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Best of 2021 – Transform Legacy Java Apps to Microservices
As we close out 2021, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the sixteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Velocity is one of the major tenets of DevOps, and anything that maintains or improves velocity benefits the overall process. Yet, there are still many […]
Dec 27, 2021 · 3 minAll articles by Frank Ohlhorst
Showing 1–24How Log4j Becomes a Serious DevOps Problem
The recent discovery of the Apache Log4j vulnerability has wide-ranging implications for anyone who develops software, especially for those in the DevOps realm. What’s most troubling about the vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) is how prevalent the use of Log4j is. The vulnerability is reported in a vast array of applications and directly impacts numerous Apache projects, including […]
AWS Outage Exposes Weaknesses of DevOps Resilience
The December 7, 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage severely disrupted services from a wide range of businesses for more than five hours and highlighted just how reliant businesses have become on internet-delivered services. The outage mostly impacted web services in the eastern U.S., yet the implications are universal: It’s a reminder that many businesses […]
Despite Cloud Adoption, Enterprises Demand On-Premises Software
A recent report from Dimensional Research reveals that the demand for on-premises software is equal to that of public cloud. The report, which was commissioned by Replicated, a company specializing in on-premises software modernization, queried 405 participants in software development, executive, product management, sales and services roles to determine the needs, usage and challenges of […]
4 Ways SASE Fuels DevOps Productivity
Many enterprises are adopting secure access service edge (SASE) solutions as part of their digital transformation efforts. SASE, in a nutshell, merges together SD-WAN and security stacks to deliver secure networking and improved WAN performance, making it a logical choice for cloud-enabled businesses going through the throes of digital transformation. However, SASE offers other benefits, […]
App Testing Must Evolve Within the DevOps Pipeline
As the practice of DevOps evolves, so do the supporting tasks; hopefully in such a way that they introduce increased efficiency and automation to accelerate development and deployment pipelines. However, one specific process still remains a speed bump on the road to DevOps acceleration: the process—or, more specifically, the chore—of testing. Naturally, testing is an […]
The Importance of Incorporating DesignOps Into DevOps
Design is a critical software project element that often goes unnoticed by those writing code. After all, coders and implementers tend to take the design process for granted and leave the look and feel of applications to the designers. In the days of waterfall based development, design was one of the first steps in the […]
Top Misconceptions About Low-Code Development
Accelerating the pace of development has become one of the biggest goals in DevOps. After all, having teams speed the creation and modification of applications is supposed to be one of the primary advantages of DevOps pipelines. Yet, far too many DevOps teams run into speed bumps that can derail the process. For some, turning […]
DevSecOps May Be Key to Prevent Data Leaks
Data leakage has become something of a norm in the digital realm, despite the fact that cybersecurity budgets are growing and more engineers are assigned to these very issues. Nowhere does this seem more true than in the realm of health care, where breaches that expose sensitive patient data are, sadly, a fairly common occurrence. […]
How Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Solutions Benefit DevOps
Managed Detection and Response (MDR), a relative newcomer in the cybersecurity realm, is starting to have a noticeable impact on enterprises seeking to better secure their operations. Research giant Gartner notes that, “By 2025, 50% of organizations will be using MDR services for threat monitoring, detection and response functions that offer threat containment capabilities.” Despite […]
Synack: DevSecOps Being Accelerated by Cultural Shifts
The 2020 State of Compliance and Security Testing Report from cybersecurity testing platform vendor Synack claims that some of the world’s largest organizations are encountering a significant cultural shift within their development teams, and that bodes well for those seeking to build DevSecOps teams. For the report, Synack surveyed leaders from more than 300 organizations […]
DevSecOps Requires Teamwork for Success
While the manifestos surrounding the current development pipelines may differ, there is one concept that remains constant: teamwork. All the various frameworks populating the development landscape bring together teams of people to build and deliver applications. This is especially true of DevOps, which focuses on a technical culture with defined roles on a quest for […]
Why COBOL Still Matters After 60 Years
In the world of DevOps, the Agile Manifesto and countless other application delivery frameworks, one has to wonder how an anachronism such as the programming language COBOL (common business-oriented language) has managed to remain relevant. After all, COBOL has its roots back in the 1940s, and was built upon Rear Admiral Grace Hopper’s work on […]
GitLab Research Reveals DevOps and Cybersecurity Disconnects
DevOps and cybersecurity teams have a complicated relationship, which impacts code quality, research shows Finger-pointing has long been the name of the game when it comes to cybersecurity failures. After all, who should be responsible when so-called bad code or bad practices are blamed for the latest incident? A recent survey by DevOps lifecycle tool […]
Workflow Automation Poised to Accelerate DevOps
Automation is taking the market by storm. Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2020, more than 40% of data science tasks will be automated, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Businesses are turning to automation to reduce costs, increase productivity and gain a competitive advantage. Add DevOps to the mix and it […]
The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery
Facebook’s useful but neglected DevOps tool Osquery has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to The Linux Foundation. Anyone who has been tasked with monitoring the security of server instances in a data center or cloud knows how laborious and time-consuming it can be. Osquery, a project started by Facebook, aims to lessen this […]
How DevOps Training and Certification Benefits the Team
Cisco Systems recently announced sweeping changes to its training and certification programs to increase the real-world value of both. Cisco’s move demonstrates a trend by organizations that provide training and certification to place more value on the practical aspects of educating technology professionals—which, in turn, should have a major impact on those looking to build […]
AI for IT Operations: All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is becoming a critical tool for organizations attempting to bring automation quickly to network management and IT problem resolution. However, many organizations are still unsure how to deploy AIOps for the most value and to net the full, promised results. Perhaps the challenges come from not looking beyond data […]
Nutanix Eases Development of IoT Apps
Nutanix, a vendor of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, has released a new developer environment that allows developers to try and test IoT and AI apps in the cloud. Starting May 7, developers can sign up for a free 10-day trial of this experience. The developer environment is built under Nutanix’s Xi IoT Platform and gives developers […]
DevSecOps: Can JIT PAM Bring Relief?
IT and cybersecurity leaders have come to agree that the purpose and intent of DevSecOps is to create a mindset that “everyone is responsible for security,” while also incorporating application and infrastructure security directly into the software development and delivery process. DevSecOps has proven to be a critical ideology for cybersecurity, yet is littered with […]
Agile vs. ITIL: Two Divergent Paths to DevOps?
Truth be told, there are dozens of different frameworks in existence and all have their unique perspectives on how a project is managed and executed. Frameworks such as Agile, ITIL, lean, cobit, six sigma and many others were built on an ideology of following a path defined by best practices. With DevOps, two of those […]
Will There Be a Fast Path to ITIL V4?
The Feb. 28 release of the ITIL Foundation ITIL 4 Edition book illustrates that big changes are coming to ITIL, bringing fear, uncertainty and doubt to those who have invested in ITIL and achieved certifications. It all comes down to how far along someone is in the ITIL V3 certification process. For those that have […]
ITIL V4 Foundation Embraces the Agile Manifesto with Teamwork as a Core Value
The Feb. 28 release of the ITIL Foundation ITIL 4 Edition book is proof positive that other service management frameworks have impressed the folks who brought the latest iteration of ITIL to fruition. ITIL V4 proves to be significantly different than previous generations of ITIL and embraces many of the core values found in frameworks […]
Will ITIL V4 Bring Order to a DevOps World?
It is difficult to dispute the importance that the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) approach has had on the world of ITSM (IT service management). After all, the best practices established by ITIL V3 have come to be the accepted way ITSM providers conduct business—so much so that many other IT processes have come to […]