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Fujitsu and Grid Dynamics have teamed up to create the Cloud Commerce
Platform to empower retailers with best-of-breed hardware, software and
services for faster digital innovation.
Retailers are under immense pressure to innovate faster. Working with them
over the years, we have come to intimately understand their challenges. With
the explosion of digital touch points and the expectation of a unified
experience throughout a shopper's journey across the channels, retailers must
innovate at an unprecedented pace while performing flawlessly even as traffic
peaks.
To maintain their edge, retailers must experiment with new ideas by deploying
new apps and features 24/7. Industry leaders, like Amazon, Staples, Walmart
and Zappos are already developing features faster than web startups do.
However, most retailers are still hampered by the complexity of Information
Techno... (more)
2016 Predictions: Mobile, Internet of APIs Economy, AI, IoT and Hybrid Cloud
With another year coming to a close, it's time to dust off the crystal ball
for our annual predictions. However, before we forecast any new insights, I
want to look back at our 2015 predictions, which could be best summarized as
a maturing of technology innovations introduced in prior years. Now that the
fundamentals are in place, there's potential for significant shifts in both
software and vendor shakeups in 2016. The emerging battleground of innovation
continues to heat up between companies that make t... (more)
When it comes to protecting their brand, there is little that any successful
company would not do. But what if the brand is being damaged just by people
being unable to find the store?
If you think of the internet as a virtual network, then DNS lookup and
resolution is like the 411 service. Websites are not located at text
addresses, but rather IP addresses – that series of numbers and decimals
that may not make any sense to you, but actually identifies the actual server
that you’re trying to contact. So when you type www.catchpoint.com into
your web browser or click on a link t... (more)
If a slow or unresponsive application on your mobile device or PC has ever
left you feeling angry, frustrated and unproductive, you're not alone.
Business success in today's digital age relies on application performance.
Yet according to the Riverbed Global Application Performance Survey 2015,
nine out of 10 organizations suffer from poor performance on a regular basis.
Executives say the poor performance of enterprise applications has negatively
impacted their work on a regular basis. Consequently, this performance gap
between the needs of the business and IT's ability to delive... (more)
Which Douglas Adam Character Represents Your DevOps Skills?
By TJ Randall
Are you someone who knows that the number one rule in DevOps is “Don’t
Panic”? Especially when it comes to making Continuous Delivery changes
inside your organization? Are you someone that theorizes that if anyone
implements real automation changes, the solution will instantly become
antiquated and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable?
Take this test to help you understand how Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhikers
Guide to the Galaxy” can be a fun way to understand your DevOps style.
Understan... (more)
Ten years ago, when I drove on Winchester Avenue in Los Gatos, I saw this new
company called Netflix that was renting DVDs of movies. You didn't have to go
to a store, but could sign up for home delivery service of DVDs. Now Netflix
is building a much bigger headquarters near its old site. It is a huge
success story – a disruption to the home entertainment business. When it
decided to switch to “streaming only” a few years back, there were lot of
doubters. But that’s all in the past. It is a global company now with huge
success as a business.
Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO, j... (more)
@DevOpsSummit Stories By Elizabeth White  Between the compelling mockups and specs produced by analysts, and resulting applications built by developers, there exists a gulf where projects fail, costs spiral, and applications disappoint. Methodologies like Agile attempt to address this with intensified communication, with partial success but many limitations.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Charles Kendrick, CTO and Chief Architect at Isomorphic Software, presented a revolutionary model enabled by new technologies. Jan. 18, 2016 06:00 AM EST Reads: 646 | By Pat Romanski  Automating AWS environments is important for all businesses as it simplifies creation and setup of cloud resources, facilitates otherwise complex processes, and streamlines management. The benefits of automation are clear: accelerate execution, reduce human error and unwanted consequences, and increase the enterprise’s ability to rapidly adapt, all while reducing the overall cost of IT operations.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Patrick McClory, Director of Automation and DevOps at Datapipe, delved deep into the technical specifics of automation for AWS including a discussion of best prac... Jan. 18, 2016 04:00 AM EST Reads: 560 | By Elizabeth White  Containers are revolutionizing the way we deploy and maintain our infrastructures, but monitoring and troubleshooting in a containerized environment can still be painful and impractical. Understanding even basic resource usage is difficult – let alone tracking network connections or malicious activity.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Gianluca Borello, Sr. Software Engineer at Sysdig, covered the current state of the art for container monitoring and visibility, including pros / cons and live demonstrations of each method. Special emphasis will be put on sysdig, an open source troubleshooting... Jan. 18, 2016 12:00 AM EST Reads: 427 | By Liz McMillan  For it to be SOA – let alone SOA done right – we need to pin down just what "SOA done wrong" might be. First-generation SOA with Web Services and ESBs, perhaps?
But then there's second-generation, REST-based SOA. More lightweight and cloud-friendly, but many REST-based SOA practices predate the microservices wave.
Today, microservices and containers go hand in hand – only the details of "container-oriented architecture" are largely on the drawing board – and are not likely to look much like SOA in any case.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Jason Bloomberg, President of Intellyx, provided... Jan. 17, 2016 08:45 PM EST Reads: 873 | By Liz McMillan  Overgrown applications have given way to modular applications, driven by the need to break larger problems into smaller problems. Similarly large monolithic development processes have been forced to be broken into smaller agile development cycles. Looking at trends in software development, microservices architectures meet the same demands. Additional benefits of microservices architectures are compartmentalization and a limited impact of service failure versus a complete software malfunction. The problem is there are a lot of moving parts in these designs; this makes assuring performance compl... Jan. 17, 2016 08:30 PM EST Reads: 766 | By Aruna Ravichandran  At year-end, we often consider where we’ve fallen short over the last twelve months – and how we can do better over the next twelve. For IT leaders, DevOps is likely to be a primary concern for 2016. As application awesomeness becomes more important to the business, IT must get great code into production faster. DevOps success is thus imperative – especially if you’re competing against digital-first market disrupters.
DevOps, though, isn’t just about engineering better processes. It’s also about cultural transformation. This reality makes some IT leaders uneasy, because excellence at operatio... Jan. 17, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 819 | By Liz McMillan  With containerization using Docker, the orchestration of containers using Kubernetes, the self-service model for provisioning your projects and applications and the workflows we built in OpenShift is the best in class Platform as a Service that enables introducing DevOps into your organization with ease.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Veer Muchandi, PaaS evangelist with RedHat, provided a deep dive overview of OpenShift v3 and demonstrated how it helps with DevOps. Jan. 17, 2016 02:45 PM EST Reads: 827 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Robert Doyle, Chief Technology Architect at eCube Systems, will examine the issues and need for an agile infrastructure and show the advantages of capturing developer knowledge in an exportable file for migration into production. He will introduce the use of NXTmonitor, a next generation DevOps tool that captures application environments, dependencies and start/stop procedures in a portable configuration file with an easy-to-use GUI.
In addition to capturing configuration information between Development, Test and Production, the case study ... Jan. 17, 2016 02:45 PM EST Reads: 233 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Interface Masters Technologies, a leading vendor in the network monitoring and high speed networking markets, will exhibit at the 18th International CloudExpo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Jan. 17, 2016 02:15 PM EST Reads: 342 | By Pat Romanski  SmartBear Software has announced a partnership with TechArcis Solutions. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with offices and technology centers in India and Australia, TechArcis is now delivering SmartBear’s testing and quality assurance solutions including the company’s API Readiness platform, Ready! API as well automated testing tool, TestComplete.
“SmartBear products complement our strategy to help our clients build great software for the connected world,” said Sunil Sehgal, Managing Partner at TechArcis Solutions. “Our objective is to address our clients QA and testing needs, deliver testi... Jan. 17, 2016 02:00 PM EST Reads: 343 | By Liz McMillan  The Microservices architectural pattern promises increased DevOps agility and can help enable continuous delivery of software. This session is for developers who are transforming existing applications to cloud-native applications, or creating new microservices style applications.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Jim Bugwadia, CEO of Nirmata, introduced best practices, patterns, challenges, and solutions for the development and operations of microservices style applications. He discussed how application container solutions can be used to efficiently deploy and operate these applications in a... Jan. 17, 2016 02:00 PM EST Reads: 574 | By Carmen Gonzalez  NHK, Japan Broadcasting, will feature the upcoming @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley in a special 'Internet of Things' and smart technology documentary that will be filmed on the expo floor between November 3 to 5, 2015, in Santa Clara. NHK is the sole public TV network in Japan equivalent to the BBC in the UK and the largest in Asia with many award-winning science and technology programs. Japanese TV is producing a documentary about IoT and Smart technology and will be covering @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley. The program, to be aired during the peak viewership season of the year, will have a major impac... Jan. 17, 2016 01:30 PM EST Reads: 434 | By Elizabeth White  The modern software development landscape consists of best practices and tools that allow teams to deliver software in a near-continuous manner. By adopting a culture of automation, measurement and sharing, the time to ship code has been greatly reduced, allowing for shorter release cycles and quicker feedback from customers and users. Still, with all of these tools and methods, how can teams stay on top of what is taking place across their infrastructure and codebase? Hopping between services and command line interfaces creates context-switching that slows productivity, efficiency, and may le... Jan. 17, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 314 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that AppNeta, the leader in performance insight for business-critical web applications, will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
AppNeta is the only application performance monitoring (APM) company to provide solutions for all applications – applications you develop internally, business-critical SaaS applications you use and the networks that deliver them. Jan. 17, 2016 12:00 PM EST Reads: 436 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that eCube Systems, the leading provider of modern development tools and best practices for Continuous Integration on OpenVMS, will exhibit at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
eCube Systems offers a family of middleware products and development tools that maximize return on technology investment by leveraging existing technical equity to meet evolving business needs. Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies turn to eCube Systems to reduce risk, extend ROI and... Jan. 17, 2016 11:30 AM EST Reads: 369 | By Carmen Gonzalez  @DevOpsSummit taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City, and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers is now open. Jan. 17, 2016 11:00 AM EST Reads: 809 | By Elizabeth White  Developing software for the Internet of Things (IoT) comes with its own set of challenges. Security, privacy, and unified standards are a few key issues. In addition, each IoT product is comprised of (at least) three separate application components: the software embedded in the device, the backend service, and the mobile application for the end user’s controls. Each component is developed by a different team, using different technologies and practices, and deployed to a different stack/target – this makes the integration of these separate pipelines and the coordination of software updates for ... Jan. 17, 2016 08:00 AM EST Reads: 584 | By Elizabeth White  Actifio has announced its partnership with Camouflage Software Inc., a leading provider of solutions for data masking in Test Data Management. The partnership brings a best-in-class solution to address the challenges of data access, control, security, and storage costs in the test and development space.
"Software is eating the world," as Marc Andreessen famously said in 2011. Since then, more and more industries have been transformed by software, to the point where the largest distributor of films has no theaters (Netflix,) the largest provider of delivery services has no cars (Uber,) the lar... Jan. 17, 2016 07:30 AM EST Reads: 312 | By Elizabeth White  Everyone talks about continuous integration and continuous delivery but those are just two ends of the pipeline. In the middle of DevOps is continuous testing (CT), and many organizations are struggling to implement continuous testing effectively. After all, without continuous testing there is no delivery. And Lab-As-A-Service (LaaS) enhances the CT with dynamic on-demand self-serve test topologies. CT together with LAAS make a powerful combination that perfectly serves complex software development and delivery pipelines. Software Defined Networks (SDNs) turns the network into a flexible confi... Jan. 17, 2016 07:00 AM EST Reads: 660 | By Liz McMillan  DevOps has often been described in terms of CAMS: Culture, Automation, Measuring, Sharing. While we’ve seen a lot of focus on the “A” and even on the “M”, there are very few examples of why the “C" is equally important in the DevOps equation.
In her session at @DevOps Summit, Lori MacVittie, of F5 Networks, explored HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 along with Microservices to illustrate why a collaborative culture between Dev, Ops, and the Network is critical to ensuring success. Jan. 17, 2016 07:00 AM EST Reads: 384 | By Pat Romanski  How do you securely enable access to your applications in AWS without exposing any attack surfaces? The answer is usually very complicated because application environments morph over time in response to growing requirements from your employee base, your partners and your customers.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Haseeb Budhani, co-founder and CEO of Soha, shared five common approaches that DevOps teams follow to secure access to applications deployed in AWS, Azure, etc., and the friction and risks they impose on the business. Jan. 17, 2016 07:00 AM EST Reads: 702 | By Elizabeth White  Agile, which started in the development organization, has gradually expanded into other areas downstream - namely IT and Operations. Teams – then teams of teams – have streamlined processes, improved feedback loops and driven a much faster pace into IT departments which have had profound effects on the entire organization.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Anders Wallgren, Chief Technology Officer of Electric Cloud, discussed how DevOps and Continuous Delivery have emerged to help connect development with IT operations (mainly through the introduction of Automation) to support and amplify agil... Jan. 17, 2016 07:00 AM EST Reads: 476 | By Elizabeth White  Rapid innovation, changing business landscapes, and new IT demands force businesses to make changes quickly. The DevOps approach is a way to increase business agility through collaboration, communication, and integration across different teams in the IT organization.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit, Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist for the Western US at Red Hat, discussed:
The acceleration of application delivery for the business with DevOps Jan. 17, 2016 06:30 AM EST Reads: 442 | By Liz McMillan  Whether you like it or not, DevOps is on track for a remarkable alliance with security. The SEC didn’t approve the merger. And your boss hasn’t heard anything about it. Yet, this unruly triumvirate will soon dominate and deliver DevSecOps faster, cheaper, better, and on an unprecedented scale.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Frank Bunger, VP of Customer Success at ScriptRock, discussed how this cathartic moment will propel the DevOps movement from such stuff as dreams are made on to a practical, powerful, and insanely valuable asset to enterprises. You may call it DevSecOps, or SecDevOps, o... Jan. 17, 2016 06:00 AM EST Reads: 324 | By Pat Romanski  Containers have changed the mind of IT in DevOps. They enable developers to work with dev, test, stage and production environments identically. Containers provide the right abstraction for microservices and many cloud platforms have integrated them into deployment pipelines. DevOps and containers together help companies achieve their business goals faster and more effectively.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Ruslan Synytsky, CEO and Co-founder of Jelastic, reviewed the current landscape of DevOps with containers and the benefits. In addition, he discussed known issues and solutions for ente... Jan. 16, 2016 12:00 PM EST Reads: 799 |
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Web performance issues and advances have been gaining a stronger presence in the headlines as people are becoming more aware of its impact on virtually every business, and 2015 was no exception. We saw a myriad of major outages this year hit some of the biggest corporations, as well as some technology integrations and other news that we IT Ops aficionados find very exciting.
This past year has offered several opportunities for growth and evolution in the performance realm — even the worst failu...
Most of the Java developers I know don’t like JavaScript. Initially. They would give you different reasons why, but the real one is simple: too much to learn to make it work. For many Java developers creating the front end of a Web application in JavaScript is a chore to write and a burden to maintain. Nevertheless JavaScript rules in Web development and the new version of JavaScript (ES6) will make it even more popular.
As 2016 has arrived, we reflect upon one of the most debated issues around DevOps in 2015 – Information Security (InfoSec) and compliance. Needless to say, both are critical to an enterprise (especially given past examples of data breaches and looming cybersecurity threats). As a result, the combination of InfoSec and DevOps practices can be viewed as counter-intuitive, since the ability to “go faster” can be seen as a potential risk to security mechanisms in place, and thus harder to ensure com...
As smart cars, pre-loaded with millions of lines of code, are becoming the norm in the automotive industry, the topic of safety has come to the forefront of the conversation in a big way. Most consumers remember several large-scale recalls in the past few years, and it’s left some a bit wary of software glitches that could affect driver safety.
We started our Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) video podcast in late 2014 as a way for the DevOps community to connect with each others – sharing experiences, lessons learned and tips – to accelerate our mutual success.Each #c9d9 episode focuses on a different topic relating to your software delivery process, and features different speakers from around the development and IT community. Every two weeks, we get together for a casual video chat (over Hangout) to share best practices – and war storie...
The web community is constantly churning out new technologies that make it easier to develop the applications that savvy users are demanding. It may be obvious, but new technologies often require new ways of thinking about testing – sometimes new tools, other times entirely new testing methods. You just can’t rely on the same old same old when things change as much as the web does.
Today on #c9d9 we talked about best practices for orchestrating enterprise software testing. Delivering software faster, but with lower quality, doesn’t help you win in the market.
What are some of the challenges and proven tips and patterns used to test critical software – across all the different supported platforms – quickly and efficiently?
SDN / NFV may not be new with next gen telcos and data centers but by 2016 it is certainly going to be the new beast in DevOps space. It's a multi-million dollar virgin market, so it's not only those traditional OEMs are in the fray even the DB companies will be entering this new market. Telcos and Data center wants a vendor agnostic network devices and are expected to replace all physical devices including those routers and switches with software devices. This not only drastically brings down t...
Docker Swarm is a cluster manager for Docker. When accessed via the Docker API by Docker API Clients or Docker command line tools, a Docker Swarm cluster looks just like a single Docker Host. Docker Swarm distributes containers to multiple nodes using various deployment strategies in the cluster scheduler.
Having in mind that a Swarm cluster looks like a single Docker Host from the API point of view, it should be very easy to monitor Docker Swarm with existing Docker monitoring tools! Conn...
Test automation is arguably the most important innovation to the process of QA testing in software development. The ability to automate regression testing and other repetitive test cases can significantly reduce the overall production time for even the most complex solutions. As software continues to be developed for new platforms – including mobile devices and the diverse array of endpoints that will be created during the rise of the Internet of Things - automation integration will have a huge ...
Mobile testing is getting harder: more devices, multiple operating systems, higher quality expectations and shorter development cycles.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Tom Chavez, Senior Evangelist at SOASTA, discussed the seven steps to improving your mobile testing process.
Tom Chavez, with 20+ years of experience as a product manager in software development tools, works in product management at SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics. He has worked across the Silicon Valley at industr...
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