The speed and complexity of microservices-intense applications often leave their developers in the dark. The creators too often struggle to track and visualize the actual underlying architecture of their distributed services. The designers, builders, and testers of modern API-driven apps, therefore, need an ongoing and instant visibility capability into the…

The rapidly expanding use of application programming interfaces (APIs) to accelerate application development and advanced business services has created a vast constellation of interrelated services — often now called the API Economy. Yet the speed and complexity of this API adoption spree has largely outrun the capability of existing tools…

Today’s diversity of hybrid IT models and environments demands that IT services and support accommodate more digital variables than ever. …

Bringing broader awareness of security risks and building a security-minded culture within any public or private organization has been a top priority for years. Yet halfway through 2021, IT security remains as much a threat as ever — with multiple major breaches and attacks costing tens of millions of dollars…

Closing the gap between the applications and services a company needs — and the ones they can actually produce — has long been a missing keystone for attaining digital transformation.For increasingly software-driven organizations, the speed by which developers produce the needed processes, data flows, and business transactions has been much…

Predicting the future took on a whole new degree of difficulty the past two years. And while we can’t always know what Mother Nature will throw our way, we can learn from what worked — and what didn’t work — in 2021. Clearly, adjusting swiftly to persistent change and leveraging…

Complexity and security challenges can hobble the growth of financial transactions for private-data-laden, consumer-facing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Add to that the need to deliver user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and personalized — and you have a thorny thicket of software development challenges. So how did streamlined and cost-efficient home-brokerage-enabler…

The so-called great resignation has anywhere from half to two-thirds of U.S. workers looking for something other than their current situation. Whatever the percentage, there’s no question that workers across the board have and continue to quit in droves. And whether the exit is due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the…

Way back in 1996, when web browsing was novel and central processing still ruled the roost of enterprise IT, The Open Group was formed from the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open. This October marks the 25th anniversary of remarkable achievements in the technology standards arena by The…