LinearB to Provide Free DORA Metrics Dashboard
LinearB’s free dashboard allows users to visualize DORA metrics from within the company’s software delivery management platform.
Yes, Software Development is an Assembly Line, but not Like That
It should be no surprise to folks that agile software development grew out of manufacturing systems developed for exactly the same reasons – to build things more efficiently.
How Open Source Can Enhance Developer Experience
Developer experience (DX) is becoming more and more of a competitive advantage among developer-facing tools and platforms. A great developer experience that’s easy to follow and implement can truly help a software tool stand out from the crowd. Simultaneously, open source software is all the rage. In fact, a recent StackOverflow survey found open source […]
Harness Acquires Propelo to Surface Software Engineering Bottlenecks
Harness this week announced it has acquired Propelo, a provider of an analytics tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Propelo offering will be made available as a module, dubbed Harness Software Engineering Insights, that organizations can choose within the company’s overall continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) […]
Best of 2022: The Great DevOps Burnout
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. DevOps needs a mindset shift to save the overworked engineering collective. There’s a considerable discussion right now about the Great Resignation. But if you work […]
The Advent of Intelligent Software Engineering
Today, to maintain competitiveness, every company needs to behave like a software company and deliver new solutions with high velocity, quality and reliability. New features need to be introduced at a rapid pace, but with high-quality expectations. At the same time, deployment releases and operations are getting complex, debugging and traceability in production are increasingly […]
Threat Modeling as a DevSecOps Practice
Software engineers are always under pressure to build more software, faster. At the same time, there is increasing regulatory and market pressure for secure software that meets users’ and regulators’ requirements for data privacy. This dynamic often puts software engineers at odds with application security or product security teams. In fact, 81% of developer teams […]
How Visibility Helps Devs Focus on Innovation
As software engineering leaders adjust to a future defined by remote and hybrid work models, they are shifting priorities in the organization of work to compensate for the lack of in-person collaboration. According to a recent study conducted by Jellyfish, the top priority for engineering leaders is ensuring that each member of their team is […]
Majority of Software Engineers Want Remote Work Options
The pandemic brought unprecedented change to the digital ecosystem, impacting users, companies and software engineers alike. COVID-19 accelerated ongoing digital transformation and forced many organizations to innovate rapidly. Newfound reliance on digital experiences increased demand for software programmers, exacerbating demand in a market already short on talent. In this era, work-from-home (WFH) became commonplace and […]
Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 4)
This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Practices to engineer designs for DevOps. • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services. • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • DevOps applied to […]
How to Build a People-First Engineering Team
When we think about successful technology teams, there is a tendency to primarily focus on the technology being created rather than the people who are creating it. While both approaches can lead to successful products, a technology-first approach is often the default when software engineers become managers without necessarily having the right tools to manage […]
DAOPS Meetup 2021: Software Engineering, DevOps and DevSecOps
DAOPS Foundation—a non-profit organization committed to accelerating global digital transformation through technical standardization—is hosting the first ever DAOPS Meetup on May 18. The virtual meetup will bring together DevOps leaders from Sonatype, DevOps Institute, TARS Foundation and DAOPS Foundation to discuss the latest in software engineering and the latest DAOPS developments. Here are the four […]
Why Developers Should Care About Resilience
Recently, a friend reminded me of a joke we used to have when we were both developers at a huge software corporation (we won’t mention names, but back when printers were a thing, you probably owned one of theirs). We didn’t develop printers. We developed performance testing and monitoring tools. We were the dev team, […]
Bootstrapping DevOps for the Internet Computer
All startups face unique sets of challenges and issues at each stage of their existence. The DFINITY Foundation, a Swiss-based not-for-profit with the remit to extend the functionality of the internet, is no exception. Like any new organization, we have had to evolve and adapt our DevOps and other practices in response to different obstacles. […]
Value Stream Optimization: Putting Business in the Driver’s Seat
How value stream can be a major driver of DevOps success in today’s software-only world Even as DevOps reaches a pinnacle in acceptance (as of 2018, only three percent of firms had not adopted DevOps and had no plans to do so), many organizations are still struggling to get high-quality software out the door. DevOps […]
Bridging the Gap Between ITSM and Software Engineering
Considering the individual roles of IT service management (ITSM) and software engineers, it seems obvious they should work closely together. ITSM tracks internal and external customer issues, and engineering fixes code-related issues (such as defects) that IT cannot fix on its own. However, more often than not, coordination between these two departments is poor, […]
Building DevOps Careers: One Man’s Journey, Part 2
In Part One of this two-part series, we introduced former SlideShare and LinkedIn software engineer Sylvain Kalache, who shared his career growth within the two companies. In this second part, we’ll look at San Francisco-based The Holberton School of Software Engineering, which Kalache co-founded to better prepare students to work in a DevOps world. School […]
Building DevOps Careers: One Man’s Journey, Part 1
In 2011, Sylvain Kalache was a software engineer at SlideShare, which LinkedIn acquired in 2012. Kalache was a senior systems reliability engineer (SRE) at LinkedIn, doing project management and planning, documenting and sharing knowledge tools, and adapting himself and his work to the LinkedIn organization and its technology. Today, Kalache is helping build DevOps careers […]
An Engineering Think Tank to Change the World
In his famous book “Mythical Man Month,” Fred Brooks says, “Techniques proven and routine in other engineering disciplines are considered radical innovations in software engineering.” While being very fond of engineering on the big scale, such as building millions of high-end and yet individually configured cars or double-deck aircraft or space ships, for example, I […]