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The developer experience just got so much better with the latest Upsun CLI release. Designed and engineered to help developers manage their daily work environments more efficiently, this incredible tool is ready to Go for our entire developer community, becoming language independent with no need to install PHP, and embracing the distribution standards. With the Upsun CLI, developers can easily use and manage their projects directly from their terminal.

It is no secret that companies are shifting large infrastructures to the cloud. With more and more companies undergoing the digital transformation of their services, we have been witnessing cloud adoption as a software growth and maintenance strategy for a few years now. The nature of this movement has changed over time, so it is important to ask yourself what cloud adoption looks like today.

Mattermost v7.5 is generally available today. The following new features are included (see changelog for more details).

Amid the first bear market in over a decade, the world’s largest companies are facing intense pressure to cut back. Layoffs have made headlines, but cutting workforce is not a silver-bullet solution to surviving in a down market. True, companies tend to spend the most on personnel, but using layoffs as a first line of recession defense has myriad negative consequences for survivors, including reduced job satisfaction, reduced organizational commitment, and declining job performance.

Are you trying to choose between Grafana and Splunk, but can't find enough information about their capabilities? In this blog, we highlight the details of why a user should select Grafana OR Splunk as part of their monitoring stack and what are the user benefits of each. Also, you can check out what it's like to make your own Grafana dashboard using our MetricFire free trial. Get onto the product in minutes and see if you prefer Grafana over Splunk.

Designing a production service environment around Apache Kafka that delivers low latency and zero-data loss at scale is non-trivial. Indeed, it’s the holy grail of messaging systems. In this blog post, I’ll outline some of the fundamental service design considerations that you’ll need to take into account in order to get your service architecture to measure up. Let’s start with the basics.

Docker is a PaaS product, developed by Docker.Inc to containerize applications. It does so by combining app source code with OS libraries and dependencies required to run that code in any environment. Kubernetes is a similar tool developed by Google, which scales up this containerized application after deployment. While one works in building the containers the other essentially helps in scaling it up, then why so much buzz around these two?