In this talk, Hugh McKee will discuss how Akka Java Cluster and OpenShift work together to create an optimal symbiotic relationship for high performing, distributed environments. Akka Cluster allows for building distributed applications on the Akka Platform. Requiring a resilient and elastic node management system, Akka Cluster gracefully handles nodes ... Read More

Testing is routinely cited as the number one source of DevOps delays — and defects are still a major issue for 48% of DevOps teams. Are we approaching testing the wrong way? Have we failed to scale and/or accelerate it properly for enterprise DevOps? Do we need to rethink our ... Read More

As containers and Kubernetes are adopted in production, DevOps teams need to go beyond image scanning. Use cases such as runtime security, network visibility and segmentation, incident response and compliance become priorities as your Kubernetes security framework matures. Implementing Zero Trust network security is a must to prevent lateral movement, ... Read More

IBM has been innovating to create new products for its clients and the world for over a century. Customers look to IBM Power Systems to address their hybrid multicloud infrastructure needs. Larger POWER9 servers can have up to 192 CPU cores, 64 TB of memory, dozens of PB of SAN ... Read More

Being able to quickly respond to customer needs and deliver value will make all the difference in 2021. As enterprises continue to implement DevOps across teams, traditional change management processes begin to stifle enterprise agility. Yet, the governance and stability requirements that change advisory boards and other processes maintain are ... Read More

As cloud and hybrid cloud adoption continues to grow, businesses are increasingly migrating critical applications to commercial cloud platforms and employing DevOps workflows. The shift to containers/DevOps strategies enables innovation velocity as well as improved user experience. However, these benefits create security challenges: ... Read More

The software world is alive with talk of shifting left, but what does it really mean? Theoretically, it means shifting responsibility for security and compliance to developers. In practice, it largely means enriching CI/CD processes to detect problematic licenses and vulnerabilities before they reach the main branch or production ... Read More

Most application development teams have been through crossroads in their path to modernizing their app infrastructures. Should they stay monolithic or migrate to a microservices environment? If only it could be solved with a “pros and cons” sheet of paper, but it is not that simple. There are multiple layers ... Read More

Most application development teams have been through crossroads in their path to modernizing their app infrastructures. Should they stay monolithic or migrate to a microservices environment? If it could be solved with a “pros and cons” sheet of paper, but it is not that simple. There are multiple layers that ... Read More

It’s 2020, there is a plethora of data available about measuring SLIs and setting SLO targets. But, now that you have this data, what are you actually supposed to do with it? The classic example of “Ship features when you have an error budget; focus on reliability when you don’t” ... Read More