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This article is the second installment of the “Implementing Backstage” series and focuses on how to use Backstage’s core features. Backstage has an extensible plugin architecture in active development and large community support and offers simplified tool management, workflow optimization, and time-saving features. However, to reap these benefits, you need to know how to use Backstage’s core features, including its software catalog, templates, documentation, and search.
HAProxy Enterprise 2.8 and HAProxy ALOHA 15.5 are now available. Users of our enterprise-class software load balancer and hardware/virtual load balancer appliance who upgrade to the latest versions will benefit from all the features announced in the community version, HAProxy 2.8, plus some features that enhance the flexibility of our enterprise security options to meet even more use cases.
SharePoint, born from the tech giant Microsoft, is not just another application; it’s a robust platform that’s been transforming the way businesses handle their internal processes for years. At its core, SharePoint is designed to streamline collaboration and document management. But what does that mean in layman’s terms? Imagine a vast digital library, where instead of books, you have documents, images, videos, and other digital content.
Microsoft recently announced changes to Azure Active Directory. Today’s article covers the changes, providing sources for considerations, and how Exoprise’s service solutions will be affected.
Understanding the impact of each of your deployments is crucial, especially as they become increasingly frequent. Chances are, your team is either aiming to increase shipping velocity or has already started deploying "continuously" (which is to say, multiple times a day). The biggest tech teams at the likes of Amazon and Google deploy thousands of times daily, and Atlassian has found that 75% of enterprise DevOps teams call deployment frequency their most important success criteria. And while CD comes with a host of well-established benefits, it also introduces a heightened risk of introducing new errors and issues.
Building and deploying highly scalable, distributed applications in the ever-changing landscape of software development is only half the journey. The other half is monitoring your application states and instances while recording accurate metrics. There are moments when you wish to check how many resources are being consumed, how many files are under access by the specialized process, etc. These metrics provide valuable insights into our tech stack execution and management.