The use of APIs and microservices is increasing—a recent study from F5 estimated that the industry is approaching 200 million total APIs. As organizations expand their use of APIs and microservices, they inevitably require some form of service management architecture. There are primarily two major design options for implementing this: An API management system or […]
Enabling Cloud Adoption in the Government
In 2022, federal agencies are estimated to spend $7.8 billion on cloud computing. While this spending on cloud computing is necessary, it’s imperative that the government uses its allotted funding appropriately to leverage the cloud’s full potential and avoid common pitfalls. Avoiding Common Cloud Adoption Pitfalls I’ve frequently witnessed government agencies get locked into a […]
Low-Code SaaS Solutions Need Security at Their Core
Faster integrations. Accelerated software delivery. Elevated user experiences. These are only three of the benefits organizations gain by incorporating low-code platforms, apps and solutions into software development and business process management. Low-code platforms aren’t new, but demand for the technology soared in the last two years as companies were challenged to meet stakeholder demand for […]
2022 Predictions: AI, Security and Cloud
It is difficult to find a single area of the technology landscape that isn’t incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into products and services. As we move into a world where distributed computing is the norm for business operations, AI is a requirement given the increasing level of complexity in computing environments. While there are many different […]
How AI Can Improve Software Development
Change is constant and inevitable. While some changes are welcome, others are just a necessary evil. Continuous calls for digitalization combined with a pandemic-prompted emphasis on transforming business operations, force organizations across industries to modernize their legacy systems. The emergence of cloud computing has shrunk organizations’ on-premise IT footprints. However, with 96 of the world’s […]
Continuous Delivery Challenge Looms Large in 2022
As 2022 kicks off, it’s becoming apparent that the major DevOps challenge organizations will face is mastering best practices that enable continuous delivery. A global survey of more than 19,000 software development professionals conducted by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation found 44% of respondents use either continuous integration or deployment. However, less than one in […]
IT Ops Trends: Cloud, Containers and COVID
Almost all companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure to remain competitive, with the focus firmly on migration to the cloud and the use of dynamic infrastructures. In a recent Trends in IT Ops 2021 survey, more than 160 IT professionals were asked how the implementation of IT strategies affected their day-to-day work. The results provided […]
NPMs Sabotaged as OSS Sustainability Crisis Continues
A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were deliberately sabotaged this week, allegedly by a primary contributor. Colors.js is an npm that has been downloaded more than 3.3 billion times, with more than 19,000 projects depending on […]
CNCF Takes LitmusChaos Platform to the Incubation Level
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it is elevating the open source LitmusChaos application testing platform to the incubation level. LitmusChaos is a chaos engineering platform donated to the CNCF by ChaosNative in 2020. Since then, it has seen adoption within production environments by more than 25 […]
Step Aside, Monoliths: Meet the Composable Enterprise
A composable enterprise, defined by Gartner as “an organization that delivers business outcomes and adapts to the pace of business change”, relies on the assembly of interchangeable application building blocks. This architectural overhaul has largely been driven by a demand for more configurable application experiences, and the need to evolve existing application portfolios that are […]