The benefits of embedding real-time communications features into business and consumer applications are well-known. When it comes to customer service, most people would much rather click-to-call from within a web experience, social media site or business application to connect with another person, than find their phone to dial a number and wait in a queue. […]
0 CommentsWhen the cloud first caught on, there was a problem with Shadow IT—developers spinning up instances in AWS without the IT team knowing they existed. Now with the ease of CI/DC automated deployments, the problem of Shadow Code—code being added to apps that did not go through the entire team process—has arisen. In this DevOps […]
0 CommentsIt is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) customers who plan to use, Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying news RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able to […]
0 CommentsIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic the level of software development activity has remained relatively constant, but developers—who, like everyone else—are now largely working from home, are putting in more hours. Organizations are now grappling with whether working remotely on software development projects now represents the “new normal.” A report published this week by […]
0 CommentsCitrix this week announced it will make its remote access tool that enables users to efficiently access their desktop PCs more widely available via the cloud. Gabe Carrejo, senior program manager for Citrix, said Remote PC Access provides a more efficient alternative to the virtual private networks (VPNs) that most organizations currently rely on to […]
0 CommentsCloudBees this week announced an update to CloudBees Feature Flags that now makes it possible to deploy this capability in on-premises IT environments. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president and general manager for software delivery management and software delivery automation cloud at CloudBees, said CloudBees Feature Flags previously was available only as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application […]
0 CommentsCloudBees Connect Virtual Summit will bring together a global community of developers, CloudBees and Jenkins users, DevOps luminaries and continuous delivery experts for two full days of immersive learning, presented in a virtual reality environment. The event is scheduled to take place on May 19 at 11 a.m. EDT for North America, and on May […]
0 CommentsZoos are fascinating places. In just a few acres you can encounter all kinds of interesting, rare and exotic animals from different parts of the world and from different ends of the food chain. But, what keeps the tigers from eating the zebras or even the visitors? Segmentation. Walls, fences, cages and other barriers that […]
0 CommentsTony Ferrelli joins as Vice President, leading IT Operations, advancing Catchpoint’s IT operational excellence (New York, USA) – May 07, 2020 – Catchpoint™ the leader in next-generation Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), today announced the appointment of Tony Ferrelli as Vice President of Technology Operations. In his role, Tony will oversee the design, delivery, maintenance, operations, and support of […]
0 CommentsObservability may be a core tenet of any best DevOps practice, but the number of organizations that actually engage in it is still not nearly as high as it should. A survey of 400 software engineers published this week by Honeycomb, a provider of an observability platform, finds nearly half said they are not currently […]
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