API security Modern applications are mobile first and are built around cloud-native distributed microservices architectures. These architectures have become the basic building blocks for complex and reliable distributed web and mobile applications. Many of these distributed APIs expose the business logic directly over the web; hence the attack surface and attack vectors are very different […]
Archives for June 2021
CircleCI CEO Sees Growing Need for Developer Experience Engineers
There is no shortage of titles to go with all the tasks that make up a DevOps workflow, but given the critical role developers now play within any organization, it might be time for organizations to start creating a developer experience engineer (DXE) function within DevOps teams that is specifically tasked with increasing developer productivity. […]
How Low-Code Makes DevOps Stronger
While its roots can be traced back to rapid-application development (RAD), low-code application development started to gain serious momentum about three years ago. Initially, some in the DevOps community dismissed the trend, even as myriad approaches—from no-code to low-code for professional developers—started to enter the market. At the time, enterprises of all sizes had embraced […]
Continuous Testing Practices – Part 2
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing to help explain what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. Given the […]
Rest and Expectations
Dynatrace Applies AI to Surface App Vulnerabilities
Dynatrace has enhanced the security module to its observability platform that leverages its Davis artificial intelligence (AI) engine to automatically identify the software libraries and open source packages that represent the greatest security risk. Ajay Gandhi, vice president of product marketing for Dynatrace, said the Davis Security Advisor, being added to the Dynatrace Application Security […]
What Chaos Engineering Is (and Isn’t)
The birth of chaos engineering happened somewhat accidentally in 2008 when Netflix moved from the data center to the cloud. The move didn’t go as planned. The thinking at the time was that the data center locked Netflix into an architecture of single points of failure, like large databases and vertically scaled components. Moving to […]
Continuous Testing Practices (Part 1)
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing (CT) to help those understand what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. […]
Rank Has Its Privileges
Gotta Fix ‘Em All: AWS BugBust 2021
Software bugs are vexing. Code reviews and error finding aren’t a particularly fun part of a developer’s job description. Finding bugs is tedious, time-consuming and hard on your eyes. Bugs not only wreak havoc on your code, they wreak havoc on your day. But what if bashing bugs could earn you a payoff greater than […]
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