Techstrong Live! Days, DC: Upskilling DevOps, Cloud-Native and Cybersecurity
DevOps and cloud-native are key for organization looking to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. Techstrong Live! Days, a two-day, in-person event, explores the latest DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud-native technologies and trends that are shaping the way we do business. The first stop of the Techstrong Live! Days conference tour will take place in Washington, DC […]
Bringing Development Environments Into the Modern Age
It’s time to rethink how we deliver distributed access to software development environments. We know how to write code. And there are plenty of well-established tools, techniques and processes for doing so. We know what kind of code to write: Functional, scalable and efficient code that’s inherently secure and that we can readily modify whenever and however […]
Building a Culture of Full-Service Ownership
In recent years, our reliance on software has exploded. It has been more than a decade since Marc Andreessen made his prophetic observation that “Software is eating the world.” Today, nearly every interaction is mediated through a screen and backed by software. With the massive shift to remote and digital interactions due to the pandemic, […]
Your DevOps Teams Can Do Better. Here’s How.
As more organizations focus on digital transformation as the centerpiece of their growth strategy, software developers and IT teams are under heightened pressure to perform—quickly and efficiently. That begs two questions: Can we do better? And if so, how can we do better? The answers can be elusive, especially for DevOps teams that have over-relied […]
Managing Endpoint Compliance-as-Code
The rapid pace of modern software delivery and increasing fleet sizes have transformed how organizations see and handle security strategies. Compliance-as-code is required for today’s organizations that need security as a fundamental part of business processes. It is no longer possible to manually manage compliance with dedicated security teams. Balancing security with growing infrastructure needs […]
What Does AIOps Mean for SREs?
It seems SREs are of two minds when it comes to AIOps. On one hand, AIOps’ potential is pretty exciting. By automating complex workflows and troubleshooting processes, AIOps could make your life as an SRE much easier. But on the other hand, some SREs may choose to view AIOps with disdain and distrust. They might […]
What is MLOps? DataOps? And Why do They Matter?
Let’s look at three distinct disciplines—DevOps, MLOps and DataOps. In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously proclaimed that software was “eating the world.” A little more than a decade later, it’s all but impossible to argue with his premonition as software has embedded itself into virtually every industry. But now another shift is underway and AI is gobbling […]
Service Level Objectives – Techstrong TV
Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are being more widely discussed as they provide a clear path to delivering exceptional results by defining clear reliability goals. Kit provides updates on the community, use cases and best practices. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. Recording: This is […]
Analyzing SRE Job Postings
You can find plenty of high-level definitions out on the internet about what site reliability engineering means and what site reliability engineers do. But if you want to understand what it’s actually like to work as a site reliability engineer, there is perhaps no better source than job descriptions. SRE job ads explain what real […]
DevOps for Customer Experience
Charlene O’Hanlon and Amy Hudson of Cyara discuss the concept of DevOps for customer experience, which takes DevOps methodology and focuses it on CX software. But there are pitfalls DevOps teams face when dealing with customer experience software. The video is below followed by a complete transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. […]
Irreconcilable Differences: DevOps Grapples With Issues
DevOps issues can be a thorny subject. The coming together in harmony of Dev (developer) and Ops (operations) represents an arranged marriage of sorts that, for some, will never have a ‘happily ever after’ ending as both parties ultimately grapple with irreconcilable differences. But despite the naysayers, the very existence of DevOps as a portmanteau […]
Why Developer-First is the Future of AppSec
DevOps culture and rapid cloud adoption mean developers are shipping code faster than ever and, in many cases, security teams struggle to keep up. To avoid relegating security to afterthought status, organizations must shift left and adopt a developer-first approach to application security (AppSec). Organizations that depend on software development need a solution that accomplishes […]
4 Ways to Uplevel Your Software Engineering Team
In my 20 years leading software development teams, I’ve witnessed the industry’s continuous growth alongside technology’s evolution. The only thing we know for certain is that the industry will continue to change and winning businesses will be those that build with change in mind, backed by effective, fast-moving software teams. This is the year we […]
Front-End Frameworks Enable Better Dev Collaboration
The general public often thinks about software development in terms of a lone software developer hacking away tirelessly at their keyboard. Of course, that is an anachronism, at best. What is true is that collaboration among software engineers, especially with their colleagues in IT operations which evolved into DevOps, has become the norm for rolling […]
The Low-Code Tide is Rising
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DevOps for Salesforce: CI/CD Challenges
DevOps encompasses a wide variety of technical and social practices for improving the development, delivery and operation of IT systems. Salesforce has become more than a CRM system; it evolved into a full-featured ecosystem and a low-code platform that made development far simpler and more approachable than traditional code-based platforms. Cross-functional teams build on Salesforce […]
Securing Software with Intelligent Pipelines
One of the biggest cybersecurity risks involves vulnerabilities in the application layer. After all, the best firewall is useless if the web application itself is vulnerable. Many companies have worked to mitigate these risks by investing in their AppSec programs. According to a recent whitepaper written by ESG (commissioned by Synopsys), 71% of companies surveyed now use […]
How Test Automation Can Help Drive DevOps Success
Testing can be one of the more time-consuming aspects of the DevOps process. It can be exhaustive, frustrating, requires a lot of hands-on labor hours and people seldom enjoy it. But testing is vital, and no developer should simply skip it. Recently, a strong trend has emerged wherein DevOps experts encouraged developers to automate their […]
Connecting Your Cloud & DevOps Tools to Enable CI/CD
An effective continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline must integrate cloud and DevOps tools seamlessly to ensure the build, compile, test and release of applications is accomplished efficiently and without friction. Application architectures, internal processes and personal preferences mean organizations and teams set up the CI/CD pipeline differently, resulting in a diversity of infrastructure and tooling […]
Best of 2021 – Nine Pillars of DevOps Best Practices
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. In a prior blog I explained my 27-factor DevOps assessment model which includes nine pillars of DevOps and three dimensions of people, process and technology. […]
Best of 2021 – Why DevOps Will Cease to Exist
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twelfth in our series of the Best of 2021. Nowadays I feel like there is no need to explain why DevOps as a methodology exists, as it is widely understood and accepted. But the […]
Best of 2021 – The Next Evolutions of DevOps
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the seventh in our series of the Best of 2021. As society continues to recover from the global COVID-19 pandemic and some semblance of normal starts to return, technology continues to move forward. The pandemic […]
Best of 2021 – Seven Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a DevOps Engineer
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps is a culture, not a title. Therefore, companies should follow DevOps principles, rather than hiring one savant to fix an entire organization’s delivery model. […]