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Are your CI/CD pipelines accidentally increasing technical debt?
Are your CI/CD pipelines accidentally increasing technical debt? sponsor-harness,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by vectorfusionart on Shutterstock. For most platform engineering teams, internal developer portals are considered the best way to solve DevOps scalability challenges. The ability to instantly spin up a new pipeline by cloning a template has been a game-changer for development teams.
Is Sloppy File Sharing Endangering Your Enterprise?
Sharing digital data is one of the most important and riskiest parts of modern business. Multiple times a day, organizations transfer sensitive information — customer data, medical test results, financial information, code, sales reports — to internal and external partners. But without guardrails, this in-transit data is vulnerable to theft or loss. Managed file transfer (MFT) solutions put guardrails in place.
How To Scale GitOps Without Hitting the 'Argo Ceiling'
Too often, GitOps becomes a victim of its own success. One cluster and one Argo CD instance quickly sprawl into 50 clusters and 50 Argo instances, held together by glue code and custom scripts. The isolation that made Argo CD secure in the first place translates into poor visibility and uncontrolled governance. Broken processes require your team to maintain custom dashboards and brittle orchestration scripts, wasting precious engineering hours that could be spent on more important projects.
Why Cloud Optimization Is an Engineering Problem
Why Cloud Optimization Is an Engineering Problem sponsor-harness,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by Summit Art Creations on Shutterstock. You know the drill: Each month your organization’s cloud bill comes in, higher than the month before, despite all your efforts to minimize overprovisioning and shutter idle workloads.
Migrating VMs to Containers: What To Know Before You Start
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Migrating VMs to Containers: What To Know Before You Start
Migrating VMs to Containers: What To Know Before You Start sponsor-spectro-cloud,sponsored-ebook-custom, There are many reasons cloud native enterprises are moving their virtual machines to containers.
Kubernetes at the Edge: Lessons From GE HealthCare’s Edge Strategy
For highly regulated companies with distributed architectures, such as health care, financial services, telecom and manufacturing, operating at the edge is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, cloud native and edge environments reduce latency to deliver faster, smarter, safer digital experiences, critical in settings where every second counts.
Building a Cloud-to-Edge Architecture Across 40K Global Locations
Edge at any kind of distributed scale requires new management approaches that account for edge idiosyncrasies, like poor connectivity, limited hardware or lack of onsite technical support. But those concerns don’t absolve enterprise IT teams who are under constant pressure to maintain reliable, consistent digital services across the company’s footprint, no matter how large, disbursed or problematic.
Future-Proof Your Strategy With an Open Source AI Playbook
Future-Proof Your Strategy With an Open Source AI Playbook sponsor-red-hat,sponsored-post, For all the investments corporations are making in AI, the results are decidedly mixed. While the chipmakers and hyperscale cloud platforms are doing very well, most businesses are seeing significantly less impressive results. Recently, MIT NANDA shook things up by reporting research that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail.
Why Inkless Kafka Is a Game-Changer for Running Kafka at Scale
Why Inkless Kafka Is a Game-Changer for Running Kafka at Scale sponsor-aiven,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by A. C. for Unsplash+. Apache Kafka is one of the most commonly used stream-processing applications. Its high performance, low latency and open source license are just some of the reasons 80% of Fortune 100 enterprises use Kafka to power event-driven applications and deliver resilient data pipelines.
Unblock DevEx by Getting Observability Tools Out of The Way
This was originally published on Oct. 23, 2025, and has been updated with new information. Software developers’ relationship with their tools is, to say the least, complicated. When tools work well, they fade into the background, enabling flow, creativity and speed. They simplify the complex, automate the tedious and help teams deliver better code faster. But all too often, developer “solutions” are anything but.
Search Isn’t Dead: From RAG to Agents With Vector Databases
Note: This article was originally published on Oct. 16, 2025, and has been updated with information from the webinar. In the not-so-distant past, search was relatively simple: A search engine like Google would find and rank content that matched the keywords or phrases of a query. But this traditional model of lexical search has been shattered by the emergence of large language models (LLMs). And it’s happened very quickly.
Beyond Basic Scaling: Advanced Kubernetes Resource Strategies
This was originally published on Sept. 30, 2025, and has been updated with additional information. Trying to set resource requests and limits in Kubernetes is kind of like the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: Overprovisioning gives developers abundant compute, but it wastes money, energy and other resources. Underprovision and you slow down developers, leaving them frustrated and likely costing you money as it takes longer to ship new products and features.
How Faster Coding Shifts the Bottleneck to Debugging
This article was originally published on Sept. 17 and has been updated with new information. For all the hype about developer productivity and AI coding tools, recent research has thrown a reality check on expectations. In July, METR reported that “when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without” — even though they think it’s making them more productive.
Why FinOps Isn’t About Saving Money
Note: This was originally published on Sept. 8, 2025, and has been updated with new information. Cloud costs can be a tough topic for finance and engineering teams. Finance has a mandate to control spending, while engineering is already doing everything it can to deliver performant software under constrained resources.
Kubernetes at the Edge: Deploy With Confidence and Control
Kubernetes at the Edge: Deploy With Confidence and Control sponsor-siderolabs,sponsored-post, Seeking higher performance, lower latency and stronger privacy, enterprises are exploring the possibilities of edge computing. But critical challenges underlie these benefits, including limited computing resources and unreliable connectivity. Moreover, because many edge end users are not technologists, security and remediation are particularly difficult.
AI Is Testing AI-Generated Code: Why You Should Trust It
Note: This article was originally published on July 28, 2025, and has been updated with information from the webinar.
Turning AI Experiments Into Enterprise Impact: Lessons Learned
Turning AI Experiments Into Enterprise Impact: Lessons Learned sponsor-red-hat,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash. As the infrastructure and cost barriers around enterprise AI fall away, software developers, engineers, architects and other builders are running through the gates, looking to use the newest technologies — agentic AI, large language models (LLMs) and model context protocol (MCP) — to innovate. But once you get past that fence, what’s next?
Why Everyone Hates Your DevOps Stack
This was originally published on June 19 and has been updated. The data doesn’t lie: Developers, on average, are juggling 14 different vendor tools throughout the work day. They spent time and cognitive cycles switching back and forth between different interfaces, accounts and workflows just to get their work done. All that context switching creates inefficiencies, fragmentation and unnecessary complexity.
Maintaining Container Images: More Security, Less Toil
Maintaining Container Images: More Security, Less Toil sponsor-activestate,sponsored-webinar, Image from whiteMocca on Shutterstock. Containers fueled by open source software have become the de facto way for software development teams to package and deploy modern applications and services. Docker, Kubernetes and other open source tools provide a robust foundation for the container ecosystem.
Infrastructure as Code Is Suffering From Self-Inflicted Complexity
Infrastructure as Code Is Suffering From Self-Inflicted Complexity sponsor-firefly,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by Gerenme on Shutterstock. It’s been 20 years since Puppet planted the seeds of today’s Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and it hasn’t gotten any easier — in many ways, it’s more complicated than ever. The early entrants, Puppet and Chef, gave way to tools like Ansible, Terraform and Pulumi, which brought new capabilities for infrastructure provisioning.
Why IT Needs To Be at the Edge
Traditionally, edge computing has largely been the responsibility of operational technology (OT) teams. But as edge deployments increase in number and size and become essential parts of the technology landscape, IT teams are under growing pressure to help manage infrastructure across remote locations.
Download Our New Ebook on Cloud Sustainability
Download Our New Ebook on Cloud Sustainability cloud-sustainability-ebook,sponsor-google-amd,sponsored-post-contributed, As the effects of climate change escalate around the world, what role do software developers play in protecting the environment? More than you might think, particularly when it comes to the choices you make for your cloud infrastructure.
What’s Trashing My App's Performance?
What’s Trashing My App's Performance? sponsor-catchpoint,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by RaspberryStudio on Shutterstock. Troubleshooting slow app or website performance is one of the more frustrating tasks developers face. Reliability is a key performance indicator and user experience metric, so when something goes wrong, it rises immediately to the top of your priority list.
Why Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy Still Sucks
Why Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy Still Sucks sponsor-firefly,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by Andre Hunter on Unsplash. Most cloud-using enterprises have implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC), looking to automate, standardize and streamline infrastructure management. But a quick glance at the most popular IaC-related stories on TNS last year shows a sad truth: IaC is still terrible for most companies.
How To Jump-Start Your Stalled Kubernetes Migration
How To Jump-Start Your Stalled Kubernetes Migration sponsor-octopus-deploy,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by by Samuele Errico Piccarini on Unsplash. ANNUAL READER SURVEY We are planning our coverage for 2025 and we need your input! Take 5 minutes to chime in and let us know what you're interested in.
Is Terraform Dead? Revive Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy
Is Terraform Dead? Revive Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy sponsor-firefly,sponsored-webinar, Featured image by Unsplash+ in collaboration with Round Icons. ANNUAL READER SURVEY We are planning our coverage for 2025 and we need your input! Take 5 minutes to chime in and let us know what you're interested in. You could win a $1,000 gift card for your participation! The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling landscape is in turmoil.
Hear How Low-Code Orchestration Unlocks GenAI
Maybe you’ve already adopted generative AI (GenAI) in your business. Maybe you haven’t started, but your competitors probably have. Either way, you probably have questions about this transformative technology. The New Stack recently hosted a free webinar, available on demand, with Boomi as our special guest to help you learn more.
Open Source KitOps Turns DevOps Pipelines Into MLOps Pipelines
Open Source KitOps Turns DevOps Pipelines Into MLOps Pipelines contributed, The marriage of machine learning and DevOps practices has given birth to MLOps, a specialized field focused on automating the development, deployment and management of ML models in production environments. However, a major hurdle in achieving streamlined MLOps workflows lies in the traditional separation between DevOps and machine learning pipelines.
Developers Can Now Discover and Curate Open Web Apps on Glitch
Glitch, the platform that allows developers to build “full-stack web apps in your browser,” announced today that it is adding more “open web” features to Glitch, to encourage more discovery and curation on the platform. I spoke to Glitch’s CEO Anil Dash to find out more. Dash is also VP of developer experience at Fastly, which acquired Glitch back in May 2022.
How Conviva Uses Endpoint Event Data to Measure UX at Scale
Want to get your heart rate up quickly? Imagine you’re deep into work when your manager calls saying people are ranting on social media that the checkout process in your app isn’t working properly. The company is losing dollars every second, and the CEO wants to know when it’ll be fixed. This sounds like a great use case for an observability solution. The challenge?
The 12 Stages of Network Traffic Monitoring (With Examples)
Key Takeaways Critical Network Monitoring: Monitor network traffic to ensure security and performance. Prevent Ticket Overload: Avoid user complaints about network downtime. Discover and Prevent Issues: Proactively find and fix potential network problems. Efficient Traffic Analysis: Analyze data for security and performance improvements. Strategic Monitoring Planning: Plan, implement, and respond to network traffic monitoring. Network traffic monitoring is a critical aspect of network management.
Cybersecurity vs. Software Engineering: 2024 Career Guide
Information technology is embedded in nearly every facet of our lives, creating a growing need for skilled software engineering and cybersecurity professionals to develop and safeguard the digital space. Software engineers are like architects who design the buildings where we work, whereas cybersecurity professionals are like security guards who create and manage the defenses that keep those buildings safe.
Get The Most From The Frontier GoWild! All You Can Fly Pass
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Should You Take Uber in Cancun? State Department Warning About Rideshare Apps
We take pride in providing authentic travel recommendations based on our personal experiences. When you purchase a product or book a reservation, we may earn a commission. Learn more › The U.S. State Department late last month issued an ominous warning to travelers visiting the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, advising them to avoid rideshare apps such as Uber and Cabify, a Spanish company that operates in Latin America.
How to be a named or designated doctor for looked-after children
There are approximately 100,000 looked after children within the care system in the UK. Children and young people enter the care system with unmet health needs and missed routine health screening and poor management of existing health conditions. They may have delayed development due to neglect and many have unmet and significant emotional health needs. Named and Designated Doctors for looked after children are passionate experts willing to stand up and advocate for children and young people.
How SecuSUITE for Enterprise brings Government-Grade Security to Business
Today’s extremely powerful smartphones and mobile networks make it possible to run a business entirely from your phone , if you want. But all of this mobile power comes at a big risk: security. We know that hackers are relentless, perpetrating attacks across all industries and sectors. Yet when it comes to our voice conversations and text messaging, too many decision makers think these threats exist only for spies, military agencies and others in key government roles.
USDA Rural Development helps rural Oregon make a comeback
When I was asked by the Obama Administration to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development in Oregon, I set out on a journey that would lead me to small communities across the state grappling with infrastructure and economic development needs, into the homes of people struggling to make ends meet and through the doors of businesses searching for resources to expand.
USDA Proudly Supports the LGBT Community in Oregon and Nationwide
I recently had the privilege of representing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development at the Eugene/Springfield Pride Festival in southwestern Oregon. We stood side-by-side with our counterparts at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Forest Service. When this festival began 25 years ago, the idea of a government agency participating was unthinkable.
BlackBerry Developer Summit Europe: Registration is NOW OPEN!
Join us at the BlackBerry Developer Summit Europe, March 24th, 2017, in London, UK. Secure your spot to learn and collaborate with the experts behind BlackBerry Enterprise Software, the world’s most trusted solutions. Whether you are a customer or a partner, or are an expert or new to the BlackBerry Dynamics SDK, we have interactive coding sessions that will help build best-in-class enterprise apps to mobilize today’s businesses.
Financial Service Firms Struggle to Answer Employees’ Demands for Enterprise Mobile Apps
Banks and other financial services organizations have a big problem when it comes to mobility: how to mobilize their workers while complying with regulatory and security requirements. From digital native millennials who consider their smartphones indispensable personal and business tools, to baby boomers who became hooked on smartphones with the first BlackBerry devices, employees are clamoring to mobilize their work.
Security and Productivity is Key for Small Businesses, Too. DTEK50 and BlackBerry Software are the Solution.
If you run a small or midsize business (SMB), you know the struggle of doing the work you want to do – innovating and growing your business – while keeping track of the business-critical, yet mundane, things that demand your attention. You’re no doubt spread wide and thin trying to keep all the wheels of accounting, human resources, sales, marketing, IT, etc. moving in the same direction.
Security, Productivity and Affordability: How DTEK50 and DTEK60 Check Every Box for Enterprise IT Managers
Employees, managers, and CIOs all agree on one thing: mobility is essential to the productivity and flexibility needed to compete in today’s global economy. Where their agreement breaks down is on the top priority for choosing a smartphone. Employees generally want the convenience of a single phone for work and personal use, IT is committed to a security-first environment, and management mainly cares about controlling costs.
These Doctors Say PRIV’s Secure Android Is an ‘Epic’ Way to Improve Patient Care - Here’s Why.
Healthcare has come a long way from paper medical records, but most electronic health record (EHR) software still works best on a PC. Still, it’s neither efficient nor enjoyable for doctors and nurses on the move to be locked to a workstation to enter and review patient data. Rather than vying for a few available desktop workstations or wasting time logging in and out of shared workstations, mobile EHR apps are the key to improving healthcare providers’ productivity and workplace satisfaction.
7 Reasons Why Your Employees Can Work Super-Secure with DTEK50
Smartphones have become indispensable to business productivity, enabling workers to be connected to practically any sort of business data, document, or person they need, anytime and anywhere. The trouble with having all of this valuable business information literally at employees’ fingertips is that it’s harder than ever to protect it.
Five Tips for Smarter Business Continuity Planning
Business continuity planners have a challenging role, different from other risk managers. They ensure that one organization can continue to operate, unlike government emergency managers, who are dedicated to helping an entire community or region recover from a crisis. Written by Kathy Kibble, BlackBerry Business Continuity Manager, for the AtHoc blog, and reposted with permission. Business continuity planners also differ from specialists that focus only on one type of risk.
How Experts Are Working to Keep the Internet of Medical Things From Killing You
When the first pacemaker was implanted in 1958, it set off a wave of medical engineering innovation that has saved lives and reduced disability for millions of people. But today’s cardiac defibrillators and insulin pumps, working quietly inside people’s bodies, are being cast aside for the next generation of medical technology: connected, implanted medical devices that combine medical science with 24/7 connectivity through wireless networks.
PRIV Happy: 5 Ways This Bestselling Author Says PRIV Strengthens His Happiness
Will Jelbert is an author who has written several books helping people find their personal happiness. We’ve featured him before in the Inside BlackBerry blog. In this sequel, Jelbert shares how our secure Android device PRIV is a tool that helps him “exercise” his “happiness muscles.” What is happiness?
How Two Resellers Married BlackBerry and Microsoft Solutions to Win U.S. Federal Government Customers
Governments have always been big BlackBerry users and, according to leading technology analyst Rob Enderle, demand is getting even stronger thanks to a new third-party alliance and expanding interest in our secure Android phone, PRIV. Enderle, writing in IT Business Edge about the AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium April 20-22, described a partnership announced at the symposium between government consulting firm B&D Consulting and Microsoft partner harmon.ie.
Veteran Tech Sales Exec Joins BlackBerry Devices Team
As BlackBerry looks to accelerate sales of its Android-powered PRIV, BB10 smartphones and future devices, we’re pleased to announce that Alex Thurber (left) has signed on as Senior Vice President, Global Device Sales. He’ll lead the charge on all aspects of the BlackBerry global devices sales organization, including field sales, carrier sales management and sales operations. Thurber has a stellar track record as a sales executive with a deep history in technology.
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