Agile and DevOps a pair in 2018

Cloud Applications Digest A roundup of this week’s cloud applications and development content |January 2, 2018 FEATURED STORY Agile and DevOps are better together in 2018 By Jennifer Lent, Contributor IT industry observers agree: When you add DevOps and Agile, you get more than the sum of the parts. See how experts envision the combination of Agile and DevOps in 2018. (SearchSoftwareQuality.com) Advertisement NEWS   New Kubernetes releases and support stand out in 2017 New releases and rapidly growing adoption rates made 2017 a big year for Kubernetes. Twain Taylor takes a look at this year's big news around the evolving Kubernetes project. (SearchMicroservices.com)   What thought leaders were saying about Java SE 9 in 2017 Understandably, Java SE 9 was a popular topic of discussion in 2017, but so were DevOps and cloud native, according to this list of the 10 most popular podcasts of 2017. (TheServerSide.com) EXPERT ADVICE   New distributed tracing API completes the feedback loop As apps get moved to the cloud and software has no fixed address, tracing and troubleshooting are challenges. But a new distributed tracing API promises to help. (TheServerSide.com)   Test your IQ on microservices principles and strategies Think you have a good handle on microservices and how to properly introduce them to your organization? Take a shot at this quiz to find out for yourself. (SearchMicroservices.com)   Oracle vs. AWS battle heats up around cloud costs, databases After imposing a price hike for its customers that use AWS, Oracle now needs to contend with new AWS services that compete with its databases. (SearchAWS.com)   Four questions to ask about your DevOps strategy There’s a lot of information about DevOps out there. However, there are key principles you can stick to in order to achieve success through DevOps. (SearchMicroservices.com) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Cloud Application Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Data Center and Virtualization Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2017 TechTarget. All rights reserved.