Culture not tech is a barrier to DevOps success
While 83 percent of IT decision makers say their organizations are implementing DevOps practices, many have stalled at a mid-stage of evolution.
A report from infrastructure automation company Puppet shows that it isn't technology but rather cultural blockers which remain the biggest hurdle to reaching DevOps maturity.
Microservices, containers, and Kubernetes have created security blind spots
A new study released today from Dynatrace finds that CISOs are increasingly concerned that rising adoption of cloud-native architectures and DevSecOps practices may have broken traditional approaches to application security.
The research finds that 89 percent of CISOs believe microservices, containers, and Kubernetes have created application security blind spots. While 71 percent admit they are not fully confident code is free of vulnerabilities before going live in production.
The future of service management in the DevOps era
Whether you view your organization as having an agile approach or not, in 2020, companies had no choice but to drastically change their way of working as the world rapidly pivoted to remote working. Organizations that had already embraced agile principles had the advantage of being able to adapt faster to the pandemic and meet the demands of their employees, who were suddenly all working from home.
Now, as we start to slowly emerge from multiple lockdowns and restrictions, one interesting side effect of COVID-19 is that it has lowered our collective tolerance for slow, overly bureaucratic processes. We all crave an agile approach, whatever our definition of agile might be.
More process automation needed to support digital transformation
Software engineering and IT operations teams are facing increased complexity in meeting customer and employee demands, as well as remote and hybrid work policies ushered in by COVID-19.
The key to dealing with this is increased process automation in IT operations (ITOps) according to a new report from DevOps process orchestration company Transposit.
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?
Breaking down the silos between IT and business [Q&A]
Until the cloud and the idea of big data came along it wasn't unusual for different parts of a firm to have their own information separate from the rest of the business.
But digital transformation initiatives recognize that all information is important to the organization and that silos are increasingly a bad thing.
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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.
Over 60 percent of DevOps teams would sacrifice container security for speed
A new survey of container security from NeuVector shows that 63 percent of respondents would curtail or restrain security measures in order to maintain faster production.
There's also a lack of consensus on who is responsible for securing container environments with 42 percent saying security teams, 30 percent development, and 28 percent operations. This is despite 32 percent saying security is their organization's single most important priority as they roll out containers and Kubernetes initiatives.
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.
More automation, earlier security and 'Switzerland platforms' -- development predictions for 2021
The switch to remote working and the surge in online shopping during 2020 has seen a greater focus on the experience that software provides.
There have of course been other pressures on developers too, but what can we expect to happen in the next year?
MACH and what it means for development [Q&A]
Launched in June of this year, the MACH Alliance (MACH standing for Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless) is a non-profit group of tech leaders advocating for a new, open and best-of-breed enterprise technology ecosystem.
The Alliance aims to help enterprise organizations navigate the complex modern technology landscape with the belief that competitive advantage doesn't come from owning the stack, but rather from being free to select the best available resources for the moment.
Sonatype helps development teams handle code dependencies
Because so much of modern development is reliant on modular components, developers often face the issue of dependency upgrades that break the functionality of their application.
In order to help teams manage this problem Sonatype is launching an Advanced Development Pack that changes the way dependencies are handled.
New platform helps streamline DevOps processes
DevOps has boosted the speed of development, but this very advantage can lead to problems and errors making their way through to production without being spotted.
California-based DeepFactor is launching a new Continuous Pre-Production Monitoring platform that combines security, performance and behavior monitoring into one solution that is completely integrated into the DevOps pipeline.
New open source API bug detection tool improves application security testing
Software development today usually involves the use of third-party APIs, libraries or frameworks that are complex, rapidly evolving, and sometimes poorly documented.
Security testing solutions company GrammaTech is launching its new Swap Detector, an open-source checker that detects application programming interface (API) usage errors.
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