As engineering leaders, we've all become familiar with DORA metrics ... In fact, our industry has started to view success through the lens of DORA metrics. That view is incomplete and, worse, often misunderstood. For a complete view on how to view DORA metrics and use them to improve engineering teams, we need to acknowledge some long-held misinterpretations ...
Vendor Forum
July 24, 2023
Jack McCurdy
Gearset
The best tools and processes cannot produce true DevOps without a culture of collaboration and buy-in. Some organizations still fail to see the role of culture in DevOps, while others expect a mature DevOps culture to evolve overnight. Either way, this reveals a misunderstanding of what DevOps culture is and how teams can successfully create one. In what follows, we address the what and the how of DevOps culture by debunking six of the most common misconceptions ...
July 20, 2023
Dotan Nahum
Check Point Software Technologies
As a developer ... the expectation for you to maintain velocity and security only keeps growing. The "Shift Left" approach is the outcome and epitome of this accelerated pace of software development. In this instance, tests and validations are conducted early in the development cycle to arrest any risks associated with software quality. This post will unravel the opposite (and perhaps obvious) "Shift Right" concept ...
July 19, 2023
Jacob Garrison
Bionic
Three crucial factors hinder the effectiveness of shifting left: test coverage, business context, and the disparity between production and pre-production environments. By critically examining and addressing these limitations, we can establish a more proactive approach to application security — ensuring that systems remain resilient by detecting vulnerabilities early on. Let's dive in ...
July 18, 2023
Rob Mason
Applause
In May, the world celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an annual event focused on digital access and inclusion. According to GAAD's website, 98.1% of home pages have at least one Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 failure and approximately 60.9 average errors per home page. Applause found similar results in its Accessibility and Inclusive Design Survey ...
July 17, 2023
Keith Casey
ngrok
Code generation is the art of writing programs that write other programs. The most common place to use code generation is for generating libraries ... While code generation seems simple at first, there are many sharp corners and hidden surprises in anything beyond the most trivial scenarios ...
July 12, 2023
Nimrod Vered
Uplevel
According to a recent Uplevel survey of over 350 software developers, there's a significant disconnect between chief technology officers (CTOs) and their teams. In fact, 30% of respondents said the majority of their problems and roadblocks go unnoticed by engineering leadership ...
July 11, 2023
Stephen Atwell
Armory.io
More than half of surveyed development professionals report experiencing burnout, which decreases service delivery quality and speed. In turn, slow deployment velocity and unreliable apps hurt the bottom line. Developer empowerment counteracts burnout ... Let's explore how you can elevate your software development team's performance through empowerment ...
July 10, 2023
Kristin Manogue
Check Point Software
Companies are increasingly embracing the power and agility of cloud-based solutions, with more than 20% of their workloads running in the cloud today, with plans to grow more than 50% in the next 18 months. With this accelerated cloud adoption comes inherent challenges and apprehension, as Check Point's 2023 Cloud Security Report reveals. As a result, 76% of organizations are apprehensive about cloud security, and cloud-based attacks are increasing at an alarming rate ...
June 29, 2023
Shahar Man
Backslash Security
My colleagues and I at cloud-native application security provider Backslash Security have been fascinated by the fact that dev teams outnumber AppSec teams and the amount of alert noise the latter struggle with on a daily basis. We wanted to dig deeper, so we commissioned a report to find out from US-based AppSec professionals (managers and engineers) themselves how they are faring with these dynamics at play ...
June 28, 2023
Jori Ramakers
Tricentis
Low-code and no-code solutions are becoming increasingly popular, particularly for building software. As companies look for ways to lower expenses, IT and DevOps teams are turning to these kinds of solutions to keep up with the pace of innovation while utilizing fewer resources ...
June 27, 2023
Richard Bird
Traceable AI
A recurring narrative is emerging in today's digital landscape, characterized by organizations grappling with managing and safeguarding the growing number of APIs within their ecosystem. At the 2023 RSA Conference, a survey conducted by Traceable brought some troubling facts to the surface about how organizations are handling their API security ...
June 26, 2023
Rob Zuber
CircleCI
"Are we a high-performing engineering team?" This is a question that many organizations ask themselves each year ... Here are a few recommendations, based on CircleCI's latest State of Software Delivery Report, for how teams can achieve elite status through a holistic software delivery practice ...
June 22, 2023
Glenn Turner Jr. and Andy Smith
Discover
To keep up with modern banking and credit card demands, software delivery teams need to release software in a continuous, reliable fashion. As Discover began adopting an open, hybrid, fit-for-purpose, multicloud approach, we also faced a new challenge: How could we enable teams to release necessary software updates and features while maintaining a secure, reliable infrastructure that customers can trust? ...
June 21, 2023
Matthew D. Groves
Couchbase
Software developers working with databases are finding it difficult to manage their workloads and are struggling to find the bandwidth to take on more projects. A survey conducted by Couchbase ... shows that nine out of 10 developers are at or over their work capacity ...
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