Microsoft’s GitHub recently announced that it was going to make a change to its product lineup by making the team version of GitHub free and lowering the price on a full-featured version. The move seemed aimed squarely at matching GitLab’s offering. Well, now GitLab has responded to GitHub. While both of these excellent offerings compete […]
0 CommentsAnother shoe has dropped in the continuing story of TPG Capital‘s foray into DevOps. The company formed by the merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne is now Digital.ai. Additionally, the company has acquired Arxan, a leader in application protection. I had a chance to catch up with Digital.ai’s CEO Ashok Reddy and Arxan COO Mark […]
0 CommentsBy Ross Mauri, GM of IBM Z In September 2019, IBM announcedIBM z15™, delivering industry-first data privacy capabilities with the ability to manage the privacy of customer data across hybrid multicloud environments, and to scale from one to four frames. For our clients on their journey to cloud, IBM z15™ and IBM LinuxONE IIIwas a major step forward around encrypting […]
0 CommentsThroughout the history of IT, we’ve had our share of purists. OS purists, language purists, etc. The stark one was the “That is not Object Oriented Programming” crowd. While the poster-children of IT purity, we don’t really hear from them anymore—and thank goodness for that. But a new crowd has reared its head in DevOps […]
0 CommentsAs we expand our digital world, there is an ever more urgent need to look after businesses that need to operate faster and with more agility. Because of this, DevOps has grown quickly and become central to a lot of organizations as they pursue a competitive advantage. However, some organizations struggle to implement DevOps as […]
0 CommentsAs more organizations use feature flags and experiments, it’s critical to understand that some of these changes should exist for only a short or specific period of time, and then be removed from your codebase. Removing flags when appropriate avoids technical debt and complexity that can make your code fragile, harder to test and more […]
0 CommentsZero-configuration hosting solutions such as Zeit Now and Netlify are taking the frontend community by storm due to their ease of use. If we add static site generators such as Gatsby/Next.js/Nuxt.js/Hugo/Jekyll to the mix and deploy our statically generated pages to a content delivery network (CDN), we get something highly desired with minimal effort: distributed […]
0 CommentsSplunk has made available a Remote Work Insights dashboard designed to help IT administrators track and identify the most relevant IT metrics for a workforce that is working from home to help combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Company CTO Tim Tully said the dashboard is initially configured to track virtual private network (VPN) […]
0 CommentsThere is little argument that automated testing has emerged as an industry best practice. Yet, there remains a wide variety of adoption and maturity in the market. While automated testing is imperative for DevOps maturity and success, I see in my work several popular canards that often stand in the way. Reject these five common […]
0 CommentsEmploying a multi-cloud strategy is not as straightforward as it seems for enterprises due to the huge amounts of data and applications involved. Hence, mistakes are common in multi-cloud implementations. What are these mistakes and what can enterprises do to avoid them? The Growth of the Multi-Cloud The multi-cloud is now a staple in most […]
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