Value stream is all about finding ways to measure the value you’re providing to your customers, and as with anything that we try to do in business, there are always new practices that can be applied to make improvements. Known improvement plays can be used as a starting-off point for adopting a continuous improvement strategy … continue reading
DigitalOcean, the cloud computing company, today announced the release of its serverless product, DigitalOcean Functions. This offering is intended to bring users a fast, scalable, and cost-effective compute solution that allows them to build quickly, scale automatically, and save costs by removing the need to pay for idle resources. According to the company, Functions are … continue reading
The team at GitLab has announced the release of GitLab 15.0. With this, users gain access to container scanning in all tiers, internal notes, better links to external organizations and contacts, breaking changes, and more. Also included in this release are improvements intended to speed up the user’s workflow in the WYSIWYG Markdown editor for … continue reading
Today, GitHub announced that math expressions can now be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using “$$” as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the “$” delimiter for inline math expressions. According to GitHub, mathematical expressions have become essential to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Support for displaying math … continue reading
Community Attestation Service (CAS) is an open-source service that helps users secure their software and is powered by Codenotary’s digital identity infrastructure. The project lets them create a Software Bill of Materials, notarize containers, and let others verify by running and provides a way to view notarized assets’ immutable history in immudb. CAS stores all … continue reading
The team at PostgreSQL, a data warehouse for web, mobile, geospatial, and analytics applications, today announced that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 15 is now available for download. The beta version brings users previews of all of the features that are set to become available when PostgreSQL 15 is made generally available. Information about … continue reading
The newly announced Jellyfish Benchmarks enable engineering leaders to add context to engineering metrics and performance by introducing a method for comparisons. Jellyfish customers now have insight at the percentile level as to how they stack up against their peers since the complex nature of modern software engineering often fails to give engineers proper context, … continue reading
The Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and Ethical Intelligence have all partnered up to create a free online course on ethics in open-source development. It is designed for developers looking to apply ethics to their coding practice, and for product managers looking to incorporate ethics-by-design technology into their workflows. According to the Linux … continue reading
Apollo GraphQL today introduced the supergraph, a network of a company’s data, microservices, and digital capabilities that enables product and engineering teams to create a better experience for users. A supergraph works as a composition layer and facilitates collaboration between backend data services and front-end applications and devices. The supergraph also helps to control complexity … continue reading
Having insufficient IT resources is one of the major challenges that IT organizations are facing today, and companies will need to implement upskilling programs in order to combat this. According to DevOps Institute’s 2022 Upskilling IT report, 40% of those surveyed said that the resource skill shortage is one of their top three challenges. While … continue reading
The CD Foundation has announced CDEvents, a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data. A standardized set of specifications will enable an ecosystem of tools that can collect, store, visualize and analyze events across CD platforms to help measure DevOps metrics and performance and visualize end-to-end workflows. “CDEvents open the doors to scalable … continue reading
Organizations have been forced to learn the hard way over the past year the importance of software supply chain security. In late 2021, a vulnerability was detected in Log4j, which is a framework for logging in Java that is used as a dependency in over 7,000 open-source projects. This was just one example of a … continue reading
Codefresh, the continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) solution, today announced that its CD platform will be made available as a fully-hosted solution for GitOps teams looking to achieve frictionless, GitOps based continuous software delivery in the cloud. This new hosted offering works to provide Argo CD as a Service as well as introduces new DORA dashboards and … continue reading
To address the ongoing concerns in the industry regarding supply chain security, AWS has announced it is increasing its investment in the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) by $10 million over the next three years. “Security is our top priority at AWS,” said Mark Ryland, director of the Office of the CISO at AWS. “As … continue reading
