Why Financial Companies Love Continuous Delivery
The other day I was on the American Express website paying bills and browsing around the benefits and services afforded me when I ran across a “who we are” section. It read: “We’re a global services company that provides customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.” Surprisingly, […]
How Open Source Can Help Your CD Chain
What can you do to make continuous delivery work better? Consider moving to open source software solutions. Here’s why. Many DevOps teams already may be using open-source platforms for reasons not related to continuous delivery. They might like the cost-efficiency or interoperability that usually come with open source. Or maybe they just like the open-source […]
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying time with friends and family. In the business world, the year-end also brings its own traditions, and first among those is making predictions […]
Four Inspiration-Killing Concepts That Need Redefining
Software engineering is a creative process, and creativity cannot be measured by the hour. It can be measured only by the value of the contribution. Yet, a majority of companies still measure productivity by hourly contributions. Companies treat the development process as if it still existed in the days of the assembly line, and all […]
Government Asks: What’s in Your Software?
Multiple agencies across the U.S. government are paying closer attention to the software they are buying. More specifically, they want to know what open-source and third-party components were used to build the software applications. For example: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to know what open-source components are being used in medical devices. U.S. […]
Keep Applications Running by Testing Early, Continuously
Almost every product we buy or use today goes through some form of extensive testing before it’s released on the market; typically, these tests are designed to replicate the worst-case scenarios that a product may encounter under real-world conditions. Automobiles, for example, go through extensive hot and cold weather testing in remote locations, and are […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: Category Creation featuring Martin Casado
In this episode of “To Be Continuous,” Paul and Edith are joined by Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He previously was co-founder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware in 2012. While at VMware, Martin served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit. […]
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Secures DevOps Infrastructure
HashiCorp, a DevOps infrastructure company known for its Atlas platform that combines a variety of powerful open-source tools, recently announced Vault Enterprise. HashiCorp describes Vault Enterprise as a comprehensive security solution for DevOps infrastructure. Vault Enterprise is the foundation for security in the HashiCorp DevOps infrastructure suite. Open source is a virtual necessity for effective […]
Private Practice: Encryption Exposed
In September 2014, Apple made encryption a default with the introduction of the iPhone 6. Then, in February 2016, a Los Angeles judge issued an order to force Apple to help break into the encrypted iPhone belonging to a terrorist involved in a mass shooting. Apple had used some of the strongest encryption technologies and […]
5 DevOps Techniques to Improve Software Hygiene
Thinking about frequent food contamination outbreaks, perhaps the old adage, “You are what you eat,” should be modified to, “You are what you eat—as assembled across an unknown supply chain.” Even foods advertised as fresh and healthy can be quite the opposite. And it could be because of just a single unhygienic practice hidden within […]
3 Simple Steps to Rugged DevOps 101
As the CEO of WhiteSource, I regularly consult enterprises about building and enforcing their open-source security policies. In the course of my consultations, I discuss open-source security protocol with many software companies and enterprises, and I’m often baffled by the fact that many organization aren’t boosting their software development performance and speed by bringing their […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: Have We Forgotten How To Code?
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Paul and Edith discuss the fallout after the widely covered “left-pad” incident, and while they agree that these sorts of moments move the entire open source community forward, they […]
Open Source Is the Secret Sauce of DevOps
DevOps is a relatively recent phenomenon—especially compared to the world of open source. While DevOps and open source are two entirely separate things, though, the reality is that it’s difficult to separate the two at this point. Many open source projects rely on DevOps tools and principles, and DevOps depends heavily on open source applications […]
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I will also discuss how you can protect and recover the data in your Cassandra […]
DevOps Chat: Mike Pittenger, Black Duck Software on Open Source and DevOps
I recently had a chance to speak with Mike Pittenger, Vice President of Strategy for Black Duck Software. Black Duck is a company that I have been following for many years. They pioneered the idea of auditing open source usage to ensure compliance with licenses and such. Of course over the years they have expanded […]
Red Hat Launches Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, Introducing Collaborative Open Source Cloud and DevOps Residency Program
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is designed to enable customers to jumpstart innovation and software development initiatives the open source way April 26, 2016 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the creation of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, a […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: Open Source Economics
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode of To Be Continuous, Edith and Paul are joined by Sean Byrnes, CEO of Outlier.ai, and Nadia Eghbal. The group discusses open-source economics and […]
The Rule Of Law: Open Source, The Internet and Society Breaks Without It
By now many if not most of you have read the big blowup about an open source developer who pulled some of his JavaScript code from a repository named NPM and in doing so broke the Internet. If you need some background here and here and here are some good articles with the background. To […]
Black Duck Announces Open Source “Rookies of the Year”
BURLINGTON, Mass.–(Business Wire)–Black Duck, a global leader in automated solutions for securing and managing open source software, today announced the eighth annual Open Source Rookies of the Year, recognizing the top new open source projects initiated in 2015. The selected projects show how diverse and ambitious open source software development has become. From communications to healthcare […]
Top 5 Reasons to Back Up Your OpenStack Environment
I am a big fan of lists. If you recall the movie “High Fidelity,” John Cusack’s character Rob and his co-workers—armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical—compile “top five” lists for every conceivable occasion, openly mock the tastes of people, and, every so often, sell a few records. In the spirit of a […]
How To Maintain Open Source Code Hygiene
To maintain good open source code hygiene in the development process, you must first establish what you mean by open source code hygiene, including good and bad hygiene. “By hygiene, we just mean is it appropriate? Is it clean for the intended use?” says Mike Pittenger, VP of Strategy at Black Duck Software. Black Duck […]
February is Open Technology Month at DevOps.com
As part of our continued evolution here at DevOps.com for 2016 we have designed an editorial calendar. Each month we will feature a particular topic of interest to our readers. For February the topic is open technology. This means we will have a feature section on all things open; this will include open source, open […]
DevOps Chat: Dan Berg on Open Technologies and the Open Enterprise
I had a chance to speak with Dan Berg, distinguished engineer at IBM. Dan and I discussed open technologies, open enterprise and open tool chains. A whole lot of open there. We also talked about how open technologies will be part of the upcoming IBM InterConnect event. Below is the stream of our conversation and […]