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THE BIG IDEA
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If Anyone Can Inspire Digital Trust, It’s Us – Developers
In the world of big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital trust underpins continued growth and development. However, building a strong, reliable, safe and secure digital trust ecosystem is no easy matter. No free rider is allowed – regulators, tech companies, consumers, and at the heart of it, ethical DevOps are all essential.
THE IT SOCIETY / Issue 02/2021
ALBERT OOI Lead IT Architect, Applications Services, NCS Group
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ut with everyone in DevOps talking about being agile, and failing fast and learning fast today, where does quality stand? How can we strike a balance between speed and quality? Or what measures can we put in place to harmonise them? IT ALL STARTS WITH SECURED AND QUALITY SOFTWARE Typically, two approaches are most commonly applied in ensuring software quality – do quality checks after the design and development cycle, or continuously throughout the development phase. While the former is a common practice traditionally, the latter typically offers fewer problems and surprises at the end. WHY SECURITY SHOULD NOT BE AN AFTERTHOUGHT By starting small, chewing little, validating, testing and then progressing a little more, it fits the ideology of fail fast and learn fast. And even when nothing fails, insights gained can help optimise long term goals, and move the development along. In a nutshell, this is shift left security.
