In the last year, businesses around the globe significantly increased their use of open source and although they readily acknowledge growing concerns about open source-related security and operational risks, the effective management of open source is not keeping pace with the increase in use ...
A Forrester survey confirmed what high-performance organizations have already said – DevOps is here to stay. Diving into the details, however, the study also shows that the DevOps journey may be in for a rude awakening. Companies in all industries are embracing DevOps for superior productivity, but many organizations struggle to overcome barriers that prevent them from translating these programs into improved business results ...
Despite the pervasive belief that security and development teams have conflicting priorities, initiatives such as creating DevOps environments and focusing on product innovation have the two teams aligned toward a common goal of creating secure software, according to a new study from Veracode ...
DevOps practices lead to higher IT performance, according to the 2017 State of DevOps report This higher performance delivers improved business outcomes, as measured by productivity, profitability, and market share ...
In the development community, creating additional efficiency through improved collaboration has been prevalent for some time. But despite the head start on the rest of the corporate world when it comes to collaboration, many organizations function today as they did 15-20 years ago. Since time is money in the tech world, outdated collaboration is a huge missed opportunity ...
Given the efforts we put in these days to deconstructing monolithic applications, and using distributed microservices to make us more agile, the potential for app performance to take a nosedive because of unseen (and unanticipated) network congestion and outages is only getting greater. There is help at hand, though, in the form of new ways to program network awareness directly into your code ...
What if you discover a fatal error or an exploit in your app? What if your app is down during a crucial time? As a developer, how you react to a crisis can mean the difference between minor blip and an embarrassing or costly company blunder. Here's a crisis management plan to get things right when they go wrong ...
Recently, the results from SmartBear Software's annual survey, the State of Code Review 2017: Trends & Insights into Dev Collaboration were released. One point I found interesting is that it suggests only 66 percent of organizations can get releases out on time. Why are the other 34 percent struggling to get releases out the door? ...
Developers love using containers to build, run and ship applications in a flexible and simple way. However, the technology has received backlash for not being as secure as other (traditional) methods, such as Virtual Machines (VMs). Securing containers and securing VMs requires a completely different process. Below are four key differences between securing containers versus securing VMs ...
DevOps results in improvements in software delivery performance, according to a new first-of-its-kind study by CA Technologies to quantify the benefits for companies that combine DevOps methodologies with Cloud-based tools and delivery mechanisms ...
When organizations adopt containers and microservice style architectures in production, systems become incredibly complex. For operations it's a shock because it means coming to grips with many new container tech nuances - plus letting go of the old monitoring rule book ...
In Part 3 of my Q&A with industry analysts, I ask: What trends will have the biggest impact on the software industry and DevOps in particular this year and beyond? How can enterprises set themselves up to succeed with so many rapid changes occurring in development and delivery? ...
In Part 2, I'll dive into some findings from CollabNet's outreach to industry analysts. I asked them about the greatest challenges facing enterprises venturing into the world of DevOps and to touch on what lies ahead for the future of the DevOps movement ...
DevOps teams bring significant benefits to their organizations. Unfortunately, DevOps teams, like many business programs, tend to believe innovation must come with a detriment to security. Security measures are often seen as obstacles that impact the agility that DevOps teams rely on ...
With increased competition, enterprises now require greater agility than ever before, and traditional approaches simply can’t provide the speed enterprises demand. To remain competitive with these new players, companies need to improve their operational agility both in the data center and the WAN ...
