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Why Deep Observability is the Key to Infrastructure Success in 2024 and Beyond

In today’s digital economy, infrastructure has evolved from your organization’s technical foundation to a strategic asset that can make or break your business outcomes. Yet, as companies embrace hybrid environments, many find themselves struggling with a critical challenge: how to maintain control and visibility across increasingly complex infrastructure landscapes and AI workloads.

Organizing ownership: How we assign errors in our monolith

At incident.io, we run on a monolith. This brings a whole load of benefits that we don’t want to give up any time soon. We don’t have to worry about the speed of internal network requests, complex deployments, or optimizing work that touches multiple services. This blog post isn’t about the relative benefits of monoliths though (but we’ve written more about that here if you are interested)! Ownership in monoliths is tricky.

Introducing the Jenkins to Bitbucket Pipelines migration tool

CI/CD workflows are essential for modern software development, enabling scalability, seamless integration, and ease of workflow management. However, migrating these workflows between tools—such as from Jenkins to Bitbucket Pipelines—can feel daunting due to differences in syntax, custom configurations, and repository-specific setups. To address these challenges, we’re thrilled to announce the Jenkins to Bitbucket Pipelines Migration Tool.

How to Change a Table Name in MySQL in Different Ways

In one of our previous articles, we discussed how to rename a database in MySQL in detail. In this article, we will focus specifically on renaming tables in MySQL. Rename table operations are common. Quite often, as business situations and requirements change, it becomes necessary to change the names of tables in MySQL databases.

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release

Today, Canonical announced the availability of MicroCloud’s first long term support (LTS) release. MicroCloud is part of Canonical’s cloud infrastructure portfolio. As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical is known for providing Ubuntu LTS releases every two years in April. With the addition of a MicroCloud LTS, Canonical expands its commitment to long term support for organizations looking for a scalable virtualization solution for edge and low-touch clouds.

Maximizing Developer Productivity with Code Visibility: A Complete Guide

Do you often spend more time trying to understand code instead of writing it? Whether it’s finding dependencies, understanding data flows, or locating the right entry points, the lack of visibility in codebases, both new and old, can quickly slow devs down. With the right tools and practices, though, developers can access the full picture of the codebase from the start. This guide is all about making code visibility work for you.

MicroCloud LTS Demo

Canonical MicroCloud’s 2.1.0 LTS release features support for single-node deployments, improved security posture, and more flexibility during the initialization process. In this video we guide you through the new process, starting with deploying a MicroCloud on a single node, and then expanding with two additional members for a highly available cluster. Follow along and try it yourself.