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Is Artificial Intelligence Taking over DevOps?

AI tools are slowly replacing the role of the developer – just as DevOps did before – and will eventually supplant DevOps entirely. Assessing whether that prediction is true is tricky. In this article, we’ll look at what AI promises for the development process, assess whether it can really ever take over from human developers, and what DevOps is likely to look like in a decades’ time.

Sam Bocetta
on Oct 08, 2021
Cloud

Using Cloud Native Buildpacks to Address Security Requirements for the Software Supply Chain

Software supply chain attacks are increasing in severity and frequency, with no clear path laid out towards its mitigation. A simple way to trace the origin of vulnerable components is available in the form of Software Bill Of Materials (SBOMs), generated automatically when using Buildpacks.

Ram Iyengar
on Oct 06, 2021
Cloud

Ballerina Swan Lake: 10 Compelling Language Characteristics for Cloud Native Programming

The Ballerina language has come a long way with significant improvements since the 1.0 release in 2019. The latest Swan Lake release further simplifies building and deploying cloud native apps.

Dakshitha Ratnayake
on Sep 15, 2021
Architecture & Design

Service Mesh Ultimate Guide - Second Edition: Next Generation Microservices Development

This second edition of Service Mesh Ultimate Guide article covers the latest developments in service mesh technologies like multi-cloud, multi-cluster, and multi-tenant models, service mesh extensions, and the operational aspects of productionizing service mesh.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 09, 2021
Cloud

Adoption of Cloud Native Architecture, Part 3: Service Orchestration and Service Mesh

This part 3 article in Cloud Native Architecture Adoption series, explores service interaction in a microservices based architecture, typical challenges we experience in distributed systems without proper governance, and how patterns like service orchestration and service mesh can help address those challenges.

Srini Penchikala Marcio Esteves
on Sep 01, 2021
Culture & Methods

Leveraging the Agile Manifesto for More Sustainability

This article explores what sustainability means exactly, the current status of sustainability of the major agile organizations (Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance), and the impact of software development on sustainability. The main focal point of this article is using the principles of the Agile Manifesto to guide actions that contribute to more sustainability.

Jutta Eckstein
on Aug 13, 2021
Cloud

How to Bridge the Gap between Netops and Secops for Ultimate Network Management and Security

Sometimes it can seem like a new IT management paradigm arrives every week. First, we had DevOps; then DevSecOps; now the most innovative organizations are talking about AIOps and even NetAIOps. Yet what is often forgotten about in this rush to name new ways of working is that many of them have been in place in the best-run teams for decades - a great example of this is NetOps and SecOps.

Sam Bocetta
on Jul 27, 2021
Architecture & Design

Leverage the Cloud to Help Consolidate On-Prem Systems

A cloud model can be used to architecturally validate the possibility of consolidating multiple application servers into a smaller number of physical resources that will ultimately remain on-prem.

Tony Perez
on Jul 23, 2021
DevOps

DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report - July 2021

This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2021, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.

Matt Campbell Steef-Jan Wiggers Shaaron A Alvares Helen Beal Daniel Bryant Lena Hall Rupert Field Aditya Kulkarni Jared Ruckle Renato Losio Holly Cummins
on Jul 19, 2021
Cloud

Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability

At QCon plus, a virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects covering the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations, Elizabeth Carretto discussed observability at Netflix and how their internal tool, Edgar, comes into play.

Elizabeth Carretto
on Jun 30, 2021
Java

Cameron Purdy Explains Ecstasy - a New Cloud Native Environment

In this interview, Cameron Purdy discusses Ecstasy - a new Cloud Native programming system and runtime. It is designed to be highly scalable and able to achieve very high density in Cloud environments. The project is taking shape but not at the release stage yet.

Ben Evans Cameron Purdy
on Jun 07, 2021 1
Cloud

Evolution of Azure Synapse: Apache Spark 3.0, GPU Acceleration, Delta Lake, Dataverse Support

At Microsoft Build 2021, Azure Synapse has announced significant improvements for its Apache Spark pool, its performance, and data querying and integration capabilities. This article outlines the improvements and provides the context.

Lena Hall
on May 29, 2021