NGINX this week announced it has developed a common framework for managing application delivery that can be applied across both monolithic and microservices-based applications. Announced at the NGINX Conf 2018 conference, the NGINX Application Platform has been rearchitected to provide traditional load balancing capabilities and a web application firewall (WAF), as well as a built-in […]
Automation: Achieving Faster Rollouts with Better Accuracy
A changing landscape requires new processes At the recent Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner shared a list of technologies and trends that will be important for organizations to embrace and prepare for in 2017. These trends, which are listed in the report, “Top Strategic Predictions for 2017 and Beyond: Surviving the Storm Winds of Digital Disruption,” reinforce the […]
Q&A: CNCF on Instilling a DevOps Culture, Part 2
In part one of this two-part series, staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud introduced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a nonprofit organization with 49 members engaged in promoting the development of cloud native applications. Let’s continue with the CNCF’s thoughts on instilling a DevOps culture. staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud: Why do developers need the freedom to choose how they build software? What […]
Q&A: CNCF on Instilling a DevOps Culture, Part 1
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a non-profit comprised of some 49 industry participants that have come together to drive development and adoption of cloud-native applications and services. The CNCF is uniting such giants as Google, IBM, Intel and Cisco Systems to distill a collection of container technologies that end-user companies deem praiseworthy to […]
DevOps Debates: Image-Driven or Build-Driven Delivery
In the last 12 months, Docker and the containerization paradigm has challenged the foundation of some of the software delivery principles. People are resorting to things that were unheard of 18 months back and are now using them to successfully deliver software faster and cheaper. One such thing is the debate around build-driven delivery vs image-driven delivery. Over the […]
F5 Releases 2016 ‘State of Application Delivery’ Customer Survey Results
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), today released the results of its second annual State of Application Delivery customer survey. Expanded to include feedback from more than 3,000 customers worldwide, this year’s report details how they are delivering applications successfully, how they keep data and users secure, and how hybrid cloud, software-defined networking (SDN), and DevOps […]
DevOps Is About Serving The Customer: Q&A with Shridhar Mittal
As a longtime proponent of continuous delivery and fast deployment schedules, Shridhar Mittal has advocated for DevOps operational patterns since before the DevOps moniker was even coined. It was a philosophy that stemmed from what he and his colleagues at what was then Interactive TKO saw happening in response to the service-oriented architecture movement: many […]