DEVOPSdigest

In today's push to launch faster, speed often takes precedence. But this only works if you're building the right product for your customers. Too often, the design phase of the product development lifecycle is rushed or reduced to UI mockups. When done right, this phase is where the success of your product is ultimately determined ... In my experience, these five best practices elevate the design phase from a checkbox to a strategic advantage, and they've made a measurable impact for the products I've helped deliver ...

Enterprises across the world are under attack, and it's getting harder for them to defend themselves ... The regulatory pressures facing companies have made a difference. Recent data from Veracode's 2025 State of Software Security (SoSS) report shows that the percentage of applications passing the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 tests has increased by 63% over the past five years — a significant improvement. More notably, the prevalence of high-severity flaws has been cut in half over the past decade ...

Software engineers are currently caught between a rock and a hard place. The rock? They're under record pressure to produce and release new software. The hard place? They're increasingly expected to account for the safety, security and provenance of every single software asset they use in those builds. That's demonstrated in the rise of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). These two clashing requirements are a source of great anxiety for software engineers ...

As organizations seek scalable, cloud native architectures, Dapr's developer productivity benefits and growing role in AI applications have driven widespread adoption. Nearly half of surveyed teams are now running Dapr applications in production, marking a significant increase from previous years, according to 2025 State of Dapr Report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®) ...

In Episode 104 of the Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast, Chris Steffen and Ken Buckler from EMA discuss the impacts that taxes and tariffs have on technology and cybersecurity ...

OpenTelemetry enjoys a positive perception, with half of respondents considering OpenTelemetry mature enough for implementation today, and another 31% considering it moderately mature and useful, according to a new EMA report, Taking Observability to the Next Level: OpenTelemetry's Emerging Role in IT Performance and Reliability ... and almost everyone surveyed (98.7%) expresses support for where OpenTelemetry is heading — a very strong vote of confidence ...

Organizations are failing to protect their APIs despite persistent breaches and increased awareness of security risks, according to 2025 Global State of API Security from Traceable AI ...