SolarWinds Extends APM Reach to Infrastructure
SolarWinds has updated its application performance management (APM) platform to provide more visibility into the IT infrastructure on which applications depend. Jim Hansen, vice president of products for application management at SolarWinds, said the AppOptics service map within SolarWinds APM Suite now enables DevOps teams to visualize dynamic relationships between services and their dependencies. IT […]
Pinpoint Dives Deeper into Software Delivery Analytics
Pinpoint has extended its platform for managing software delivery to include the ability to analyze historical events to facility team reviews as well as more accurately predict where bottlenecks are likely to emerge based on the past performance of the DevOps team. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said the company’s namesake software is employed today mainly […]
Participate in the Checkmarx 2020 Survey
Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development, and DevOps.com are conducting a survey about the implementation of DevOps and related automation and security tools. The purpose of the survey is to help organizations evaluate their DevOps maturity, find out what are the most used DevOps tools and the most […]
Fostering Better Collaboration Between ITOps and Security Teams Should Be Top Priority
Last year, the average business lost $13 million to cybercrime, which is 12% more than in 2017 and 72% more than in 2014. When Tanium recently asked IT decision makers how they planned to reduce that risk in 2020, they reported making multi-million dollar investments across operations and security. Over the last two years, they […]
How DevOps Can Save Your Business from COVID-19
COVID-19 drastically changed the landscape of the American workforce. Remote work went from something of a niche field to a way of life for millions of people. In fact, research shows that roughly half of all employed Americans began working from home as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. While some employers struggle to adapt […]
Eggplant Injects AI Into Application Testing
Eggplant has infused its automated testing platform with deep learning algorithms that automatically identify and classify user interface (UI) elements such as buttons and text fields across any platform and then generate all the automation assets needed to instantly run a test. In addition, Eggplant has made it easier to visualize the overlap between common […]
How DevOps Tools Are Contributing to Automation Initiatives Across the IT Landscape
Prolific advancements in IT, specifically in agile methods and culture over the years, has led to burgeoning needs for a more holistic end-to-end software delivery approach. Agile development is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous incremental and iterative software development practices — including Kanban, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Development, among […]
Why DevOps and Federal Agencies Need Each Other
In times of crisis, the U.S. government needs to bring in tech tools fast to help solve the problem. First, now is a vulnerable time and weaknesses are exposed in telework infrastructure as the government rapidly shifted to remote work. Cyberattacks are up as adversaries try to exploit the weaknesses. Second, federal agencies are also […]
AWS Aligns With Slack to Foster Dev Team Collaboration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies have formed an alliance through which they are moving to transform the way development teams collaborate. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Slack will migrate voice and video calls to the Amazon Chime real-time communications service. In addition, AWS and Slack are integrating Amazon AppFlow integration with […]
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 […]
Harness Enables DevOps Teams to Rein in Cloud Costs
Harness today unfurled its Continuous Efficiency application, which enables DevOps teams employing its continuous delivery platform delivered as a service to monitor the cost of deploying applications on a public cloud. Company CEO Jyoti Bansal said cloud costs are spiraling out of control within many IT organizations because DevOps teams lack visibility into the true […]
Cloud and DevOps: CI/CD and Market Analysis
Companies today are under heavy pressure to deliver software faster and with more quality than their competitors. A set of good features and their reach to customers can increase only when the company releases software updates frequently. As a result, organizations are embracing DevOps and CI/CD approaches to improve their ability to plan, build, test […]
Work from Home: Changing Enterprise Risk and Careers
In recent weeks, there have been a slew of organizations announcing that their work from home policies will be extended through the end of the year such as is the case with Google and Facebook, or perhaps indefinitely such as Twitter and Square. It’s good news to many technology workers who, according to a recent […]
Hasura Launches Beta of GraphQL-Based Remote Joins Tool
Hasura today announced the public beta of Remote Joins, which makes use of an open source GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (API) to join disparate data sources residing in different repositories. Company CEO Tanmai Gopal said Remote Joins extends a GraphQL engine the company has developed around a project that is now hosted […]
DevOps Agility Shines in the Midst of a Pandemic
As a career developer and now a chief technology officer, I am experiencing firsthand how COVID-19 has forced us all into new ways of working. I’m also aware that these new ways may be with us for a while. Last month Gartner announced that 74% of companies intend to shift some percentage of their workforce […]
Atlassian Unfurls Bevy of DevOps Updates
Atlassian today made a dozen updates to its DevOps portfolio as part of an effort to better unify workflows spanning disparate tools. Suzie Prince, head of product for Bitbucket at Atlassian, said the latest updates are intended to enable DevOps teams to streamline workflows without requiring everyone in the organization to standardize on the same […]
Survey Surfaces Tension Between Software Speed and Quality
A survey of 600 software professionals at organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today by OverOps, a provider of software analytics tools, finds the need to ensure quality still trumps the need for speed within most organizations. According to the survey results, 70% of respondents say quality is their paramount concern and they would […]
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% […]
Report: Debugging Efforts Cost Companies $61B Annually
Undo, a provider of a software failure replay platform, this week published a report in collaboration with a Cambridge Judge Business School MBA project that estimates 620 million developer hours a year are wasted on debugging software failures, at a cost of roughly $61 billion. The report also notes software engineers spend on average of […]
Report Finds Most Cloud Security Issues Left Unaddressed
Accurics, a provider of a platform for assessing the security of cloud computing environments, has published a report that finds that even once discovered, only 4% of issues reported in cloud production environments are addressed. Based on research conducted using its platform and other public sources of data, the report also finds 90% of organizations […]
Survey Sees Increased Agile Adoption During COVID-19
A report published by Digital.ai, the parent company of CollabNet VersionOne, finds 43% of organizations have increased their reliance on agile application development methodologies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 15% saying it has increased significantly in the last 90 days. The report also notes 33% of respondents say they have increased or […]
6 Virtual DevOps Conferences You Can’t Afford to Miss in June 2020
Conferences and events make up to a trillion-dollar industry and have been playing a major role in connecting people from different parts of the world and exchange ideas. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the first major tech conference that got canceled due to health and safety concerns was the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual […]
CircleCI Extends Core CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today in partnership with Plandek launched an analytics plugin dubbed Buildtrakr for its namesake continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Buildtrakr integrates with CircleCI and Git to synthesize commit and build performance data, with critical metrics being surfaced via a dashboard. In addition, CircleCI has revamped its user interface and reconfigured a new […]