Automation is the backbone of DevOps. By facilitating seamless integration and continuous delivery, it revolutionizes the ways organizations deliver software, products and services. When applied correctly, automation can significantly enhance productivity, reduce time-to-market, improve software quality and minimize the risk of human error. A range of automation tools support these goals, each tailored to a […]
GitLab Survey Reveals DevSecOps Gains
A global survey of 5,010 IT leaders, CISOs and developers published by GitLab this week found well over half (56%) of respondents are working for organizations that are using DevOps or DevSecOps practices. However, 72% of respondents said they are using a DevSecOps platform (36%) or are considering adopting one in the next year (36%). […]
Awareness of Software Supply Chain Security Issues Improves
A global survey of 167 software professionals suggested that, while there is a lot more awareness of application security issues, the adoption of DevSecOps best practices is still not pervasive. The survey, conducted by Chainguard, the Eclipse Foundation, the Rust Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), found that just over half (51%) of […]
Strategies To Consider When Adopting Platform Engineering
Platform engineering helps centralize the responsibilities associated with maintaining internal infrastructure. And it continues to be an emerging discipline—according to the 2023 State of DevOps Report, 51% of organizations have already adopted platform engineering within the last three years, and 93% said it’s a step in the right direction. I recently met with Hope Lynch, […]
State of DevOps Report Finds a Rise in Platform Engineering
The speed of software development velocity is increasing, and to enable this, platform engineering is emerging to evolve the DevOps practice. Interest in platform engineering is rising—so much so that Puppet emphasized platform engineering in its 2023 State of DevOps Report. A whopping 94% of respondents agreed that platform engineering is helping their organizations better […]
Atlassian Aims to Improve Collaboration With DevOps Teams
At an Atlassian Presents: WorkLife event today, Atlassian furthered its efforts to integrate the tools technology and business professionals use to manage processes. Erika Trautman, general manager and vice president of product for Work Management for All at Atlassian, said that as organizations increasingly rely on digital processes to engage customers, partners and employees, the […]
How to Adopt an SRE Practice (When You’re not Google)
Site reliability engineering (SRE) isn’t a new term or practice. The practice of applying software engineering skills and principles to operations problems and tasks happened even before site reliability engineer was a defined job title. But organizing a proactive approach to building and maintaining software drives long-term success in improving operational efficiency, data-driven roadmap planning […]
Digital.ai Extends Scope and Reach of DevOps Platform
Digital.ai today unveiled the Ascension release of its namesake DevOps platform that adds pre-built metrics and best practices dashboards using a Test Lens capability to more easily employ analytics to identify software delivery bottlenecks. In addition, the company has added autonomous testing tools that automatically generate performance and security tests for mobile applications. These tools […]
Best Practices to Improve your Engineering Sprints
What is the purpose of sprints? We break work into sprints so we can more easily monitor, estimate and predict what we want to ship and when. Over the years, engineering teams have gotten used to moving quickly from one sprint to the next, but I think it’s important to be more thoughtful in how […]
Source Code Management Best Practices
Source code is, of course, the foundation of any software development practice. Managing that source code is the first task tackled by modern software development pipelines, with all subsequent stages of the pipeline dependent on the source code for their success and functionality. Thus, it is critical that source code is properly managed without introducing […]