It’s getting harder for businesses that are building technology tools to get attention, traction and ultimately widespread adoption. You can’t just launch an amazing new developer tool and hope developers will find you; providers need to zero in on a specific use case that empowers developers while also ensuring those developers will still have access […]
GitLab Updates Advance Its CI/CD Platform
GitLab has expanded the capabilities of its continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform to include tighter integration with collaboration platforms from Slack and Mattermost along with the ability to support Docker containers running on Windows. Version 11.11 of GitLab adds a caching dependency proxy for Docker images to the Premium edition of GitLab along with the […]
Automation: We Have Not Yet Achieved Balance
I’m going to start this week’s blog out with a very clear statement that regular readers will already be aware of: I fall on the automation side of the DevOps equation. I see DevOps as automation first, process second. The problem is getting to that “second” part. The act of automating the entire pipeline should, […]
IBM Extends Cloud Reach to Include Integration
At the IBM Think 2019 conference this week, IBM unfurled an IBM Cloud Integration Platform that pulls together a range of tools in a single development platform that the company promises will reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy applications by making it easier to reuse integration code. Hillery Hunter, vice president and […]
Self-Service Integration: 3 Areas to Watch
Self-service integration is a priority—more enterprises are turning to it for help in retaining their customer base, delivering a delightful customer experience and making it easier to do business with. It has become a de facto standard for modern-day integration solutions. Enabling business users to build integrations strategically addresses a dire need to establish a […]
Salt Security Unveils Platform to Secure APIs
Salt Security, fresh off raising an additional $10 million in funding, announced a platform that promises to advance the state of DevSecOps by making it possible to detect when application programming interfaces (APIs) are being probed by cybercriminals looking for weaknesses to exploit. Salt Security CEO Roey Eliyahu said the Salt Security API Protection Platform employs […]
Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators
Admiral Calcote, also known as Lee Calcote (@lcalcote) or the Ginger Geek to his friends, gave a presentation titled, “Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators,” at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. Okay, he isn’t really an admiral—nor does anyone call him that—but he used the title “admiral” to describe what container orchestrators do, relating it to an admiral directing a […]
Creatures of Habit, Snowflakes and Integration Tax
Donovan Brown of Microsoft, in conversation with Matt Hilbert of Redgate Software, discusses database DevOps’ biggest challenges When DevOps was first talked about in Flickr’s seminal “10 deploys per day” Velocity presentation in 2009, it was regarded by some as strange and alien to corporate culture. It was the antithesis to the accepted way of […]
Avoiding Application Integration Fails
Trying to integrate applications on your own can eat your project alive. A seemingly simple project may look harmless when you start, but in the end do-it-yourself software delivery tool integrations can devour your entire software process. The problem may be that building simple integrations appears easy. How hard can an integration be? But let’s […]
Top 5 Issues Curtailing DevOps Adoption
DevOps may seem simple and logical on the surface, yet most of the companies we talk to are struggling in one aspect or another. This is no surprise: Successful DevOps initiatives require putting together a full toolset and simultaneously creating a smart team of developers, testers and project managers who are well-versed in cloud and […]