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Where do YOU stand on DORA metrics?

Where does your team stand on DORA metrics? The Jackpocket software development team wanted to know that, too, so they implemented Sleuth to find out. Now, they know exactly where they stand AND where they're making progress. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

How to monitor Azure App Registration Client Secret Expiration Notification?

Security remains a paramount concern in the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud computing. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cornerstone for securing applications and services within the Azure ecosystem. Azure App Registrations offer a crucial mechanism to manage application identities and enable secure authentication and authorization. However, the expiration of client secrets associated with these app registrations can introduce security vulnerabilities.

AI With a Purpose: Top Moves for Strategically Applying IT Automation

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t the only thing at the heart of what organizations are doing to keep with digital transformation and drive business growth. People are, too. Development of AI actually began about 40 years ago, but for generative AI (genAI), that time is much less. The explosion of genAI has brought about an everlasting, first-of-its-kind innovation that’s accessible to just about everyone.

Maximizing Coding Productivity with Large Language Models

Learn how to maximize developer productivity by leveraging large language models for rapid code refactoring. Large language models like ChatGPT have tremendous potential to automate repetitive coding tasks and boost team effectiveness. In this MAAS Show And Tell, Peter Makowski, Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, shares insights and a real-world example of using LLM for a successful large-scale migration of hundreds of tests from enzyme to @testing-library/react.

Key questions to ask when setting SLOs

Many organizations rely on service level objectives (SLOs) to help them gauge the reliability of their products. By setting SLOs that define clear and measurable reliability targets, businesses can ensure they are delivering positive end-user experiences to their customers. Clearly defined SLOs also make it much easier for businesses to understand what tradeoffs they may have to make in order to deliver those specific experiences.

The Unplanned Show, Episode 8: Platform Engineering with Martin Van Son

In this episode, Martin Van Son provides a simplified definition of platforms in this context: a way for internal users to request anything from environments to deployments. The platform engineering comes in because someone needs to own stitching together and automating away all the complexity involved to complete that action. In the end, both the consumers and the creators save time. Furthermore, platform engineers have an opportunity to encode best practices and cost saving measures that are often forgotten when users are left to their own devices.

Restarting Kubernetes Pods: A Detailed Guide

This blog will help you learn all about restarting Kubernetes pods and give you some tips on troubleshooting issues you may encounter. Kubernetes pods are one of the most commonly used Kubernetes resources. Since all of your applications running on your cluster live in a pod, the sooner you learn all about pods, the better.

Git a Handle on it! A Scalable Approach to GitOps Configuration Patterns - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Discover the world of GitOps with this presentation from John Dietz where he dives into scalable configuration management patterns. The talk emphasizes the challenges faced by developers and administrators while adopting GitOps practices and outlines various scalable strategies and best practices to address these. It presents a variety of patterns, tools, and tactics to manage configuration as code, contributing to improved system stability, team collaboration, and delivery speed.

Rootly Raises $12 Million from Renegade Partners, Google Gradient Ventures, & XYZ Ventures

We are excited to announce that we have raised a $12M round of financing led by Renegade Partners with participation from Google Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund) and XYZ Ventures. This brings our total funding to date to $15.2M ($20M CAD) alongside our other existing investors Y Combinator and 8VC.

July 2023 newsletter: Changelog-The Deluxe Edition

🎵 Gotta give the people, give the people what they want! 🎵 You've been asking. And we've been listening. Over the past few weeks, we've been shipping frequently requested features to help you bring your incident management to the next level. It may be the dog days of summer, but let's ignore that, yeah? Just take a look at this recent changelog. Note that this is the biggest one we've ever published.