Parasoft is showcasing its latest product innovations at embedded world Exhibition, booth 4-318, including new GenAI integration with Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to optimize test automation of safety-critical applications while reducing development time, cost, and risk.
As we start off 2018, it is obvious that the culture of DevOps in the enterprise is here to stay, but what of DevSecOps? From continued adoption of API-first solutions to core code development, below I discuss a few predictions I see on how DevOps and SecOps will further entwine in addition to how related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2018.
DevOps
The term "DevOps" continues to be used in too many situations and descriptors. For me, it's a cultural pattern grounded by "Collaboration, Automation, Measurement, and Sharing" (CAMS). In 2018, I think we will begin to see DevSecOps become the new DevOps. Security truly needs to be seamlessly embedded into the systems development life cycle (SDLC) and CI/CD pipeline, instead of an afterthought and a barrier to deployment.
Development Technology
2018 will see continued adoption of API-first solutions, microservices architectural patterns and more developers leveraging "Serverless" function as a service (FaaS) to deliver features at a higher velocity. Strategies around Machine Learning models to deliver AI solutions will be baked in from the start of a project.
Development Automation
Core code development won't be going away anytime soon, but more and more automated solutions that ensure that packages and libraries are always at the latest version will be adopted. The goal of automation will be focused on allowing developers to only worry about the core features that they are working on, not maintaining the "scaffolding."
Agile Development
It's surprising how many organizations still haven't (fully) adopted Agile methodology, and many are still simply "Wagile" (Waterfall-Agile). In 2018, Continuous Delivery will become table stakes for those who want to stave off disruption.
Continuous Development
The combined approaches of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Testing, and Continuous Deployment will continue to be implemented by Enterprises looking to deliver features to market at a higher velocity. This will also require cultural evolution where collaboration and feedback loops are tighter.
API (Application Program Interface)
Restful APIs should be a core part of solutions, especially as everything, including infrastructure, moves to a software-defined, programmatic world. APIs also allow for rapid integrations with potential partners and business expansion.
Industry News
JFrog announced general availability of its integration with NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.
CloudCasa by Catalogic announce an integration with SUSE® Rancher Prime via a new Rancher Prime Extension.
MacStadium announced the extended availability of Orka Cluster 3.2, establishing the market’s first enterprise-grade macOS virtualization solution available across multiple deployment options.
JFrog is partnering with Hugging Face, host of a repository of public machine learning (ML) models — the Hugging Face Hub — designed to achieve more robust security scans and analysis forevery ML model in their library.
Copado launched DevOps Automation Agent on Salesforce's AgentExchange, a global ecosystem marketplace powered by AppExchange for leading partners building new third-party agents and agent actions for Agentforce.
Harness completed its merger with Traceable, effective March 4, 2025.
JFrog released JFrog ML, an MLOps solution as part of the JFrog Platform designed to enable development teams, data scientists and ML engineers to quickly develop and deploy enterprise-ready AI applications at scale.
Progress announced the addition of Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality to Progress® MOVEit® Cloud managed file transfer (MFT) solution.
Couchbase launched Couchbase Edge Server, an offline-first, lightweight database server and sync solution designed to provide low latency data access, consolidation, storage and processing for applications in resource-constrained edge environments.
Sonatype announced end-to-end AI Software Composition Analysis (AI SCA) capabilities that enable enterprises to harness the full potential of AI.
Aviatrix® announced the launch of the Aviatrix Kubernetes Firewall.
ScaleOps announced the general availability of their Pod Placement feature, a solution that helps companies manage Kubernetes infrastructure.
Cloudsmith raised a $23 million Series B funding round led by TCV, with participation from Insight Partners and existing investors.
IBM has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI.