Derek Weeks

Derek serves as vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype and is the co-founder of All Day DevOps -- an online community of 65,000 IT professionals.

Jobs As Code: Selecting the Best Tools and Deconstructing the CI/CD Pipeline

By Derek Weeks on August 12, 2019 devops tools

3 minute read time

Jobs-as-Code is an approach that treats application automation management in the SDLC just like any other code components of an application.
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Using Process Oriented Design (POD) to Increase the Dependability of DevOps Processes

By Derek Weeks on July 23, 2019 Enterprise DevOps

3 minute read time

A Process Oriented Design helps DevOps teams create robust software with less downtime risk. Dr. Ingo Weber, an Australian research scientist, explains.
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What 36,000 OSS Projects and 12,000 Commercial Dev Teams Taught Us About Secure Coding Practices

By Derek Weeks on June 25, 2019 devsecops

2 minute read time

Our 2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report Reveals Best Practices From 36,000 OSS Dev Teams and 12,000 commercial software engineering teams.
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Continuous Compliance and DevOps

By Derek Weeks on June 17, 2019 OSS compliance

3 minute read time

Compliance automation is critical to DevOps infrastructure. Christoph Hartmann, lead engineer at Chef and the creator of InSpec, explains the benefits.
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Managing Infrastructure at Scale with Terraform

By Derek Weeks on June 10, 2019 Open Source

2 minute read time

Eighty percent of software outages are due to human error. Jon Brouse shows how Terraform, an open source infrastructure solution, eliminates mistakes.
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Malicious Code Injection Strikes Again as npm Foils $13M Cryptocurrency Theft

By Derek Weeks on June 07, 2019 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

The latest attempt at a cryptocurrency heist demonstrates how open source software components are used throughout the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
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10 Ways Kubernetes Enables DevOps

By Derek Weeks on June 03, 2019 devsecops

5 minute read time

Siamak Sadeghianfar (@siamaks), DevOps Evangelist at Red Hat, lays out 10 ways Kubernetes enables DevOps.
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Implementing DevSecOps with 1,162 Apps

By Derek Weeks on April 22, 2019 devsecops

3 minute read time

True DevSecOps includes breaking builds when vulnerable open source is found. But, implementing that level of precision is not an easy task.
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From 0 to Accredited in 23 Days

By Derek Weeks on April 22, 2019 devops tools

2 minute read time

DevSecOps in Government - What if there was a way to go from 0 to accredited in 23 days? Leonel Garciga from the DoD’s Joint Improvised Threat Defeat.
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