Threat modeling is a process that far few developers seem to pursue, but it is a process that helps you and your team to model all potential threats to your application. Essentially, threat modeling is your thinking through all of the potential threats against an application. Doing so is virtually as easy as putting together […]
From Automated Cloud Deployment to Progressive Delivery
Your team is on its agile journey and you can more or less track a deployment from a story, through git commits, to an automated builder, to an artifact repository, into a container and then onto the cloud. Or, in fact, any other of the many valid variants that lead you to believe your deployments […]
Maintaining Exceptional Quality Despite Shrinking Delivery Deadlines
My first article in this series focused on the need for continuous improvement across three key dimensions of software development–velocity, quality and efficiency. While these are all equally important, in this piece we’re going to focus more specifically on quality. The past few months—what you might call the summer of outages—have been troublesome for many […]
Top 3 Challenges of DevOps Adoption
Customer expectations continue to relentlessly rise as new technological opportunities emerge. Today, organizations demand products and application features are delivered and implemented wherever and whenever needed. Everywhere you look, execution is at risk of falling behind imaginations and business imperatives. That is, of course, unless DevOps is starting to wield a strategic and philosophic influence. […]
Transforming the Security Team Into a DevOps Partner
Securing DevOps environments is an increasingly important concern for chief information security officers (CISOs) and security teams. While developers often recognize security is important, it is not their top priority. More typically, the DevOps team prioritizes delivering new capabilities and features to the business and customers, often as part of a larger digital transformation initiative. […]
A Golden Age for Developers
There’s probably never been a time since the dawn of programming when there has been more opportunity for developers—individuals and teams—to imagine, create and be successful. Developers are able to do a lot more (and do things a lot faster) with more tools, a better development ecosystem and a tighter connection with the rest of […]
Textbook DevOps vs. Real-World DevOps
DevOps is one of those things—like Marxism or baking macarons—that is easy to understand in theory, but much messier to implement in practice. Real-world DevOps rarely aligns with textbook DevOps or the DevOps practices that organizations should follow in theory. That is true for a number of reasons. Let’s walk through some of the biggest […]
DevOps Security Champion: Who, What and Why?
In general, DevOps is a process and culture of organizations to get applications out the door faster and with higher quality. To do so, security champions are essential. In DevOps, security champions work as a backup mechanism in various projects and take multiple leadership roles. Security champions make effective decisions and take projects forward while […]
Understanding the Data Scientist’s Role in Cross-Functional Teams
In our previous article, “Data Science Industry Perspectives in the Cloud,” we discussed that evolution is key if you plan to grow your business. You can start with ready-made solutions, then, in time, you can switch to in-house solutions created with the help of a group of data scientists. This time around, we’ll talk about […]