Collaboration: The Glue for Test Automation Maturity
QA’s role in DevOps continues to evolve in positive ways. In a recent survey on test automation conducted by QASymphony and TechWell, nearly one-third of organizations reported that among organizations where testers and developers share testing responsibilities, about a third of test cases are automated. This survey and others show that on average, fewer than […]
The Hybrid Cloud and Why DevOps Teams Need Unified Stack Observability
The modern data center is constantly evolving to keep up with the demands of always-on, anywhere computing. Long gone are the days of monolithic, on-premises data centers. Today, the computing modus operandi is that of the hybrid cloud, which, according to Statista, will be worth close to $50 billion in 2018—just about double what it […]
GitLab Joins Unicorn Club With $100m Raise
GitLab has become the latest member of the Unicorn club after announcing a $100m round of funding led by ICONIQ Capital. This latest round, a series D brings the total capital raise for GitLab to $145m over 3 years. According to the company it also raised their market valuation to over the magical $1B mark. […]
CloudBees Extends CI/CD Scope, Reach
CloudBees, at its DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 conference this week, unveiled a broad strategy to extend the reach and scope of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms based on the open source Jenkins software. Company CEO Sascha Labourey said CloudBees Suite will provide the equivalent of a customer relationship management (CRM) application for software […]
Fusing iPaaS with DevOps: Synergistic Potential of Continuous Zero Code Integration
DevOps and integration platform as a service (iPaaS) are two dominant trends that together have cutting-edge use cases. Zero code integration could bring significant improvements to the DevOps life cycle, enabling efficient movement of applications from development to production. Implemented in the right way, both technologies can rewrite the way applications are developed. DevOps is […]
DevSecOps: Critical in Building the Bank of the Future
It is no secret that change in a large organization can be difficult. This is often true within banking, an industry that often has sought predictably instead of agility in software delivery. However, with the right tools, guidance and teams, creating a bank that can be both complaint and responsive may be more attainable than […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Visibility
OpsRamp has advanced its case for AIOps via a Fall update to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that adds a Topology Explorer alongside an enhanced set of Service Maps. In addition, OpsRamp added a cloud database monitoring capabilities for relational databases deployed on public clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform […]
How to Fix ‘Dark Debt’ in Your IT Organization’s Culture
Poor decisions, bad metrics, lack of communication can accrue dark debt in any company Buying a low-quality microwave meal from a gas station, kicking a sock under the bed before guests arrive, jaywalking … We all take shortcuts. But unlike enterprise software delivery, these decisions rarely cause any collateral damage. The ramifications of taking shortcuts […]
DevOps and the Dark Pools of Security Technical Debt
We live in a world of digital transformation where organizations across industries are embracing initiatives around automation, cloud deployments and containerization of applications—and for good reason. Enabling transformative technologies such as DevOps, for example, can deliver superior product differentiation, faster time to market for new applications and services and an improved overall customer experience. A […]
DevOps at Scale
According to Accenture‘s APAC practice lead for Agile, DevOps and Test Automation Mirco Hering, there is general agreement that DevOps at scale is a good thing, but the problem is getting from where organizations are to where they want to be. Obstacles include having plenty of technology skills but little or no technology management (i.e., […]
DevOps Chat: DevSecOps with ShiftLeft CTO Chetan Conikee
Security in the DevOps process has gotten a lot of attention lately, as companies grapple with ways to include security further up the application development process. The industry is still very much a nascent space, as players remain engaged in the security-versus-speed conversation—one always is sacrificed for the other. ShiftLeft, however, doesn’t believe that’s the […]
Microsoft Revamps Approach to DevOps on Azure
Microsoft this week unfurled a broad range of DevOps services for the Azure cloud that are intended to make it easier for organizations to embrace modern application development and deployment processes. Jaimie Cool, director of product management for Azure DevOps, said it’s fundamentally simpler for organizations to embrace DevOps processes using tooling hosted in the […]
Speed Rules in Chef’s DevOps Survey
DevOps is all about streamlining and accelerating. Organizations that embrace DevOps are driven by a focus on maximizing the combination of efficiency and effectiveness—which explains why speed is the central theme of Chef’s “The State of Enterprise Applications” survey. Chef surveyed nearly 350 application and operations professionals in an effort to understand trends in DevOps, […]
Why the DevOps Trinity is Key for Digital Transformation
As digital technology continues to disrupt and transform businesses across industries and around the world, the ability to deliver high-quality software rapidly will make the difference between survival and extinction for many companies. DevOps seeks to change the dynamics in which operations and development teams interact. Ultimately, successful adoption of DevOps and the process of […]
DevOps Ethics: The Danger of Unethical Code
The accident could not have come at a worse time for Uber. Already under scrutiny following several high-profile lawsuits for sexual harassment, intellectual property theft and other accusations that played at least as significant role in founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick’s departure, the ride-hailing firm’s driverless test vehicle was involved in a fatal pedestrian […]
Keynotes and Announcements at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018
Each year DevOps World | Jenkins World is bigger and better than the year before. This means the announcements at the show also continue to evolve to keep pace with the rate of innovation. With the tremendous growth in DevOps adoption, the event will highlight the contributions of industry leaders and provide insight for attendees […]
Continuous Testing in the ‘2018 Accelerate State of DevOps’ Report
Here’s a peek into what continuous testing means to DevOps today The “2018 Accelerate State of DevOps” report is the brainchild of Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Gene Kim and Jez Humble at DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment). Based on five years of research, with more than 30,000 data points from thousands of companies, the project aims […]
Open Mainframe Project Launches Zowe to Advance DevOps
The Open Mainframe Project has launched Zowe, an effort to make mainframes running z/OS both more accessible and programmable using REST application programming interfaces (APIs). Announced at the Open Source Summit, the Zowe project is being led by IBM, CA Technologies and Rocket Software. Matt Hogstrom, chief architect for z/OS Systems at IBM, said the […]
DevSecOps: Where DevOps and Security Meet
Catching up with three IT leaders on the role of security in the changing world of DevOps The DevOps methodology as a software and engineering culture goes back nearly 10 years—Patrick Debois coined the term when he named a Belgian software conference “devopsdays.” Since then, the movement has taken on a mind of its own, […]
How to Use APM to Hold Cloud Providers Accountable
Here’s the challenge: Cloud providers’ service level agreements (SLAs) typically stop at the edge of their cloud, while your internal service level expectations run end to end. Measuring performance from the end user to the application and back, including device details, user productivity and page load times, is essential for customer satisfaction and continuous performance […]
How to Convince Your Manager to Send You to DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018
The largest gathering of Jenkins users and DevOps practitioners is less than a month away. DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 will be held in two locations this year, Sept. 16-19 in San Francisco and Oct. 22-25 in Nice, France. With exciting keynotes from industry influencers including Dr. Nicole Forsgren, CEO and chief data scientist […]
VMware Extends DevOps Reach via SaaS Apps
VMware, at the VMworld 2018 conference today, announced it will be delving deeper in the realm of DevOps with the launch of a continuous delivery pipeline dubbed Code Stream. In addition, VMware announced Cloud Assembly, a set of declarative tools that enable IT organizations to spin up a cloud in as little as 10 minutes […]
When DevOps and ITSM Collide: Mistakes to Avoid
In many ways the DevOps movement evolved as a reaction against the worst elements of IT service management (ITSM). IT leaders wanted to get from under the yoke of overly complex processes, bureaucracy and red tape to speed up software delivery, and to just get stuff done. Now that DevOps has kicked into full gear […]