Continuous Testing
Opportunities and Challenges of Observability
Observability platforms that unify metrics, logs and traces across applications and IT infrastructure are transforming how IT is managed. Most DevOps teams today are able to continuously monitor IT environments using tools ...
GitLab Gets an Overhaul
GitLab launched its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, which the company said pulls together new DevOps and data science capabilities into the platform. With GitLab ...
DevSecOps Deluge: Choosing the Right Tools
In the last few years, DevSecOps has become the security process of choice for many forward-thinking enterprises. These organizations have come to understand that fixing bugs in the latter stages of product ...
Increasing Use of SLOs to Enable Observability
Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are ...
15 Ways Software Becomes a Cyberthreat
Software is an integral part of private and commercial life; there is no way around it. You need software to do your taxes, book a flight or browse the internet. Software has ...
Nobl9 Shares SLO-as-Code Methodology
Nobl9 has released version 1.0 of an open specification for defining service level objectives, dubbed OpenSLO, and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology. Kit Merker, Nobl9 COO, said the Service ...
Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
Richi Jennings | | agile, scrum, The fault is not in our stars—but in ourselves, The Long View, waterfallIn this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture ...
Synopsys Sets Course After Agreeing to Acquire WhiteHat Security
Synopsys, Inc. plans to add dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform in the wake of agreeing to acquire WhiteHat Security from NTT Security Corp. for approximately $330 ...
This is Not Just a Test: DevOps and the Need to Automate
Creating software is as much about the process as it is about the product. In recent years, we’ve seen the speed of innovation reach new heights due to more efficient development and ...
Applause Report Surfaces Functional Testing Issues
Mike Vizard | | accessibility testing, Applause, bugs, custom software development, functional testingAn analysis of more than 340,000 bugs collected by Applause, a provider of a testing platform designed to integrate with a range of DevOps platforms, found functional bugs accounted for 68% of ...
GitLab Adds Fourth DORA Metric API to CI/CD Platform
The latest update to GitLab's namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has added support for the application programming interface (API) for measuring change failure rates. This addition supports the fourth metric as ...
SRE Vs. DevOps: The Wrong Question?
The age-old question about the competition between DevOps and SRE sets up a false dichotomy. DevOps is a methodology while SRE is a team within operations. Although the two are often pitted ...
