This year’s O’Reilly Velocity conference on DevOps and web performance began this morning at the New York Hilton. Keynote speakers briefed attendees on everything from “the serverless world” to data analytics, but a few talks focused on real-world scenarios that developers and IT leaders can learn and apply to their own organization in order to … continue reading
Fourteen DevOps technology leaders announced a new initiative to streamline DevOps adoption at this week’s Jenkins World. The new DevOps Express aims to help answer key questions such as where to start, what a typical DevOps stack looks like, how to learn from others, how to minimize risk, and how to ensure technologies will work … continue reading
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) unveiled new solutions today at the company’s annual enterprise security conference, HPE Protect. These solutions are designed to expand its efforts to better integrate security into DevOps. The new solutions focus on three key areas such as secure development, security testing, and continuous monitoring and protection in production, and they are … continue reading
From a simple Vagrant, HashiCorp has grown into a Silicon Valley darling. The company behind the quick environment setup system followed up that popular tool with a host of new developer-centric life-cycle products after its founding in 2012, and today the company announced just how well it has been doing. HashiCorp ventured into enterprise sales … continue reading
If you listen to the voices out there in our industry, organizations must release software at a breakneck pace if they want to survive in this consumerized, instant-gratification world of applications. Heaven forbid a competitor develops a new feature before you do. If that happens, you’re told, you might as well shut down your business … continue reading
When was the last time you heard someone say “push technology,” “customer self-service portal” or “World Wide Web”? All are terms that have largely vanished from the technology vernacular. Push technology essentially disappeared into RSS, pretty much everything is a customer portal in today’s online experience, and it’s comically passé to distinguish the World Wide … continue reading
Despite the fact that methodologies like agile and DevOps try to break down the traditional silos in a software development organization, those silos are prevalent. The problem is that organizations are already used to working in a siloed fashion, so when they start to transition to agile, they approach development, testing and project management as … continue reading
Microsoft is giving developers a new open-source toolkit to enable them to work with their community and contribute to the Windows SDK. The UWP Community Toolkit features capabilities such as helper functions, custom controls and app services for developers; open-source code; and alignment with the Windows SDK for Windows 10. Developers can use the toolkit … continue reading
Gradle 3.0 has been released with fixes in the Gradle Daemon with specific fixes on Windows platforms, as well as the first support for Gradle Script Kotlin (a Kotlin-based build language for Gradle scripts). The support for Gradle Script Kotlin provides deep integration with both Eclipse and IDEA, including things such as auto-completion, refactoring, and navigation … continue reading
A new report from TVP Strategy suggests that DevOps is failing to mitigate security flaws in code quality. The research also suggests ways for development teams to efficiently add automated security to continuous testing, without changing the role of the developer. TVP Strategy, formerly known as The Virtualization Practice, is an analyst organization that reports … continue reading
Developers and hackers that want to make their side projects profitable or well-known now have a new platform to try: Indie Hackers. It allows individuals to learn how other developers are “writing their own paychecks.” Indie Hackers is a platform that is focused on community and openness, and was recently launched and created by recent … continue reading
In May, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) was signed into U.S. law. At the signing ceremony, President Obama remarked: “Unfortunately, all too often, some of our competitors, instead of competing with us fairly, are trying to steal these trade secrets from American companies. And that means a loss of American jobs, a loss of … continue reading
