As time goes on, more and more organizations are abandoning the outdated waterfall development methodology for more practical and efficient Agile development practices. As this movement has occurred, development teams are moving faster than ever by employing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices that are serving to shorten development cycles and get new features into production with increasing speed.

Many organizations seem to be suffering from alert fatigue. In a recent EMA report, according to Infosecurity, 80% of organizations that receive 500 or more severe/critical alerts per day, happen to investigate less than 1% of them. A shocking number to say the least! But what are the obstacles organizations are facing that allows such neglect?

Spring is in the air and we couldn’t be more excited to announce the release of Mattermost 4.9! Here are some highlights you and your team will love: Reclaim time and enjoy fewer distractions with muted channels, Display the names of colleagues whichever way helps you find and recognize them fastest by adjusting the teammate name display setting

Java is one of the most popular technologies for application development. Tens of thousands of enterprise applications are powered by Java and millions of people use them daily. Java has been evolving over many decades and there are so many web frameworks, middleware, data access technologies and protocols built on Java.

Describing your profession to other people is never easy, especially if you work in the development field. Non-technical people often lack the understanding and terms that may seem just so obvious to you. And if you’re a DevOps expert, multiply the struggle times 10. To help, we’ve put together a cheat sheet style post to explain DevOps to non-technical people.

Netflix recommends Stranger Things to you because it knows you like watching sci-fi thrillers. Tinder lets you swipe right into your next date because it’s learned your interests and partner preferences. Amazon keeps showing you Fitbit because you’ve spent a considerable amount of time browsing through the fitness and wellness category.

The founders of RapidSpike built, managed, and successfully exited from a leading UK Security Company called RandomStorm before launching RapidSpike. One of the main areas that RandomStorm excelled in was Penetration Testing and the founders of RapidSpike have recently launched Pentest People to once again provide Penetration Testing services to the worldwide market.

That new new. New software, new branding, new website, new financing, new board members, and new jobs. Oh my! I’m very pleased to announce that Sensu Inc has raised $10M in Series A financing led by Battery Ventures, with participation by seed-stage investor Foundry Group.

It takes a village to respond to and resolve incidents. But the teams involved in incident response often work in silos: SREs and devs are heads down fixing the problem, support is flooded with emails/tickets, and marketing/PR may be putting out fires on Twitter. Even if there’s some communication happening over chat or across desks, there’s typically room for improvement with getting these teams to work together when it matters most.