Infrastructure automation: The full data journey from ingestion to insights

Remember when cloud was acclaimed as the simple solution to disentangling legacy IT infrastructure? Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), at last count, now has more than 225 products from which to choose, from the classic compute, database and storage; to containers and application integration; to IoT, machine learning and blockchain. Want any help? You can thumb through the Well-Architected Framework, but it might take a while. In spite of various...

25 October 2022 | Approaches

Meeting software delivery demands through value stream management

Organisations everywhere have faced countless challenges over the last two years. With the global health crisis forcing businesses to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, the tech industry came under increasing pressure to keep up with demand. 

Today, as we emerge from the worst of the pandemic, companies face increasing social, political, and economic challenges. An innovation-only mindset is now the only viable option for many businesses’ survival and...

28 September 2022 | Approaches

Xcode Cloud is now available to all developers

Apple has announced that Xcode Cloud is now available to all developers.

Xcode Cloud was first announced during WWDC 2021. Over the past year, it’s gradually been rolling out in beta to lucky developers.

A year (and a WWDC) later, Xcode Cloud is leaving beta.

Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service that’s built into Xcode. The solution accelerates the development and delivery of apps by bringing together cloud-based tools that help...

8 June 2022 | Continuous Delivery

Perforce expands its DevOps portfolio with Puppet acquisition

Perforce is expanding its portfolio of DevOps tools with the acquisition of Puppet, an infrastructure-as-code pioneer.

“This acquisition expands our product offering by adding new capabilities for enterprise DevOps teams to manage and secure their critical infrastructure,” said Mark Ties, CEO of Perforce.

“With Puppet, we will be providing our customers with access to a product portfolio that enables them to drive innovation on a global scale.

“We look...

11 April 2022 | Development Tools

2022 Java Developer Productivity Report: Teams aren’t realising the promise of microservices

The latest edition of Perforce’s annual Java Developer Productivity Report highlights that teams aren’t realising the full promise of microservices and CI/CD.

Developers are often finding that microservices and CI/CD are decreasing their productivity rather than improving. 

Among CI/CD users, 42 percent of respondents report build completion times of over five minutes. The most common (33%) response was build times exceeding 10 minutes.

The highest...

23 February 2022 | Approaches

A new IT fabric for speed, diversity, and security

Perspectives on the days, months and years ahead in the new technology fabric driving people, organisations and society at large. Written by Patrick Jean, CTO, OutSystems and Miguel Lopes, VP Platform Strategy at OutSystems.

Technology changes all the time. That’s part of the core dynamism that drives so many of us to embrace its ability to innovate around, through and between many of the challenges of modern life.

As we look forward to the major change factors that...

7 February 2022 | Approaches

Software supply chain attacks increased over 300% in 2021

We all knew there was an increase in software supply chain attacks in 2021, but a new study has quantified just how bad things got.

Argon Security – recently acquired by Aqua Security – published the latest edition of its annual Software Supply Chain Security Review this week.

The headline stat from Argon’s report that software supply chain attacks grew by more than 300 percent in 2021 compared to 2020.

Eran Orzel, Senior Director of Argon Customer...

20 January 2022 | Development Tools

In-built infrastructure security advantage with policy as code

It is impossible to discuss where DevOps trends are heading without mentioning policy as code, the writing of code in a high-level language to manage and automate policies in the developmental process.

In an ever-evolving regulatory landscape, organisations simply don't have the right technology or resources to scale their security and compliance efforts. Policy as code provides the much-needed agility to address regulations or standards as they emerge. This means that new...

2 December 2021 | DevOps

Understanding Kubernetes clusters with observability

Developer technologies, such as Kubernetes, are rapidly evolving. Driven by a quest to deliver faster performance, optimised efficiency, and enhanced business results, organisations are under pressure to keep up with the changing needs of engineering teams, as well as their customers.

While developer tools are geared towards progression, the speed of change means that they sometimes miss the forest for the trees. In today’s world, the most prevalent tool within the industry is...

11 November 2021 | Cloud

Setting containers free: Keep IT in line with business needs

The adoption of containers in enterprises is in full swing, with container platforms like Kubernetes fast becoming the de facto standard for deploying applications to production. Indeed, a recent study of data protection strategies for containers found that 67% of respondents are already running containers for production applications, while the remaining 33% plan to do so within the next 12 months.

Enabling application developers to package small, focused code into independent...

27 October 2021 | Cloud