At its Build 2023 conference this week, Microsoft announced general availability of an Azure Deployment Environment service that provides developers with a portal through which they can employ infrastructure-as-a-code (IaC) templates based on Terraform or Azure Resource Management files. In addition, Microsoft has enhanced Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation environment for developers that run Azure, […]
5 Ways Traceability Is Changing to Bolster the Remote Workforce
Traceability has always been a useful tool in the development process, but it has become especially important since the COVID-19 outbreak and the increased remote workforce. Where developers and engineers were once working side-by-side, with the ability to discuss their process and keep their team informed, they are now navigating a remote collaboration landscape. According […]
Oracle Adds Low-Code Tool to Autonomous Platform
Oracle this week extended the scope of the cloud services it manages on behalf of customers to include a low-code application development platform based on the company’s Visual Builder development tools. Jeff Price, vice president of product Management at Oracle, said Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder (VB) Cloud makes it possible to employ a tool based […]
BMC Pushes Automation to the DevOps Left
Much of the inherent conflict that exists between developers and IT operations teams often comes down to how IT automation processes are implemented. IT operations teams generally have their own preferred tools for automating operations while developers have another. To resolve that issue, BMC Software unveiled Control-M Workbench, a set of development tools that extends […]
DevOps Chat: BlueOcean Puts CD Pipelines Within Reach of Every Team
Blue Ocean brings easy-to-use continuous delivery for teams to everyone. Years in the making, Blue Ocean is a major project built from the ground up for Jenkins Pipeline. I had a chance to speak with two of the key contributors from CloudBees and the Jenkins community, James Dumay and R. Tyler Croy. Tyler is on […]