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A data lake on your cloud with Spark, Kubernetes and OpenStack

Data lake is a very large scale data processing paradigm that disrupts the conventional data warehousing model. Data lakes can offer greater flexibility whilst retaining the benefits and efficiency of centralised data governance. With Canonical OpenStack private cloud platform, Kubernetes and Charmed Spark solutions, your data lake architecture can also benefit from extended flexibility and scalability whilst remaining cost effective to operate.

Developer Self-Service: Overview & Best Practices

According to the 2024 State of Production Readiness report, 54% of engineering leaders said poor production readiness standards contributed to a decrease in developer productivity. But how? If software falls out of alignment with best practice—including those designed to maintain the health, observability, and security of software—developers wind up spending more time finding information and fixing issues than building new value.

How Cloud-Native Artifact Management Can Facilitate the Move to Platform Engineering

In this session we will explore why prioritizing artifact management is essential in advancing to self-service IDPs and how adoption of Cloudsmith offers solutions to common challenges such as high infrastructure costs, managing security vulnerabilities, and maintaining productivity. Attendees will gain insights into best practices of implementing an artifact repository at the center of their CI/CD pipeline.

How does Git work?

If you're like me and have less than twenty years of software engineering experience, the thought of a world without Git doesn't seem possible. When I started to research for this post, I almost fell out of my chair when I read that Git was created in 2005. It doesn't seem that long ago... either that, or I'm simply getting old. When I started programming, I asked myself a question I sometimes still ask myself today - How does git work? I often find myself being scared of certain Git commands.

Choosing the Best SRE Tools for Your Business: A Buyer's Guide

If you're a member of a Site Reliability Engineer(SRE), DevOps, or IT operations team, you're likely familiar with the challenges of maintaining system uptime and reliability. That's where SRE tools come in. They are the unsung heroes that help maintain reliability and performance. In today's tech-driven world, these tools are more important than ever. This guide is here to help you choose the best SRE tools for your enterprise team.

Optimizing DevOps with Kubernetes Ephemeral Environments: Efficient Testing and Deployment

Ephemeral environments transform software development by providing temporary, isolated spaces for testing and deploying microservices without affecting production. Given its robust orchestration capabilities, Kubernetes excels at creating these temporary environments, allowing teams to efficiently manage and scale containerized applications. By integrating tools like Helm and Kustomize, developers can maintain a codified version of their app and its dependencies.

How To Build A Successful Cloud Strategy in 2024

Businesses move to the cloud for several reasons. For some, moving to the cloud means gaining access to the best enterprise-level technology without the associated costs of handling, maintaining, and managing the underlying infrastructure. For others (like startups), the ability to scale quickly and respond faster to market demands is at the top of the list.