Privileged access management (PAM) is clearly a very important element of effective cybersecurity. PAM has been ranked number one on Gartner’s Top 10 Security Projects for two consecutive years, and it is number four on the CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls. The struggle for many organizations, however, is they have also embraced DevOps culture, […]
0 CommentsI am a big advocate for software reuse, and an even bigger advocate if that reuse comes in the form of software automation. My team and I rely on reusable software processes that accept simple inputs to produce predictable results. We have tight deadlines with requirements that often seem impossible. Automation makes us more efficient […]
0 CommentsRemember when every article you read about IT focused on digital transformation (DX)? Now the broad concept of DX seemingly has taken a back seat in the headlines to a number of hot technologies. One of these, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), is frequently positioned as the new next big thing of the tech world. But […]
0 CommentsCircleCI has achieved a SOC 2 compliance rating for the DevOps platform it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Tad Whitaker, security manager at CircleCI, said CircleCI is the first provider of a SaaS platform for DevOps that has invested the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to achieve SOC 2 compliance. SOC 2 […]
0 CommentsWe opened AWS Regions in Sweden, Hong Kong, and Bahrain in the span of less than a year, and are currently working on regions in Jakarta, Indonesia, Cape Town, South Africa and Milan, Italy. Coming to Spain Today I am happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Spain) Region is in the works, and will […]
0 CommentsThere is steady increase in the adoption of microservice architecture style since 2014 (Figure 1). Microservice architectural style structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services that implement business capabilities. An architecture style is a family of architectures that share certain characteristics. For example, N-tier is a common architecture style. Architecture styles generally […]
0 CommentsIn our fast-moving digital economy, organizations across just about every industry are faced with a stark reality: to remain competitive and deliver the best possible customer experience, they must evolve continuously. The fintech industry is a great example of this–the sector’s growth and focus on excellent customer experience has been driven by external developers rather […]
0 CommentsBreaking monolithic applications into independently scalable services is the core of the cloud-native application model. By making cloud-native apps easy to deploy and manage, Kubernetes has contributed to a big change in IT practices. Initial cloud-native conquests started with stateless services and quickly grew to encompass applications that manage data. Database management systems have long […]
0 CommentsCockroach Labs the folks behind CockroachDB recently announced another round of funding as they continue their mission to allow you to scale your data without complexity. In this DevOps Chat, CEO of Cockroach Labs Spencer Kimball talks about about their plans and how Cockroach shall inherit the DB world. As usual, the streaming audio is […]
0 CommentsUnlocks the Enormous Potential of Infrastructure and IoT Data to Drive Business Insights and Competitive Advantage PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Circonus, the machine data intelligence expert, today announced the launch and availability of its Circonus Platform, the first machine data intelligence platform built to provide enterprises with the ability to handle the rapidly increasing data […]
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