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Ship high-quality, secure code faster with Datadog Code Analysis

As your engineering teams grow and commit code more frequently, it becomes increasingly difficult to release high-quality, secure code while achieving your desired development velocity. To create smoother developer workflows that ensure high standards for code quality and security, it’s critical for developers to detect and remediate issues earlier in the software development lifecycle— without switching tools or contexts.

Caching Database Queries in SQLAlchemy - Part 1/2

The database is one of the most critical components here at Rollbar and its performance ripples across most of our SLOs. One of our goals last months has been to remove unnecessary or repetitive load from it as much as possible. Caching queries is the 101 solution whenever you need to keep scaling up while maintaining, or even reducing, database costs (very relevant these days). Here’s an example of how just one query has been drastically reduced thanks to caching.

Trace-based testing with Elastic APM and Tracetest

This post was originally published on the Tracetest blog. Want to run trace-based tests with Elastic APM? Today is your lucky day. We're happy to announce that Tracetest now integrates with Elastic Observability APM. Check out this hands-on example of how Tracetest works with Elastic Observability APM and OpenTelemetry! Tracetest is a CNCF project aiming to provide a solution for deep integration and system testing by leveraging the rich data in distributed system traces.

What is the ImagePullBackoff error in Kubernetes and how to fix it?

Like CrashLoopBackoff, the ImagePullBackoff is not an error but a waiting status you might see in your kubernetes pods, with the backoff time increasing after every retry. The error itself is "ErrImagePull", and it happens when there are issues when pulling the container image to the kubernetes node. So how do you solve these pull errors? Take a look at our video to get some ideas on how to resolve the various issues!