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Running Ad-hoc Operations with Puppet Enterprise: Tasks and Plans

Discover how Puppet Enterprise tasks and plans transform your infrastructure management by enabling powerful ad-hoc operations that go beyond traditional desired state management. In this brief overview, learn when and how to leverage these essential tools for running single commands or complex command sequences across your entire infrastructure.

All the As-a-services, Compared

Head spinning with all the “aaS” acronyms floating around these days? Our complete glossary will bring you up to speed. We’re watching the world go as-a-service in real time, and it has made for some heated Reddit threads about how our existence is being monetized at every turn. It’s difficult to refute that individual consumers should have the option to pay a one-off fee for software, platforms, and media as opposed to paying for temporary access.

Secure Streamlit app deployment with AWS Cognito, Streamlit, and CircleCI

As you develop internal tools or public-facing data applications, implementing authentication mechanisms becomes essential. Without authentication, you risk exposing sensitive information or allowing unauthorized access. Fortunately, integrating secure user access does not have to be complex. AWS Cognito provides a straightforward way to handle authentication, user management, and access control across multiple identity providers.

What is Incident Escalation

When incidents strike, your on-call engineer jumps in first. They assess the issue, triage it, and try to resolve it. But sometimes, they can’t solve the problem or aren’t available. That’s when escalation policies step in to find the right backup. In this guide, I’ve explained how escalation policies work, why every team needs them, and how you can set up one. Also, I’ve included ready-to-use templates to help you get started fast.

What is Dynamic SQL in SQL Server?

Dynamic SQL in SQL Server is built for scenarios where queries can’t be fully defined in advance. It’s the method of choice when structure depends on user input, variable schemas, or runtime conditions, cases where static SQL falls short. However, without proper structure, this flexibility introduces security and maintenance challenges. To make it work at scale, you need a disciplined approach.

Shift Left on Performance Testing - Without Killing Developer Velocity

Traditional performance testing often comes late in the delivery cycle, typically just before release. By then, performance issues are usually quite expensive to fix, can delay deployments, and frustrate development velocity. A Shift Left testing approach addresses this by integrating performance testing early in the development cycle so issues surface while they’re still easy and cheap to fix.

Failover and cloud aren't enough for reliability

Amin Momin of @CapgeminiGlobal talks about reliability takes dedicated effort beyond just using the cloud and setting up failover. Full transcript: There are two misconceptions about reliability. One is people only think failover is reliability. Just doing the failover, that will be enough from the reliability point of view. That's the first one. And the second one: we are deployed into the cloud, so it is the service provider's responsibility to provide the reliability.

Best Tool for Composing Git Commits in your IDE, Commit Composer in GitLens 17.4

In GitLens 17.2 we introduced Commit Composer as an early preview of a set of AI-powered tools to help you craft cleaner, more meaningful commits. With GitLens 17.4, Commit Composer has leveled up. Based on your feedback, it’s now a fully interactive drafting experience that lets you compose commits in a single click, and puts you in control of your commit history.

5 DevOps Team Structures (Plus Actionable Strategies for Automation, Monitoring & Culture Change)

An effective DevOps team is about creating the right structure, culture, and processes that enable collaboration across traditionally siloed departments. The right DevOps team structure can dramatically improve software delivery speed, reliability, and overall customer satisfaction. But what exactly makes a great DevOps team? And how can you build one that works for your organization?

Implementing a Zero Ticket Operations Maturity Model

You bought the chatbot. You built the self-service portal. You shifted left like the IT operations and engineering best practices told you to. And yet, tickets keep coming, alerts keep escalating, and your team keeps firefighting. Why is this craziness still happening? Because shifting left, while helpful, is a singular tactic that is often mistaken for total transformation. It’s important to IT operations and engineering, but it’s not the full arsenal.