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Gartner Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals offers “Platform engineering teams are tasked with improving developer experience, ensuring consistent governance, and enabling discovery and access to software development and delivery capabilities. Platform engineering leaders can use internal developer portals to address these challenges.” Organizations with a current Gartner license can check out the report here.

Moving from monolithic applications to microservices represents a significant architectural transformation. The Strangler Pattern offers a controlled, incremental approach to this migration, enabling organizations to gradually replace functionality while keeping systems operational throughout the transition. This methodology substantially reduces risk compared to complete rewrites, making it an invaluable strategy for organizations with business-critical applications.

Microservices migrations represent significant investments for organizations seeking greater agility, scalability, and development velocity. Yet without clear metrics to guide the journey and measure outcomes, these initiatives risk delivering technical change without meaningful business impact. Establishing appropriate success measures ensures that migration efforts stay aligned with organizational goals while providing visibility into progress and value delivery.

One of the most common questions we receive is about the difference between Aiden (our DevOps Copilot) and general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT. The key distinction is that Aiden is an agentic AI platform that can directly connect to your DevOps tools and environments, while ChatGPT remains generic without real-world connections. This fundamental difference transforms Aiden from an advisor to an active participant in your DevOps workflows.

Microsoft Azure offers over 150 cloud services across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. But for many teams, it can be expensive, complex, and hard to tailor to specific needs. If the platform feels like overkill or just isn’t the right fit, this guide covers the best Azure alternatives — and what makes each one worth considering.

Identity management is vitally important in cybersecurity. Every time someone tries to access your networks, systems, or resources, it’s critical that you are verifying that these attempts are valid and legitimate, and that they match a real, authenticated user. The way that this tends to be handled in cyber security is through Identity and Access Management (IAM), most commonly by using third-party Identity Providers (IdPs).

When Java web applications experience slowdowns or crashes, the culprit is often the Tomcat server. For DevOps engineers overseeing critical applications, proactive monitoring is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and reliability. In this guide, we'll explore the essential aspects of monitoring Apache Tomcat servers, focusing on the key metrics to track, setting up robust monitoring systems, and troubleshooting common performance issues that could impact your application’s stability.

Understanding what’s happening inside your applications is key to keeping them performing well and reliably. OpenTelemetry tracing is an open-source, flexible solution that lets you monitor your distributed systems without locking you into a specific vendor. reliably This guide walks you through everything you need to know about OpenTelemetry tracing, from the basics to more advanced techniques, with practical tips for troubleshooting common issues along the way.