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Code-to-Cloud Visibility: An essential framework for DevOps success

In DevOps we are used to talking about application velocity. But velocity without a framework is short lived and potentially creates more risk than benefit. Code-to-Cloud visibility is the practice of making sure engineering teams have visibility across the entire SDLC in depth and breadth. With code-to-cloud visibility organizations understand the impact of application development from feature definition to it running in production.

A modern CMDB at the heart of automation

The classic view we have on the CMDB is no longer sufficient. Having a static database of Configuration Items that is heavily guarded by a Change Management process, no longer suffices in a modern, agile, or cloud-native environment. A modern CMDB should be the heart of your automation journey, both being managed by your automation as well as feed information back to your platform via automation. This session will tackle how focusing your efforts on a good, lean CMDB with the necessary (automated) processes around it, can greatly increase your platforms growth, maintenance and agility.

Native SQL Server Backup Types and How To Guide

When a disaster occurs, the ability to successfully restore SQL Server databases is fundamental for avoiding data loss. It’s not enough to rely on hardware and software technologies to replicate data because these technologies can go wrong or there can be multiple failures during a disaster, meaning you have to rely on backups to recover. SQL Server allows multiple types of backups, and a multitude of options to use with those backups.

Fold Your Repos Into PHP Composer v2 with Artifactory

If you’re among the nearly one in four professional developers using PHP (according to StackOverflow’s 2021 survey), then the maintainers of Composer would really like you to migrate from v1 of the PHP package manager to v2. On October 24 2020, Composer 2.0.0 was released with some major improvements.Since almost eight out of every ten websites on the internet use PHP in some way, that’s a change with big impact.

How organizations handled incidents before and after deploying AIOps - Part 2

In this highly dynamic environment, organizations are looking for ways to innovate and manage resources efficiently. In the first part of the two-part blog series, we saw how organizations handled incidents without an AIOps solution and how long it took to resolve that incident — a scenario representing different steps to resolve an incident. In the second part of the two-part blog series, we look at how organizations were able to handle incidents after deploying AIOps.

Git vs SVN

If you’re writing or tracking code for a project you’ve likely heard of Version Control Systems, or VCS, also commonly referred to as source control. The primary function of a Version Control System is to host a project and track how it develops over time. With a VCS, developers can compare changes in files, track commits, propose changes, view project history, revert to old versions of the project, and more.

Performing database tests on SQL databases

Testing is one of those activities that if not exhaustive will not have its complete impact on your software development process. Oftentimes developers are only concerned about testing the application layer of the system (a.k.a the codebase) and ignore testing the data layer (the database) which is also as important as testing the code itself.