Derek Weeks

Sonatype Blog

An analysis of high performance open source development practices ... Read More

If money “makes the world ’go round” -- then today, software developers are the ones pushing and spinning the globe. Every day developers ensure that digital money (and other financial products and services) is securely routed around the planet as intended. And the happy ones do it best. The financial ... Read More

UPDATE for May 31, 2020: We first published this story over a week ago, but adversaries don't rest. On Friday, Cisco announced that they have discovered SaltStack compromises on six of their salt-master servers - part of the Cisco Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition service infrastructure. This brings the total ... Read More

I’ve now been working from home for 30 days since Maryland closed our public schools and advised its citizens distance themselves. It was also 30 days ago that we had nearly 1,000 executives and managers at State Farm preparing to receive a small group of All Day DevOps speakers for ... Read More

The results are in: happy developers working in teams with mature DevSecOps practices produce more secure software ... Read More

Jez Humble’s (@jezhumble) career has spanned roles through coding, infrastructure, and product development across three continents and organizations of varying sizes. To say he knows a lot about continuous delivery is a total understatement. In 2010, he and Dave Farley literally wrote the book on Continuous Delivery — and if you have ... Read More

Four years ago, my colleague Mark Miller and I founded the All Day DevOps conference with seven friends from around the community. We planned the conference in 90 days and expected 1,000 folks to show up to listen to the 57 speakers we had vetted for the agenda. As it ... Read More

Today dev, ops, and security -- all three silos -- are working in synergy in top-performing DevOps organizations - what we know as DevSecOps.Aditya Balapure (@adityabalapure) is an infosec specialist at Haven. He was at GrubHub when he spoke at the All Day DevOps conference. He emphasized the importance of ... Read More

Anyone who grew up with siblings knows the phrase, "There is a wall here!!!!!" Of course, there wasn’t a physical wall, but an imaginary border that separated you and protected your space. In software development, walls aren’t helpful. We don’t need to protect our space (although sometimes we might feel ... Read More

If you had $10,000, would you rather build a deck for your home or a fence? ... Read More