DevOps Chat: AppSec and DevSecOps with Contrast Security’s Jeff Williams
I have known of Jeff Williams in the security industry for more than several years. He is a well-respected thought leader in AppSec and OWASP. I finally got a chance to catch up with Jeff and talk with him about Contrast Security, the company he co-founded and how it is helping. In this DevOps Chat, […]
SoulCycle Flexes Its Muscles with DevOps and CI/CD
When SoulCycle wanted to improve application development and deployment, including improving services for customers across its 80-plus indoor cycling centers in the United States and Canada, the company turned to Mark Sost, a veteran developer and engineer who worked at several media companies, including Hearst. Over the last two-plus years, Sost, who now holds the […]
How SRE Creates a Blameless Culture
People in tech love to praise failure as essential to innovation. But at far too many organizations, when failure happens, it is punished. When an IT system goes down, an individual or a team is immediately ID’d, blamed and shamed. This is counterproductive. Blame damages companies by creating a play-it-safe atmosphere and stifling innovation; even […]
FinOps Foundation to Help Rein in Cloud Costs
A new consortium has been formed to promote best practices for controlling cloud computing costs. Announced at the Cloud Economic Summit, the non-profit FinOps Foundation counts among its founding members Atlassian, Autodesk, Cloudability, HERE Technologies, Just Eat and Nationwide. Cloudability co-founder J.R. Storment said the goal is to bring financial accountability to variable cloud spending […]
Top Trends in DevOps for 2019
DevOps is poised for healthy growth over the next several years, with analysts large and small weighing in with forecasts. For instance, IDC predicts the worldwide DevOps software market will reach $8 billion by 2022, up from $3.9 billion in 2017. Similarly, Grand View Research estimates the global DevOps market will hit $12.85 billion by […]
‘DevOoops’ Moves: Poorly Defined KPIs
DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But, it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call a “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops in action. The following is a discussion submitted by product […]
Smashing the (DevOps) Stack for Fun and Profit
Most organizations that I deal with have a similar story for the promulgation of DevOps in their data center. The story is similar for bringing in most new technology and techniques: A team that usually does a new project without any attachments—relatively small compared to projects at the center of the business—adopted DevOps from the […]
Will ITIL V4 Bring Order to a DevOps World?
It is difficult to dispute the importance that the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) approach has had on the world of ITSM (IT service management). After all, the best practices established by ITIL V3 have come to be the accepted way ITSM providers conduct business—so much so that many other IT processes have come to […]
IBM Adds Automated Testing Tool for Mainframe to DevOps Portfolio
IBM has added an automated testing tool to the portfolio of DevOps tools it has developed for mainframes. Sanjay Chandru, director of Z DevOps for IBM, said IBM Z Open Unit Test adds a continuous testing capability to the continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform based on an instance of an open source Git repository developed […]
IBM Extends Cloud Reach to Include Integration
At the IBM Think 2019 conference this week, IBM unfurled an IBM Cloud Integration Platform that pulls together a range of tools in a single development platform that the company promises will reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy applications by making it easier to reuse integration code. Hillery Hunter, vice president and […]
Python Benefiting From Increase in DevOps Use
DevOps and Python have developed a mutually beneficial relationship. In a recent survey released by the Python Software Foundation and software development company JetBrains, researchers found that more and more developers are using the program language for an array of versatile projects, including DevOps and machine learning. In fact, Python developers told the researchers that […]
Break-Even Analysis: Understanding the Impact of Automation
Determining whether automation is helpful beyond the CI/CD pipeline can be easier through a break-even analysis The pursuit of automating away all the operational tasks in your organization doesn’t stop after you finish building a solid CI/CD pipeline infrastructure using the myriad tools available and making it stable. There are many more one-off tasks not […]
Actifio Looks to Meld DataOps with DevOps
Actifio and IBM have formed an alliance under which IBM will make available data management software developed by Actifio under its own name as part of an effort to close the gap between DevOps and DataOps. At the same time, Actifio will make available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for the first time, dubbed Actifio Go, […]
Help a Student Out and Advance DevOps in Academia
Those of us who attended university know the pressures students face every day. Between attending classes, completing homework, figuring out what they really want to do with their life and all of the other assorted adulting they have to manage, college students have a lot going on. That’s why a little help can go a […]
Death of the Release: The Move to Continuous Delivery and Experimentation
As we move from continuous delivery to continuous experimentation, we also must develop new practices As software development processes have evolved, we have mostly said goodbye to the idea of defined product versions. Many modern product delivery teams are taking this a step further—even the concept of a “product release” is starting to fade. Instead, […]
DevSecOps Implementation Process and Road Map – Security at Every Step
DevSecOps is changing our perspective toward security and is equipping us to deal with its challenges in an intelligible manner. The systematic approach of DevSecOps helps us add value to our business processes while ensuring security. Here’s a summary of the key inputs and a recipe for a successful software development project. Implementing DevSecOps with […]
CXOs Overestimating DevOps and Continuous Testing Maturity
More work is needed to achieve continuous testing, Forrester report shows Forrester recently completed an interesting new research project exploring what separates DevOps leaders from DevOps laggards. After analyzing data collected from 603 global enterprise respondents responsible for their firms’ DevOps strategies, Forrester learned that firms with the most mature DevOps practices do several key […]
Fail Fast: How Shifting Security Left Speeds Development
How DevSecOps can help organizations increase security, move faster and save money With developers under constant pressure to create more software in less time, the last thing you need is for your code to fail at the end of the development lifecycle. No developer wants to create inoperable or insecure code. We know that most […]
‘DevOps Engineer’ Title Lands in Top 5 of Dice Salary Survey
The position of DevOps Engineer is gaining some serious respect, and with that comes cash. In Dice’s recently released “2019 Tech Salary Report,” DevOps Engineer now ranks in the Top 5 of all tech salaries, with an average of $111,683. The survey is based on the responses of 10,780 technology professionals conducted between Oct. 22 […]
How Software Outsourcing Can Empower Digital Transformation
Businesses are constantly readjusting themselves to become more agile and innovative while maximizing their opportunity in today’s digital economy. This is especially true for up-and-coming businesses with limited budgets that need to think ahead of the curve to find additional resources to fuel their digital transformation. Software outsourcing is no longer perceived as a choice […]
Study: CISOs Need to Take Charge of DevOps Security
A new report from CyberArk looks at the complexity that goes into securing emerging DevOps environments, and why CISOs need to take charge to protect them. As digital transformation is pushing more enterprises to adopt DevOps to address their needs for better software delivered faster and more frequently, a huge issue lingers over this strategic […]
Minor Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Age of Automation
Giving automation the power to detect crime and enforce punishment has ramifications, even for minor infractions In November, I broke the law. I crossed over a solid white line to make a right turn at a traffic intersection. At the time I was unaware of my violation. I was on my way to a shopping […]
Is Your Organization ‘Fit for the Future’?
Takeaways from a recent conference suggest more work is needed in DevOps adoption among organizations This was a question explored by CIO Platform Nederland and the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) in a recent event I attended, hosted by Transavia. Many organizations have already embarked or are about to embark upon Agile transformation initiatives, driven […]