Market Trends Talk – swampUp 2019

The world has many buzzwords that people like to use. Some are more relevant to the real world and some aren’t. If yesterday was powered by new products and features, today is going to be filled by insights from our communities.

There are around 37 million developers in the world (according to GitHub last report) so it’s a substantial community. Moreover, DevOps is growing at a rapid pace. Btw, according to StackOverflow last survey – DevOps developers and site reliability engineers are among the highest paid, most experienced developers most satisfied with their jobs, and are looking for new jobs at the lowest levels.

I think we can all agree that data is stronger than opinions, rights?
This is what I really like about the special point of view that we have at JFrog. As the “database of DevOps“, we are sitting in a unique place – holding the output of what developers producing.
This is giving us excellent visibility into trends and the real world.

What does this mean?

It’s about contrasting perception with reality.
We combined our own data from 5000 customers with internal and external researches in an effort to give you a clear picture of the current state and what are the DevOps trends for the next 12-18 months.

The main challenges

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JFrog & Shippable – The Synergy

In the video below we talk about JFrog –Shippable acquisition and did our best to answer some of the questions, we got over the last couple of weeks.

What is Shippable?

Shippable provides software organizations with the ability to optimize and accelerate the process of shipping software by giving them an “Assembly Lines” platform that borrows concepts from the world of manufacturing and helps them easily achieve Continuous Delivery. Cutting-edge modern companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Netflix have already built homegrown versions of Assembly Lines after spending years of effort and millions of dollars. You can ship applications as rapidly as these companies by leveraging Shippable.

JFrog

JFrog’s solution is a fully automated pipeline for distributing trusted software releases. It connects all developers and DevOps engineers to end devices and ensures software flows quickly and free from interruption. There are many good (starting) points of integration and it can be customized to the current needs of your company. For more about the enterprise platform read here: https://jfrog.com/enterprise-plus-platform/

So Where is the synergy?

Your First Kubernetes Cluster On Mac

If you wish to learn about Kubernetes, the first thing is to try it for yourself. Since many developers are using Mac, let’s see how to run it. This post is sort of a ‘checklist’ I wrote when I was first ‘playing’ with K8b… If you want more details please check the official site.

Run Everything In Docker Containers (On Your Mac)

If you wish to see the power of docker on your Mac as a way to run all (or many) of your daily apps check this great post by Jess.

However, when you are going to the repo with all the Dockerfiles it’s clear that it was meant to be used on Linux. However, here is a short path to run all of these powerful apps on Mac as well.

A Trip To TRANSFORM!2019

Make your software flow

Last week I had the pleasure to participate in a panel that talked about the future of DevOps. It was part of Transform!2019 Event that was in Munich, Germany. Fun fact, from the hotel I could see the Google office, which brought many good memories.

The main goal of the event was to let participants a way to experience what it means to change a company to become more “Intelligent”. The way to share the knowledge was by engaging in an open dialogue between industry leaders, start-ups in the DevOps world, executives and SAP experts. The event had few tracks and many options to network which was a great opportunity to learn from others.

DevOps Panel

When it comes to creating a business that can thrive in the digital age, the benefits of DevOps are clear. Faster deployment frequency and lower failure rates are proven to be some of the advantages of DevOps adoption. It brings more velocity into your (software) organization and enables you to add more value (faster) to your users.

Do You Need A Binary Repository?

Any developer knows that you must have a source code repository (e.g. Git) but from time to time I get the question “why do I need a binary repository”?

Here is the short answer:

Faster and more secure software development – Any company is a software company these days and the best companies release updates on daily/hourly bases. The ability to push updates quickly is a real competitive advantage. The minute you have few engineers on your team you wish to avoid ‘fetching the all internet’ with every ‘npm install’.
A binary repo will give you the option to cache these libraries and make sure you are working with the correct ones (vs a hacked one). From the developer perspective, it is a big boost for their productivity as it saves time during development and on each build. Even better, from the DevOps perspective, the ability to control all the packages/libraries (and scan them for vulnerabilities) is a huge advantage. It enables the internal engineering team to control the releases better as they have full transparency (e.g. quality, performance, security, licenses, etc’) on everything the ‘compose’ the release version. Check the 12-factor app manifesto for more on dependencies (declaration and isolation).

Charlie’s Thoughts on Decision Making

I read a few years ago the Poor Charlie’s Almanack and found it to be a really great book for many areas in life. It’s also a long and heavy book so you might wish to get it it to your Kindle. Charles Munger is a brilliant thinker and it’s no surprise that the book is full of practical wisdom.

Some of the points I took and used many times:

Incentives – He talks about the incentives and how they are in the root of many systems. One of the more powerful statements is: “If you wish to see what people will do – look at their incentives”. It holds true both to people and to teams & companies.

Bias – How the human mind is closing itself after it ‘knows’ something. That might be really hard when you want to change your thoughts on a topic. You should embrace people who think differently and aren’t agree with you on every topic. It’s not easy but rewarding and will improve your decisions.