At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees announced that the latest version of its CloudBees Accelerator platform now supports cloud bursting to all three of the major public cloud service providers. CloudBees Accelerator makes it possible to distribute the build, quality assurance and testing cycles across a large cluster of inexpensive servers. […]
Applying DevSecOps to Address Cloud Security Challenges
Driven by the encouragement from 2018 progress, cloud technology is poised to be even bigger in 2019. However, one major hurdle continues to haunt the cloud trend: security. An overwhelming number of firms in the IT industry are preparing for cloud adoption, yet security continues to be a big question for many of them. Early DevOps […]
Akamai Further Extends Reach into DevOps Realm
Akamai is extending its campaign to make content delivery networks (CDNs) a natural extension of DevOps processes by adding more application programming interfaces (APIs) and other automated functions to simplify a variety of tasks. Specifically, Akamai has added an Akamai Sandbox that makes it simpler to conduct tests within the context of the Akamai continuous […]
How to Use APM to Hold Cloud Providers Accountable
Here’s the challenge: Cloud providers’ service level agreements (SLAs) typically stop at the edge of their cloud, while your internal service level expectations run end to end. Measuring performance from the end user to the application and back, including device details, user productivity and page load times, is essential for customer satisfaction and continuous performance […]
The Cloud and DevOps: Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
Cloud is practically designed for DevOps. No matter which cloud provider you are using, each has set up systems designed to spin up/spin down on demand, has the ability to run pretty much what you need and offer APIs/command lines to achieve your DevOps goals on the infrastructure side. That means that the infrastructure side […]
Data Science Industry Perspectives in the Cloud
In principle, the cloud is becoming a commodity. Google, Amazon and other companies are trying to commoditize almost everything, including the instruments for data gathering, data storage and data transformation. In the near term, we should expect that platform engineering, which today is overly complex, will become simpler. With data engineering, however, the prospects of […]