DevSecOps is emerging as an important trend in corporate IT. It makes sense. With each passing day more applications serve a larger user base. Whereas in the past the typical business application was accessible only from within the confines of an enterprise’s internal network, today, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) paradigm enables millions of users work with […]
Speed NPM Releases and Gain Confidence Using an NPM Registry
Building applications in the NPM development life cycle can be very complex. Let’s review the main factors that contribute to this complexity: An endless number of variables: Building applications involves a huge number of variables. Not only are there locally installed dependencies in the package.json (which should use absolute versions for each dependency), but there […]
Siemens Acquires Mendix to Advance Low-Code Platform Adoption
Siemens this week moved to substantially accelerate its transition into becoming a software company by acquiring Mendix, a provider of low-code application development tools, for $730 million in cash. Mendix CEO Derek Roos said Mendix will operate as a business unit of Siemens, which has poured more than $10 billion over the last decade to […]
Threat Modeling: The Why, How, When and Which Tools
You may have heard of threat modeling as a structured activity for identifying and managing threats. Threat modeling can be applied to a wide range of things, including software, applications, systems, networks, IOTs and business processes. Threat modeling’s motto should be, “The earlier the better, but not too late and never ignore.” Without threat modeling, […]
Connectivity as Code: Making Network Security DevOps-Friendly
DevOps is all about agility, with fast, short delivery cycles and automation for software development and applications. Enabled by recently introduced technologies such as virtualization, cloud and software-defined networking (SDN), spinning up new servers, provisioning storage in a public or private cloud or even launching whole environments can take just minutes or even seconds. But […]
Why Digital Transformation Can’t Happen without Experimentation
A sure sign of a company’s successful digital transformation is when it can leverage data to optimize every area within the enterprise. As Forrester puts it, for a company to realize the return on investment (ROI) of a digital investment, “benefits from digital investments need to be aligned with the business requirements for a specific […]
How Automated Testing Can Help the Latest C-Level Issue: Quality Software
Every year developers gather in San Jose for Apple’s annual WWDC, where software quality is typically a key point of discussion. This year, the company progressed from its 2017 buggy software debacle in full force—it’s a heads-on effort, marked by the industry leader naming 2018 its year of software quality. This raises some larger questions […]
There’s No Such Thing as DevSecOps
Should DevSecOps be categorized separate from DevOps? After years of debate, few doubts remain about the viability of the public cloud for enterprise workloads. Enterprises are shifting to cloud-first and cloud-only strategies, looking to take advantage of all the good the public cloud has to offer. For applications built and deployed in the public cloud, […]
Complementary Technologies: Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL
For enterprises in search of a relational database service that will effectively and consistently meet their requirements, Amazon RDS is probably worth a hard look. By making cloud-based relational databases straightforward to set up, operate and scale, Amazon RDS liberates businesses from the time-sink of internal database administration duties—in turn allowing for a clearer focus […]
How Python is Transforming the DevOps Landscape
DevOps is the combination of operations and software development which reduces or almost eliminates the disconnect between systems administrators who run the infrastructure and software developers who develop applications. During software development, when the Agile methodology is utilized properly, a bottleneck often occurs during the frequent operations and deployment phases. New fixes and updates are […]
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