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An Engineering Manager's Tips for Increasing Autonomy and Reducing Noise

Business is booming – your team is growing, your customer base is expanding, and you’re shipping more than ever. But without the right processes in place to scale, that fast-paced growth can leave engineering teams scrambling to navigate an increasingly more complex codebase, new team structures, and an ever-growing backlog of issues and requests. Join Jad Chamoun, Engineering Manager at Forethought, as he walks through how Forethought increased developer autonomy and workflow efficiency so their growing team can triage issues quickly without playing the blame game.

Making Go errors play nice with Sentry

Here at incident.io, we provide a Slack-based incident response tool. The product is powered by a monolithic Go backend service, serving an API that powers Slack interactions, serves an API for our web dashboard, and runs background jobs that help run our customers incidents. Incidents are high-stakes, and we want to know when something has gone wrong. One of the tools we use is Sentry, which is where our Go backend send its errors.

DevOps - it's not dead yet

It’s one of those questions that’s tossed around the internet quite regularly. “Is DevOps dead?” Is there a genuine reason to think that DevOps is on its last legs? Or are authors just trying to get clicks by making controversial statements? Let’s look at some of the main justifications given for raising this question: I’ll come back to these points shortly.

Freshdesk + Squadcast: Enabling Streamlined Incident Response for Enterprises

Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service platform used by enterprises that provides a centralized help desk(with the help of support tickets) across multiple channels, including email, phone, chat, and social media. Squadcast is an incident management platform that integrates with major monitoring, ChatOps and project management tools to provide a centralized place for reliability.

Getting Started with SUSE Rancher Fleet and Shipa Cloud

As the GitOps paradigm continues to evolve, different interpretations and implementations will continue to appear. SUSE Rancher Fleet is a project creating a powerful, lightweight, and scalable GitOps engine. Recently, we showed the art of the possible between Shipa and SUSE Rancher Fleet. Make sure to check out our joint solution brief where the intersection of the SUSE Rancher and Shipa stacks come together.

Command Line Tools | Intro to the CLI Part 3

Click below to read other articles from our CLI intro series: At the beginning of this series, we looked at the benefits of using the CLI shell on your machine. One of those benefits is the wide range of developer tools available that only have a CLI. In this part of the CLI intro series, we’re going to focus on.

Deliver exception messages through Slack and Webhooks for fast resolution

Building new applications is a lot of fun, but troubleshooting and fixing the crashes that can come with app development is not. While many organizations are fast adopting the DevOps model, there are still some legacy frameworks where developers and operations teams are separate. Developers build and submit apps to their ops team, who in turn deploy and maintain the production stack. A common issue that arises due to this workflow is the time it takes to find and resolve crashes.

OpenSearch is here

We’re excited to announce that Upsun now offers OpenSearch as a service available and included on all plans. OpenSearch is a distributed RESTful search and analytics engine you can use for log analytics, a search backend, clickstream analytics, and more. With the recent move by ElasticSearch to switch to a licensing model, it was important for us to propose a strong open source alternative. And OpenSearch is completely open source, so you could run and manage it on your own.