Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In an ideal world where we reached 100% test coverage, our error handling was flawless, and all our failures were handled gracefully — in a world where all our systems reached perfection, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Yet, here we are. Earth, 2020. By the time you read this sentence, somebody’s server failed in production. A moment of silence for the processes we lost.

As a Customer Advocate, I talk to a lot of prospective Honeycomb users who want to understand how observability fits into their existing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice. While I have enough of a familiarity with the discipline to get myself into trouble, I wanted to learn more about what SREs do in their day-to-day work so that I’d be better able to help them determine if Honeycomb is a good fit for their needs.

Developer teams shipping software frequently are in a constant state of change. Understanding the state of their code at a given point of time is sometimes clear as mud. The Sentry | Sleuth integration is focused on helping developers automate the annoyances of deploying software, tracking the health of a release, and providing clarity on how to resolve critical code issues.

In Switzerland, Inventx is the IT partner of choice for financial and insurance service providers. Its full-stack DevOps platform, ix.AgileFactory, allows financial organizations to move to a modern, cloud-native and microservices-centric infrastructure. The platform decouples core applications from the central infrastructure, allowing organizations to better manage and innovate applications in safety.

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. The concept of Chaos Engineering is most often applied to backend systems, but for teams building websites and web applications, this is only half of the story.

Guarantee strong encryption by enabling ‘FIPS mode’ with RHEL and HAProxy Enterprise. SSL and its successor TLS are protocols that safeguard web traffic as it crosses the Internet, encrypting communication and protecting it from tampering. However, the encryption algorithms within these protocols are subject to change over time as vulnerabilities are discovered or as better encryption methods become available.

Sysdig is pleased to announce that the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform is now available through Red Hat Marketplace.

If it wasn’t clear before the global pandemic, it is now: Cloud applications can keep businesses moving forward. During this time, people have been able to shop, connect with friends and, of course, work from home.

There are times in life that feel like they are detached from reality. Some call it divine intervention, others use more modern, hippie-ish ways to explain these moments. Call it what you will, nearly everyone has experienced some form of this occurrence. Some people have been short on cash and found a $50 note on the ground. Others have lost jobs only to find their dream job on the way to their car after getting walked out by security.