Is there a silent threat of technical debt looming in your organization? You probably should take a deeper look. Modern software systems are composed of hundreds of interdependent components. How are you updating those components – system libraries, base containers, and app packages? Do it poorly, and you will trigger unintended side effects, like failing […]
The Day a Software Update Broke Corporate America
For organizations prioritizing resilience, adopting infrastructure-agnostic solutions that enable seamless workload management across platforms should be at the top of the list.
DevOps Must Learn From CrowdStrike’s Outage
The CrowdStrike outage on July 19, 2024, is a stark reminder of DevOps practices’ critical role in deploying updates to maintain the security and reliability of applications and systems. While the underlying software defect was the immediate cause, the broader issue lies in the deployment process that allowed a severe flaw to impact a global […]
CNCF Graduates TUF Project to Secure Software Updates
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that an open source specification for securing software update systems has graduated to becoming a top-level project. The Update Framework (TUF) is made up of a set of libraries, file formats and utilities that can authenticate files and images before they are downloaded from a software repository. […]
How Often Should You Release with Continuous Delivery?
If you do continuous delivery, you could release software updates as frequently as you want. But should you? Here’s what to consider when deciding how often to release. Although the terms continuous delivery and continuous deployment are often used interchangeably, they don’t mean the same thing. Under continuous delivery, you prepare all software updates as […]