It was around late 2017 when we first reported on ‘value stream management‘ as it pertained to software development. By now, everyone knows that value stream concepts were first introduced on manufacturing floors, and were designed to eliminate waste (of effort and materials) and wait times (dependence on others to complete tasks before you could … continue reading
Strapi is an open-source headless CMS written entirely in JavaScript that enables developers to design APIs fast and to manage content easily through a customizable admin panel and API, as well as custom plugins. The API works with any client, mobile apps, or even IoT devices using REST or GraphQL. The Content Type structure can … continue reading
The latest version of the open-source content management system (CMS) Drupal is now available. Drupal 9 is the first major release in five years. It introduces a number of new features and offers an enhanced user experience, with the biggest change being an improved upgrade process, the Drupal team explained. This release adds a number … continue reading
Agile IT practitioners must exhibit a range of digital business skills that go beyond the ability to code, such as courage, communication and leadership. Application technical professionals who exhibit this diverse and important skill set are what we like to call “Agile superheroes.” Some superheroes, like Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man and the Hulk, have superhuman … continue reading
The Linux Foundation announced a new cloud engineer bootcamp that includes online training, labs, instructor support and certification providing all the verifiable knowledge necessary to begin work as a cloud engineer. The training begins with Linux at the operating system layer, and moves up the stack, covering DevOps, cloud, containers and more, providing all the … continue reading
After over two months of lockdowns due to the novel coronavirus, many states have started or are about to start the process of reopening. While some things will be opening up, many companies, especially those in the tech industry where remote work can be easily achieved, will continue to keep their employees out of the … continue reading
Chef announced new capabilities designed to enable coded enterprises to build competitive advantage through automation and DevSecOps innovations. “Since our last ChefConf, we have been intensely focused on harnessing our long experience in operating at massive scale and speed while enabling unprecedented ease of use,” said Barry Crist, the CEO of Chef. The new Chef … continue reading
Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 2 now available with updates to the C++ Connection Manager, .NET Productivity, Git Productivity, and Local Process with Kubernetes. With the new C++ updates, users are now able to edit remote SSH connections, utilize enhanced IntelliSense support for Clang on Windows (clang-cl) in Visual Studio, as well as four new … continue reading
Every business analyst has heard this at least once, if not often: “I don’t want to get too technical for this discussion.” But the fact of the matter is “it is getting technical.” With more organizations moving to the cloud and developing cloud-based solutions, terms of information technology that have been used in the software … continue reading
Cindy Sridharan’s popular “Distributed Systems Observability” book published by O’Reilly claims that logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability. According to Sridharan, an event log is a record of events that contains both a timestamp and payload of content. Event logs come in three forms: Plaintext: A log record stored in plaintext … continue reading
Atlassian wants to improve the way development, IT operations and business teams work together by allowing them to share and get the right information in the tools they are already working in. In a recent DevOps Trends Survey, the company found that DevOps tools and practices teams use to make their lives easier actually come … continue reading
Traditional application performance management was built from the ground up to be for infrastructure operations and the emergent DevOps teams. They were not designed for product and engineering teams. But if you’re a developer, and you’re writing code to deliver to your customers in the form of an application or a service, you’d likely want … continue reading
Observability is the latest evolution of application performance monitoring, enabling organizations to get a view into CI/CD pipelines, microservices, Kubernetes, edge devices and cloud and network performance, among other systems. While being able to have this view is important, handling all the data these systems throw off can be a huge challenge for organizations. In … continue reading
Rust has made it to the TIOBE Index Top 20 for the first time, ten years since its inception. All the verbose programming and sharp edges of other languages are solved by Rust while being statically strongly typed. Its type system prevents run-time null pointer exceptions and memory management is calculated compile-time. So no garbage … continue reading
