In many cases, success in the business world relies on software, be it a compelling mobile app, desktop application suite, interactive website or even an embedded system for the IoT. Because of this need, companies with mature software development processes enjoy a significant competitive advantage over those without. Part of fostering this maturity involves crafting […]
Back to Basics
We here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud do sometimes suffer from The Curse of Knowledge. We write about DevOps regularly for an audience that is doing or managing DevOps. We assume knowledge, but there are still a fair number of people and organizations who are unclear about some of the terminology/technology that we talk about. So if you […]
DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One
Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a DevOps Engineer
The economic downturn, pandemic management challenges, supply constraints and the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war have led to layoffs in many industries. While these events also impact the technology industry, it does not necessarily have to mean disaster for DevOps professionals who find themselves looking for a new role. Tech recruiters are looking for candidates with the […]
Developer’s Guide to Fuzz Testing
Fuzz testing continues to grow in popularity among developers within the open source community. Google’s open source security (OSS) team recently reported finding more than 40,000 bugs in 650 open source projects through the use of fuzz testing. But if you have no clue what fuzz testing is (yet), don’t worry. You’ve come to the […]
CNCF Survey Predicts Growing Wasm Momentum
A survey of 93 developers conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) found more than a quarter (28%) are using WebAssembly (Wasm) in their cloud-native development projects, with another 36% planning to do so during the next six to 12 months. The survey, published this week, is effectively a straw poll that found 42% […]
DevOps Principles, Implementations and Culture
When organizations begin using DevOps for application development, many only reference DevOps as part of their infrastructure and select a subset of DevOps before understanding the cultural and process changes needed for success. Instead, organizations must first determine which ‘Ops’ approach best promotes a DevOps mindset and integrate their workflows into their culture. In doing so, […]
Microservices Explained: Not Your Father’s SOA
Microservices are frequently referred to as a variant or derivative of service-oriented architecture (SOA), if not essentially the same thing. While there are similarities and both are designed around the concept of services, that’s where the similarities end. Each was created around a different set of principles and intended to address different problems. Microservices architecture […]
The Whats and Hows of APIs: A New Developer’s Guide
For those who are new developers, you may not know a lot about application programming interfaces (APIs). However, it is likely that you’ve used them before as a consumer or an end user, whether purchasing online, using business communication software to reach colleagues or sharing images from a monogram logo maker on social media platforms, […]