Quick Base, a provider of a platform for building low-code applications, announced this week that it is making its platform available for free through Sept. 30 to first responder organizations that need to build applications quickly to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Jay Jamison, chief product and technology officer for Quick Base, said it’s apparent first […]
Survey Sees Massive Adoption of Microservices
Under increasing pressure to innovate faster, a majority (84%) of organizations taking part in a recent survey have already embraced microservices. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of API management platform provider Kong, polled 200 senior IT leaders in organizations with more than 1,000 employees. Among the results, 89% of technology leaders agree […]
Virtual Instruments Aims to Meld DevOps, ITSM Worlds
Virtual Instruments today announced additions to an IT management platform that leverage machine learning algorithms to identify application drift and dynamically right-size virtual machines. Tim Van Ash, senior vice president of products for Virtual Instruments, said version 6.2 of the company’s VirtualWisdom platform is part of an ongoing campaign to meld the traditional world of […]
Speaking the Language of Applications
I arrived early to a meeting, and the pleasant security guard at AT&T suggested I take a look at their innovation museum while I wait. Among motion picture sound technology and life-size photos of switchboard operators on roller-skates stood a transistor prototype. The transistor was invented in Bell labs in 1947, and it changed the […]
Go Big: Scalability in the Age of DevOps
Achieving hyperscale is a work of technical art for any business. As companies grow and customers begin to rely more heavily on your service, ensuring reliability during peak business times is mission-critical. An enormous amount of work goes on behind the scenes to ensure scalability, and oftentimes it becomes necessary to redesign or rethink processes […]
So Many DevOps Tools, So Little Time
I’ve received thousands of emails, ads and sales pitches for tools for every stage of the app life cycle, from automating infrastructure buildout to release planning to building and testing, to delivering applications. If you’re building or rearchitecting an application, you have a surfeit of choice of DevOps tools. Ironically, when an organization invests in […]
Solving the ‘Automagical’ Apps Automation Problem
The DevOps Revolution started with a handful of simple principles. A key one was that systems should be managed by code, not by humans, to eliminate complexity and ensure better security, compliance and scalability. To manage compute infrastructure at any scale, the process should be automated with logic captured in code. And, ideally, automation also […]
DB-Engines’ Latest Industry Results Reveal InfluxData’s Overwhelming Leadership Position in Rapidly Growing Time Series Database Category
InfluxData Increases Industry Lead with Growing Popularity of 49 Percent; Overall Industry Popularity Nearly 3 Times More than Closest Competitor SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 16, 2018 — InfluxData, a modern Open Source Platform built specifically for metrics, events and other time series data that empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics and IoT applications, today announced its continued position as the […]
Applitools Delivers Cypress and Storybook SDKs to Provide Developers with Ultra-Fast Visual Validation of Their Web Applications and Components
Automated Visual Testing at the Speed of Unit Testing SAN MATEO, Calif., October 16, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management (AVM), today announced expansion of their AI powered visual testing platform to Cypress and Storybook; two popular tools with software developers seeking to build high quality applications faster. These new Applitools […]
Speed Rules in Chef’s DevOps Survey
DevOps is all about streamlining and accelerating. Organizations that embrace DevOps are driven by a focus on maximizing the combination of efficiency and effectiveness—which explains why speed is the central theme of Chef’s “The State of Enterprise Applications” survey. Chef surveyed nearly 350 application and operations professionals in an effort to understand trends in DevOps, […]