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Graphite Dropping Metrics: MetricFire can Help!

Sometimes a seemingly well-configured and fully-functional monitoring system can malfunction and lose metrics. Subsequently, you get a distorted picture of what is happening with the monitoring object. In this article, we will look at the possible causes of Graphite dropping metrics and how to avoid it. MetricFire specializes in monitoring systems. You can use our product with minimal configuration to gain in-depth insight into your environments.

Automated browser tests EXPLAINED in code

Automated tests keep your code flowing, but don't stress about testing browsers. This video shows how browser tests are automated in real world through Selenium, Chrome, and Python code examples, with a bonus tip to help debugging in your Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline. The code and diagram graphics are generated via the Python library Code Video Generator, source in the links below.

How Puppet Supports DevOps Workflows in the Windows Ecosystem

For Windows teams that adopt a DevOps approach, augmenting their native toolset (GPO, SCCM, PowerShell) can offer reliable and repeatable processes that successfully affect change. This quick overview highlights how Puppet Enterprise can complement existing Windows tools for better visibility and transparency across the automation processes.

Online CNCF event: Why you should use NATS for your next Cloud native application

When building Cloud applications, we often put significant effort into breaking down our monoliths into small code pieces. They are easier to maintain but hard to make them communicate together. This is where NATS comes in. NATS is a simple and highly performant messaging system for Cloud-native apps. In this talk, I will share my experience using NATS at Qovery, why you should or should not use it, and the difference between the well-known RabbitMQ and Kafka.

JFrog Pipelines for Shippable Customers

JFrog’s acquisition of Shippable completed the JFrog Platform by providing a CI/CD orchestration layer in the form of JFrog Pipelines. During the last two years following the acquisition, we continued to provide access to the Shippable service to avoid any operational disruption for our customers. JFrog Pipelines has matured to a point at which we can now recommend it as a destination for Shippable customers. Consolidating our efforts to a single product gives us the focus we need to bring you more innovation faster.

What is fault injection?

When reading about Chaos Engineering, you’ll likely hear the terms “fault injection” or “failure injection.” As the name suggests, fault injection is a technique for deliberately introducing stress or failure into a system in order to see how the system responds. But what exactly does this mean, and how does this relate to Chaos Engineering?

Top 3 approaches to monitor the health status of Azure Event Hubs

Over the past few years, Microsoft Azure has seen tremendous growth, and many new enhancements have improved user productivity. To keep users well informed about their resource status and availability, Microsoft has also been actively working on various monitoring capabilities.

Planning an IT Automation Project

The planning of an IT automation project is crucial to success, this article takes a deep dive into areas which should be considered and addressed before embarking on an automation journey. Securing executive sponsorship and establishing governance Having the support and guidance from a senior leader within your organisation will undoubtedly benefit the delivery of your project. Implementing automation is change, and as with any change; has the potential for resistance.

FlashDrive Startups Program

We give entrepreneurs from around the world the opportunity to build their projects with FlashDrive, and we're grateful to be able to give back to the startup community all the help we received when we launched FlashDrive not so long ago. FlashDrive Startups Program is a free program designed for startups at various stages that provides free computational credit and dedicated support to help startups quickly get started with FlashDrive's infrastructure, innovate, and grow rapidly.