The most successful software companies rely on repeatability, auditability and simplicity when building solutions. The emergence of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has empowered developers to apply these practices to infrastructure allocation. What are the best practices for storing IaC? Should IaC code be stored with the application and feature code? Should it be stored separately in its […]
0 CommentsDevelopers spend much of their day digging into their systems’ guts, allocating storage to an application, connecting the security system to the user interface and tracking which version of the application is where in the development cycle, among other tasks. That’s why a new category of software has emerged, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), that promises to automate […]
0 CommentsDevOps creates value through constant deployment changes. When done right, more frequent deployments allow teams to continuously improve their products or services while making it easier to manage the effects of the change. One way to do this is with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). CI/CD helps to reduce the risks to each build […]
0 CommentsA New Relic survey found only 27% of respondents have achieved full-stack observability with only 5% claiming they have a mature observability practice in place. A third (33%) of respondents also said they still primarily detect outages manually or based on complaints, the survey found. The global survey polled 1,614 respondents, including 1,044 practitioners and […]
0 CommentsA survey of 16,510 IT and IT security practitioners published today by Rezilion, a provider of a platform for automating the remediation of software vulnerabilities, found nearly half of respondents (47%) worked for organizations that have a backlog of vulnerable applications. More than half (66%) said their backlog consisted of more than 100,000 vulnerabilities and […]
0 CommentsEstablishing clear communications and expectations across software organizations is essential to the success of any project. A company is less likely to experience unexpected delays or other unpleasant surprises if everyone is on the same page. To ensure all team members are synchronized and to eliminate unnecessary ambiguity, engineering teams should create a “Definition of […]
0 CommentsI have written about “the right tool for the job” repeatedly. Because (again) we are absolutists in IT. My father was an antiques restorer that dabbled in flipping houses and was rather forceful about the “right tool for the job.” When I left the service and joined IT, it was something of a shock to […]
0 CommentsJohn Egan, Co-founder and CEO at Kintaba, talks about IRConf, the first conference fully dedicated to Incident Response. The company behind the conference is Kintaba — a modern incident management platform for the entire organization. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. Welcome to Techstrong TV. We […]
0 CommentsThe Rust Foundation announced today it is working with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and JFrog to help maintainers secure open source software created using the Rust programming language. Rebecca (Bec) Rumbul, executive director at the Rust Foundation, said even though Rust is a memory-safe language, there are still security issues that maintainers need […]
0 CommentsDevOps needs a mindset shift to save the overworked engineering collective. There’s a considerable discussion right now about the Great Resignation. But if you work in software engineering, you’re probably even more familiar with the Great Burnout. Everything in the software development realm has sped up over the last few years. Engineers perform at a […]
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