Maintaining the integrity of a software supply chain is an issue that has long bedeviled IT organizations. With the rise of microservices based on containers, however, this issue has become more acute. As a result, software supply chains are an issue that Google now plans to tackle. Google, along with JFrog, Red Hat, IBM, Black […]
Seeking the Balance Between Federalism and States’ Rights
When you overhear someone talking about federalism versus states’ rights, you are bound to think they’re talking about national politics. In the meeting rooms of corporate America, however, it’s often a very different discussion going on. For product engineering teams in a medium to large corporate context, many topics and discussions boil down to federalism […]
Trusting Continuous Delivery
DevOps, continuous delivery and the pipeline for faster software development are fundamentally different from traditional software development. It’s such a different approach and a different culture that it can take some time before Dev and Ops teams embrace and trust it—a necessary step for DevOps to make progress in any organization. By mixing containers and […]
Security Policies For DevOps 101
A while back I was talking with some friends about how to ensure security inside a devops environment. The simple first thought was that no where does DevOps say to do away with security. Instead, consider how your existing information security practices and policies need to adjust given the changes that DevOps brings to the […]