The term ‘software supply chain security’ (SSC) can be interpreted in many ways. Following the White House executive order in May 2021 and the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) of 2022, both governments and corporations are taking a more active role in ensuring their software is secure. Fundamentals such as having a software bill of […]
Three Trends That Will Transform DevOps in 2023
The onset of COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation-related initiatives like cloud migration, microservices, observability and CI/CD, giving long-delayed projects the budget and staffing they needed to build momentum. After almost three years of increased investment and accelerating progress, CTOs and software development teams are navigating how to enable the improvements in time-to-market and customer experience that […]
Best of 2022: How DORA Metrics Can Measure and Improve Performance
As we close out 2022, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. A technology company’s most valuable assets are its people and data, especially data about the organization itself. By knowing what data to track over time, […]
Culture a Stumbling Block to DevOps, DevSecOps
Organizations are struggling to improve DevSecOps practices as they confront a lack of cultural alignment and investment, according to a global Progress survey of more than 600 IT, security, application development and DevOps decision-makers. Many companies are behind in achieving their DevOps and DevSecOps goals, with 73% of organizations saying they could be doing more. […]
How a Mature DevOps Practice Can Strengthen Competitive Advantage
Saman Pourkermani, practice lead, operations effectiveness, Inspirant Group, co-authored this article. Software development and delivery has become an integral part of every aspect of a business and is no longer simply a support function. Nowadays, most of us, including those in business operations, know the anxieties of having to wait for specific environment release dates […]
Driving Organizational Success With the 2022 State of DevOps Report
“Ship it!” We have just completed the research and analysis for the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) and oh boy, do we have some interesting things to share! First, let me take a short step back for those of you that may be new to the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and our […]
BMC Adds Support for DORA Metrics to Mainframe Tools Portfolio
BMC this week announced it has added support for DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics within its portfolio of DevOps tools for mainframe environments. John McKenny, senior vice president and general manager for intelligent Z optimization and transformation at BMC, said the latest edition of BMC Compuware zAdviser now includes a DORA KPI Dashboard that […]
GitLab Adds Fourth DORA Metric API to CI/CD Platform
The latest update to GitLab’s namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has added support for the application programming interface (API) for measuring change failure rates. This addition supports the fourth metric as defined in the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) framework. Version 14.10 of GitLab also expands the GitLab Runner Operator for Kubernetes to any […]
Google DORA Report Shows Modest DevOps Gains
Google today published the annual Accelerate State of DevOps Report created by its DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team that finds 26% of DevOps teams surveyed can now be classified as elite performers. That compares to 20% the last time the study was conducted in 2019. DevOps teams, made up of a total of 32,000 […]
Accelerate State of DevOps Report: The Move to Multi-Cloud
Analysis of the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) data shows an increasing number of organizations are choosing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions. In our survey, respondents were asked where their primary service or application was hosted, and the results showed that public cloud use is on the rise. Of the 1,200 survey respondents […]