A Developer’s Task: Minimizing Challenges Created by Fragmentation
Over the past decade, there has been a wellspring of apps, services and platforms to help developers build custom solutions for businesses. Some are great, some not so much. Regardless of quality, the quantity of options and each one’s varying level of sophistication has made it difficult for developers to separate the wheat from the […]
Predictions 2020: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2020
Today, modernizing systems is more than simply moving technology to a new location. It requires an IT stack of a new generation of technologies and tools to work. As we head into the new year, let’s take a look at the top eight trends that will shape how we will develop and deliver software. Kubernetes […]
Predictions 2020: 7 DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 going to bring in DevOps, infrastructure and application automation? Here are seven DevOps predictions for emerging trends in the new year. Customer Experience […]
Serverless and GraphQL: Build and Launch at the Speed of Thought
Websites and apps are now, often, one and the same. Traditional development methods for an online or downloadable app can take months, given the backend development aspects that need to be managed—infrastructure provisioning and management, security, scalability, consistency and more, particularly for companies that have users around the globe and potentially very high usage demands. […]
New Relic Bolsters Serverless Monitoring Strategy
New Relic has strengthened its ability to monitor serverless computing frameworks by acquiring IOpipe, a provider of a monitoring tool for the serverless computing framework service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Andrew Tunall, general manager for serverless and emerging cloud services at New Relic, said IOpipe’s monitoring technology will be used to augment the […]
FaaS is Key to DevOps Efficiency
When AWS announced Lambda–a serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) technology offering–the idea of encapsulating a specific task into a function that resides in the cloud was introduced into mainstream access. Now, with the rising popularity of microservices, DevOps is waking up the benefits of FaaS where it is used to build and maintain enterprise applications in agile […]
Why Modernizing Security is Like Visiting a Fast-Food Restaurant
Fast casual restaurants are taking over the food industry. Today’s consumers want quality and speed, and the brick-and-mortar model offering immediate service paired with quality ingredients perfectly fits the bill. It’s the new, modernized dining experience. You can also argue that the same modernization taking the food industry by storm is happening in the security […]
Twilio Adds DevOps Tool to Invoke Communications Services
At its annual SIGNAL conference, Twilio today launched an initiative intended to make it easier to embed a variety of communication services within an application in the context of a DevOps process. Quinton Wall, senior director of developer marketing at Twilio, said the open source Twilio Command Line Interface (CLI) tool, now available in beta, […]
Stackery Smooths AWS Serverless Integration for DevOps
Stackery today announced a plug-in capability that will allow developers to build and debug code destined to run on the Lambda serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from within an integrated development environment (IDE) running on a local machine. Company CTO Chase Douglas said the latest Stackery tool can be dropped into […]
Unravel: A System Architect’s Guide to Data Operations
Big data is an older fashionable term that, when combined with agile methodology, AI and ML and analytics, has become a powerful trend once again in data operations (DataOps). If you’re a systems architect, it pays to understand the philosophies, benefits and tools to power DataOps and improve your data-driven applications. This article serves as […]
Keeping NoOps From Going Rogue
“We’re NoOps—everything is in the cloud and we have no infrastructure to manage.” Before running that victory lap and shifting everyone to the dev side, consider several NoOps risks carefully. I’m really thinking about teams using all-SaaS stacks, especially in martech, edtech and other areas. However, the rise in microservices and serverless means more teams […]
DevOps Chat: Aqua Security Talks Funding, Security in a Cloud-Native World
Aqua Security, one of the leaders in container and cloud-native security, recently announced it has raised $62 million in a “C” round of investment, led by Insight Partners. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Rani Osnat and Andy Feit of Aqua Security about how this validates the cloud-native security field that Aqua has helped […]
Pivotal Software Previews Automation Framework
At the North America Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 conference, Pivotal Software announced it is beta testing an automation framework that promises to keep its distribution of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment continuously updated. In addition, Pivotal revealed it will be adding support for open source technologies including Envoy load balancing and Istio service mesh software developed […]
Comparing Nuclio and AWS Lambda
With serverless, you delegate the responsibility of running your infrastructure to a platform provider as much as possible. This frees your engineers to focus on building what your customers want from you—the features that differentiate your business from your competitors’. For this philosophy to work, however, the platform needs to not only give you the […]
DevOps Chat: Serverless and Abstraction with Nimbella’s Anshu Agarwal
Anshu Agarwal has a tremendous record of working in startups that had successful exits. Now for the first time, along with her co-founders, she is actually founding the startup herself. Nimbella is a serverless platform that is cloud-agnostic and makes developing and deploying applications easy. Whether in a public cloud, private data center or both, […]
Python Benefiting From Increase in DevOps Use
DevOps and Python have developed a mutually beneficial relationship. In a recent survey released by the Python Software Foundation and software development company JetBrains, researchers found that more and more developers are using the program language for an array of versatile projects, including DevOps and machine learning. In fact, Python developers told the researchers that […]
The Limiting Factors of Microservices Also Apply to FaaS
In enterprise development and deployment, the pattern is easy to detect. A big monolithic application is targeted for re-architecting as a microservices architecture. People excited about microservices get together and break up the design to make it far less monolithic and far more loosely coupled. If your organization is lucky, it is at this stage […]
Protego Spearheads Launch of the OWASP Official Serverless Top 10 Project
Report to Educate Application Security Practitioners on Serverless Application Risks and Mitigation Techniques Baltimore, Maryland – The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released today the official OWASP Serverless Top 10 project initiated by Protego Labs. The project launch begins with a provisional report designed to be a first look into the leading risks in serverless […]
Fission Open Source Serverless Framework Offers Live-Reload, Canary Deployments, Record-Replay, More Features to Improve the Quality and Simplify Release Automation of Serverless Applications on Kubernetes
Live-reload, Record-replay, Automated Canary Deployments, Prometheus integration, and more give both Dev and Ops confidence in the production-readiness of serverless applications, as well as easy troubleshooting, and cost/performance optimization Sunnyvale, CA – October 16, 2018 – Platform9 (https://platform9.com/), the leader in SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, today announced a new release of Fission.io – the popular open source, Kubernetes-native Serverless […]
DevOps 2.0: A New Evolution of Serverless Cloud Architecture
Science teaches us to formulate hypotheses and test them experimentally to advance systematically. While this sounds logical, DevOps—and software architecture in particular—does not follow this approach because current tools make this too cumbersome. So, architecture choices are frequently made by HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion). However, the rate of development, especially in the serverless or […]
Why Serverless Needs DevOps
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was updated July 2, 2018 Serverless, like Kubernetes and microservices, is a new technology. Yet, despite the amount of blog, forum and news-related posts published about serverless, it represents only a fraction of all IT deployments. Aside from the new factor, serverless shares few similarities with Kubernetes and microservices. Organizations turn […]
Serverless Computing: Moving from DevOps to NoOps
Developers rejoice as serverless computing ushers in a new era of ‘NoOps’ to replace the ill-fitted DevOps model. While some organizations do better than others when it comes to implementing DevOps, almost everyone agrees it’s a concept easier penned to paper than pinned to reality. The idea of integrating development and operations is smart, but […]
Serverless: What You Need to Know
There are clear benefits to serverless architecture, with many enterprises already making or planning to make this change. Like any paradigm shift however, the move to serverless carries both benefits and risks. Here’s what you need to know. AWS pioneered the serverless space with its release of AWS Lambda back in 2014, with the other […]