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OpsVerse this week added an open source Backstage catalogue software for building developer portals to its managed DevOps service. Originally developed by Spotify, Backstage makes it possible to centralize the management of ...

Edge computing remains a growing and exciting new architecture for enterprises across multiple industries. Distributing computing power across a decentralized network gives new opportunities for AI- and IoT-based applications. Demand is such ...

For years, self-service has been touted as the salvation of DevOps. Why? Well, every department in your organization has its own reasons for putting self-service DevOps at the top of its wish ...

In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...

PingCAP CEO Max Liu discusses PingCAPs innovative TiDB database and cloud technologies for OLTP + OLAP, and PingCAP’s commitment to open source going back more than seven years. Max shares some exciting ...

At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice ...

Last issue, I cited CPU utilization as an example of a metric that is often misused to describe/explain/infer system performance and asserted that improved visibility can help to overcome such misuse. In ...

Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem ...

Sonatype this week published a State of the Software Supply Chain Report that found a 633% year-over-year increase in malicious attacks aimed at open source software residing in public repositories. In addition, ...

At its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, ...

Walking into an unfamiliar operations center some time ago, I immediately noticed database error alerts racing down the primary monitor faster than a Matrix screensaver morphs letters. Strangely, no one seemed particularly ...

Multi-cloud environments can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there are clear benefits to using whatever cloud or tool is best for your particular needs, regardless of vendor – in ...