Embedding Accessibility into the DevOps Process
Calls for accessibility and inclusion are a defining characteristic of current times. Persons with disabilities (PwD), including vision, hearing, cognitive and physical impairments and others, are demanding equal access to virtually all public services and forums they interact with, from transportation to banking and self-service terminals in airports—and increasingly, digital (web and mobile) services. Ensuring […]
How to Design DevSecOps Compliance Processes to Free Up Developer Resources
Anything that gets rolled out quickly in the technological world is a major step forward—as long as it doesn’t compromise security. DevSecOps is able to provide compliance processes far more effectively than before, and without jeopardizing security while also freeing up developer resources. How do you direct your IT team to keep your applications and […]
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 […]
Fail Fast: How Shifting Security Left Speeds Development
How DevSecOps can help organizations increase security, move faster and save money With developers under constant pressure to create more software in less time, the last thing you need is for your code to fail at the end of the development lifecycle. No developer wants to create inoperable or insecure code. We know that most […]
Don’t Forget to Automate Cloud Security
Cloud has been around long enough, and we’ve had enough breaches stemming from unsecured cloud (mostly data objects, but other items, too) that we should know better. I cringe whenever I see a security headline along the lines of “… Unsecured S3 Bucket.” Would you publicly expose a server in your data center and not […]
DevOps Chat: Shift Ops Left, Shift Dev Right with Kristian Stewart, IBM
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Dr. Kristian Stewart of IBM’s Cloud Event Management team. Kristian has some keen insights into the role of dev and ops and how they interact. Kristian calls it Shift Ops left, shift dev right. An interesting way of looking at things. As usual the streaming audio is immediately […]
First-Time Quality for Software on a Blockchain Network
There is probably more trust in the world today than at any other point in history—not necessarily by choice, but because of our use of software to carry out almost every type of transaction. The use of blockchain networks brings visibility to those networks of transactions: Information about an asset that was once held by […]
Continuous Testing: Shift Left and Find the Right Balance
You may have heard the term “continuous testing,” but are struggling to understand what it is and how to achieve it. Project teams need to improve their ability to test and perform test automation when needed, not just when possible. Service virtualization allows teams to test earlier and more often in the life cycle, or […]
What Happens to Test in a DevOps World?
I am always surprised by the urban legends around DevOps. One of my favorites is, If you implement a DevOps methodology, you can stop doing test. People famously quote that Netflix only tests in production as evidence of this. This is perhaps more like of game of Telephone, where much of the story gets lost […]
DevOps: Shift Left to Reduce Failure
DevOps is all about increasing the feedback loop from idea to customer and back again. Tremendous gains have been achieved in automation and tools to drastically reduce the amount of manual labor involved in progressing down the release pipeline. But mission-critical applications in a highly competitive market cannot afford to go down. Complex applications, environments […]
DevOpsSec – Creating the Full Triangle
Introduction As a discipline, DevOps emphasizes uniting development and IT operations teams through modernized culture, integrated tooling and processes in order to increase the frequency, quality and business alignment of software roll-outs. But while developers and IT Ops teams need to be in lockstep, security cannot be an afterthought. Rather, DevOps teams need to adapt […]
Rugged DevOps: From Idea to Automation to Impact
The Idea Behind Rugged DevOps Whereas DevOps is IT at ludicrous speed, Rugged DevOps is a shift left to find a way to inject security into DevOps from the beginning, says Joshua Corman, CTO, Sonatype and Rugged DevOps founder. One way to do that is for Rugged DevOps to establish security parameters and requirements, meet […]
Shift Left: Can you be left out?
One of the most popular terms bandied about in DevOps is “shift left”. I was at a workshop last month at IBM InterConnect conducted by Sanjeev Sharma and Mustafa Kapadia. They put on a great workshop which was a preview of an exercise they perform in the field for clients. A central theme of their […]