Software delivery lifecycle security predictions from OpsMx
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 by Richard Harris
Heading into 2024, enterprises face mounting security concerns related to data breaches, evolving privacy regulations, and their increasing reliance on the cloud and software service providers. As such, they are under increasing pressure to secure the software delivery lifecycle and better understand where the threats are coming from and what their vulnerabilities are. ...
Software delivery trends to watch for according to OpsMX
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 by Gopinath Rebala
As businesses around the globe face ongoing economic uncertainty, most are focused on rapidly adapting to changing conditions and customer requirements. This means they must rapidly update the features and functionality of a variety of homegrown and customized software solutions used by employees and customers to power the business.
Trends to watch in software delive...
2022 software delivery report from CircleCI
Thursday, March 24, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
CircleCI has unveiled the 2022 State of Software Delivery Report.
Examining two years of data from more than a quarter-billion workflows and nearly 50,000 organizations around the world on the CircleCI platform, the report represents the largest analysis of developer productivity data and provides new insight into the DevOps practices being leveraged by elite softwar...
LinearB and Clubhouse partner to help software project delivery
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 by Richard Harris
LinearB and Clubhouse announced a partnership to help software development teams continuously improve project delivery by providing a complete picture of product and engineering lifecycles. Technical integration between the products will offer dev teams detailed project visibility and team-based metrics by correlating data across projects, code, Git activity and release...
Continuous delivery webinar with AWS marketplace
Thursday, January 21, 2021 by Richard Harris
Adopting container and microservice-based cloud-native architectures have been proven by many organizations to help meet customers' demands faster and achieve business agility.
Continuous delivery webinar with AWS marketplace
The DevOps Institute and AWS Marketplace are hosting a live webinar titled “A Guide to Cloud-Native Continuous Delivery” on ...
Cloud native continuous delivery guide
Friday, January 8, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Adopting container and microservice-based cloud-native architectures have been proven by many organizations to help meet customers' demands faster and achieve business agility.
Containerized architectures also require an increase in speed, frequency, and consistency of application deployments. For development and operations teams seeking to transition to cloud-na...
Continuous delivery will no longer be an acceptable excuse in 2021
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
2021 will see a shift from the speed of delivery of software and applications to prioritizing the quality of the digital experience. Continuous delivery will no longer be an acceptable excuse for low quality. The approach of just release it, and if there are problems, we'll fix it in the next release will be retired. In our digitally dependent world, users will no l...
Software Delivery Management Changing the Game for CI CD and DevOps
Thursday, November 12, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Whenever a new and incredible software-driven innovation is released, it’s always slightly amazing to think that the teams behind it somehow managed to deliver that big innovation, despite how difficult it can actually be to do so. The bigger the development organization gets, the more teams you have working on different parts of a software application. Teams may ...
CircleCI announced the findings of 2020 State of Software Delivery
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
CircleCI announced the findings of a new report, 2020 State of Software Delivery: Data-Backed Benchmarks for Engineering Teams.
“As the world’s largest standalone CI provider, we have a unique opportunity to investigate what software delivery looks like quantitatively: across tens of thousands of teams, commit by commit. So, we looked to data from 11 mill...
Unlocking the Business Value of Continuous Delivery
Saturday, October 31, 2020 by Richard Harris
Reducing risk is important, but the processes that underpin continuous delivery translate into even more important values to the business:
• Accelerate time-to-value. A small business doesn’t need a PhD to recognize that continuous delivery helps them get things done faster. An enterprise that has mapped out its value stream, has made sig...
Software Delivery Management Is the Key to CI CD and DevOps Success
Friday, October 16, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and DevOps have the power to drive digital transformation, changing the way we work and innovate with faster delivery speeds, greater feature responsiveness and increased team productivity. But how do you measure the success of CI/CD and DevOps?
You need the data on your software delivery processes — q...
Increasing speed of delivery features
Monday, January 13, 2020 by Austin Harris
A recent survey by Split Software has revealed that organizations are delivering features faster, but many are still struggling with increased downtimes of apps and services. The informal survey consisted of more than 120 DevOps and software engineering professionals and was conducted during industry events from July through November 2019.
According to respondents, a...
Decentralized data delivery network arrives that uses edge computing
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Bluzelle has launched a Data Delivery Network (DDN), taking on global market leaders to meet the increasing demand for data delivery by delivering data more than twenty times faster.
As a leading proponent of edge computing, Bluzelle is using its global network of distributed nodes to push data to the edge, where the customer is. The DDN operates in a similar w...
Panaya makes strides in Agile delivery
Thursday, February 15, 2018 by Austin Harris
Panaya has announced that Panaya has expanded its footprint in the Enterprise Agile Delivery market. Since RDx's (Release Dynamix) release last May, the company's cloud-based application lifecycle management solution has been adopted by over 70 customers including global names such as Repsol, Ralph Lauren, Loreal, Mercedes, and BioMarin. In efforts to keep pace wi...
Continuous delivery and integration platform acquired by Cloudbees
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
CloudBees, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Codeship. The deal helps strengthen CloudBees’ market position as a vendor of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), adding a fully automated platform for individual developers and project teams to test, integrate and deploy code.The acquisition gives CloudBees a broader portfolio of CI/CD solutions for...
Lowcode development is improving delivery speed
Thursday, August 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
New survey results from by Appian, from North American IT and executive leadership about their strategies for low-code platform implementation are out. The commissioned survey, conducted by leading independent analyst firm Forrester Consulting, shows decision-makers are leveraging low-code platforms to support three primary digital initiatives: digital process auto...
How mobile video load time affects ad delivery
Monday, June 19, 2017 by Patrick Kennard
Ask any mobile app developer, and they’ll tell you that one of the greatest challenges in monetizing their apps through video ads isn’t finding the right demand or knowing when to run the videos; it’s figuring out how to present video ads without slowing down their apps. I’m sure every developer at some point has done a Google search for something like, “Which ad networ...
Jenkins Blue Ocean helps DevOps adopt continuous delivery
Friday, April 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Jenkins project, comprised of a community of practitioners using Jenkins, has released (1.0) and general availability of Blue Ocean, its dramatic new UX implementation. The anticipated launch of Blue Ocean brings a new user experience to Jenkins based on a personalized, modern design that allows users to graphically create, visualize and diagnose continuous delivery...
Upwork taps PacketZoom to speed up content delivery
Thursday, March 16, 2017 by Austin Harris
Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk) a global freelancing platform recently selected PacketZoom to enhance their existing Web CDN and speed up its dynamic content and API calls. Upwork has more than 12 million registered freelancers internationally with many of them leveraging the mobile app to lookup for projects when on the go."Upwork mobile apps were built to allow our com...
$10B enterprise CDN and application delivery market upended
Sunday, February 19, 2017 by Austin Harris
Instart Logic, a technology company, has announced its “Application Services Platform,” a set of speed, mobility and security technologies designed to optimize digital revenue. It also announced a new business model designed to disrupt the $10 billion content and application delivery markets, including Akamai. Beginning immediately Instart Logic will deliver enterp...
The IT delivery gap is slowing business
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
MuleSoft has announced the findings of its 2017 Connectivity Benchmark Report on digital transformation initiatives and the business impact of APIs.Based on a survey of 951 IT decision makers (ITDMs) globally, the report reveals a growing IT delivery gap that is slowing down the majority of the businesses surveyed and directly putting revenue at risk. With a convergence...
Software delivery pipelines to get help from Dynatrace and Electric Cloud partnership
Thursday, February 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
Electric Cloud, a DevOps release automation, has announced a partnership with Dynatrace enabling organizations to uncover end user, performance and operational cost impacting issues in cloud environments and enterprise software much earlier in the delivery pipeline. The new bi-directional integration is the first of its kind - enabling closed feedback loop between ...
Why continuous delivery is key for developer career success
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Martin van Vliet
When people talk about Continuous Delivery, it’s usually in the context of how it improves the software delivery process and contributes to generating business revenue. Both are true and valid points, but they don’t directly address the opportunities for career growth Continuous Delivery offers for developers. But keep in mind that Continuous Delivery is not a flash in ...
Screwdriver.cd goes open source so you can Continuous Delivery at scale
Thursday, January 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
Yahoo has announced the open sourcing of Screwdriver.cd, a new streamlined build system designed to enable continuous delivery (CD) to production at scale for dynamic infrastructure, improving product quality and engineering agility. Screwdriver.cd is based on a battle-tested internal product. Over the last five years, Yahoo has employed Screwdriver.cd’s key d...
Wireless Networks, SSL, Content Delivery Networks: What You Need to Know
Thursday, August 18, 2016 by Pete Mastin
Everything and everyone is going mobile. We all hear it every day. We see people wondering around parks looking for Pokémon. Increasingly, we see people using mobile devices to replace desktops and laptops professionally. How are architectures for application performance evolving to keep up with the shift to mobile? Let’s look at two trends that are conspiring...
Mesosphere's DC-OS Now Integrates CloudBees Jenkins Continuous Delivery
Thursday, June 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
CloudBees is now working with Mesosphere to support continuous delivery by running Jenkins on Mesosphere's Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS), offering an open platform for building, running and scaling modern enterprise applications. The new offering will provide the support for companies looking to scale workloads using containerized infrastructure.Running on Mesosph...
How Webscale's Application Delivery Platform Supports Rapid Deployment
Sunday, May 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Andrew Humber, Head of Marketing at Webscale, to learn about recent updates to the company’s application delivery platform. ADM: Describe Webscale’s technology.Humber: Webscale gives e-commerce and enterprise customers complete control over their web applications, delivering infinite scalability, high performance, security and monitoring in...
Automation's Role with DevOps and Continuous Delivery
Friday, April 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic, to discusses how application release automation can help simplify the DevOps journey to help enterprises of all shapes, sizes and ages scale in order to adopt digital transformation initiatives
ADM: Who is Automic? What does the company do?
DeLaughter: Automic is the largest pure-play auto...
NGINX Plus Application Delivery Platform Receives Updates
Thursday, April 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
NGINX Plus Release 9 (R9) is the latest release of NGINX’s application delivery platform. New functionality includes the ability to dynamically install rich extensions to NGINX Plus, the inclusion of commercially-supported UDP load balancing, and new pricing and support options. Among the most significant new features is the ability to dynamically load rich extensi...
A Deep Dive into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Friday, April 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey to discuss the growth of continuous delivery (CD) as companies continue to adopt a DevOps culture. The CloudBees Jenkins platform implements continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery utilizing the Jenkins open source automation and orchestration technology.ADM: What is Jenkins CI and how does it relate to C...
Shippable Announces New Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Shippable has announced a new continuous delivery which offers end-to-end deployment pipelines that help eliminate the need to create custom automation and integrations. It also gives developers flexibility and choice of development tools and deployment options, and provides an application delivery path with support for n-tier applications as well as cloud-native techno...
LinkedIn's New Project Voyager App Features Continuous Delivery on Steroids
Sunday, February 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
LinkedIn recently released Project Voyager, their codename for the new version of the company’s flagship application for Android, iOS, and the mobile web catering to its over 400 million users. According to the LinkedIn dev team, Voyager is the result of more than a year of product development work by over 250 engineers. They rethought the LinkedIn experience from the g...
XebiaLabs Introduces New Updates to its DevOps and Continuous Delivery Solutions
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
XebiaLabs offers a portfolio of DevOps and continuous delivery software and has announced a new version of its XL Release software release orchestration product offering improvements in the solution’s ability to release orchestration across teams, processes and tools. XL Release allows companies to automate, orchestrate and get visibility into software release pipelines...
Driving DevOps: The 5 New Requirements for Agile App Delivery
Monday, November 2, 2015 by Kasey Cross
The benefits DevOps can provide for an enterprise are nothing less than the framework for staying competitive in an era defined by change. Fundamentally, DevOps allows enterprises to:- Balance Innovation with Infrastructure Stability: The high performance fueled by DevOps is driven by continuous deployment on the development side combined with heavy automation, continuo...
New Version of CloudMaestro Application Delivery Controller Released
Monday, October 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
Lagrange Systems’ CloudMaestro, a cloud-based application delivery controller (ADC), has received a number of new upgrades which enhances the platform’s ability to scale out or in synchronously ahead of demand. CloudMaestro is an ADC architected for the cloud which can commission or decommission instances rapidly to serve new applications or sudden changes in user ...