Teams that embrace loose coupling are better equipped to respond to challenges, gain a competitive advantage and adapt to a constantly changing tech landscape.
How to Prevent Zombie APIs
There is a growing reliance on web APIs. A full 92% of organizations plan to increase their investments into APIs over the next year, the 2023 Postman State of the API Report found. APIs are powering everything from internal microservices strategies to partner strategies and fully-fledged products. Yet, this newfound API sprawl has consequences; a […]
Palo Alto Networks Extends CNAPP to CI/CD Platforms
Palo Alto Networks’ CNAPP now includes the ability to secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.
Deploying a Service Mesh: Challenges and Solutions
A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that enables communication between microservices in a distributed application. It helps to abstract the underlying communication infrastructure, such as network protocols and load balancing and provides a consistent interface for microservices to communicate with each other. In a service mesh, each microservice in the application is represented […]
Fermyon Adds Managed PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Fermyon Technologies this week launched a hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, dubbed Fermyon Cloud, that promises to make it simpler to build WebAssembly (Wasm) applications. Announced during the Cloud Native Wasm Day event during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Fermyon Cloud is now available in open beta. Fresh from raising $20 million in funding, […]
Protecting CI/CD Pipelines to Secure the Software Supply Chain
Cloud-native applications have become increasingly complex. Composed of an infrastructure stack of mash-up code, hundreds of open source and commercial components, services and APIs, today’s software supply chain is fraught with security risks. At the same time, the ability to manage existing application requirements while building innovation and taking on new areas of responsibility like […]
EvolveWare Further Automates App Modernization Tasks
EvolveWare today announced it has added an Agile Business Rules Extraction capability to its Intellisys application modernization platform. EvolveWare CEO Miten Marfatia said the Agile Business Rules Extraction capability eliminates the need to freeze code development while applications are either being shifted to the cloud or refactored. Instead, the Intellisys platform will now keep track […]
Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps
A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is highly sticky and makes future application improvements and migrations much harder. All three hyperscalers have storage services that present block, file and object-based […]
Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization
A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with 79% noting that at least one of these projects has failed. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of vFunction, a provider of a […]
3 Steps to Jumpstart Your App Modernization Journey
Like organizing your garage, modernizing your applications can seem daunting before you start, but you know it will pay off once done. So, instead of thinking about this project as a technical challenge, let’s look at it in the wider context of the business. Just as getting rid of old junk in your garage frees […]