
10 Ways to Increase Productivity by Improving Your Developer Experience
True developer productivity only comes from giving your DevOps teams a great developer experience. Here’s how.

Where to Start With Secure Design – Tips for Developers
Designing secure software is an increasingly hot topic, and for good reason. In recent weeks, we’ve seen a global effort from governments and cybersecurity agencies to encourage security by design through new guidance and changes to procurement rules. During the G7 in May, the QUAD nations (Australia, India, Japan and the United States) released a […]

BMC Mainframe Survey Results Show a Platform on the Rise
A BMC survey found he majority of those who are most enthusiastic about the mainframe’s future are relative newcomers to the platform.

Cutting Costs, Boosting Efficiency: The Economic Benefits of Framework-Defined Infrastructure
Understanding the role of framework-defined infrastructure in defining and automating infrastructure—and its impact on the development experience in open source frameworks—is crucial.

EP 40: DevOps Building Blocks Part 3 – Making the “Sec” in DevSecOps Happen
Many organizations still make the mistake of treating security as an afterthought instead of considering it a top priority from the start, which can lead to breaches and major losses for their business. By adopting a DevSecOps approach, security is integrated early in the SDLC to identify and address potential risks promptly. In part 3 […]

Elevating Quality Engineers in an AI-Driven Landscape
Artificial intelligence is creating new opportunities for AI-savvy test engineers. But that doesn’t mean that you can set it and forget it.

Who Should Have Access to Production?
In a perfect world, no one would have access to production, as that’s the safest way to make sure there won’t be any issues.

Application Modernization: A Catalyst for Fixing Sub-Optimal UX
Efforts to improve legacy systems allow both public and private organizations to operate more efficiently and improve UX.

Boost User Experience With Global Network Monitoring
DevOps teams can leverage global network testing platforms to set up simple and flexible global monitoring without breaking the bank.

Salesforce Winter Release: What you Need to Know
With the Salesforce Winter release dates behind us, it’s time to evaluate all of the new innovations added to your Salesforce ecosystem. Let’s just say that many users will be excited about the features added to this release cycle; plus, there were many anticipated updates that have finally come to fruition. Let’s dive right in […]

How Open Source Software Powers High-Impact Climate Science
Innovations from the open source community are helping revolutionize climate science, letting researchers quickly derive insights from data.

Transitioning Legacy Systems to DevOps: The XDR Support Paradigm
While companies are keen to leverage DevOps’ benefits, the transition from legacy systems can be fraught with challenges.

A Practical Guide to Mitigating DevOps Backlog
Every company aspires to get the first-mover advantage in its respective industry. This strategy allows companies to establish a robust brand presence and offer strong product offerings in the market. However, at times, this may also lead early-stage startups to prioritize pushing product features to market without adequate consideration toward stabilizing and maintaining the product. […]

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Toyota, Nutanix, FICO and more!

Policy-Based Governance: Modernizing Authorization for the Enterprise
Change of control and management of access in the privileged environment requires a new approach to the solutions we use for privileged access governance.

Evolution of Toil Identification and Mitigation – A Classic SRE Challenge
Ingo Averdunk, leading architecture and solutions for cloud service management and site reliability engineering for IBM Cloud, contributed to this article. Christine White, architect at IBM Consulting, also contributed to this article. When many people think of operations, they often associate it with manual, labor-intensive work. This is because operations traditionally encompass a wide range […]

Container Image Tags
In a Kubernetes environment, you encounter a situation where a service’s configuration is not consistent across multiple clusters. What common configuration element could be the source of this issue? 1. Pod resource requests and limits 2. Container image tags 3. Ingress controller settings 4. Service account permissions 5. Node affinity rules Correct Answer: 2) Container […]

How to Navigate App Modernization Strategies for the Cloud
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations continuously seek ways to innovate and enhance customer experiences while optimizing efficiency. One of the most transformative strategies is modernizing applications for the cloud. App modernization isn’t just a technology upgrade. It’s a holistic business transformation. The cloud’s elasticity and scalability present opportunities to create deeper customer engagement, foster […]

EP 39: DevOps Building Blocks Part 2: Power Up Your Automated Testing
Automation is critical to DevOps success. Test automation accelerates and simplifies the software development process, empowering DevOps teams to deliver high-quality, secure and reliable products to market faster without sacrificing crucial debugging and troubleshooting processes. Automated testing minimizes the chance of human error, removes redundancy and increases collaboration between DevOps and QA teams. On the […]

Measuring the Progress of the OpenTelemetry Project
OpenTelemetry has become a ‘boring’ standard for open source data and application performance measurement and observability.

How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges
Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In 2023, however, organizations are finding that the road to adoption is bumpier than expected. Here are seven of the biggest challenges DevOps teams […]

FAQs for Software Testing: All the Background You Need
Here are some top best practices to keep in mind as you build out a software testing practice at your organization.

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Abercrombie & Fitch, Humana and more!