Hidden Dependencies in Cloud-Native Apps can Amplify Security Risks Cloud-native applications and modern development practices result in applications that are highly distributed and loosely coupled. In many cases, organizations have no control over or little insight into the different elements and software entities they use in their applications. The result often is hidden dependencies that […]
Survey Shows Mounting DevOps Frustration and Costs
A survey of 400 developers and DevOps team members in the U.S. and Europe found, on average, 15 hours a week are being spent managing tasks such as debugging pipelines and waiting for tests and builds to complete. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Garden, a provider of a platform […]
What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast about how many nines of uptime they guarantee. To be sure, uptime is one component of delivering a reliable application […]
DevOps Chats: Database for Cloud-Native Apps with MemSQL
Data and database technologies are experiencing disruption. The volume of data collected is exploding, creating new potential for disruptive services and new companies. Data is distributed across locations in the cloud and the data center. Also, cloud technologies bring a plethora of database types, distribution options, analytics capabilities and AI/ML processing. Any company not leveraging […]
What Are AWS Application Patterns?
The cloud-native approach is not just about compute power and cloud services. A “set it and forget it” attitude won’t work with cloud native; there are far too many moving pieces and there is just way too much complexity. Instead, this approach requires constant testing, optimization and improvement. This is epitomized in the two key […]
DevOps Chat: Holistic Kubernetes and Cloud-Native App Security, With StackRox
More than ever, application security is a top priority. Beyond secure coding practices, a holistic app security strategy addresses the full application and infrastructure stack. This includes containers, microservices, orchestration, infrastructure software and the cloud. Bolting on the next security tool may not be the answer. Kamal Shah, StackRox CEO, joins us on this DevOps […]
Networking: The DevOps Community Deserves Better
Developers of cloud-native applications are at the heart of a process of radical transformation shaking up the business world. Using DevOps and SRE methodologies, modern development teams are bringing a level of agility to the game that is all about freeing enterprises from the shackles of the old, pre-cloud days and letting them take advantage […]
The DevOps Security Stack
The whole idea behind DevOps is automation. DevOps automates the development process by eliminating or minimizing human error. If an error occurs, the applications fail quickly so the errors can be resolved promptly on a smaller scale. DevOps and cloud-native applications complement each other perfectly. Even though DevOps offers a more efficient and faster way […]
The Changing Role of APM in a Microservices World
Microservices usage has skyrocketed. Fully 91 percent of organizations are using or have plans to use microservices and 92 percent expect to grow their use of microservices in the coming year. It is no longer if but when: 86 percent of organizations expect microservices to be the default within five years. With the growing use […]