In this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double salaries.
DevSecOps in Azure
DevSecOps is everywhere, and chances are your organization is shifting toward this convergence of development, security and operations. In an on-premises environment, you build your own DevSecOps process by mixing and matching existing and new tools. However, in the cloud, much of the environment is determined by your cloud provider. Microsoft’s Azure cloud is known […]
A Closer Look at Azure DevOps
Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Server is emerging as one of the most popular cloud application development environments. Like most continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, it provides features such as version control, reporting, project management, automated builds, and testing. It covers all aspects of the application life cycle and enables DevOps. Here’s a closer look at this […]
Analyzing SRE Job Postings
You can find plenty of high-level definitions out on the internet about what site reliability engineering means and what site reliability engineers do. But if you want to understand what it’s actually like to work as a site reliability engineer, there is perhaps no better source than job descriptions. SRE job ads explain what real […]
Building a Reliable App Installation Experience With MSIX
Simple, safe, reliable software installs and uninstalls are always best, but getting there isn’t easy. Applications break each other—or even the operating system itself. MSIX, Microsoft’s packaging format, is the newest replacement for the decades-old Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) and setup exe installer technologies. MSIX is gaining acceptance and wider adoption because of the benefits […]
Kyndryl Aligns with Microsoft in the Cloud
Following its spinout from IBM, Kyndryl has allied with Microsoft to increase the scope of IT services it provides on the Azure public cloud. Stephen Leonard, leader of global alliances and partnerships for Kyndryl, said that as part of this initiative, Kyndryl will be expanding the scope of the services it provides to both organizations […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Google Roils Open Source Community
Google this week agitated the bulk of the open source community by launching the Open Usage Commons consortium to protect the trademarks of open source projects, starting with the Istio, Angular and Gerrit projects it launched. Launched in collaboration with SADA Systems and some independent contributors, the stated goal of the Open Usage Commons is […]
42Crunch Extends API Security Alliance With Microsoft
42Crunch this week announced it has extended an existing alliance with Microsoft to now include support for Microsoft Azure Pipelines for its REST API Static Security Testing Tool. Previously, 42Crunch only provided support for the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Dmitry Sotnikov, chief product and marketing officer for 42Crunch, said support for the […]
Does the Empire Strike Back When We Learn What Happens to the $10 Billion JEDI Contract?
Microsoft scored a huge victory by sweeping in and taking the $10 billion dollar, multi-year JEDI contract for military IT services from AWS (owned and operated by amazon.com, its parent company). The backstory on this is that James “Mad Dog” Mattis, then Secretary of Defense, met with Jeff Bezos who tweeted about it on August […]
Microsoft Extends Azure Reach to On-Premises IT Environs
Microsoft today at its Ignite 2019 conference previewed an Azure Arc management service that extends the reach of the Microsoft cloud to on-premises IT deployments. Azure Arc will be made available on both local Windows and Linux servers as well as Kubernetes clusters or an instance of Kubernetes that Microsoft is making available on Azure […]
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