KubeCon 2023: What’s Next for Managed Deployment
Mitch Ashley talks with Armory’s Adam Frank about the latest innovations in continuous delivery.
Measuring the Progress of the OpenTelemetry Project
OpenTelemetry has become a ‘boring’ standard for open source data and application performance measurement and observability.
The Ultimate Measure of Software Development Effectiveness
There is a famous quote by Peter Drucker that states, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” In our industry, measuring how quickly we can get working software into the hands of our customers has become a mantra for agile development teams, and it’s even being talked about in the boardrooms. Customers measure the value […]
The Best (and Worst) Reasons to Adopt OpenTelemetry
It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term ‘OpenTelemetry.’ At that time, I was an active member of a working group focused on developing W3C Trace Context, a standard now extensively employed for context propagation in distributed systems. It is likely […]
The Now and Next of Automation
Today’s never-ending flood of data has many of us drowning in noise. And while humans are still essential for thoughtful analysis and driving action, it’s no longer possible for a human to parse gigabytes of data alone. How do you begin to filter out the noise and then understand what to do with it? How […]
Are you Being ‘Nice’ to Your Developers? Think Again
As a developer, you’ve learned your craft. From your fingers comes the magic that builds the applications that run the world. You can literally create something from nothing! And not just software programs. You can create value that means revenue for your company. You’re a revenue machine — no, you’re a god, creating anything that’s […]
Cosmonic Unveils PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Cosmonic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for building cloud-native applications using Web Assembly. Based on the open source wasmCloud distributed computing environment now being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Cosmonic PaaS gives developers access to a lightweight environment that […]
Making SBOMs Actionable
A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a list of all the software components found in a given codebase or used in a given software build. Great. So, now what? Why do we even care about SBOMs? Those are great questions—because in and of itself, the SBOM doesn’t really do anything; it is simply a […]
Sysdig Introduces Sysdig Advisor to Drastically Simplify Kubernetes Troubleshooting
Single view of performance and events accelerates Kubernetes troubleshooting by up to 10x VALENCIA, SPAIN, (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe), May 16, 2022 — Sysdig, the unified container and cloud security leader, announced the availability of Sysdig Advisor, a Kubernetes troubleshooting feature that consolidates and prioritizes relevant performance details in Sysdig Monitor. By providing a single view […]
Sysdig Open Source is Extended to Secure Cloud Services
New integration enables any Falco plugin to be used for Sysdig OSS VALENCIA, SPAIN, (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe), May 16, 2022 — Sysdig, the unified container and cloud security leader, announced that Sysdig open source, the incident response standard for containers, has been extended to the cloud. Using system calls, Sysdig open source (Sysdig OSS) […]
How to Secure CI/CD Pipelines With DevSecOps
Many companies are adopting a DevOps approach in their workflows as IT moves toward a more automated and cloud-native world—but for some industries, this migration isn’t easy. Many of these companies—in finance, health care, government—are obligated to meet compliance requirements. For these organizations, DevSecOps adds necessary security focus to the DevOps methodology. Compliance means adhering […]
Trust in Cloud Providers is a Developer Issue
Earlier this summer, we worked with ClearPath Strategies to ask developers about the level of trust they have in their various cloud service providers. What we learned spoke volumes: While developers’ familiarity and comfort with Amazon, Microsoft and Google position these well-known cloud providers as market frontrunners, developers often do not agree with the companies’ […]
Energy Efficiency and the Data Center
The IT industry has historically been a leader in the ongoing race to reduce CO2 emissions. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line. The data center is well-known as a voracious data consumer. But the data center consumption findings keep pace with the trend. Even in the face of […]
Top 5 Must-Haves for IaC Automation Tools
These days, there are a lot of different DevOps tools to accomplish a lot of different jobs. Almost daily another startup comes out with a new and innovative product or a newer (maybe even better) version of existing tools. One of the biggest innovations has been infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Giving infrastructure admins and developers alike the […]
Rethinking Your Approach to Ops Governance
The “You build it, you run it” approach has changed the mindset of modern organizations that are increasingly adopting DevOps practices. No longer completely beholden to the requirements of operations, engineering teams are continually acquiring more autonomy to deliver rapid innovation. At the same time, more organizations are adopting platform teams to accelerate development, empowering […]
New Relic I/O Aims to Simplify Instrumentation
New Relic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference launched a New Relic Instant Observability (I/O) initiative through which it is making available open source tools to simplify application instrumentation. Marck Robinson, senior vice president for engineering at New Relic, said the catalog of tools will help DevOps teams instrument a much wider […]
Why You Need a Value Stream Delivery Platform
While the pandemic was significantly challenging for businesses, it exposed the need to quickly adapt and change. Software products for internal or client use continue to provide an opportunity for a competitive edge in nearly any industry. Businesses will immerse themselves and compete in the digital economy by consistently producing better software products at an […]
The Inevitability of Multi-Cloud-Native Apps
We all know the story: Enterprises moved to the cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self-service developer provisioning. Along came Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud-native, where they learned about automation, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Now, even though most enterprises are still figuring out how to do cloud-native at scale, there’s […]
Why Browser and API Testing is Shifting Left
For developers working with cloud-native technologies, software testing and quality assurance is a key part of product development. For most teams, testing has “shifted left,” so the quality of the code can be assessed as it moves through the CI/CD pipeline. This approach to quality assurance reflects the rise of DevOps and other modern development […]