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Boost Productivity Through Optimized Azure Storage Management

In the fast-growing Azure world, the significant need for organisations would be productivity. Any enterprise that invests in a tool for their serverless needs aims for optimised management, which boosts productivity. This article will explain how to increase productivity while having a critical resource like Azure Storage, which is essential for organisations with their business developed in Azure. For an effective performance for such substantial resources, optimised management is mandatory.

Accelerate operational tasks with Puppet and ServiceNow

As your DevOps and IT Service Management (ITSM) teams continue to increase, so should your ability to provide self-service infrastructure capabilities. Whether you are a ServiceNow or Puppet administrator looking to expand automation to other groups such as Site Reliability Engineering or the IT Service Desk, the integration of Puppet Enterprise and ServiceNow is now at your fingertips.

Continuous deployment for Azure functions

Serverless computing, a model in which the provider manages the server, lets developers focus on writing dedicated pieces of application logic. Serverless computing has been adopted by many development teams because it auto-scales. Auto-scaling relieves developers of allocation management tasks, so they do not need to worry about the allocation of server resources or being charged for resources they are not consuming.

Keep OSS supply chain attacks off the menu: Tidelift catalogs + JFrog serve known-good components

How does your organization keep track of all of the open source components being used to develop applications and ensure they are secure and properly maintained? Our recent survey data shows that the larger an organization gets, the less confident they are in in their open source management practices. In companies over 10,000 employees, 39% are not very or not at all confident their open source components are secure, up to date, and well maintained.

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Jose Nino, Staff Software Engineer at Lyft

Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Break Things on Purpose is a podcast for all-things Chaos Engineering. Check out our latest episode below. You can subscribe to Break Things on Purpose wherever you get your podcasts. If you have feedback about the show, find us on Twitter at @BTOPpod or shoot us a note at podcast@gremlin.com!

Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks

It’s so easy these days to set-up your own WiFi network. You order a router online, plug it into the electrical socket, define a password and you’re good to go. WiFi is fast, reliable and easy to use. But if you want to cover a wider area or connect hundreds of small devices it quickly becomes inefficient and expensive. Is the only way to go to your local mobile network operator and sign a contract? No! Thanks to open source technology, you can build your own LTE or 5G network.

WTF is Incident Management? Post-Panel Wrap-Up

That's a wrap! We hosted "WTF is Incident Management" on May 12, 2021. We invited four very knowledgeable panelists to discuss how they define incident management, what changes they'd make if they could start again from scratch, how to manage team stress after an incident, and other subjects. Our panelists were: host Matt Stratton (Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi), Emily Ruppe (Incident Commander at Twilio), Alina Anderson (Sr.