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In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE), failure is not only an option, but also expected. Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. It is an unavoidable fact. These unexpected failures can lead to huge revenue losses, customer trust and depending on the industry, maybe fines. Fortunately, SRE incident management is one of the core practices used to limit the disruption caused by unexpected issues.

When you’re working with a Continuous Delivery workflow, you rely on building and deploying your websites in such a way that any improvements can be released into production any time. Identifying and fixing failures quickly is key to enabling rapid development cycles. But what happens when you’re looking into a failed build step, with no clue as to how to address it? You can now share links to specific lines within the activity logs.

One of our customers recently got their first bill after moving their Linux and Windows workloads to Azure. Their bill was astronomical! They struggled to answer the question, “how much will it cost?” and their initial cost assessments were vague at best. Here’s what they did.

When administering your Kubernetes cluster, you will likely run into a situation where you need to delete pods from one of your nodes. You may need to debug issues with the node itself, upgrade the node, or simply scale down your cluster. Deleting pods from a node is not very difficult, however there are specific steps you should take to minimize disruption for your application.

Elastic Observability 7.16 introduces curated data exploration views for ad hoc analysis and further extends visibility into complex and distributed systems with the general availability (GA) of dozens of prebuilt Elastic Agent data integrations, observability tooling for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and a new native data source integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) FireLens. These new features allow customers to.

Today we're joined by CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly, John Kodumal. LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that gives developers total control of their code so that they can ship quicker, reduce risk, and reclaim their nights and weekends. We're going to talk about why having tools that help devs build with confidence is essential to a successful DevOps culture and John's top tips for enterprises who are early in their DevOps adoption.