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DevSecOps: the Key to Securing Your Supply Chain in a Multi-Cloud Threatscape

Recent supply chain attacks require businesses to re-evaluate their approach to DevOps, specifically as it relates to security. The DevSecOps focus CI/CD platforms, testing and scanning across the SDLC, and a focus on minimizing manual efforts can not only improve security postures but also improve delivery of business value.

Johnathan Hunt
on Jul 22, 2021
Culture & Methods

Lessons Learned about Developer Experience from the Platform Adoption Metrics @ Naranja

With the intent of improving the product-based approach to their internal platform, Naranja has implemented an automated metrics solution that captures essential figures that describe how their teams are doing in terms of adoption, up-to-dateness and applicability of the solutions their Developer Experience creates. This enables better collaboration on their technology roadmap.

Ignacio Cavina
on Jul 22, 2021
Web Development

Why Design Systems Need APIs - Q&A with Louis Chenais, Chief Evangelist at Specify

Design systems exist for their business value: to help organizations reach brand consistency across many platforms like the web, Android, or iOS. Design APIs strive to connect the consumers and the contributors of a design system through the tools they use on a daily basis.

Louis Chenais Bruno Couriol
on Jul 21, 2021
Culture & Methods

Moving into "Modern Test Leadership"

Test management is dead; it just really needs to evolve. Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. As a test leader, you need to learn to adapt to remain relevant, take time to self-reflect on what is important to you, and build personal leadership values.

Simon Prior
on Jul 20, 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
Culture & Methods

DEI Is Rooted in Justice: Stop Making it about Profit

Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices exist for the betterment of every single person within a company from the ground floor to the glass ceilings. Don't build a case for diversity, equity, and inclusion. You are an establishment that depends on other humans to operate your business and bring success. Their sense of belonging, inclusion, and psychological safety is your direct responsibility.

Chanita Simms-Christmas
on Jul 16, 2021
Java

Implementing Pipeline Microservicilities with Tekton

Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how a service mesh such as Istio may be used to implement these concerns.

Alex Soto
on Jul 15, 2021
Culture & Methods

Seven Key Insights of Product Management

What a product manager does and how they do it seems like a perennial question, an ongoing discussion, often ending in debate. This changes depending on factors such as the size and culture of the company, the industry or sector, the business model, where the product is in its lifecycle, and the type of product. What doesn’t change is they’re always thinking about customer and business needs.

Sandra Davey
on Jul 15, 2021
Culture & Methods

Facilitating Feedback That's Psychologically Safe

This article focuses on feedback with regards to a plan or proposal - ways to make it easier to give and receive feedback, so the psychological safety of the team can increase. The aim is to give you insights, models, structures and practical things to try, in order to facilitate feedback that boosts psychological safety in your team(s).

Roy Marriott
on Jul 12, 2021
Culture & Methods

Cultivate Team Learning with Xtrem Reading

To thrive in the 21st century, companies have to continually enhance their capabilities to create what they want to create. Becoming a learning organization is key to success in the modern world. Peter Senge defined 5 disciplines of a learning organization. This article introduces workshop techniques that will help you start your journey in the 4th discipline, team learning.

Yoan Thirion
on Jul 09, 2021
Culture & Methods

Augmenting Organizational Agility Through Learnability Quotient (LQ) - an Architect’s Perspective

By creating a robust learning framework for the organization, and involving architects and other key technical leaders, Halodoc improved their organizational agility.

Abhijith Krishnappa
on Jul 08, 2021
Culture & Methods

Applying Lean Tools and Techniques to Scrum

This article focuses on some of the challenges that Scrum is facing and how Lean can be a complementary approach. Lean is often misunderstood as a heavyweight process when in fact it is a philosophy, one that is grounded in continuous improvement. The topic of waste, a central theme that Lean helps focus on, shows us that Scrum can be improved upon.

Leigh Griffin
on Jul 07, 2021