New Relic has announced Edge with Infinite Tracing, a new fully managed, cloud-native, tail-based distributed tracing solution built to help users rapidly diagnose issues and latency across complex environments. The solution is offered through the same cloud provider and region as customers’ cloud-based workloads, eliminating the need to deploy, manage, and scale third-party software, according … continue reading
Despite being apart this year from attendees, GitHub’s virtual Satellite conference was focused on bringing software communities together. The company announced Codespaces, GitHub Discussions, code scanning and secret scanning, and GitHub Private Instances. “GitHub is home to thousands of software communities, from open source projects to enterprises, from small teams to the largest organizations. This … continue reading
New and improved methodologies are always switching up the way software development teams work, but to keep up with the pace of evolution, the team structure is not the only change that needs to happen. Team members need to develop new skills and sometimes even transition to new roles. “The engineering teams definitely have to … continue reading
There is very little difference between an engineering manager and traditional business manager. Both types of managers need to be able to organize, motivate and help teams as well as meet business goals in a cost-effective way. The difference is the work that is being managed. According to Lorenzo Pasqualis, vice president of engineering at … continue reading
Progress OpenEdge 12.2 delivers new capabilities that address the demand for continuous operations such as immediate auto recovery and improved performance and availability monitoring through new DevOps tooling. An API-first approach allows OpenEdge to become a truly open platform with service and data integration, big data and data warehousing, according to the company. Progress also … continue reading
The Linux Foundation has announced a cross-industry coalition called the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation. ToIP was launched to enhance universal security and privacy protocols for consumers and businesses within the government, nonprofits and private sectors, and across finance, health care, and enterprise software. As businesses struggle to protect and manage digital assets and data, … continue reading
Serverless adoption has been growing rapidly as the market begins to mature and as enterprise applications continue to shift in the direction of containers and microservices. The most prominent cloud providers including Amazon — which is at the forefront with its AWS Lambda offering — IBM, Microsoft, Google, and others have already released serverless computing … continue reading
The current global pandemic has impacted every aspect of business. For some companies, that means shutting down entirely, for others it means shifting everything online and processing even more customer requests than before. Companies that have moved online are simultaneously adjusting to the added pressure of a remote workforce. With very little warning, IT teams … continue reading
Instana announced a set of enhanced troubleshooting and monitoring capabilities for developers with new always on production profiling solutions for Node.js and Go applications. “As companies continue to accelerate their development pipelines, developers are more critical to the overall delivery cycle, as evidenced by the large number of Instana users from development organizations,” said Chris … continue reading
Many governments and business-oriented services are running on mainframes, and the spike in mainframe activity due to the pandemic has prompted organizations to seek out COBOL skills and expedite new approaches to working with the systems and architecture. Over 30.3 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance due to the COVID-19 throughout the six weeks of … continue reading
People have come to expect a certain level of performance from their applications, whether using a consumer application, such as a retail website, or using a business application to get their jobs done. But most monitoring solutions have not adapted to this collapsing of the consumer and business worlds into one, making it difficult for … continue reading
ShuttleOps unveiled a new no-code CI/CD platform powered by Chef, Docker & HashiCorp that includes prebuilt integrations to DevOps tools and a no-code pipeline editor. “The coded approach most vendors are taking to build CI/CD solutions only widens the skills gap, as most teams do not have highly-skilled DevOps engineers to implement, scale and maintain … continue reading
