuable human capital. […]
Automation or Concatenation?
We’ve been in a period of mergers and acquisitions for a while in the DevOps and DevSecOps spaces, and it seems to be heating up even more. Combined with products expanding to cover a more broad segment of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and strategic partnerships to cover more of the SDLC, it is […]
Using Generative AI for Issue Remediation and Software Reliability
Generative AI offers SRE teams a way to automate and streamline error investigation and remediation, making it more intelligent, focused and efficient.
Complete Guide to AWS Savings Plans
Monitoring and managing your AWS Savings Plans, as part of your overall cloud operations strategy, can help optimize your cloud computing costs.
Postman Acquires Akita Software to Gain API Observability
Postman has acquired Akita Software to gain access to a platform for monitoring and observing application programming interfaces (APIs).
How Platform Engineering Bridges the IT and DevOps Divide
A key area where companies can eliminate expensive waste and increase time to value is the relationship and workflow between IT and developers. Enter platform engineering.
A DevOps Guide to IoT Technology
Internet-of-things (IoT) is a term used to describe the network of physical devices—from everyday household items to sophisticated industrial tools—connected to the internet, sharing and collecting data. With the advent of cheap computer chips and the ubiquity of wireless networks, it’s possible to make anything a part of the IoT. Add to that the exponential […]
Communicating Common Web App Security Threats to Developers
Shift left involves providing developers with the context they need to prioritize and remediate threats appropriately.
Is ChatGPT Helping or Hurting Your Developers’ Productivity?
ChatGPT’s ability to translate natural language into working code has sparked tremendous interest in the programming community. Developers are exploring ways to use ChatGPT to reduce redundant tasks, from creating code snippets to analyzing and debugging programs. This also allows them to focus on more complex tasks like data analysis and monitoring with the help […]
Are LLMs Leading DevOps Into a Tech Debt Trap?
Some of the most alluring uses of LLMs could lead to terrible outcomes for enterprises and their DevOps and platform engineering teams.
How AI Transforms DevOps Infrastructure
AI can help manage cloud resources for DevOps by predicting future needs based on usage trends and automatically adjusting resources to optimize cost and performance.
Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability
Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case. Just about every organization in every industry has a digital presence, whether it’s a website, an app or another digital service. This makes […]
How AI Addresses DevOps Monitoring and Observability Challenges
AI can support monitoring and observability by analyzing logs and metrics to predict potential system failures or performance degradation.
Harnessing AI in Continuous Delivery and Deployment
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that the continuous delivery pillar is an approach where code changes are automatically built, tested and prepared for release to production; this may be followed by continuous deployment where an approved release is automatically deployed to the production environment. The […]
How Platform Engineering Protects Profit, People and our Planet
Platform engineering offers lots of tangible benefits for businesses, but sustainable platform engineering can be even better.
How Can DevOps Evolve? Platform Engineering
Platform engineering bridges the existing gaps between software, hardware and infrastructure that come with adopting DevOps practices.
How IT Services Can Embrace Platform Engineering
We are all familiar with DevOps as a newer approach to software development. The concept is designed to enable developers and IT operations teams to work together. Platform engineering, on the other hand, is a more mature, older approach that has become new again. Platform engineering, at its core, is the concept of productizing your […]
Must You Collect All That?
SEO: The amount of data collected and available to the average DevOps team is incredible. But it’s not all being used.
How to Empower DevSecOps in a Complex Multi-Cloud Landscape
Organizations are embracing cloud-based application delivery for speed of delivery and scale. However, the proliferation of multi-cloud systems to access and maximize the cloud’s capabilities is driving complexity in IT environments. Many organizations do not consider how multi-cloud adoption is expanding their attack surface—and the risk is growing: The 2023 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report found […]