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Infeasible? Yes, developers are technically correct

Infeasible? Yes, developers are technically correct when they say something is infeasible. To engineering managers, that translates to impossible, which is correct, too. This is where software developers and managers can agree to disagree. Here's part 3 of 4 of Sleuth's CTO and cofounder, Don Brown's take on decoding developer speak. 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.

CloudHealth Vs. CloudWatch: How Do They Differ?

Amazon’s CloudHealth and VMware’s CloudHealth are two of the most popular cloud management and system monitoring platforms today. But which platform does what, and are they even direct competitors? In this post, we'll compare the two services and highlight their main differences so you can choose which to use — or whether to use both.

DoD Compliance + DoD Configuration Management: How to Get Compliant with Less Effort

DoD compliance is a set of rules and expectations for IT cybersecurity in organizations that do business with the US Department of Defense (DoD). Discover everything you need to know about DoD compliance and DoD configuration management in this blog – plus how to manage DoD compliance better and faster with Puppet.

Docker Container Lifecycle Management

Managing an application's dependencies and tech stack across numerous cloud and development environments is a regular difficulty for DevOps teams. Regardless of the underlying platform it uses, it must maintain the application's stability and functionality as part of its regular duties. However, one possible solution to this problem is to create an OS image that already contains the required libraries and configurations needed to run the application.

Spotting Vulnerabilities at Rest and at Runtime feat. Cloudsmith and Sysdig

The rise and popularity of containers and Kubernetes have revolutionised the IT industry but also introduced a lot of complexity including a huge number of vulnerabilities coming from different container image layers. To master those vulnerabilities both DevOps and Security teams are struggling to prioritise and address them, often without sufficient clarity or accountable insights.

Proven methods for elevating end-to-end tracking in Azure/Hybrid Integrations

Tracking end-to-end message or business data across Azure/hybrid integration and implementing end-to-end tracking presents a significant challenge for many organizations. To solve this problem, many rely on various monitoring tools like Log Analytics, App Insights, etc., designed for developers. However, when it comes to supporting applications in production or real-time for non-technical Azure operations/support teams, this approach can be challenging in terms of security and expertise.

How we leverage our product responder role to push our pace of development

Like many of our own customers, at its heart, incident.io is a software company. Because of this, it means that our work is never truly “done." One of our primary goals is to help people coordinate their response to situations where things haven’t gone well, and make it easy to always do the right thing. But we know that there will always be bugs to fix, features to be introduced and improvements to be made, as evidenced by our changelog.

Hacking our Way Towards ML-first Jupyter Notebooks - Civo Navigate NA 2023

In this Navigate 2023 talk, Matt Dupree discusses various challenges in data work and machine learning and proposes potential solutions. He highlights the importance of static analysis to address the problem of refactoring in data notebooks. Dupree emphasizes the need for automated testing workflows using IPython's hooks and profiles to minimize errors and missed opportunities. Furthermore, he suggests the development of Jupyter Bridge plugins to alleviate the repetitive typing of code and simplify the interaction between Python and JavaScript.