Splunk Inc. announced during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it donated a data collector to the OpenTelemetry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Splunk’s data collector runs as a sandbox-level program at the kernel of a Linux operating system and takes advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology […]

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Site reliability engineers, or SREs, do many things. They help developers build reliability into applications. They manage SLAs and SLOs. They play a leading role in incident management and incident response. For all of these tasks, SREs draw heavily on observability and monitoring. Although other parts of the IT organization also typically help to manage […]

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Supply chain management is the newest ‘shiny object’ in both the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. But what does it mean in relation to software development? Historically, supply chain management is a commerce term that refers to tracking the logistics of goods and services moving between producer and consumer. This would include the storage and flow […]

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Earlier this summer, we worked with ClearPath Strategies to ask developers about the level of trust they have in their various cloud service providers. What we learned spoke volumes: While developers’ familiarity and comfort with Amazon, Microsoft and Google position these well-known cloud providers as market frontrunners, developers often do not agree with the companies’ […]

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The IT industry has historically been a leader in the ongoing race to reduce CO2 emissions. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line. The data center is well-known as a voracious data consumer. But the data center consumption findings keep pace with the trend. Even in the face of […]

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week during the ServiceMeshCon/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference that Meshery, a service mesh management plane created by Layer5, has become a sandbox-level project. In addition, Layer5 has also donated Service Mesh Performance (SMP), a set of tools for measuring the efficiency of a service mesh, to the CNCF. […]

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During the past couple of years, we have seen a rapid acceleration of digital transformation. Many businesses have been leveraging the benefits of DevOps and the cloud to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. With so many changes going on in the industry, it is time to take a look ahead at what DevOps is becoming […]

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These days, there are a lot of different DevOps tools to accomplish a lot of different jobs. Almost daily another startup comes out with a new and innovative product or a newer (maybe even better) version of existing tools. One of the biggest innovations has been infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Giving infrastructure admins and developers alike the […]

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The “You build it, you run it” approach has changed the mindset of modern organizations that are increasingly adopting DevOps practices. No longer completely beholden to the requirements of operations, engineering teams are continually acquiring more autonomy to deliver rapid innovation. At the same time, more organizations are adopting platform teams to accelerate development, empowering […]

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Judith Hurwitz, Daniel Kirsch and company bring extensive experience in technology and market research, management and strategy consulting, business and go-to-market planning to Techstrong Group business unit Boca Raton, Fla. — October 13, 2021 — Techstrong Group, the power source for people and technology, announced today that Hurwitz & Associates will join Techstrong Research. The Hurwitz & Associates […]

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New Relic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference launched a New Relic Instant Observability (I/O) initiative through which it is making available open source tools to simplify application instrumentation. Marck Robinson, senior vice president for engineering at New Relic, said the catalog of tools will help DevOps teams instrument a much wider […]

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Company doubles down on open source commitment with New Relic Instant Observability, an open catalog of 400+ quickstarts to help engineers instrument, dashboard and alert their entire stack Leading enterprise technologies such as Cribl, Fastly, Gigamon, Kentik, Lacework and Trend Micro contribute to accelerate adoption of observability by all engineers San Francisco, CA – October […]

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While the pandemic was significantly challenging for businesses, it exposed the need to quickly adapt and change. Software products for internal or client use continue to provide an opportunity for a competitive edge in nearly any industry. Businesses will immerse themselves and compete in the digital economy by consistently producing better software products at an […]

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Just a random thought of the day: We have the world’s best example of how many of our security woes are actually people problems, not technology problems. We all know that. We’ve all discussed it—but let’s consider this example and have a quick discussion about 2FA. Epic Games had a problem not unlike the rest […]

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We all know the story: Enterprises moved to the cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self-service developer provisioning. Along came Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud-native, where they learned about automation, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Now, even though most enterprises are still figuring out how to do cloud-native at scale, there’s […]

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By allowing teams to maintain two production-ready environments at the same time, the blue-green deployment technique can significantly boost reliability. But blue-green deployment can also be difficult to execute and manage. Let’s unpack how blue-green deployment works, why it’s important and which best practices to follow for blue-green deployment success. Blue-Green Deployment, Defined Blue-green deployment […]

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As modern enterprises continue migrating to the cloud and the need for connected applications and devices dramatically increases, API-driven architectures are being widely adopted. In addition to the convenience of being able to efficiently connect and share resources, organizations benefit from the innovation and accelerated development speed that APIs bring in multi-cloud environments. APIs are […]

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At the online Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day event LF Networking (LFN), an arm of the Linux Foundation focused on networking, today added several projects that promise to make it simpler to programmatically manage networking services based on open source software. Walmart is contributing a L3AF project for managing network […]

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