DevOps is all about agility, with fast, short delivery cycles and automation for software development and applications. Enabled by recently introduced technologies such as virtualization, cloud and software-defined networking (SDN), spinning up new servers, provisioning storage in a public or private cloud or even launching whole environments can take just minutes or even seconds. But […]
DevOps Chat: Modern Apps in DevOps w/ Andrea Martinez Crawford, IBM
Andrea Martinez, now Andrea Crawford, is the CTO for DevOps for IBM Hybrid Cloud. In this DevOps Chat we had a great discussion on what is “modern apps in DevOps,” how to upgrade your legacy apps, what to do if your legacy apps are not upgradeable and what this all means for DevOps. Great discussion […]
AppDynamics Taps into SAP Applications
Application performance management (APM) is starting to be employed more widely as more organizations embrace digital business transformation. As the number of digital business processes spanning multiple applications increases, so does the need to understand what’s occurring inside both greenfield and legacy applications. In fact, at the heart of many of those digital business processes […]
Eclipse Foundation Charts Cloud-Native Path Forward for Jakarta
A new era begins for the Java community today with a commitment to a Jakarta EE specification that the Eclipse Foundation expects will become cloud-native in short order. Jakarta EE formally marks the end of a Java era. While the term Java will still apply to any technologies developed prior to Oracle transferring stewardship of […]
A Unified Route to Bring Mainframes to DevOps Speed
Most businesses have mainframes where their key applications and data reside. In today’s digital environment, customer-facing mobile and web systems retrieve critical data from back-end mainframe systems. It is critical to adapt mainframe applications and data to today’s rapidly changing market demands if businesses want to remain competitive. This is the question IT and businesses […]
Testing’s Role in Delivering Digital Transformation
“We have a quality philosophy now…but it took the rise of the middle child to make it happen.” Ann Lewis, ExxonMobil Ann Lewis’ metaphor of testers being the “middle child” between software development and IT operations was present throughout Accelerate 2017, Tricentis’ annual user conference. Nearly every head in the room nodded as Lewis described […]
The Need for Speed Demands New-Era APM
Applications have become the primary conduit by which customers experience a brand, making the application experience critical to business success. As such, continuous delivery and highly available systems that deliver optimal end user experiences at lightning speed have become top priorities for organizations. Modern IT is all about speed, efficiency and customer experience. Simply put, […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 1
With the growth of the internet of things (IoT), expected to connect more than 50 billion devices (things) in next three years, building intelligent systems in a more connected world is presenting many challenges. Especially in building software for IoT, beyond hardware and network connectivity challenges there are numerous challenges in development, test, release, managing […]
With a Multicloud Infrastructure, Control is Key
Ask any developer or DevOps manager about their first experiences with the public cloud and it’s likely they’ll happily share some memories of quickly provisioning some compute instances for a small project or new app. For (seemingly) a few pennies, you could take full advantage of the full suite of public cloud services—as well as […]
Software Security is an Engineering Problem
We live in a world where those who sell products are generally held accountable for defects. Automobile manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and toy makers are among the businesses that have been handed fines and tarnished reputations for distributing items that were later deemed ineffective or dangerous. One notable exception to this “consumer first” ethos is the […]