Continuous Delivery
A New Development Model: Bringing SaaS Apps to Data
The last few decades have seen multiple major shifts in how applications are built and deployed, and now we’re seeing the start of a new shift that opens up enormous opportunities for ...
Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours ...
Busting 5 Common Database Modernization Myths
Modernizing databases is one of the best ways to improve database and application performance. However, many companies are hesitant to make major changes, even if they could lead to better outcomes. Why? ...
A Guide to Sustainable Application Modernization
Sustainable development is a blueprint for societal growth that is applied around the world to balance the needs of the present while optimizing for the future. Sustainability consists of three pillars — ...
Avoiding Security Review Delays
In the summer of 2021, I had lunch with a senior security developer at one of Seattle's leading tech firms. Even though we were relaxed in the sunny and cool afternoon of ...
Building a Platform for DevOps Evolution, Part One
Winston Churchill once said, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." While nearly everyone will confess that change is necessary to grow and succeed, we all know ...
Cycode Expands Scope of AppDev Security Platform
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, Cycode this week announced it has added static application security testing (SAST) and container scanning capabilities to its software composition analysis (SCA) platform that is based ...
Why You Should Rip Up Your Org Chart and Reorganize Around Value Streams
To compete in the digital economy, teams must optimize both efficiency and effectiveness–it's a tough ask. The traditional dominator hierarchy is a problem because organizations that use command and control create silos ...
We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub ...
What GitHub’s 2FA Mandate Means for Devs Everywhere
Multifactor authentication (MFA) is becoming increasingly standard within software development organizations, with GitHub recently announcing that two-factor authentication (2FA) will be mandatory for all code contributors by the end of 2023. This ...
Four Secure Coding Best Practices for Mobile Apps
Mobile apps have become the primary point of innovation for many companies, and skilled mobile developers are in high demand. The business asks developers to innovate fast using the latest smartphone features ...
MLOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
Machine learning operations, or MLOps for short, is a key aspect of machine learning (ML) engineering that focuses on simplifying and accelerating the process of delivering ML models to production and maintaining ...


