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Should Your Startup Use AWS Managed Services?

Let’s face it. Gaining a competitive advantage in the target market is expensive. Even if you have a good idea and its execution plan in mind, operations related to management, storage, networking, service provisioning, security, and application management will cost you a fortune. To say the least, a cutting-edge IT infrastructure, a reliable team, and a strategy for rapid product releases or expansion/scaling is a must for your product’s success.

A practical approach to Active Directory Domain Services, Part 1: A beginner's guide to Active Directory

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is the traditional, on-premises domain service offered by Microsoft. It is the core component and a server role in Active Directory (AD), the specialized, proprietary directory service in Windows operating system environments. Consider an enterprise or a complex business set up with many connected network resources. In order to ensure the effective management of these resources, IT administrators use AD and its components, including AD DS.

To NuGet and Beyond: NuGet Ecosystem & Upstream Support at Cloudsmith

Calling All.Net / C# / PowerShell Dev’s! We heard you! While Cloudsmith has supported NuGet packages for a while now, we’ve now got more robust support for the NuGet ecosystem. Whether it’s a V2/V3 NuGet package you created in Visual Studio, a Chocolatey package, a PowerShell Module, or a dependent package from NuGet.org, they can all be hosted in the SAME Cloudsmith repository! This one-hour webinar event discusses and demos the latest NuGet ecosystem and upstream support now available at Cloudsmith.

The Dual Approach in Scaling: Chaos Engineering and Performance Engineering

For any enterprise, they're more than likely all too familiar with the struggles and complexities of scaling their environments and applications. Whether these applications live on premise, in a cloud environment, or somewhere between in a hybrid state, an age-old question engineering ponders on is, “Can my application and environment scale?

Honeycomb Terraform Provider Now Officially Supported by Honeycomb

Previously announced as a community-led project, the Terraform provider for Honeycomb is now officially maintained by Honeycomb in partnership with Hashicorp. We recognize how valuable supporting configuration as code is for our customers, and this change in ownership affirms our commitment to ensuring your ability to quickly make the most of Honeycomb’s Management API.

FireHydrant is now on Microsoft Teams

Engineering teams can now manage incidents in Microsoft Teams. You’ll have the consistent process and automation of FireHydrant right in the messaging tool you use every day. Effectively run through the entire incident response lifecycle: declare and manage incidents, collaborate with stakeholders, and resolve incidents faster when you integrate FireHydrant with Microsoft Teams.

What are Linux containers?

Over the last decade, containers have become an essential part of running infrastructure more efficiently. Containers enable productivity, automation, and cost-effective deployments. But there are different types of containers to consider, and this blog explains what Linux containers are, and how they differ from application containers.

Deploy a Go app from repo to AWS

We are going to deploy a Go application directly from your repo to AWS with Cloud 66. Any application using any language on any framework can be deployed with Cloud 66 as long as it has a Dockerfile. Note: Rails applications are exceptions as we deploy them natively. If your application does not have a Dockerfile, we will suggest one for you based on your code. However, we would recommend reviewing what we have suggested and making sure the Dockerfile meets your requirements.

Discover 2022 DevOps trends with CircleCI data report

If you’re like many of our customers, the phrase software supply chain entered your lexicon this year. You’ve begun to feel the complexities and vulnerabilities of that supply chain. You’ve connected the dots between more reliable software delivery and business success. You’re recognizing the gains developer efficiency can have on profitability.