Cloud

Developers Are Feeling the Pressure As Enterprises Race to the Cloud
January 25, 2023

Technical teams driving innovation forward are feeling overwhelmed. In a survey conducted by Couchbase of 650 senior IT decision makers, development teams said they are under-supported and under immense pressure as they champion their organizations' modernization efforts. A majority of respondents (88%) are aware of the challenges faced by development teams. Their top issues include 42% feeling that deadlines and agility requirements were difficult to meet, 40% believing they were being asked to do too much in too little time, 24% finding that they did not have the skills required to complete the tasks asked of them and 23% not having access to the necessary technology ...

Leveraging Java Virtual Machines for Cloud-Native Enterprises
November 02, 2022

Running Java, or any other JVM language, in the cloud comes with hurdles. Microservice architectures, quick scaling operations (scale up or down) to balance load requirements and cost effectiveness, as well as environments such as Kubernetes come with their own complexity in terms of Java ...

80% of Organizations Have Experienced a Severe Cloud Security Incident in Past Year
October 20, 2022

Four-fifths (80%) of organizations have experienced at least one severe cloud security incident in the past year (such as data breaches, data leaks, and intrusions into their environment), according to the State of Cloud Security Report from Snyk ...

What is Cloud Orchestration?
October 11, 2022

In this post, I cover the differences between cloud orchestration and cloud automation, the various "as a service" models, and the benefits of cloud orchestration, tooling ...

The Future of Government Work Lives in the Cloud
August 23, 2022

How do government agencies remedy the need for efficient, multi-cloud communications with existing on-prem solutions? And how do they do so without neglecting cybersecurity, which remains a priority for organizations handling confidential data? The answer is simple: They don't ...

6 Key Kubernetes DevSecOps Principles: People, Processes, Technology - Part 1
August 04, 2022

Building a DevSecOps strategy requires not only the right tooling but also the right culture. In this 2-part post, we'll introduce you to several principles to keep in mind when developing a Kubernetes infrastructure strategy or improving an existing one ...

Unlocking the Potential of Quality Engineering
July 21, 2022

"The cloud offers great opportunities for business growth and innovation, but also more possible failure points. As organizations embrace the cloud, they can avoid those failure points by making the transformation of quality engineering as high a priority as the broader digital transformation of their business," according to the Quality Engineering in a Cloud-Centric World report from Wipro ...

6 Ways Cloud AI Developer Services Help Engineering Teams
June 23, 2022

As DevOps transformations move enterprise organizations to the cloud, Cloud AI Developer Services help elevate and advance the software development lifecycle. By definition, Cloud AI developer Services (CAIDS) are "cloud-hosted services/models that allow development teams to leverage AI models via APIs. Some of the ways that CAIDS provide support to engineering teams include ...

The State of Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations 2022
June 15, 2022

Kubernetes and the ecosystem of cloud native technologies unlock innovation for organizations and provide a means to achieve the goals of elasticity, agility, optimized resource utilization, reduced service costs and workload portability. Security and optimized resource utilization are high priorities for practitioners, reminding us that the cloud native space is maturing, and focus is moving from Day Zero to Day Two operations, according to the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations survey report from Canonical ...

Cloud Workload Security - Improving Practices for Deployment and Run-Time
May 10, 2022

DevOps is considered green when it comes to security practices. Developers are generally focused on the performance and deployment of solutions, rather than their protection. As cloud workload security (CWS) advances from deployment, to mainstream adoption, to run-time optimization, there are certain steps that DevOps teams need to implement to ensure they're properly protecting their projects. Below, find three critical steps for DevOps teams to improve their CWS protections for application deployment and run-time ...

The Future Is Smart: Cloud Native + AI
April 21, 2022

Leading organizations around the world are adopting cloud native technologies to build next- generation products and achieve the agility that they need to stay ahead of their competition. Although cloud native and Kubernetes are very disruptive technologies, there is another technology that is probably the most disruptive technology of our generation — artificial intelligence (AI) and its subset, machine learning (ML) ...

Cybersecurity, Cloud and Machine Learning: The Top Trends Shaping Software Development in 2022
March 24, 2022

Each year, O'Reilly Media analyzes annual trends in technology usage to help the developer community stay abreast of emerging technology areas — whether it's learning about software architecture for the cloud, mastering new languages to support cryptocurrency or productizing artificial intelligence (AI). By evaluating the top search terms, targeted questions and content usage on our learning platform, we're able to share insights into the top trends influencing software development — insights that empower software developers, data scientists and other practitioners to begin the hard work of taking emerging technologies and deploying them as real-world solutions ...

How to Bridge the Gap: The Open Distributed Cloud
March 03, 2022

Driven by the demand for delivering applications at the locations of their choice, enterprises are increasingly deploying distributed infrastructure, with 67% of cloud deployments distributed across on-premises, hybrid, and edge clouds. Comparatively, our recent research found that developers are facing new challenges as they expand their use of cloud computing in ways that increasingly span multiple locations ...

Why Serverless Stacks Are the Future of App Development
March 02, 2022

Imagine starting your morning with a new business idea and building it out into a fully functional website by the evening. Serverless stacks are making this speed of innovation possible by streamlining the most tedious aspects of application development. By leaning on a full-service serverless stack, software creators can grow their applications faster, scale with ease and have more time to build innovative features that differentiate their business ...

2022 DevOps Predictions for Cloud - Part 2
January 11, 2022

As part of the 2022 DevOps Predictions list, DEVOPSdigest asked industry experts how they think cloud will evolve and impact DevOps in 2022. This is Part 2 ...

2022 DevOps Predictions for Cloud - Part 1
January 10, 2022

As part of the 2022 DevOps Predictions list, DEVOPSdigest asked industry experts how they think cloud will evolve and impact DevOps in 2022 ...

CI/CD Deployments: How to Expedite Across a Kubernetes Environment With DevOps Orchestration
November 29, 2021

In the cloud world, containers are the centerpoint of a growing majority of deployments. By providing compartmentalization of workloads and the ability to run "serverless," containers can speed up and secure deployments and create flexibility unreachable by old style application servers. While a variety of tools have been developed to meet this need, none are as impactful to the industry as Kubernetes. It has emerged as the de facto container orchestration tool for many companies ...

The Modernization Minefield: Cloud and Agility
November 23, 2021

Nearly 60% of respondents agree that cloud adoption has improved their organization's agility, but that they could be more agile still, according to The Modernization Minefield, a report from Aptum, a hybrid multi-cloud managed service provider ...

How to Prepare Data Now for a Cloud Migration in the Future
November 15, 2021

Migrating applications to the cloud is a complex process. It becomes even more complicated if the applications in question are business-critical, have been heavily customized, or run on IBM POWER hardware. Fortunately, IT can reduce risk during the migration process by planning and preparing data and applications in advance. Here's how ...

What Can AIOps Do For DevOps? - Part 4
October 28, 2021

DEVOPSdigest asked the top minds in the industry what they think AIOps can do for DevOps and developers. Part 4 covers cloud and containers ...

Leveraging Kubernetes to Drive Big Value From Big Data
October 04, 2021

The growing adoption of Kubernetes frameworks by major infrastructure and cloud players is making it easier to support cloud-native apps for big data. This is an important development, as it enables organizations to unlock additional value from that data ...

Quick Tips for Successfully Leveraging DevOps Culture for Best-In-Class Cloud Architecture
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 ...

5 Key Trends Shaping DevOps in 2021
February 24, 2021

There are several forces that are going to impact this field that we'll see in 2021. Let's get a peek into DevOps' future with an eye on some trends that have already shown up ...

From Kubernetes to Security: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2021
February 01, 2021

Developers today are faced with the hard reality that modernizing systems is more than simply moving technology to a new location. Rather, they are expected to be intimately familiar with a host of new-generation technologies while simultaneously managing existing legacy systems as they migrate to an infrastructure that is more responsive, predictive, and scalable. Looking ahead to 2021, let's review the trends surrounding the most challenging, yet promising, topics in infrastructure and operations: Kubernetes, site reliability engineering, security, and more ...

Cloud Desktops: Your New DevOps Ally
January 26, 2021

DevOps adoption is growing steadily as more organizations take advantage of these practices to empower IT teams to deliver applications and services at high velocity. Bringing together software development and IT operations is helping shorten the systems development lifecycle and provide continuous delivery. At the same time, organizations are finding themselves with a whole new set of challenges, including hiring and collaboration, especially as skill and talent shortages increase. The cloud, and specifically cloud desktops, can address many of these challenges ...

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