Don Macvittie

In the grand scheme of things, at least in relation to the evolution of AI, Google’s recent stumbles come at a rather inopportune time, but the concerns that made them actually address the controversy are worse than most know.

Application development architecture has been changing to accommodate new platforms, processes, and application needs. Increasingly, applications are collections of APIs, both public and private, connected in the core application to a user interface (UI).

Enabled by infrastructure as code (IaC), GitOps takes advantage of the “as code” aspect to move configuration information into version control systems. In the most evolved GitOps implementations, …

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Don’t let anyone tell you how much easier IT life is these days. It is, in many ways, more fun and productive … but it is not easier. In fact, we’re doing more with less, cubed, at this point. My point is—think of the life cycle as a pyramid. The base is the build++ chain, from VCS to public-facing active protection; the height is the new technologies and systems being bolted on daily—like SaaS tools someone in accounting just signed up for or the new architectures a dev team in a subsidiary just decided to adopt (but which will eventually have to be maintained by IT). And the depth is the completely new capabilities that are required by market forces or regulation – SBOM is the poster child for this group; suddenly, just about every vendor is giving it to you as part of their product.

The IT sector has been pursuing automated deployment for a very long time. Back in the day, application release automation mapped an application to defined environments, the first step to a fully automated code-to-production system for managing rollouts. It has been a long road, and there have been quite a few twists and turns, but we are progressing.

AAS Today Application and API security (AAS) has been around as a unified security toolset for several years now, and it is near revolutionary in the breadth of coverage that it offers. Products i…

Infrastructure is expanding in almost every possible way, and this creates more of a burden on every aspect of IT, specifically DevOps.

Simple tests can demonstrate how an AI can respond to and modify responses — a useful exercise for developers and DevOps who want to use these tools for activities like code or script generation.

SSPM extends visibility, monitoring, and security controls to SaaS applications.