Moving toward DevSecOps isn't necessarily an easy process. Organizations first need to adjust their culture to embrace security and define enterprise-wide application security policies and standards to be enabled through automation. Then, they can invest in the required integration of such techniques in the CI/CD processes, including the means to report on discovered issues as would happen for any other software defects. But what does this really mean? ...
July 22, 2021
Delivering clean and safe software is no longer an option for developers or the organizations they work for. Customers have little patience for buggy, error-prone apps and software that's rife with critical vulnerabilities. These sort of quality and security issues can seriously hurt a company's brand reputation and negatively impact revenues ...
July 21, 2021
The cloud allows for more automation of a lot of historically manual tasks, which means that teams can increase the speed of application development, reducing the time to production. Here are a few pro tips that I would suggest to teams looking to balance quality, speed, and security through the adoption of automation in a cloud architecture ...
July 19, 2021
The roles and responsibilities of developers continue to expand, according to a survey of software developers, DevOps professionals, IT decision makers, and line of business executives from around the world, conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) ...
July 15, 2021
CI/CD pipelines enable your teams to deliver higher quality software, quickly and efficiently. By combining the practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment, dev teams can spend more time on projects and less time on manual tasks. However, CI/CD pipelines are still evolving. As we incorporate security measures, become more deployment-centric, and move towards full automation, there is a lot to consider when building your own CI/CD pipeline ...
July 14, 2021
I asked several speakers and sponsors for the upcoming SKILup Day as well as several DevOps Institute Ambassadors to weigh in on how they think CI/CD pipelines are evolving. Here's what they had to say in Part 1 of this two-part series ...
July 13, 2021
5G mobile broadband network operators encounter challenges on a number of various levels due to the nature of their large-scale, complex, dynamic, and highly distributed infrastructure requirements. Let us take a closer look into the top five technical considerations and how to best optimize Kubernetes for 5G deployments ...
July 12, 2021
Every year, thousands of IT professionals around the world are surveyed to discover the challenges they face, and the advantages they gain, when introducing DevOps for both application and database development ...
June 29, 2021
With every organization now being a digital organization, observability should be viewed as a core competency, not a cutting-edge differentiator, according to The State of Observability 2021, a report from Splunk in collaboration with Enterprise Strategy Group ...
June 28, 2021
Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft in the early 2000s, is well known for his "developers, developers, developers" speech, highlighting the more developers, the better. Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, often talks about the importance of builders, urging companies to invest in them, and ensuring that Amazon Web Services, the world's largest public cloud, serves builders as best as it can. Why did both of these technology visionaries place so much emphasis on developers? ...
June 24, 2021
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CD) have emerged to streamline the entire process of software development and delivery and maximize its efficacy. This blog explores the way to extend Agile with DevOps for continuous delivery ...
June 22, 2021
With COVID-19 exposing vulnerabilities in organizations around the world, the cost of technical debt faces businesses across industries and geographies — 69% of IT leaders identify technical debt as a major threat to their companies’ ability to innovate, according to The Growing Threat of Technical Debt, a recent report released by OutSystems ...
June 21, 2021
Static application security testing (SAST), which scans code to find vulnerabilities and bugs, is increasingly considered a best practice for detecting problems early in the development cycle. However, to gain broader adoption both within an organization and across the industry SAST must overcome several barriers based on lingering perceptions. Let’s look at these in more detail ...
June 17, 2021
The Technology sector is a standout which, in a year of disruption and change for every business, 69% of IT professionals saw growth above or in line with expectations, compared to 55% across other sectors, according to the latest State of Database DevOps survey from Redgate Software ...
June 15, 2021
Organizations of all sizes and industries are increasingly adopting cloud native approaches. The benefits to the business are enormous, but at the same time, the transition introduces new threats and a wider attack surface. New research from Aqua Security reveals that organizations struggle to keep pace and to detect and secure the ever-growing attack surface. In fact, findings from Aqua's 2021 Cloud Security Report: Cloud Configuration Risks Exposed, showed that 90% of companies surveyed are vulnerable to security breaches due to cloud misconfigurations ...
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