DevOps Deeper Dive: Git Turns 15
Git, the version control system that arguably has enabled many DevOps advances over the last decade, is turning 15 this month. Git was developed by Linus Torvalds, best known for his contributions to Linux, and was so-named after he and the rest of the Linux community referred to it as “that stupid content tracker.” The […]
JFrog Makes Free DevOps Resources Available for COVID-19 Projects
JFrog is providing free access to cloud-based DevOps tools to teams or organizations that have launched projects to actively research and fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Ido Green, vice president of technology for JFrog, said this initiative will be made available via its FrogCare program mainly to nonprofit organizations. The goal is to make it easier […]
VMware Makes vRealize Automation Framework Available via the Cloud
VMware this week announced it has made a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its vRealize automation platform generally available. Taruna Gandhi, senior director for product and technical marketing at VMware, said VMware vRealize Operation Cloud will make IT automation more accessible to a broader swath of organizations that might not be able to implement IT automation […]
Is It Time to End the Software Metric Madness?
We have all heard the phrase “What gets measured, gets managed,” often attributed to Peter Drucker—interesting note about this quote, Drucker didn’t say it. In the DevOps space, or application development and delivery generally, this quote is often used as a justification to measure things like deployment velocity, bug fixes, lead time and so on, […]
The Key to Embracing DevOps: A Real-Time Roadmap
While the term “DevOps” has become somewhat of an industry buzzword, it represents an important shift in the way teams think about planning, building and deploying software. Drawing its inspiration from the Agile movement, DevOps extends many of Agile’s core principles beyond development to how teams deploy, monitor and inform their next round of product […]
GitLab Responds To GitHub Making Teams Free – We All Win
Microsoft’s GitHub recently announced that it was going to make a change to its product lineup by making the team version of GitHub free and lowering the price on a full-featured version. The move seemed aimed squarely at matching GitLab’s offering. Well, now GitLab has responded to GitHub. While both of these excellent offerings compete […]
Six Tips for a Successful DevOps Implementation
As we expand our digital world, there is an ever more urgent need to look after businesses that need to operate faster and with more agility. Because of this, DevOps has grown quickly and become central to a lot of organizations as they pursue a competitive advantage. However, some organizations struggle to implement DevOps as […]
Seven Effective Tips to Get the Most Out of your DevOps
It seems that every firm is trying to include DevOps in their software delivery cycle these days. This is understandable. According to the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, companies using DevOps are more likely to achieve elite performance in software development and delivery. Companies such as Google and Amazon can be deploying thousands of […]
The Increased Role of Colocation Providers in Data Centers
You would be hard-pressed to find something more complex than a modern data center. A state-of-the-art building stocked with all the necessary software for a major company might run into billions in costs if you decide to build and operate your own from the ground up. Even though many pundits had predicted data centers would […]
Filling the Skills Gap for Effective DevSecOps
With the rise of DevSecOps comes a whole new need for training and upskilling. It isn’t a secret that the cybersecurity skills gap will only continue to grow. The security skills gap combined with the rise of DevSecOps has introduced hidden challenges organizations must address. The Rise of DevSecOps While DevOps accelerates agility and scalability […]
Taming the Shadow IT Beast and Runaway Spend
Do you know how much IT resources your employees are consuming? According to research conducted by the Everest Group, shadow IT spending accounts for a whopping 50% or more of the IT budget. Beyond these costs, shadow IT could end up costing you big in terms of a security breach: Gartner estimates that 33% of […]
CircleCI Surfaces More DevOps Insights
CircleCI today announced it is making it easier for DevOps teams to determine the amount of resources being consumed by its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to help make application development teams more efficient. Kunal Jain, senior product manager for CircleCI, said via the application programming interface (API) that CircleCI exposes DevOps teams can now […]
DevOps for the Rest of Ops
The IT pro gig usually includes a basic headwind. They’re part of a cost center, and budget for resources and staff are limited by design unless they’re managing a strategic initiative, which—at least for a while—is more generously funded. Early adopters of DevOps, Agile or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams have been budget beneficiaries when […]
Compuware Shifts Mainframe App Testing Left
Compuware today announced it is making it easier to shift application performance testing further left on to the shoulders of developers by adding support for a REST application programming interface (API) to its application performance management (APM) platform for mainframe applications, along with a plug-in for Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Sam Knutson, vice […]
Splunk Updates SignalFx APM Platform
Splunk today unfurled its first major update to the SignalFx application performance management (APM) platform since acquiring it last October. Karthik Rau, general manager for application performance management (APM) at Splunk, said SignalFx Microservices APM combines for the first time the SignalFx platform with Omnition, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for implementing distributed tracing as an […]
Eclipse Foundation Delivers on Theia Promise
The Eclipse Foundation has made available Theia 1.0, an open source alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Studio (VS) Code tool for editing code. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said Theia will provide IT teams with a no-cost option to editing code that can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud alongside the Eclipse […]
DevOps at Scale: Winning Strategy for Modern Enterprises
DevOps is a word that has generated massive interest over the last few years among the software-powered organizations and developers, yet many people don’t fully understand what it actually means. One thing is for sure, as cool as it sounds, DevOps is not some kind of top-secret developer army group, job profile or even a […]
IT Services and DevOps: Friends, Not Foes
Development and operations, aka DevOps, is the marriage between software development and IT operations. The goal of a DevOps team is two-fold: to more quickly make products that are better for customers, and to align more closely with business goals. While it sounds pretty great, something doesn’t sit well. What about your service department? Service […]
DataOps and Beyond: How DevOps Methodology Transformed Our Approach to Data Science
The DevOps methodology has become synonymous with forward technical thinking–a workplace culture that reinforces best cultural practice and promotes more, better quality output by synchronizing the functions of development and operations teams. As a testament to its popularity, the term has expanded in reach to refer to a broader set of transformational software-related practices. The […]
We All Have to Have Standards
I was working on an e-book recently about the state of the market for certain DevOps toolsets, and got really interested in how standardized organizations are becoming. We have been on this roller coaster of changing technology and different teams making different choices in language, libraries, platforms and toolchains. We all knew that couldn’t go […]
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Integrations
Akamai today extended its DevOps strategy to provide tighter integrations with continuous integration/continuous (CI/CD) platforms and IT automation tools such as Terraform from HashiCorp. In addition, Akamai is adding support for serverless computing functions to Akamai EdgeWorkers, a JavaScript-based framework through which application logic can be executed on the edge of the Akamai content delivery […]
COVID-19 Reaction: Massive Spike in IT Incidents
A report published this week by PagerDuty, a provider of an incident management platform, finds organizations that rely on the platform to manage IT issues are managing on average double the number of incidents since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In some industry segments, such as online learning services, travel and entertainment services, the […]
How to Build Creativity into Distributed DevOps Teams
Today, more people than ever work remotely or are part of distributed teams. The DevOps world is no different. While working remotely has definite advantages, it also poses distinct challenges for teams trying to build strong internal cultures, coordinate product launches and hit shipping deadlines. It’s not enough to just slot in a communications app […]