How To Fail At Platform Engineering
A team of DevOps professionals working at DevOpsX had high expectations from the platform their organization just launched. The platform had promised to revolutionize workflows related to Git,…
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The IBM Approach To Reliable Quantum Computing
Company empowers customers to implement business-critical DevOps practices with new AWS Competency and expanded AWS Marketplace offering November 28, 2023 – AWS re:Invent…
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10 Awesome Benefits Of Artifact Management And Why You Need It
All about artifact management, alongside 10 awesome benefits that any good Artifact Management platform will provide, including added security, traceability, and control.
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Automating CI/CD With GitHub Actions
Automating and streamlining the software development lifecycle through continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a cornerstone of software development today. One of…
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What’s The Future Of DevOps? You Tell Us. Take The 2023 Accelerate State Of DevOps Survey
For the past eight years, Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has published the Accelerate State of DevOps Report. With input from over 33,000 professionals…
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7 Ways To Turn Developer Experience Into A Competitive Edge
At a time when rapid innovation has become a strategic business imperative, application development and developer experience are more important than ever. Why has developer…
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PromptOps In application Delivery: Empowering Your Workflow with ChatGPT
ChatGPT is taking the tech industry by storm, thanks to its unparalleled natural language processing capabilities. As a powerful AI language model, it has the ability to understand and…
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How To Use Weave GitOps As Your Flux UI
Here comes the newest blog post in our ecosystem category. One of the key reasons to rewrite Flux was to break up the former monolith solution into separate controllers which provide…
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Mastering Distroless: A Guide To Building Secure And Efficient Docker Images
With the rise of Docker came a new focus for engineers: optimizing the build to reach the smallest image size possible. A couple of options are available: In this post, I’m going to…
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2022 State Of DevOps Report Data Deep Dive: Good Team Culture
Editor’s note: Every year, Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team seeks to gain a better understanding of the software delivery and organizational performance…
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Verify POST Endpoint Availability With Uptime Checks
An unreliable app is no fun to use. Ensuring that users experience high levels of availability, consistency, and correctness can go a long way in establishing user trust and positive business…
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The Good And Bad Of ‘Zero-Touch’ Cloud Operations
We’re getting closer to true zero-touch cloud operations, or so we keep hearing. Take a clear-eyed look at the advantages and disadvantages before jumping in. Zero-touch cloud operations is…
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Are Your CICD And DevOps Tools Really Helping Developers?
If you are responsible for your team’s CICD and DevOps tools, have you ever asked yourself if the tools you built are really making developers’ lives easier? Or are they there just to…
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How Multicloud Changes DevOps
More clouds, more complexity, more challenges. Now’s the time to prepare for the impact multicloud will have on your devops teams. Devops or devsecops (I’ll use devops for this post) is more…
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A DevOps Reset For A Multi-Cloud World
In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter: To release applications and updates as quickly as possible To have access to resources (processing, storage, networks) able to run those…
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A Better Way To Pass Technical Interviews
To LeetCode or not to LeetCode? What if you don’t want to practice 100s of coding questions before your next coding interview? There is a part of me that dislikes coding interviews, primarily…
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Learn Git: 3 Commands To Level Up Your Skill
Learn how to use git squash, git rebase, and git cherry-pick. When I talk to people about Git, almost everyone has a strong reaction to the git rebase command. This command has caused many…
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VMware Application Catalog Now Supports Red Hat Universal Base Images
VMware Application Catalog (formerly Tanzu Application Catalog) is a catalog of trusted, continuously updated, scanned, and verified open source images, custom-built to enterprise…
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How To Validate Kubernetes YAML Files
Kubernetes has taken center stage in how we now manage our containerized applications. As a result, many conventions to define our Kubernetes apps exist, including structures such as YAML,…
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Accelerating App Development Lifecycle With Managed Container Platforms, Firebase And CI/CD
We understand that for startups in the build phase, the highest priority task is to continuously ship features based on your users’ needs. There are three main focus areas when building…
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Is Platform Engineering Putting An End To DevOps And SRE?
Platform Engineering, DevOps and SRE: is the time to make a definitive choice coming? Everyone is witnessing the IT landscape continue to evolve at a rapid and relentless pace. Every day the…
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Securing CI/CD Pipelines Through Security Gates With Kubescape
DevOps and modern engineering have enabled us to provide higher quality code at greater speeds by introducing guardrails and checks into our automated continuous integration (CI) and…
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Container Analysis Support For Maven And Go Automatic Scanning Of Containers In Public Preview
Java and Go vulnerability scanning support Google Cloud’s Container Scanning API now automatically scans Maven and Go packages for vulnerabilities. With the Container Scanning API enabled, any…
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Zero Trust For Cloud-Native Workloads
There has been a huge uptick in microservices adoption in the data analytics domain, primarily aided by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. Some of the reasons why…
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Google Cloud Deploy Gets Continuous Delivery Productivity Enhancements
Since Google Cloud Deploy became generally available in January 2022, we’ve remained focused on our core mission: making it easier to establish and operate software continuous delivery to a…
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GitLab Inc.’s Sixth Annual Global DevSecOps Survey Shows Security Is The Driving Force For Choosing A DevOps Platform
Today, GitLab Inc., provider of The One DevOps Platform for software innovation, released the results of its annual DevSecOps survey. GitLab’s 2022 Global DevSecOps Survey highlights the…
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The 4 Pillars Of A Successful Developer Experience Strategy
The need for a Developer Experience Strategy stems from the increasingly important role of software in the company’s business. To meet the fast‑changing market and ever‑more demanding…
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ESG Research: Leveraging Observability Data For DevSecOps
There’s a call throughout the industry to shift security left in the software development lifecycle, expanding the DevOps methodologies that have been growing in adoption for more than a…
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Managing The Looker Ecosystem At Scale With SRE And DevOps Practices
Many organizations struggle to create data-driven cultures where each employee is empowered to make decisions based on data. This is especially true for enterprises with a variety of systems…
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KPIs Drive Behavior: So Get Them Right!
Congratulations! You just put your 100th application into the cloud, marking the end of a highly successful project. As the senior leader tasked with driving transformation in your company,…
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More Support For Structured Logs In New Version Of Go Logging Library
The new version of the Google logging client library for Go has been released. Version 1.5 adds new features and bug fixes including new structured logging capabilities that complete last…
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Cloud Monitoring Metrics, Now In Managed Service For Prometheus
According to a recent CNCF survey, 86% of the cloud native community reports that they use Prometheus for observability. As Prometheus becomes more of a standard, an increasing number of…
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Drive Tanzu Mission Control Cluster Configuration And Add-Ons With Flux CD
VMware Tanzu Mission Control users can now drive clusters via GitOps. This new feature of Tanzu Mission Control is built on Flux CD and enables users to attach a git repository to a cluster…
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Improving Developer Agility And Efficiency With Google Workspace
The software development process requires complex, cross-functional collaboration while continuously improving products and services. Our customers who build software say that they value…
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What’s The Difference Between a Junior, Mid-Level, and Senior Developer?
Where do companies draw the line between entry, mid, senior level developers? As with all careers, there’s a hierarchy of levels in software engineering. As we know, it’s based on experience,…
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DevOps Vs. SRE Vs. Platform Engineering? The Gaps Might Be Smaller Than You Think
Platform engineering is the new cool kid on the block that everyone wants to be friends with. However, many are still confused where this new discipline comes from and how it differentiates…
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Introducing Managed Zone Permissions For Cloud DNS
The Cloud DNS team is pleased to announce the Preview launch of managed zone permissions. Cloud DNS is integrated with the Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which gives you the…
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How A Frictionless Developer Experience Improves Software Development
In many IT departments, you can frequently experience that when an issue is reported, Dev and Ops teams start solving the problem by adopting a fire‑fighting mode. In fact, the Ops team can…
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The Top 10 Fallacies In Platform Engineering
We spoke to over 1850 engineering organizations last year. Most are planning to or already building an Internal Developer Platform. Here are the hardest lessons and fallacies we have seen…
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How To Write Better As A Developer
Recently, I had two programming friends point out to me the importance of writing skills. It makes sense to pay attention to what they say because: one runs an online product company, and the…
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5 Tips To Avoid These Common Agile Mistakes
Invest time in training, incorporate agile into individual interactions, and write modular code designed for flexibility. Agile is a tried and true discipline used by software development…
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5 Key Takeaways From Humanitec’s 2022 Kubernetes Benchmarking Study
Here are 5 things you need to know about implementing Kubernetes, based on Humanitec’s 2022 Kubernetes Benchmarking Study. Knowing your way around a tool is key to putting it to good use. This…
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Take The 2022 Accelerate State Of DevOps Survey
The State of DevOps report by Google Cloud and the DORA research team is the largest and longest running research of its kind with inputs from over 32,000 professionals worldwide. It provides…
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Maisons Du Monde’s Journey To A Managed Service For Prometheus
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Maisons du Monde, a furniture and home decor company that was founded in France over 25 years ago. They have 357 stores across France, Italy, Spain, Belgium,…
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How To Make Small Steps Go A Long Way
We all sometimes try taking on more significant tasks than we can deliver on—it stems directly from our human inability to evaluate complex tasks correctly. Let’s look at how you can address…
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GitLab Inc.’s Partner Ecosystem Expands To Meet Increasing Demand For DevOps Solutions
This week, GitLab Inc., the provider of The One DevOps Platform, kicked off its first annual US Partner Leadership Summit where it announced the ongoing growth of its award-winning partner…
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Dynatrace Joins Forces With Technology Leaders To Launch OpenFeature, The New Standard For Feature Flagging And Management Solutions
Software intelligence company Dynatrace announced today that it, along with a consortium of other technology leaders, has submitted OpenFeature to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)…
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PhoenixNAP Enables One-Click Kubernetes Deployments In Bare Metal Cloud
phoenixNAP®, a global IT services provider offering security-focused cloud infrastructure, dedicated servers, colocation, and specialized Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technology…
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5 Tips For Implementing An Internal Developer Portal In Your Company
More and more companies are adopting the Agile approach and DevOps paradigm to accelerate and improve their software development. Even though some software lifecycle processes have been…
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Are Your SLOs Realistic? How To Analyze Your Risks Like An SRE
Setting up Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is one of the foundational tasks of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, giving the SRE team a target against which to evaluate whether or…
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Automate Checking For Flaws In Python With Thoth
Project Thoth pulls together many open source tools to automate program builds with security checks as part of the resolution process. Most cyberattacks take advantage of publicly known…
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