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SRE Signals: 3 Types of Metrics for Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, is a widely-used set of interdisciplinary practices that help increase the efficiency of software development. But, aside from that, its purpose is to create scalable, connected, reliable, communicated systems that keep providing better, more reliable results. SRE leads to more connected, efficient organizations that can build resilient, iterable, and scalable software. To do this, SRE engineers leverage their coding expertise.

Track your test coverage with Datadog RUM and Synthetic Monitoring

The modern standards of the web demand that user-facing applications be highly usable and satisfying. When deploying frontends, it’s important to implement a comprehensive testing strategy to ensure your customers are getting the best possible user experience. It can be difficult, however, to gauge the effectiveness of your test suite. For instance, all of your tests may be passing, but they might not cover a specific UI element that is crucial to a critical workflow.

Changelog 11th August 2022

We have rolled out our new "operation log viewer." This feature is not just a facelift of our logging interface but a whole new way to view and search logs for actions taken by you and your team on your applications. The new viewer supports historical deployment logs, allowing you to see logs from previous actions. In addition, you can see logs for background operations like renewing your SSL certificates.

How to retrieve Azure Key Vault Secrets using Azure Functions (Part II)

In my previous post, I explained How to retrieve Azure Key Vault Secrets using Azure Functions, where you can understand Key Vault URL and the Secret name to retrieve a secret generically, you could use it inside all your Logic App Standard workflows, whether they use the same Key Vault resource or different ones.

Tools and Tutorials for Learning Powershell

Do you have repetitive tasks you’d like to automate or manage, but not the time or know-how to code a solution from scratch? Powershell might be just what you’re looking for. Designed to help automate activities, it is a cross-platform shell and scripting language developed by Microsoft. With Powershell, you can use the command line or scripting language to have point-and-click activities executed and managed. It’s fairly easy to use and yet extremely powerful. So, where do you begin?

Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS is now available

Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the best way to upgrade your creativity, productivity and downtime. Check out our new video to learn more! The release of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and is the first major milestone in our Long Term Support (LTS) commitment to our users.