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CI/CD and Security Testing Automation with CircleCI and NeuraLegion

Join CircleCI and NeuraLegion for a hands-on workshop around automating CI/CD and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST). Benefits of CI/CD Benefits of shifting AppSec left What is Developer Focused DAST? How to automate DAST and CI/CD We'll utilize CircleCI orbs during a 50 minute hands-on workshop to integrate a NexPloit engine into a CircleCI pipeline. We'll cover tips for pipeline failure, recommit, and rescan. Lastly, we’ll review results in NeuraLegion's dashboard.

Database Cloud Migration Done Right - SolarWinds Lab Episode #95

The global pandemic has accelerated corporate planning for cloud computing and digital transformation by 2-4 years on average. But database migration, the process of moving a database from one place to another, is no walk in the park. Obstacles abound. Setbacks are common.

Infrastructure Monitoring Tutorial: Getting Started Sending Prometheus Metrics

This Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring tutorial will cover how to get started with our latest product, our new Prometheus-as-a-Service metrics solution that’s based on Prometheus. Engineers monitor metrics to understand CPU and memory utilization for infrastructure, duration and serverless execution, or for network traffic. For more advanced metrics monitoring operations, teams can send custom metrics to monitor signals like the number of active users.

Take the 2021 State of DevOps Survey, be part of our 10-year history

Take the 2021 State of DevOps Survey here. This year marks the 10-year anniversary of our industry-defining State of DevOps research. You’d think after 10 years that there wouldn’t be much more to say about DevOps, but practices and technologies continue to evolve, the best keep getting better, and we keep unearthing new topics to research.

5 Best Application Modernization Strategies

To keep up with today’s competitive landscape and with the new normal induced by the pandemic, organizations must modernize their ventures, instigate innovation and be more agile. However, the process of replacing legacy systems isn’t precisely as agile as one thinks it would be. It takes time, and that’s something your company doesn’t have. You need solutions that consolidate years of transformation into mere months.

Running an open source multi-cloud with Ubuntu, LXD, and Mist

One of the advantages that Ubuntu brings to the cloud equation is improving an organization’s ability to run in multiple clouds. Running containers on top of Ubuntu further increases portability. Mist is an open-source multi-cloud management platform that helps teams centrally manage and control their Ubuntu instances across many different cloud environments and/or bare metal. This removes some of the operational and financial barriers to running applications in multiple clouds.

Java Artifacts Just Got Better: jpackage is Production Ready in Java 16

If you shudder thinking about compilation for different platforms, I know the feeling. One of the Java promises, the WORA (Write Once, Run Anywhere) principle, while revolutionizing platform independence, it stopped short of one more step – to be able to deploy anywhere. Personally, I think that WORADA sounds awesome, but I guess before Docker it didn’t occur to people that eliminating “works on my machine” is as simple as shipping your machine.

Introduction to on-call schedules

An on-call schedule tells you and everyone in the team who will be the first responder when an issue happens in production. The on-call team member is responsible for investigating the issue, either fixing the issue herself or adding other people who can help fix it. Having an on-call schedule is important for building reliable systems because making someone responsible for production issues makes sure that they're not ignored.