DevOps is one of those overarching terms that encompasses a number of technologies and techniques. Some consider continuous integration and delivery as the cornerstone of DevOps. Others say you can’t keep pace with Agile development and deployment without automated processes that kick off tests, builds and performance alerts.
On the development side, some organizations are taking test-driven and behavior-driven approaches. They’re shifting testing to the left, to find defects more quickly so that better quality code is delivered.
DevOps, though, it not a one-size-fits-all solution. Organizations need to evaluate their processes, see where benefits could be derived, and implement those methods and technologies that deliver real value to the business.
The number of security challenges companies are facing continue to grow, but organizations are beginning to display signs of “AppSec exhaustion,” or decreased engagement in security practices. This is according to Snyk’s new State of Open Source report, which found that dependency tracking and code ship frequency has remained largely unchanged since last year. There … continue reading
Platform engineering has been gaining quite a lot of traction lately — and for good reason. The benefits to development teams are many, and it could be argued that platform engineering is a natural evolution of DevOps, so it’s not a huge cultural change to adapt to. According to Jonathan Harding, Senior Product Manager of … continue reading
At its annual user conference, swampUp, the DevOps company JFrog announced new solutions and integrations with companies like GitHub and NVIDIA to enable developers to improve their DevSecOps capabilities and bring LLMs to production quickly and safely. JFrog Runtime is a new security solution that enables developers to discover vulnerabilities in runtime environments. It monitors … continue reading
Good teamwork is key to any successful AI project but combining data scientists and software engineers into an effective force is no easy task. According to Gartner, 30 percent of AI projects will be abandoned by the end of 2025 thanks to factors such as poor data quality, escalating costs and a lack of business … continue reading
Until about two years ago, many enterprises were experimenting with isolated proofs of concept or managing limited AI projects, with results that often had little impact on the company’s overall financial or operational performance. Few companies were making big bets on AI, and even fewer executive leaders lost their jobs when AI initiatives didn’t pan … continue reading
Are your developers on PagerDuty? That’s the core question, and for most teams the answer is emphatically “yes.” This is a huge change from a few years ago when, unless you did not have DevOps or SRE teams, the answer was a resounding “no.” So, what’s changed? A long-term trend is happening across large and … continue reading
GitLab has announced the latest version of its platform. GitLab 17 introduces new features such as GitLab Duo Enterprise, a new CI/CD catalog, and Native Secrets Manager. GitLab Duo Enterprise is a new AI add-on that builds on the capabilities of GitLab Duo Pro. It can be used to detect and fix security issues, summarize … continue reading
The DevOps company Copado has announced a new AI assistant for Salesforce test creation called Test Copilot. This follows the company’s recent announcement of Copado Explorer, which is an automated testing solution designed for Salesforce users, as well as the launch of its AI assistant CopadoGPT, which Test Copilot is built on. Users provide a … continue reading
GitLab has announced that its AI assistant GitLab Duo Chat is now generally available as part of the GitLab 16.11 release. GitLab Duo Chat can answer questions about issues, epics, code, errors, CI/CD configurations, or the GitLab platform itself. It can also refactor existing code and generate tests. For instance, a developer onboarding onto a … continue reading
Most developers at this point in time have adopted DevOps in some form or another, whether they are a full-blown DevOps engineer or a developer utilizing parts of the DevOps practice. According to a new report from the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), 83% of developers were “involved in DevOps-related activities” in the first quarter of … continue reading
The problem is not new: Modern software architectures are complex distributed systems made up of many independent services, many of which are built by other teams or cloud providers. Kubernetes wrangles this herd of services—but adds yet more complexity that must be tamed. This creates hard problems at the intersection of development and operations. Developers … continue reading
An informal survey of DevOps teams finds that the vast majority of enterprises only have bandwidth for some form of manual testing and do not have the skilled resources required for full test automation. Most companies do not even conduct a formal cycle for user acceptance testing (UAT). They conduct informal manual testing by business … continue reading
