Most B2B applications collect incomplete data by design. A lead form captures a name and company. A recruiting tool surfaces a LinkedIn profile. An event registration system logs an email address and job title. The record enters your system and sits there, half-formed, waiting for someone to manually fill in the gaps before it can […]
How to Migrate an Observability Platform to Open-Source and Cut Costs
Migrating to an open-source stack is a better solution as it gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs, despite challenges with existing service provider commitments.
How to Migrate an Observability Platform to Open Source
Migrating to an open source stack gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs. Here’s how to do it with open source.
Design for DevOps: Using AI in App Design and Enhanced CI/CD Pipelines
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that design-for-DevOps practices, a DevOps pillar, involves designing software in a way that supports the DevOps model and CI/CD pipelines. This can include aspects like microservices architecture, modular design and considering operability and deployability from the earliest stages of design. […]
Technical Debt? No Sweat!
As a product manager, I dread the moment a developer says, “Wait a minute; I need to refactor …” (I wish it was just a minute). Something that should take two days starts taking three days and then a week. Over an application’s lifetime, the app starts accumulating technical debt. At that point, innovations become […]
Four Causes of Technical Debt in DevOps
Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem. Without routinely addressing technical debt, DevOps teams can easily face inconsistencies during deployments. Versioning can get out of hand without consistent upgrades and […]
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 […]
Moving From Lift-and-Shift to Cloud-Native
Analyst firm Forrester recently predicted that 2022 “will see big organizations move decisively away from lift-and-shift approaches to the cloud, embracing cloud-native technologies instead.” According to Gartner, more than 85% of enterprises “will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and will not be able to fully execute on their digital strategies without the use of […]
Some Change is Bad
Some time toward the end of the year, I start considering the volume of change we, as practitioners, have been under for … literally years, even decades. And I start to try and think of ways to keep you all from drowning in change. And then I write something that I hope helps you all […]
Popular iOS Apps Request Excessive User Data Permissions
Most apps require some sort of user data to function properly. Google Maps needs location data to offer routing services. Twitter needs photo library access to upload a photo, and so on. Many users are quick to allow access to personal information without hesitation. However, in recent years, it’s become apparent that many apps are […]