F5 Networks Acquires NGINX to Meld NetOps with DevOps
As part of an effort to better align DevOps and network operations (NetOps), F5 Networks plans to acquire NGINX, a provider of widely employed open source loading balancing software. The two companies revealed in a call with financial analysts that the primary goal of the $760 million deal is to meld the two companies’ combined expertise […]
Cisco Opens IoT Development Center
Cisco Systems this week launched an IoT Dev Center as part of an effort to foster development of a new generation of applications that will be deployed at the network edge. Announced at the Cisco Live EMEA event, the IoT Dev Center provides access to sandboxes and tutorials for building highly distributed IoT applications that […]
Netifi Rises to Microservices Integration Challenge
Netifi this week launched an integration platform based on the open source RSocket communications protocol to replace HTTP ad REST application programming interfaces (APIs) as the mechanism for connecting microservices. RSocket was originally created by Netflix and is now being strengthened via contributions from Netifi, Facebook and Pivotal Software for use within enterprise IT organizations. […]
Microservices Momentum Accelerates
A global survey of 353 application development professionals conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of LightStep, a provider of application performance management (APM) tools, finds a full 86 percent of respondents expect microservices to be the default architecture within five years. A total of 60 percent of respondents said they already have microservices in production […]
Top 3 Challenges of Adopting Microservices as Part of Your Cloud Migration
Many organizations embark on cloud migrations to achieve scalability, cost-efficiency and higher application performance. IDC estimates 60 percent of worldwide enterprises are migrating existing applications to the cloud. With the promise of greater flexibility, a reduction in overhead and the potential for significant cost savings, it’s a logical decision. But instead of performing a “lift […]
7 Principles for Using Microservices to Build an API That Lasts
SparkPost launched the first beta version of our cloud-based email delivery service three years ago. At its introduction, a handful of customers sent a few million emails a month. Now, our API is used by tens of thousands of customers—including Pinterest, Zillow, and Intercom—to send more than 15 billion emails a month. That dramatic […]
SecOps: The Next Stride for DevOps
Global IT spending is now touching a figure of $4 trillion. In today’s technology-intensive environment, data is the biggest commodity, more valuable and powerful than ever. And like Peter Parker’s uncle Ben noted, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Security has always been a big concern for valuable things and IT is no exception. IT […]
Top 3 DevOps Practices for Operational Stability
Operational Stability is one of the main concerns in organizations. Especially some larger organization struggle to get a more stable IT landscape. Too often it’s political discussions that are preventing them from doing something about it. Organizations that have DevOps teams in place can just smile because they are enabled to be in control of […]