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The OpsRamp Monitor: SRE Salaries, DevOps Teams, Multi-Cloud Survey

Top Weekly Reads in IT I&O The OpsRamp Monitor is OpsRamp’s top weekly review of interesting developments and emerging trends in IT operations. In this issue: It’s been a week. Four U.S. presidential contenders dropped out of the race. Coronavirus got worse. Several major tech conferences have been canceled. And the stock market rollercoaster ride continued. Let’s refresh with some good news: your career.

Kubernetes Drives Growth and Innovation in Financial Services

Founded in 2000, the Cardano Group is a privately-owned, purpose-built risk and investment specialist — and a financial pioneer. It is widely recognized as a market leader in the provisioning of specialized services to private-sector and collective pension programs in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Cardano has recently become the third largest retail pension provider in the UK after its recent acquisition of NOW: Pensions.

The Simplest Way to Deploy Laravel with MySQL on AWS

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is an amazing and reliable cloud service provider. AWS, like Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, provides everything you need to host an application without having to worry about running the underlying servers and network configuration. Everything you need to quickly begin hosting is provided as a packaged services. However, deploying an application on AWS presents some challenges.

Introducing wildcard-filtered metric queries

Tags are essential for your teams to quickly and efficiently filter through and find the information they need among the huge scope of data generated by your cloud infrastructure. Given that modern environments are always changing, with hosts and containers continuously being added or replaced, you need to be able to dynamically scope your queries so that you’re not rewriting the same searches over and over again.

Software development best practices checklist: 5 tips for beginners

This is a guest post from Ava Franklin of GoodCore Software. No matter how high your aspirations, you need someone to guide you through the initial steps of your career. For developers who have just started taking up real projects, we have prepared a checklist of best programming practices recommended by software development industry experts.

Artifactory Powers MicroEJ Forge IoT Application Store

Thousands of devices means thousands of software components, metadata items, and builds. Coordinating all that data for an Internet of Things system requires a binaries manager built for reliability and scale. That’s the challenge that faced MicroEJ, a software vendor of cost-driven solutions for embedded and IoT devices.

Enhancing Kubernetes Security with Pod Security Policies, Part 1

Kubernetes Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are a critical component of the Kubernetes security puzzle. Pod Security Policies are clusterwide resources that control security sensitive attributes of pod specification and are a mechanism to harden the security posture of your Kubernetes workloads. Kubernetes platform teams or cluster operators can leverage them to control pod creation and limit the capabilities available to specific users, groups or applications.

JFrog Pipelines - CI/CD for Native DevOps Automation

Learn how to optimize your complete end-to-end development and delivery process by using JFrog Pipelines. JFrog Pipelines is an automation service for performing the tasks of building, testing, and deploying software as part of a system of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). It can help you easily create smart, event-driven workflows across your tools and teams to help you release applications faster.