Measuring developer productivity isn’t as simple as it sounds
When developers lie awake at night, they’re likely not thinking that they didn’t turn around enough tickets that day, or write a certain number of lines of code. Their fear is that they’ve broken something, and that they’ll be in trouble. In the meantime, C-level managers are primarily concerned with innovation, creating new products and … continue reading
How CodeLogic helps make developers more productive
Eric Minick, VP, Head of Product at CodeLogic, said: “CodeLogic helps developers surface risky dependencies in their code. We know the feeling when the latest feature changes something that might break something else: What could break? What do we review? Whether a feature requires a change to an attribute in a database column, or you’re … continue reading
Testing in DevOps
Testing in DevOps is as much about the people that are behind the tools as it is about the tools themselves. When they work in synchrony, organizations can see major benefits in the quality of their applications and software development life cycle processes. A recent report called The Role of Testing in a DevOps Environment … continue reading
A guide to testing tools for use in DevOps environments
The following is a listing of testing tool providers for DevOps environments, along with a brief description of their offerings. Applitools is built to test all the elements that appear on a screen with a single line of code. Using Applitools’ Visual AI, you can automatically verify that your web or mobile app both functions … continue reading
How these companies help organizations test applications in DevOps environments
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help organizations test applications in their DevOps environments. Their responses are below. Gil Sever, co-founder and CEO of Applitools Modern software development teams are rapidly delivering innovation to market through more frequent and shorter release cycles, but they struggle to fully test … continue reading
Securing cloud-native applications
Cloud-native development has become the de facto way that companies make new apps due to its speed and cost savings. While it has opened up the world of Kubernetes, containers, and serverless to most organizations, they still need to grapple with certain complexities and security concerns that this style of development brings. Concerning the use … continue reading
How these vendors help companies with cloud-native security
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies secure cloud-native applications. Their responses are below. Rani Osnat, VP strategy and product marketing at Aqua Security From day one, we started out focusing on containers, because that was the big technology that was pushed in the earlier days with … continue reading
A guide to cloud-native security tools
The following is a listing of cloud-native security tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. Aqua Security is the largest pure-play cloud native security company, providing customers the freedom to innovate and accelerate their digital transformations. The Aqua Platform provides prevention, detection, and response automation across the entire application life cycle to … continue reading
How these vendors help companies with API management
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies manage their APIs. Their responses are below. Eric Madariaga, chief marketing officer at CData APIs are mere table stakes in the world of integration. They offer the promise of connectivity but require IT and developer resources to integrate, discouraging widespread … continue reading
API management is a data integration problem
With data being increasingly stuck behind different services, API management is becoming more and more of a data integration challenge. Currently most companies view API management as an access problem, but Avadhoot Kulkarni, product manager at Progress, recommends they shift their mindset and view it as a data problem instead. According to Kulkarni, APIs are … continue reading
A guide to API management tools
The following is a listing of tool providers in the API management space, along with a brief description of their offerings. CData: Connect, Integrate, and Automate your enterprise data. At CData, we simplify connectivity between all of the applications and data sources that power business operations, making it easier to unlock the strategic value of … continue reading
How these tool providers address the issue of release automation
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies deal with release automation challenges. Their responses are below. Paul Stovell, founder and CTO, Octopus Deploy DevOps is about bringing teams together to collaborate. But when it comes to automation, the tooling is fragmented. Most CI/CD tools do a basic … continue reading
Release automation creates repeatable paths to software delivery
New software features and updates are the lifeblood of many organizations today, so the faster they can bring them out, the more competitive and customer-responsive they will be. One of the techniques progressive organizations are using to achieve that goal is release automation. Understanding what goes into release automation is key to realizing its benefits. … continue reading
How CI/CD providers help organizations deploy speedily, securely, and stably
Senthil Nathan, product manager, HCL Software DevOps HCL Launch is the continuous delivery tool within the powerful HCL DevOps tool chain, enabling modernization for complex enterprises. Continuous delivery is one of the most efficient ways to enable development teams to focus on delivering quality software. With HCL Launch’s “deploy from anywhere to anywhere” capabilities, enterprise … continue reading
A guide to CI/CD tools
The following is a listing of tool providers in the CI/CD space, along with a brief description of their offerings. Bitrise: is a cloud-based, secure, and scalable CI/CD solution, specifically designed for mobile app development. The company’s mission is to help their customers all around the world create better apps, faster. With customers ranging from … continue reading
The State of CI/CD
The new methods prescribed for developing modern, cloud-native applications are as complex as the systems replacing earlier development tooling and methodologies. Where you once had a code editor or an IDE and a compiler, you now have massive code repositories, containers, container management systems, infrastructure as code and the cloud. Because of this, it’s widely … continue reading
Continuous delivery steps into the spotlight
Continuous delivery is stepping out from the shadow of its partner, continuous integration, and is having a moment as organizations look to increase the speed of application delivery while still delivering stable software. There is a problem, however. A recent “State of Continuous Delivery” report by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) found that adoption is … continue reading
DevOps for mobile applications
Organizations building and delivering mobile applications using DevOps techniques and tooling will find there are important differences in how their processes are applied. Viktor Benei is CTO and co-founder of Bitrise, a company that offers solutions for mobile DevOps, and when asked if there were differences developing apps for mobile devices as opposed to on-premises … continue reading
A guide to APM solutions
BigPanda is a event correlation and automation platform powered by AIOps to help IT operations, network operations, DevOps and SRE teams detect, prevent and resolve outages. The platform prevents incidents from escalating into outages, enables rapid incident and outage resolution with automated root cause analysis, and automates manual tasks to speed up incident response. Broadcom … continue reading
How does your solution help teams manage monitoring?
Mohan Kompella, vice president of product marketing at BigPanda: There are two main ways we help. For large companies that have multiple observability tools, multiple monitoring tools and multiple APM tools, which is basically a majority of the market out there, BigPanda comes in and unifies all of those fragmented domains and teams using those … continue reading
APM: Cutting through the noise
It seems like the industry is leaving application performance management (APM) behind and moving towards a new observability world. But don’t be fooled. While vendors are rebranding themselves as observability tools, APM is still an important piece of the puzzle. “Observability is becoming a bigger focus today, but APM just by design will continue to … continue reading
A guide to application security tools
Checkmarx is the global leader in providing software security solutions that unify with modern application development initiatives like DevOps to reduce and remediate risk from software vulnerabilities. Checkmarx delivers the industry’s most comprehensive suite of Application Security Testing solutions and is trusted by more than 40 of the Fortune 100 companies and half of the … continue reading
How leading vendors help organizations secure their applications
Robert Haynes, open source and SCA evangelist at Checkmarx As the Application Security Testing (AST) pioneer and leader, Checkmarx has been relentless in our mission to continuously innovate, leading the industry with solutions that measurably improve security for software-driven organizations that develop their own applications. The Checkmarx suite of AST solutions fits perfectly into modern … continue reading
Security shifts left as a team effort
As organizations look towards DevSecOps as a way to infuse security throughout the software development life cycle while at the same time accelerating releases, more sides of the business have their hands on deck regarding security. However, it’s still the security side that’s on the hook when a major breach happens. “People like to say … continue reading
A guide to digital experience monitoring tools
Catchpoint is the enterprise-proven ally that empowers teams with the visibility and insight required to deliver on the digital experience demands of customers and employees. With its combined true synthetic, real user, network, and endpoint monitoring capabilities and the largest, most diverse global monitoring network in the industry, Catchpoint delivers in-depth, accurate, and full-stack performance … continue reading
How does your company help its customers with digital experience monitoring
Nik Koutsoukos, CMO at Catchpoint explained: In a digital economy enabled by cloud, SaaS, and IoT, applications and users are many and can be located anywhere. Catchpoint is the only Digital Experience Observability platform that can scale and support today’s customer and employee location diversity and application distribution. We enable enterprises to proactively detect, identify, … continue reading
Digital experience monitoring the key to supporting a distributed workforce
While making sure applications are up and running is important, it may be even more important to perform monitoring that is from the perspective of your users. After all, who cares if your APM data shows an application to be up and running if the user is experiencing an issue that’s gone undetected? This is … continue reading
A guide to automated testing providers
Appvance is the inventor of AI-driven autonomous testing, which is revolutionizing the $120B software QA industry. The company’s patented platform, Appvance IQ, can generate its own tests, surfacing critical bugs in minutes with limited human involvement in web and mobile applications. AIQ empowers enterprises to improve the quality, performance and security of their most critical … continue reading
