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Amazon DevOps Guru: An ML-powered operations service that improves application availability
2020-12-02 08:28

With just a few clicks in the Amazon DevOps Guru console, historical application and infrastructure metrics like latency, error rates, and request rates for all resources are automatically ingested and analyzed to establish normal operating bounds, and Amazon DevOps Guru then uses a pre-trained machine learning model to identify deviations from the established baseline. Together with Amazon CodeGuru - a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code - Amazon DevOps Guru provides customers the automated benefits of machine learning for their operational data so that developers can more easily improve application availability and reliability.

7 big data goals for 2021: AI, DevOps, hybrid cloud, and more
2020-11-26 13:00

In 2021, corporate big data leaders will be looking to improve data quality and turnaround of big data projects, as well as performance in meeting business objectives. Big data continues to enter corporate networks at torrential rates, with the amount of poor data that companies obtain or use costing the US economy an estimated $3.1 trillion annually.

ZeroNorth unites security and DevOps teams with Defect Density Dashboard
2020-11-11 03:30

ZeroNorth announced the availability of its Defect Density Dashboard, a new capability within its SaaS-based application security automation and orchestration platform. A new variant of the widely used metric for measuring software quality, the ZeroNorth Defect Density Dashboard highlights the number of application security defects per thousand lines of code.

Checkmarx brings software security solutions to AWS Marketplace, earns AWS DevOps Competency status
2020-11-09 01:00

Checkmarx announced major milestones in its relationship with Amazon Web Services, bringing its software security solutions to AWS Marketplace and earning AWS DevOps Competency status. With these moves, Checkmarx is delivering greater simplicity, flexibility, and confidence to customers looking to deploy application security testing solutions into their AWS CI/CD pipelines.

How important is monitoring in DevOps?
2020-10-06 04:00

The importance of monitoring is often left out of discussions about DevOps, but a Gartner report shows how it can lead to superior customer experiences. Automate the transmission of embedded monitoring results between monitoring and deployment tools to improve application deployments.

Database monitoring improves DevOps success for financial services orgs
2020-09-14 03:30

The financial services sector is outperforming other industries, both in its adoption of database DevOps, and its use of monitoring to track database performance and deployments, a newly released edition of Redgate's 2020 State of Database Monitoring Report has revealed. The report shows that 61% of those in financial services deploy database changes once a week or more, compared to 43% across other sectors, and 52% deploy multiple times per day or week, up from 35% in other sectors.

Datadog Incident Management streamlines on-call response workflows for DevOps teams
2020-08-13 02:30

Datadog Incident Management brings data, documentation, and collaboration together in a single location which all engineers and security team members can jointly work from. "With these new Incident Management features now available alongside our powerful tools for alerting, monitoring, and collaboration, Datadog customers can manage and resolve incidents in a single, unified platform, saving time when it matters."

Why the rapid transition to cloud demands that DevOps shift left
2020-08-10 04:00

Even though operating in the cloud offers many advantages to developers, security is often seen as an obstacle that prevents developers from truly embracing the speed and agility of the cloud. DevOps teams are challenged by the rapid nature of change in the cloud.

DevOps is transforming database development in the healthcare sector
2020-08-10 03:00

This increased strain has increased the need for DevOps and database DevOps processes, with 41% of respondents in the healthcare sector saying they have adopted DevOps across some projects to free up developer time and increase the speed of delivery. "We know that the healthcare sector is facing unprecedented demands from the pandemic and other regulatory struggles, and DevOps is the best way to tackle these issues," said Kendra Little, DevOps Advocate, Redgate.

Source Code From Major Firms Leaked via Unprotected DevOps Infrastructure
2020-07-28 11:31

Source code belonging to tens of companies, including several major organizations, has been leaked online after it was found on unprotected DevOps infrastructure. Kottmann told SecurityWeek that the source code they've made public, much of which appears to be proprietary, mostly comes from improperly configured or exposed DevOps infrastructure.