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Building resilience in cloud: Strategies, advantages, and considerations

Cloud resilience When it comes to cloud computing, resilience is an infrastructure's ability to bounce back from setbacks seamlessly, ensuring uninterrupted operations in the face of outages, malfunctions, software bugs, and even natural disasters. We'll explore measures you can take to enhance resilience in your cloud, plus discuss the advantages and limitations of building a resilient cloud system.

Streamlining Cloud Operations by Unifying Security & Observability

Many companies are using cloud technologies to become more agile, scalable, and cost-effective during their digital transformation. However, this change brings new challenges in maintaining the security and performance of applications and infrastructure in the cloud. Security and observability go hand-in-hand.

Navigating GitHub Desktop: A Guide for Every OS

Git is an indispensable tool for version control, allowing devs to track and manage changes to their codebase. Alongside Git’s command-line interface (CLI), Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) like GitHub Desktop can simplify the Git experience, making it more accessible to novice and seasoned developers alike.

MyJFrog Portal: The Solution for Managing Your JFrog Cloud Subscription

MyJFrog is a central management portal for JFrog Platform users and administrators. It provides a single, centralized view to manage and monitor users, subscriptions, resources, and usage. This gives you the control, visibility, and predictability you need to make informed decisions about your environment. MyJFrog Portal If you have multiple JFrog Cloud subscriptions, MyJFrog lets you access and manage them all in one place. Here are just a few of the benefits of MyJFrog.

Quickly spot and revert faulty deployments with Change Overlays

Faulty deployments and other types of erroneous changes may account for around 70% of all application outages. With the prevalence of CI/CD workflows, engineering teams make changes to their applications, services, and infrastructure all the time, which can make it difficult to trace issues to specific changes.

How to effectively streamline AD actions with automation

Organizations worldwide use Active Directory (AD) to manage users, devices and data. The world moves at a fast pace, and it demands that tasks be performed as quickly and efficiently as possible. How many times have you had to create a user account in AD manually? Change passwords? Update group memberships? You could add so many other repetitive AD administrative tasks to this list.

How to make your services zone redundant

In January of 2020, an entire availability zone (AZ) in AWS’ Sydney region suddenly went dark. Multiple facilities lost power, preventing customers from accessing EC2 instances and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes. Customers who didn’t have backup infrastructure in another zone had to wait nearly 8 hours before service was restored, and even then, some EBS volumes couldn’t be recovered. Major cloud provider outages are rare, but they happen nonetheless.