AI-generated change is not significantly different than the last couple decades where change has become IT’s constant companion.
Organizations Prioritizing Java Application Modernization
A survey found that modernizing existing Java applications is a higher priority than other projects for 87% of respondents, with more than 80% of these applications expected to be re-engineered over the next five years. The survey polled 450 IT professionals working in organizations in the U.S. and United Kingdom that have more than 500 […]
Playwright: A Modern, Open Source Approach to End-To-End Testing
I was excited when I started writing my first end-to-end tests years ago. The idea was promising; create an automated test suite that spins up a browser and mimics your user’s behavior. Test your website end-to-end. Frontend, backend, your database—you name it. All these automated tests would cover everything! Unfortunately, it wasn’t all roses and […]
A New Development Model: Bringing SaaS Apps to Data
The last few decades have seen multiple major shifts in how applications are built and deployed, and now we’re seeing the start of a new shift that opens up enormous opportunities for all kinds of developers. Instead of bringing data to applications, developers are bringing their applications to the data. Let’s back up. In the […]
There are Few Enough Silver Bullets
I was working through this week’s blog this morning, and it was laser-focused on a narrow topic. I had examples of why too much of a good thing is bad, how absolutism about methodology is hurting the majority of organizations out there, and how to get past this issue to keep improving what IT does […]
Update Those Ops Tools, Too
We’re all pretty well settled on the idea that the rate of change in IT has been on the increase over time. From the advent of VMs to Agile to DevOps to containers, the movement has been faster—and the same is true for internal development. I’m going to approach this topic from three perspectives instead […]
Bringing z/OS Systems into Today’s Modern Application Development
Bringing z/OS Systems into Today’s Modern App Development Modern application development is all about automation, addressing the concerns of developers and the operational side of the house, and supporting the common CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) approach needed to keep apps up to date. Developers typically make use of a variety of open source and other […]
Out of the Silo: Big Data and DevOps Meet in the Middle
Given the myriad benefits they provide, it seems crazy that big data and DevOps have been implemented independent of each other If you have been working from home during the recent lockdowns, you probably don’t feel like you are making many new connections, but when we come to look back on this time in a […]
Safeguarding Secrets Within the Pipeline
How can an organization write source code to use secrets without directly referencing them and risking them being leaked to the public? 2020 closes out a decade full of countless code leaks, a topic we talk about quite often. In fact, just recently, Intel became the latest victim after 20GB worth of internal documents were […]
7 Forces Driving the Low-Code Movement
Why low-code? Why now? Here are some of the driving forces behind the burgeoning low-code movement If you’re keeping an eye on the tech tooling landscape in 2020, you may have noticed the buzz around low-code. Countless low-code platforms are being funded and coming to the market. In fact, Forrester estimates that spending in the […]