One thing that is absolutely true: This latest iteration of IT improvement is about automation. Whether making DevOps more automated, working on any of the various “X-as-code” movements or implementing AI, the idea is to create what one vendor portrayed as a “human-free zone.” A space where automation does everything that needs doing. And the […]
Checkly Adds Monitoring-as-Code to Testing Platform
Checkly this week added a monitoring-as-code (MaC) workflow capability to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that is used to create synthetic tests for applications. The Checkly platform spins up browsers to test and can now monitor how applications are performing at both the user interface and application programming interface (API) level. That capability, currently available in […]
The Everything-As-Code Revolution and the OWASP Top 10
After years of stagnation, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 list finally saw some shakeup. Most notably, insecure design debuted on the list as the number four security risk to web applications. “If we genuinely want to ‘move left’ as an industry, it calls for more use of threat modeling, secure design […]
Jit Emerges to Address Cybersecurity Policy-as-Code Orchestration
Jit today emerged from stealth with a free namesake orchestration platform beta that automatically implements security plans as code. Aviram Shmueli, chief product officer for Jit, said the company will both make security plans it developed available as code within GitHub. In addition, Jit will make available a service through which customers can submit documents […]
Nobl9 Adds Hydrogen Platform to Surface Technical Debt Issues
Nobl9 today unveiled a Hydrogen platform that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to identify technical debt issues as they manage service level objectives (SLOs) as code. Hydrogen enables DevOps teams to define SLOs using a simple wizard or by embedding code within their application as part of a DevOps workflow. That code is then […]
Extending Automation to Your First Code Commit
I am a big advocate for software reuse, and an even bigger advocate if that reuse comes in the form of software automation. My team and I rely on reusable software processes that accept simple inputs to produce predictable results. We have tight deadlines with requirements that often seem impossible. Automation makes us more efficient […]