How Integration Can Keep Up with Digital Demands
Integration holds the key to accelerating innovation, but in many organizations, business systems and application integrations haven’t kept up with the demands of digital. Data still exists in a siloed blend of on-premises systems and unconnected cloud applications, and IoT has added another layer of complexity into the mix. Understanding the three trends below, and […]
Building a Real-Time App: 13 Open Source Projects You Should Be Tracking Right Now
Open source is the dominant model of software consumption in the modern era. Cutting-edge startups and entrenched incumbents alike find open source software development and community building a significant part of their overall business strategies. For many open source projects, independent steering committees ensure that projects remain stable and are not beholden to a single […]
Service Meshes: Improving Security, Delivery and Availability
Containerized microservices are taking over the software world. These services provide developers a way to quickly create and deploy cloud-native applications. However, containers aren’t perfect. Orchestrating and managing container deployments can be a serious challenge. To help ease this challenge, service meshes were developed. In this article, you’ll learn about service meshes components and architecture […]
Predictions 2020: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2020
Today, modernizing systems is more than simply moving technology to a new location. It requires an IT stack of a new generation of technologies and tools to work. As we head into the new year, let’s take a look at the top eight trends that will shape how we will develop and deliver software. Kubernetes […]
HashiCorp Advances Open Source Consul Service Mesh
HashiCorp this week updated its Consul service mesh to make it easier to manage namespaces across multiple services. Previously, DevOps teams would have to manually ensure each namespace assigned to a group of services did not conflict with each other. The release of 1.7 of Consul enables teams to restrict access to services residing in […]
A New Paradigm in Container Security with Service Mesh
Containers have been around for some time, but only recently has the technology become mature enough for large enterprises to adopt it both on-prem and in the cloud. The obvious benefits for developers include the ability to dramatically reduce the time to production and the ability to lower the operational burden. This is further supported […]
DevOps Chat: Service Mesh Tracing, from Envoy, Omnition to Splunk
As application functions get smaller, containerized, become microservices and combine into service meshes, a new set of challenges crop up. What functions does each service perform? What state constitutes services in trouble? What are the dependencies between services across a complex service mesh? How can we instrument observability and tracing between the service interactions? Constance […]
Kubernetes and Service Mesh With StackRox
DevOps and Kubernetes enable organizations to “go with security,” adding security to the code instead of on top of it. In other words, security is built-in rather than bolted on. This is one of the aspects of security in the DevOps world with a Kubernetes system that Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, explained […]
DevOps Chat: Splunk Moves Into Microservices With Omnition Buy
Swiftly after announcing its acquisition of SignalFx, Splunk is vaulting into microservices tracing by announcing its intention to acquire Omnition. Tech companies are rapidly making acquisitions to strengthen their position in the DevOps and contemporary cloud-native software stack. Rick Fitz, SVP and GM of Splunk’s IT Markets Group, joins DevOps Chat to share with us […]
Kubernetes Adoption: Are You Ready?
Enterprises are rapidly embracing a cloud-first strategy and microservices play a pivotal role in this journey. But enterprises are achieving various levels of success, measured by many factors includingmaturity of DevOps in the enterprise, ability to identify the right candidates for microservices, selecting the appropriate container management platform, adequate tooling and, finally, cultural shift in […]
Hooked on Service Metrics
We live in an increasingly “as-a-service” world. From software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) to functions as a service (FaaS) and SaaS-delivered applications, service delivery has become paramount to business goals and practices. In today’s DevOps landscape, microservices—the cloud-native approach to designing scalable, independently delivered services—allow teams to prioritize each […]
Kong Inc. Defines Services-Centric Approach to Integration
Kong Inc. has released a feature-complete version of its namesake services broker for legacy and microservices-based applications that promises to eliminate the need for legacy application programming interface (API) management platforms. Company CTO Marco Palladino said traditional API management platforms, for all intents and purposes, are now dead. Formerly known as Mashape, the core technology […]
Enabling the Financial Services Shift to Microservices
The financial services industry historically has been riddled with barriers to entry. Challengers found it difficult to break through low margins and tightening regulations. However, large enterprises that once dominated the market are now facing disruption from smaller, leaner fintech companies that are eating away at the value chain. These disruptors are marked by technological […]
How Service Mesh Addresses 3 Key Microservices Challenges
I was recently reading the “Global Microservices Trends” report by Dimensional Research and found myself thinking, “A service mesh could help with that.” Let’s look at three key challenges listed in the report. A couple key points in the report make it clear microservices are seeing widespread adoption. It’s also clear that along with the […]
The Road Ahead for Service Mesh
If you’re struggling to manage microservices as architectures continue to scale, there’s a good chance you’ve at least heard of service mesh. For the purposes of this blog, I’ll assume you’re familiar with the basic tenets of a service mesh. I believe that service mesh is advancing microservice communication to a new level that is […]
Service Mesh: The Best Way to Scale Enterprise Apps
Microservices are great for DevOps, but the service-to-service communication these architectures depend on are complex to run and manage at production scale. Enter service mesh: the best way for enterprises to scale, secure and monitor apps. A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer enabling service-to-service communication to be quick, secure and reliable. If you’re building […]