Micro Focus Updates LoadRunner Testing Tools
Micro Focus has revamped its venerable line of LoadRunner testing tools as part of an effort to both unify code bases and provide tighter integration with third-party application performance management (APM) tools from AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco Systems. Vicky Giavelli, director of product management for performance engineering at Micro Focus, said Micro Focus in […]
CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps
CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share updates with one another. SlackOps takes that preference for DevOps a step further to enable complex DevOps processes, also known as ChatOps, to […]
GitLab Releases Massive Update to CI/CD Platform
GitLab has updated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a raft of capabilities spanning everything from value stream management to cybersecurity. In addition, GitLab announced it is making generally available Gitaly Clusters, which enable DevOps teams to create a warm replica of a Git repository. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist at GitLab, said with […]
CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach
CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for SDM at CloudBees, said these integrations with Google Cloud Build and Tekton pipelines are being provided as part of a long-standing alliance between […]
Site Reliability Engineering 101: DevOps Versus SRE
Consider the following scenario. An Independent Software Provider (ISV) developed a financial application for a global investment firm that serves global conglomerates, leading central banks, asset managers, brokerage firms and governmental bodies. The development strategy for the application encompassed a thought through DevOps plan with cutting-edge agile tools. This has ensured zero downtime deployment at […]
Datical Embraces Liquibase Identity
Datical today announced that it will now operate under the moniker Liquibase to better reflect the open source tool it provides for automating database releases. At the same time, the company is promising to make it easier to upgrade from the Liquibase Pro edition of its software to Liquibase Business, a new edition that provides […]
Grafana Labs Update Aims to Simplify Observability
Grafana Labs today released an update to the open source Grafana project that adds a viewer that simplifies tracking the path of a single request through a distributed system. Version 7.0 also adds a plug-in for Amazon CloudWatch Logs along with support for Apache Arrow, a unified data and plugin framework that promises to make […]
GitLab Survey Sees DevOps Gains as Developers Exercise More Control
A global survey of 3,650 software professionals published by GitLab respondents indicates developers are exercising more direct control over IT environments. More than a third of respondents (35%) said developers define and/or create the infrastructure their applications run on, with 14% actually monitoring and responding to infrastructure events. Additionally, 18% of developers instrument code for […]
Rubrik Looks to Meld Data Management and DevOps
During its FORWARD Digital Summit event last week, Rubrik made a case for the melding of DevOps and data management. The company announced that its Polaris Data Management Platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, has added the ability to protect workloads running on virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Rubrik already provides […]
Report: Software Delivery Slowed During Pandemic
A survey of more than 500 IT and development professionals conducted by Atlassian finds two-thirds of respondents have slowed down the frequency of software delivery since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Hill, head of reliability process at Atlassian, said while developers may be creating more code than ever while they work from home, […]
Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps
The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
LaunchNotes Adds Communications Tool for App Release
LaunchNotes today launched a namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing the communications surrounding the release of an application. Company co-founder Jake Brereton said LaunchNotes streamlines internal and external communications for DevOps teams, eliminating the need to employ a collaboration tool such as Slack or a project management application. Each message can be designated as either […]
F5 Networks Surfaces Application Insights
F5 Networks, at its Agility 2020 online event today, unfurled Beacon, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables IT teams to better monitor and troubleshoot applications using telemetry data collected from networking equipment from both F5 and third-party sources. In addition, the company announced an update to NGINX Controller that enhances application analytics along with improvements […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Teams Adjust to New WFH Normal
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic the level of software development activity has remained relatively constant, but developers—who, like everyone else—are now largely working from home, are putting in more hours. Organizations are now grappling with whether working remotely on software development projects now represents the “new normal.” A report published this week by […]
CloudBees Brings Feature Flagging to On-Prem Environs
CloudBees this week announced an update to CloudBees Feature Flags that now makes it possible to deploy this capability in on-premises IT environments. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president and general manager for software delivery management and software delivery automation cloud at CloudBees, said CloudBees Feature Flags previously was available only as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application […]
Report: More Appreciate the Value of Observability
Observability may be a core tenet of any best DevOps practice, but the number of organizations that actually engage in it is still not nearly as high as it should. A survey of 400 software engineers published this week by Honeycomb, a provider of an observability platform, finds nearly half said they are not currently […]
GitHub Extends Scope and Reach of Repository
GitHub today at its GitHub Satellite virtual conference announced it has made it easier for developers to either launch a project or join an existing project on its repository and has added collaboration tools directly within the platform. GitHub is also moving to advance DevSecOps by adding code scanning tools and making secret scanning tools […]
Kong Brings Collaboration to Designing APIs
Kong has launched an open source tool for designing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to make it easier for teams of developers to collaboratively edit an API specification that can be stored in a Git repository. Based on the open source Insomnia API management platform the company gained last year by acquiring Floating Keyboard Software […]
DevOps Trends for 2020 and Beyond
Since the ideation of DevOps, technologists have made great strides to benefit from it. Despite advancements and the success that teams have seen within pockets, many of its core challenges are still prevalent: scaling across the enterprise due to manual processes, poor visibility between dev and ops teams, and tool sprawl that hurts agility. Luckily, […]
DevOps Practices: How to Make Valuable Changes to Your Teams
DevOps has become a buzzword within the software development industry, promising rapid turnaround times for requested changes. As for developers, DevOps promises to increase productivity while reducing the risk of production failures. The book “The Unicorn Project” by Gene Kim describes this process for developers as The Five Ideals. In this article, we’ll focus on […]
Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Tools
Red Hat today announced it has extended the analytics capabilities it makes available for instances of the Ansible IT automation platform and has made the Ansible Automation Services Catalog now generally available. In addition, Red Hat has increased the number of certified playbooks it makes available from both the company and third-party partners within the […]
Report Finds Much Room for CD Improvement
A report published by Harness, a provider of continuous delivery (CD) platform accessed via the cloud, finds organizations are spending on average $109,0000 per year just to deploy per application. Based on a survey of more than 100 organizations, the report finds organizations are struggling with deployment frequency, lead time and meantime to recover after […]
