This week in DevOps hightlights how the integration of development and operations can attain improved agility and operational excellence while also speeding deployment of new capabilities.

This week PagerDuty delivered new analytics tools to better improve team and system performance and Sony is reaching out to developers to build apps for its SmartEyeglass platform.

This and more below in this DevOps Weekly.

Sony SmartEyeglass SDK to build future smart apps

Last week, Sony introduced the SDK Developer Preview for its SmartEyeglass concept for developers to build apps for the SmartEyeglass platform. Unlike Google Glass, Sony’s Smart Glasses will come packed with an integrated screen on the lens that will allow it to act as a secondary screen for any Android smartphone. The device will be equipped with a diverse range of sensing technologies, which includes CMOS image sensor, accelerator, Gyroscope, and a brightness sensor.

The SDK will include an emulator, sample codes, tutorials to help developers get started, in-depth guides, API references, design guidelines, test instructions, and the publishing guidelines. All these things will allow developers to get started working on their dedicated apps for the Sony SmartEyeglass. Releasing the SDK early means that both the industry’s most established and up-and-coming developers will help shape what SmartEyeglass is capable of.

Open source is key

When it comes to cloud infrastructure, open source is the winning method among enterprise service providers. The operations performance management company PagerDuty launched Advanced Analytics tools to provide IT teams tools to better improve team and system performance.

The analytics system provides DevOps teams better insight into how teams are responding to and resolving incidents, to help determine whether teams are spending time on the right problems and providing tools to identify, and to better analyze and share trends about their resolution times and incident load.

HP recently announced that it’s acquiring Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., provider of open-source software for building private and hybrid enterprise clouds. Last week, former Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos and HP’s new Senior Vice President of its cloud division in theCUBE interview said open source open source is key to the cloud, saying that if you want to get engineers super-excited about something, the code must be open.

HP with its Helion OpenStack distribution can won the hearts and minds of developers with its growing enterprise cloud services. He said that HP can provide developers with a whole range of products and services. Developers can just download the Helion OpenStack distribution, get going, build applications, and run it on any hardware they like.

IoT enabling new class of developers

The device landscape has exploded beyond PCs, tablets and smartphones. Now, wearables, sensors, home automation and connected cars present a completely new app ecosystem. Apps no longer live on a single device and instead are interconnected across a broad range of ‘things’ to deliver an integrated yet distributed solution. With the increasing focus on Internet of Things (IoT) app development and the potential for the number of connected ‘things,’ developers will need to focus more on the creation of innovative and practical apps that leverage IoT, and less on the mechanics of connecting each ‘thing.’

In that sense, Embarcadero Technologies fielded an IoT developer survey in August 2014 to find how IoT is impacting application development plans for developers.

The survey highlighted that nearly one third of developer respondents that they are already working on IoT apps, while majority percentage of developers who have not started are planning to start IoT development in next 18 months.

It is also worth noting that Android leads the IoT platform when it comes to building apps as 87 percent of developers support the Google platform but majority noted that the tools should be multi-device and platform independent for development.

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