Delivering resilience for IT operations in 2021
Enterprise operations leaders today are facing a challenge: Support the rapidly growing and evolving needs of the business without losing control of the complex infrastructure that is needed to do so.
In recent years, and especially in the accelerated digital transformation spurred on by the pandemic, it’s become common practice to increase productivity by siloing development, with multiple teams working autonomously to rapidly deploy code. In simpler times, in organizations running on a handful or applications, it was possible to operate according to a linear, predictable blueprint of development. The dev team was able to identify and de-bug code to keep their applications, and therefore the business, running smoothly.
Developers seen as crucial to pandemic recovery
Developers are key to recovery from the pandemic according to 91 percent of UK businesses in a new survey, and 95 percent see them as crucial to digital transformation projects too.
But the study from cloud communications platform Twilio finds that the majority are not yet unlocking the full power of developers.
Why security and observability are key to software development [Q&A]
Developers are under increasing pressure to create real-time products that make the most of a wide range of digital resources.
This means that DevOps teams have to cope with information drawn from all sorts of different sources. But how can they ensure they are getting an accurate picture?
Fixing software bugs is the top developer pain point
New research from code improvement platform Rollbar finds that fixing software bugs and errors is the top pain point for 44 percent of developers.
This is not helped by inadequate tools, with a large majority (88 percent) feeling that traditional error monitoring falls short of their expectations.
Demand for business intelligence solutions increases by 41 percent
A survey of over 120 developers and IT leaders from Reveal shows a 41 percent increase in demand for business intelligence solutions last year and 38 percent seeing increased revenue as the tech market shifted.
But while many took advantage of opportunities, 50 percent reported having to make do with less in 2020. Of those, 23 percent saw projects canceled or postponed, with some respondents indicating lost funding (14 percent) and staff reductions (14 percent).
What's wrong with software debugging? [Q&A]
We've seen a tidal wave of developer-enabling technologies over the last ten years. From DevOps, to CI/CD, to containers and microservices -- all of these best practices and technology patterns aim to speed up the process of shipping code fast from the developer into production.
But while software has become increasingly easy to package and deploy, the process of diagnosing and fixing bugs in production has become much more difficult. When services crash in the middle of the night, developers still find themselves in the world of logs, hotfixes and desperation -- but now with much greater surface area to investigate as applications span distributed systems.
Developers should focus on open source cloud skills
A new survey by O'Reilly Media and IBM reveals that developers are better off building open source cloud skills rather than focusing on skills related to a specific vendor's cloud.
The survey of almost 3,500 developers and technology managers finds that open source software is rated equal to or better than proprietary software by 94 percent of respondents. In addition when choosing cloud providers 70 percent of respondents prefer one based on open source.
More automation is needed to speed up secure software development
The single most important driver of DevSecOps programs is improving the security, quality, and resilience of software, according to a new report. But insufficient automation in software development is the number one cause of delays in product releases.
The study from Security Compass shows bringing technology to market faster is the second most important driver, while cost reduction is the least important.
Developers feel they should be paid for open source contributions
A new survey of over 9,500 developers, of whom 4,400 actively participate in open source, finds that 54 percent of respondents feel that individuals should be paid for their open source work.
In fact the study from developer cloud company DigitalOcean finds that only 14 percent of respondents are currently paid for their open source contributions.
Developers play a key role in digital transformation despite COVID
Developers are playing a key role in helping enterprises meet their digital transformation goals despite facing significant challenges from COVID-19 according to new research from Couchbase.
The survey of 450 European and US senior IT decision makers finds 92 percent of respondents believe that DevOps could have a revolutionary impact on their digital transformation efforts, while 63 percent say that the flexibility to change their goals when needed has been helpful in meeting their digital transformation goals.
Why financial enterprises need to take a more Agile approach [Q&A]
Adopting a more agile approach to development has allowed many businesses to speed up the introduction of new products and services.
But banking and financial organizations have tended to be more conservative in their approach and have consequently come under pressure from faster moving fintech competitors.
API security worries hold back business innovation
A new report shows that 66 percent of organizations admit slowing the rollout of a new application into production because of API security concerns.
The State of API Security report from Salt Security also reveals that 54 percent of organizations running production APIs have at best only a basic strategy for API security, with 27 percent having no strategy at all.
UK government faces software skills crisis
Governments don't have a good record when delivering IT projects, but a new study from digital experience company Acquia that the UK government is facing a major software skills crisis.
Results show that 28 percent of vacancies remain unfilled. Across the 12 departments which responded to freedom of information requests, some 317 developer positions are open, while just 808 developers are currently employed.
Rookout improves visibility into third-party code
Increasingly developers are reliant on code modules that weren't created in house and when it comes to debugging applications this third-party code can present a problem.
Now though debugging platform Rookout is announcing new functionality that makes it easier for developers to debug other people's code.
Poor quality software costs businesses over $2 trillion
The cost of poor software quality in the US in 2020 was approximately $2.08 trillion according to a report released today produced by the Consortium for Information and Software Quality (CISQ) and sponsored by Synopsys.
The figure includes poor software quality resulting from software failures, unsuccessful development projects, legacy system problems, technical debt and cybercrime enabled by exploitable weaknesses and vulnerabilities in software.
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