The latest News and Information on DevOps, CI/CD, Automation and related technologies.
In this article, I’ll provide a guide to Git for non-developers. So, if you are reading this as a full experienced Git user, you may disagree with some of my statements. Don’t bother reading on; we recognize you as the expert! If, on the other hand, you’re new to Git, this piece is for you.
Your team has worked hard on a software product for months, and it’s finally ready to release to your users! But then the worst-case scenario happens: a wide release soon indicates that the software is plagued with bugs and performance issues, resulting in poor reviews and widespread user dissatisfaction.
By combining traffic replay capabilities from Speedscale with observability from Datadog, SRE Teams can deploy with confidence. It makes sense to centralize your monitoring data into as few silos as possible. With this integration, Speedscale will push the results of various traffic replay conditions into Datadog so it can be combined with the other observability data. Being able to preview application performance by simulating production conditions allows better release decisions. Moreover, a baseline to compare production metrics can provide even earlier signals on degradation and scale problems. Speedscale joined the Datadog Marketplace so customers can shift-left the discovery of performance issues.
Organizations across a wide range of industries share a common goal: deploy stable applications that support their customers’ needs. Many of these organizations rely on the Datadog platform to get complete visibility into the health and performance of their applications, and we understand how important it is that our services are reliable. That’s why we leverage our own products to ensure that the platform works as expected.
Cloud is currently seen by some of the clients I speak with, as the answer to associated technical debt. Technical debt is like any other debt – growing year-on-year, month-by-month. Simply relocating a workload from your dated compute stack to someone else’s system or service is not a panacea to every business-led postponement.
A cloud-first strategy is increasingly seen as the standard way to achieve efficient business operations. As the favoured approach of new start-ups and expanding businesses wanting to benefit from the flexibility and resilience of the cloud, it’s little wonder that foundational cloud services saw a revenue growth of 38.5% in 2021 according to IDC. It looks like a fantastic package from the outside.
Many of our customers use FireHydrant’s verified Terraform provider to track configuration changes, ensure consistency, and automate repetitive configuration tasks. Back in March we streamlined our Terraform provider support for service catalog configuration. Today we are releasing extensive Terraform provider improvements for configuring runbooks, task lists, service dependencies, incident roles, and more.
Crossplane is an open-source project that lets you turn a Kubernetes cluster into a control plane. Crossplane lets you interact with your cloud provider API from a Kubernetes cluster, enabling you to create cloud resources required by your applications, such as databases or other resources supported by Crossplane for different cloud providers.
