Helen Beal
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The State of DevOps in Banking
The panelists discuss the state of DevOps in banking, including the increased need for adaptability, the impact of value stream mapping and management, as well as a future outlook for 2021. → Read More
Sooner, Safer, Happier: A Q&A with Jon Smart from DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2020
At DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas, Jonathan Smart gave a keynote talk titled ‘Leading for Better Value Sooner Safer Happier’. Smart is the only person that has spoken at every DevOps Enterprise Summit London conference and each in Las Vegas since 2017, previously from his role as head of ways of working at Barclays. → Read More
Panel: The State of DevOps in Retail
The panelists discuss the pressures unique to the retail industry when adopting DevOps principles and practices, and how they have responded to challenges in the current global climate. → Read More
Bouncing Buzzwords
The panelists discuss DevOps buzzwords and when and where they might have value for organizations seeking performance improvements. → Read More
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: DevOps Dojo Stories from DOES London 2020
Dojo’s were a popular topic at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020, appearing initially in Gene Kim’s opening remarks on the first day of the three-day virtual conference when he referred to Target’s dojo framework as shared in the IT Revolution Forum ebook. The concept went on to feature in talks from adidas, Virgin Atlantic, Comcast, Sky, Verizon, US Bank and Walmart. → Read More
DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020: A Diversity and Inclusion Q&A with Shaaron A Alvares
Shaaron A Alvares gave a talk at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 London Virtual titled ‘Accelerate Your DevOps Culture of Innovation with Everyday Inclusion and Belonging’. She began with presenting research data on the benefits of diverse teams, showing that diverse teams outperform their peers by 80%. → Read More
Rancher Labs Makes Longhorn Generally Available
Creators of Kubernetes management platform, Rancher Labs, have made Longhorn, a cloud-native block storage solution, generally available. Longhorn provides a vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the development of stateful applications within Kubernetes. Longhorn is open source, distributed block storage built using microservices. → Read More
Ambassador Edge Stack Seeks Shortening of the Inner Development Loop
Datawire, provider of Kubernetes-native API gateway, Ambassador, has released a new version of Ambassador Edge Stack designed to accelerate the inner development loop. The new Service Preview capability uses Layer 7 (L7) control to allow multiple developers to code locally and preview changes as if the changes were part of the live cluster. → Read More
Scaleway Launches Kubernetes Kapsule
Bare metal cloud solutions provider, Scaleway, has released Kubernetes Kapsule, its containerized application orchestration solution based on the Kubernetes platform and certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The Kubernetes Kapsule service is designed to give IT organizations inside and out of France access to a bare-metal instance of Kubernetes. → Read More
Moogsoft Adds Virtual Network Operations Centre Capability
AIOps platform vendor, Moogsoft, has announced the release of Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0, featuring a capability for technology teams to build a virtual Network Operations Centre (NOC).  Moogsoft Enterprise consolidates monitoring tools with the intention of helping technology teams reduce noise, prioritize incidents, reduce escalations and ensure uptime. → Read More
Splunk Launches New Release of SignalFx APM
Splunk, a platform for searching, monitoring, and examining machine-generated big data, has launched a new release of application monitoring tool SignalFx Microservices APM™. The new release combines NoSample™ tracing, open standards based instrumentation and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven directed troubleshooting from SignalFx and Omnition into a single solution. → Read More
Alcide's New sKan Command Line Tool Scans Kubernetes Deployment Files
Alcide, a Kubernetes security platform, has announced the release of sKan, a command line tool that allows developers, DevOps and Kubernetes application builders access to the Alcide Security Platform. sKan enables developers to scan Kubernetes configuration and deployment files as part of their application development lifecycle including CI pipelines. → Read More
Instana Launches Context Guide
Provider of automated application performance management (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana, has launched the Instana Context Guide, providing GUI-based access to the company’s underlying system model called the Dynamic Graph. Instana’s solution discovers application service components and application infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure. → Read More
Rancher 2.4 Supports 1 Million Kubernetes Clusters
Kubernetes management platform creator, Rancher Labs, has released Rancher 2.4 in line with their ‘Run Kubernetes Everywhere’ strategy. Rancher is a heterogeneous, multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes management platform. The new release is focused on providing the scalability, management and security capabilities required to support Kubernetes at edge scale. → Read More
Network Automation at Fastly
Ryan Landry, the senior director for TechOps at Fastly, has shared how network automation enables them to manage traffic peaks during popular live-streamed events such as the Super Bowl LIV. Fastly are directly connected to numerous ISPs across the US and try to keep their live video traffic on these direct paths with their partners to deliver video streams as close to the end-user as possible. → Read More
Platform9 Announce Free SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Solution
Platform9, a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud platform, has announced a free managed Kubernetes service for hybrid environments with automated Day2 operations including one-click upgrades, security patching, and monitoring. The new free tier enables users to take advantage of a SaaS management plane for Kubernetes on hybrid environments. → Read More
New Application Manager Brings GitOps to Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has launched Kubernetes Application Manager, intending to simplify application configuration and lifecycle management. It’s an application delivery solution delivered as an add-on to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which is also part of Anthos. Kubernetes is widely used for managing containerised applications, but end-to-end Kubernetes lifecycle management can be challenging. → Read More
Istio Announces Istiod in New Update
Istio 1.5 has introduced the Istiod binary to simplify Istio's architecture and improve operational experience. It’s become simpler to install and run Istio since the control plane components have been consolidated into a single binary; Istiod. Istio have introduced a new extension model for proxy servers and improved usability, security, telemetry and traffic control. → Read More
OpsRamp Introduces AI-Driven Suggestions
OpsRamp, a SaaS platform for hybrid infrastructure discovery, monitoring, management and automation has launched OpsQ Recommend Mode, a capability for incident remediation. OpsQ Recommend Mode provides predictive analytics to digital operations teams with the goal of reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). → Read More
Algorithmia Adds GitHub Integration to Machine Learning Platform
Algorithmia, an AI model management automation platform for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers, now integrates with GitHub. → Read More