Developer platforms and the platform teams that create them have been the center of attention for quite some time now. There have been many (wildly different) opinions about the subject, ranging from how bad the notion of a platform team is to how essential platforms are to make an organization’s DevOps journey to cloud native […]
Salesforce Launches Low-Code DevOps Platform
Salesforce made generally available today a low-code DevOps Center service on its infrastructure through which developers are provided an opinionated platform for building custom applications. The Salesforce DevOps Center service is based on the same object model Salesforce uses to construct its own applications. Karen Fidelak, senior director of product management at Salesforce, said after […]
Building a Platform for DevOps Evolution, Part Two
In the introduction to this series, we discussed the concept of change and how it applies to DevOps environments and release managers. In a world of constant changes in our surroundings and user demands, DevOps has to maintain hundreds of moving pieces across large organizations of people who, by nature, are adverse to change. This […]
GitLab Research Shows Security Concerns in DevOps Teams
The threat of breaches is top-of-mind for many DevOps teams, and while security continues to shift left it appears to be a driving force for many decision-makers when it comes to choosing a DevOps platform or other technologies. These were among the results of a GitLabs survey that also found getting security right is the number […]
CircleCI Integrates CI/CD Platform With GitLab
CircleCI today announced it has integrated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a rival software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from GitLab. DevOps teams can now, for example, trigger pipelines in CircleCI from GitLab forked merge requests in addition to merging requests and making commits for specific branches. Other capabilities include the ability to access testing capabilities […]
Atlassian Bitbucket CI/CD Cloud Service Aims for the Enterprise
Atlassian today outlined its strategy to increase the appeal of the Bitbucket continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) cloud service among enterprise IT organizations. Atlassian said it plans to focus on four core pillars: Performance, management, extensibility and security and compliance, starting with an update scheduled for the third quarter. Dan Tao, head of engineering for Bitbucket […]
Clinical Trials: Programming for Scale, Speed and Success
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the median cost of bringing a new drug to market is $985 million and the average cost is $1.3 billion. However, those in health care hoping to harness promising new treatments, and patients facing steep prescription costs, see this as progress. After all, previous studies […]
GitLab Gets an Overhaul
GitLab launched its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, which the company said pulls together new DevOps and data science capabilities into the platform. With GitLab 15, GitLab says it provides (or soon will provide) continuous security and compliance, enterprise Agile planning, visibility and observability, workflow automation and increased […]
Digital.ai Extends Scope and Reach of DevOps Platform
Digital.ai today unveiled the Ascension release of its namesake DevOps platform that adds pre-built metrics and best practices dashboards using a Test Lens capability to more easily employ analytics to identify software delivery bottlenecks. In addition, the company has added autonomous testing tools that automatically generate performance and security tests for mobile applications. These tools […]
Riverbed Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Riverbed today launched a beta of a unified observability platform it will make available under the Alluvio by Riverbed brand name. Jim Hansen, senior vice president for product management at Riverbed, said the Alluvio by Riverbed observability platform combines several existing network and application performance management platforms into a single offering that is now infused […]