How No-Code Software Development Speeds Digital Transformation
More organizations are democratizing software development through no-code solutions that empower anyone to write applications In today’s fast-paced and digital business world, organizations must revise their goals and processes to achieve digital transformation and remain a viable business. However, most transformation efforts fail. Recent McKinsey research shows that 70% of complex, large-scale change programs don’t […]
ShiftLeft Brings Security Workflows to DevOps Processes
ShiftLeft has updated its NextGen Static Analysis (NG SAST) tool to include workflows that are purpose-built for developers. Company CEO Manish Gupta said the security workflows are designed to make it easier for DevOps teams to incorporate them within their application development and deployment processes. In fact, a survey of more than 165 developers, application […]
5 Ways Traceability Is Changing to Bolster the Remote Workforce
Traceability has always been a useful tool in the development process, but it has become especially important since the COVID-19 outbreak and the increased remote workforce. Where developers and engineers were once working side-by-side, with the ability to discuss their process and keep their team informed, they are now navigating a remote collaboration landscape. According […]
Participate in the Checkmarx 2020 Survey
Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development, and devopsy.kinsta.cloud are conducting a survey about the implementation of DevOps and related automation and security tools. The purpose of the survey is to help organizations evaluate their DevOps maturity, find out what are the most used DevOps tools and the most […]
Survey Surfaces Tension Between Software Speed and Quality
A survey of 600 software professionals at organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today by OverOps, a provider of software analytics tools, finds the need to ensure quality still trumps the need for speed within most organizations. According to the survey results, 70% of respondents say quality is their paramount concern and they would […]
5 Reasons Why Your App Needs an Error Monitoring System
All software applications have errors. Bugs are simply part of software development. That’s why engineering organizations need to know exactly what errors are occurring so decisions can be made around which bugs to fix. The fastest way to identify and fix application errors is to implement error monitoring software. However, not all solutions are created […]
CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach
CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for SDM at CloudBees, said these integrations with Google Cloud Build and Tekton pipelines are being provided as part of a long-standing alliance between […]
The Secure Software Development Life Cycle: Syncing Development and Security
Over the last five to 10 years, the nature of software development has shifted dramatically. Whereas large software releases occurred every six to 18 months in the past, current release schedules have become much more frequent. The waterfall model of software development has morphed into what we now know as the DevOps model. As a […]
A Prescription to End the Myopia of Software Metrics
“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!,” Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review. As someone who has purchased many drills in my life—and drilled my share of holes—this quote has always struck me as a bit, well, myopic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing with the sentiment behind the quote—that organizations […]
Five Attributes of a Great DevOps Platform
As we move toward 2020, the expectations are high, the software industry is moving faster and the demand for rapid and continually improving digital experiences have raised the standard. To match the needs and demands of the market, firms around the world are embracing the DevOps culture to ensure and streamline the development, packaging, testing, […]
Open Source Vulnerabilities Were Up 50% in 2019 — How Will It Impact Software Development in 2020?
Open source vulnerabilities have been on the rise in recent years, but 2019 was truly one for the record books with a spike of nearly 50% over the previous year. According to the recently released State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities report by the WhiteSource research team, the number of vulnerabilities jumped from 4,100 in […]
Tips For Managing Development Teams Remotely During Coronavirus
Thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic, around a third of the world’s population is on lockdown in their homes, which means a huge number of businesses are currently trying to navigate remote working solutions. Trying to collaborate on software development is difficult at the best of times when your team is all in the same […]
Provide Continuous Value with Product-Centric Delivery
Software engineering and management has borrowed many practices over the years from traditional industries such as construction, automotive and manufacturing. One such practice is the notion of managing software development and delivery based on projects. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a project is defined as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique […]
What Developers Should Take Away from the Iowa Caucus App Debacle
In the wake of the recent Iowa caucus, vote-counting software has fallen under suspicion after a smartphone app built by Shadow, Inc., brought chaos and delays to the first 2020 Democratic caucuses. Stopgap measures, such as Nevada officials canceling the application’s use in its upcoming caucus, are not enough to ensure vote tallies the electorate […]
Observability-Driven Development: From Software Development to DevOps and Beyond
In today’s world of cloud platforms and applications, typically delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service), it is critical for organizations to ensure efficient collaboration between software development and operations teams. The software development team codes the software application or platform, while the DevOps team streamlines and automates the entire production lifecycle, from development and […]
EP 1: A Brief History of Testing
DevOps’ sister site Digital Anarchist has launched a bi-weekly video series and companion monthly roundtable on DevOps, Automation, CI/CD and testing. Featuring leaders in all of these areas, we explore the challenges and issues software delivery and IT teams face every day. How do we go faster, smarter with better quality? DevOps Unbound!
What Is DevSecOps and How to Enable It on Your SDLC?
For the past three to four years, all the companies around the IT world have adopted agile and different application development methodologies that leverage the work for different departments or areas and helps them to develop new products and release new features to improve their processes and infrastructure. In this new Agile and DevOps world […]
SaltStack Extends IT Automation Framework
SaltStack today added three open source modules to its portfolio that make it easier to automate the management of IT at scale. Heist is a plugin that allows organizations to create agents that will dissolve after a specific amount of time. Umbra is a plugin that gathers data streams to make it easier for machine […]