Zoom-Layoff CEO is Back | Bill Bans Targeted Ads | More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: The return of the CEO who fired 900 staff on a Zoom call, Capitol Hill has a bill to kill ads, and a last-minute hiccup in the FAA/FCC 5G truce.
WTH? We Wanna WFH | DoD Dual-Sources JWCC | More Nvidia ARM Woes
In this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm.
Google Makes Fuzz Testing Integration Tool Available
Google today made available a ClusterFuzzLite tool that makes it simpler to incorporate fuzz testing into a DevOps workflow. Fuzz testing refers to an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected or random data as inputs to an application to discover issues such as potential memory leaks. Jonathan Metzman, a senior software engineer […]
Accelerate State of DevOps Report: The Move to Multi-Cloud
Analysis of the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) data shows an increasing number of organizations are choosing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions. In our survey, respondents were asked where their primary service or application was hosted, and the results showed that public cloud use is on the rise. Of the 1,200 survey respondents […]
Google Donates Sqlcommenter to OpenTelemetry Project
Google announced today that Sqlcommenter, an open source project that provides access to an object-relational mapping (ORM) auto-instrumentation library, is being merged with OpenTelemetry, an open source project for building agent software to instrument applications. Nimesh Bhagat, a product manager for Google, said Sqlcommenter is designed to make it simpler to correlate application and database […]
Google Unveils Tool to Better Secure GitHub Repos
Google today launched a GitHub app that provides automated continuous enforcement of security best practices for GitHub projects. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Allstar application enables IT teams to assess any project on GitHub to check for security policy adherence. In addition, Allstar sets desired enforcement […]
Google Proposes SLSA Framework to Secure Software Supply Chains
Google is proposing organizations adopt a framework for securing the integrity of software artifacts across a software supply chain. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) is based on an internal framework, known as binary authorization for Borg, that the company […]
Earth Day: The Green Side of Computing
When we think of climate change and the existential threat of global warming, our minds often conjure images of dirty factories pumping out carbon dioxide or fuel-guzzling cars sitting idle with their engines rumbling. We think of ice sheets tumbling into the ocean and sea levels rising, and we know that grand, sweeping changes are […]
Sentry Extends Application Performance Monitoring Tool
Sentry this week announced it has added support for applications that employ serverless computing frameworks as well as the Google Web Vitals service to its application monitoring tool. Company CEO Milin Desai said incorporating Google Web Vitals metrics into Sentry Performance Monitoring will become crucial as Google makes good on a pledge to rank websites […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Google Roils Open Source Community
Google this week agitated the bulk of the open source community by launching the Open Usage Commons consortium to protect the trademarks of open source projects, starting with the Istio, Angular and Gerrit projects it launched. Launched in collaboration with SADA Systems and some independent contributors, the stated goal of the Open Usage Commons is […]
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 […]
DevOps Chats: 1-Click Vulnerability Scanning on GCP, With Qualys
Sometimes the best way to accomplish something is to choose a path requiring the least friction, or amount of change. Qualys customers now have that path available to them in bring vulnerability scanning into Google Cloud Platform. Qualys’ recent announcement means a one-click configuration change enables vulnerability scans in GCP with the results appearing in […]
Oracle v. Google and Its Impact on APIs and Code
What, if any, impact will the Supreme Court’s rulings on Oracle v. Google have on the industry at large? TL/DR: It is unlikely to impact the vast majority of us, vendor and enterprise developer alike. Disclaimer: I am a technologist, not a lawyer. I have done some research, and talked to lawyers, but all that […]
DORA Report: DevOps Maturity Levels Rise
The annual DORA report on DevOps shows a marked increase among Elite performers compared to last year The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) arm of Google Cloud today published the results of an annual survey that suggests there have been marked gains in the level of DevOps maturity. The “2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report,” […]
Acquisitions to Fuel Programmable Analytics
Now that Tableau Software has agreed to be acquired by Salesforce and Looker is set to become a part of Google, the rate at which analytics will be embedded within almost every application is about to accelerate. Tableau today is relied on by more than 86,000 organizations to surface business intelligence via data visualizations created […]
SRE: How Do You Get to Blameless?
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the companion to DevOps. If we take my normal divisions of DEVops versus devOPS, traditional DevOps is mostly the developer side, and SRE is mostly the Ops side. This isn’t a perfect comparison, but it is a good starting point, and for this blog, I’ll run with it. While DevOps […]
Linux Foundation to Host CHIPS Alliance Project to Propel Industry Innovation Through Open Source CPU Chip and SoC Design
New Linux Foundation Project to Foster Flexible, Next-Generation Chip Design for Diverse Data-Centric Applications and Workloads SAN FRANCISCO – March 11, 2019 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced its intent to form the CHIPS Alliance project to host and curate high-quality open source code relevant to […]
Survey Finds Wide Gap Between DevOps Adoption and Success
A recent HBR survey shows there is work to be done to advance DevOps in organizations A survey of 654 subscribers to the Harvard Business Review found that while 86 percent of respondents said it is important for their organizations to be able to build and deploy software quickly, only 10 percent said they are […]
Google Rolls Out Additional Cloud Certifications
Google is moving to address a chronic shortage of cloud skills necessary to advance DevOps. Specifically, Google plans to add Professional Cloud Developer (GA), Professional Cloud Network Engineer (Beta), Professional Cloud Security Engineer (Beta) and G Suite certifications (GA) alongside Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer and Associate Cloud Engineer certifications that already exist. Google […]
Google Cloud Platform: The Basics for Absolute Beginners
Google Cloud Platform provides powerful tools and services. Why should you pay attention to one of the leading cloud service providers? More and more companies are moving to the cloud to help create software applications and manage data, and Google Cloud Platform is one of the many platforms available for cloud computing, an industry that […]
What Google’s ‘Digital Wellbeing’ Means for Every App Developer
One of the big themes to emerge from Google’s recent I/O conference was Digital Wellbeing—the notion that technology should be a positive force in our lives, and that we need ways to disconnect from apps when they suck up too much time or distract us in other ways. Google is taking the idea seriously, and […]
Google Advances Confidential Computing
Google has kicked off an effort to make it easier to build secure applications using an open source framework for confidential computing, which enables encrypted data to be processed inline by an application without ever requiring the data to be decrypted. Asylo is an open-source framework and SDK for developing applications that run in multiple […]
Google Looks to Simplify Building of Workflows
Google this week launched the beta of Cloud Composer, a managed Apache Airflow service for building workflows that promises to simplify management of integrated DevOps processes. Apache Airflow is an incubation project being developed under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation that enables IT teams to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows using directed […]