The Netherlands Commits $10 Million for UNCTAD’s Work on the Digital Economy and Business and Investment Facilitation
The country’s ministry of foreign affairs, trade and development cooperation will provide the funds during the period 2023–2026 Geneva, SWITZERLAND, January 17, 2023 – The Netherlands will provide $10 million to UNCTAD to help developing countries benefit more from e-commerce and the digital economy and facilitate business and investment. UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan and H.E. […]
How Developers Can Benefit From SSE
If you’ve been following the developments in the networking and security space, SASE and SSE are all the rage. The advent of the cloud led to distributed applications, then SaaS, and then the events of 2020 created the distributed workforce. The first pushed legacy networking and security solutions to the limit; the second sent them […]
SingularityCE Container Technology Is Now Available in the EPEL Repository
Reno, NV, January 11, 2023 – Sylabs, the global leader in providing container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, today announced that SingularityCE is now available in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository, a repository of additional packages for Enterprise Linux distribution (such as Alma Linux, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Scientific […]
Predict 2023: Stand and Deliver
It’s that time of year again—the New Year’s ritual: Time to predict the big trends in your world for the new year. By now you have probably seen dozens of headlines, articles, videos and interviews telling you what big trends will shape the coming year. Here at Techstrong Group, our Predict virtual event is built […]
Why GraphQL Will Reign King
After years of development, GraphQL is set to reign as the go-to API for data fetching. But what is GraphQL? Simply put, it’s a query language that allows you to fetch data from any server, and it’s a noteworthy alternative to the likes of other web service development styles like representational state transfer (REST) and […]
How DevOps Helps Banks Optimize Their Services
A world-renowned bank’s CEO was recently quoted as saying that while there are thousands of manual banks now, the future will see only a handful of digital banks. Along with the rest of the world’s critical business sectors, an overwhelming number of banks are also shifting to virtual platforms. This migration is being orchestrated by […]
DevOps Must Embrace Automation in 2023
A survey of 500 engineering and software development professionals in the U.S. suggests more DevOps teams than ever need to resolve to embrace automation at a deeper level in the new year. The survey, sponsored by Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform, found engineers spend, on average, more than 10 hours per week attempting […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
Best of 2022: The Great DevOps Burnout
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. DevOps 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 […]
A Developer’s Guide to Building Healthy Teams
To build a great software product, teamwork must extend across developers, managers and executives. Everyone needs to understand each role’s value–you can’t have an effective team without a good coach and vice versa. It takes a culture built on empathy, trust and shared responsibility with the right amount of ambition and personal connection to make […]
DevOps 2022: The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We will be wrapping up our DevOps coverage for the year by the end of this week. It’s hard to believe that another year has gone by. The gravitational lensing of COVID-19 makes it hard to see the progression of the last nine years here at DevOps.com. Things seem to get a bit hazy looking back. […]
The DevOps Workflow is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
While great progress has been made in bridging the gap between developers and operations engineers, fundamental differences in roles and responsibilities, alignment, and access to information hinder further progress. Everyone is familiar with the DevOps infinity loop: This is an ideal workflow where every stage of the software development life cycle feeds into the next. […]
Navigating the MLOps Revolution: Three Missteps to Avoid
With nearly 60% of businesses set to adopt MLOps by 2024, this function has quickly established itself as an indispensable part of the enterprise technology world. And with computing needs rapidly expanding as digital transformation efforts continue, the growth of the MLOps market is unlikely to stop anytime soon. That said, as with any emerging […]
Decidability: SLOs to Measure Quality Attributes
You may be familiar with the “-ilities”–the quality attributes that define a system’s so-called “non-functional” parts. One that isn’t on the list is decidability, which is the ultimate quality attribute because it focuses on what truly matters to your team and your customers. You can’t do it all. Fast, cheap and good? Here in the […]
From Frontend to Full Stack: How I Leveraged Modern Dev Tools to Make the Leap
A few years ago, I had an idea about how to make publishing recipes on the internet more accessible and profitable. As a front-end engineer-turned-product manager, I could write code as long as it involved JavaScript. But I needed someone who could handle the whole stack, especially the back end—you can’t build a platform with […]
We’re Doing More Less Development
My roots are in software development. I’ve written tax software, SmartGrid firmware and servers, enterprise integration code for many developed and purchased servers, mapping software, cell phone firmware—the list goes on. The point is development is in my blood. When I look at something that impacts software development, I look at it through a practitioner’s […]
Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project
Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]
Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source
There aren’t many tech organizations that don’t leverage open source technology. Companies that refuse to import software will rely on a freely available library tool or codebase. Open source is one of the largest and most powerful mechanisms of software propagation. However, open source is in danger. The Two Sides of Open Source Development In […]
What Customers Need From Sales and Marketing
There are plenty of historical examples of good solutions being buried by inadequate or outright wrong sales and marketing tactics. As an analyst, I often talk to the marketing, marcom or AR/PR department of a company and think they could do their solution more justice. Normally, it is little things; sometimes, not so much. But […]
Avoiding Developer Burnout With Clean Code Best Practices
Employee burnout is common in the tech industry, especially for developers. In fact, 83% of software developers feel burnt out from their work and of those, nearly half of them feel overworked. Often, this is because the processes currently in place at their companies are not effective and too much time is spent doing mundane […]
5 Tips for Securing DevOps: What You Wish You Knew Sooner
Foundations and frameworks, concrete and steel—not exciting. But that’s the foundation and framing of pretty much every modern building. Everything else that is part of a building–flooring, wiring, lighting, room placement and so on—is made possible by the foundation and the framework. If you want DevOps to succeed in your organization, you have to start […]
EP 34: Testing Strategies for Cloud Migration Success
Migrating workloads from on-premises infrastructure into the cloud is a long and tedious process, and if not done properly, it could result in high-risk situations. Having a strategic testing plan is key to mitigate the risk of losing critical functionalities in your databases and applications as you move to the cloud. Hosts Alan Shimel and […]
Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering
The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions. In the UK alone, the median salary for the role has increased 13% year-over-year as businesses look to stay ahead of the competition and attract […]