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Scaling Software Delivery: Continuous Delivery, Overcoming Challenges, and the Power of Cloudsmith

Explore the intricacies of scaling software delivery, from the nuances of continuous delivery to overcoming common challenges. Dive deep into how Cloudsmith can be the game-changer in your DevOps journey, ensuring agility, security, and efficiency in every release. Every business, from startups to established enterprises, feels the urgency to scale their software delivery. Why?

Kubernetes at the Edge with Portainer | Civo Navigate NA 2023

Dive into the world of Kubernetes at the Edge with Portainer with Neil Cresswell. In this talk, learn how Portainer transforms container management by making Kubernetes deployment at the edge effortless and efficient. Through this talk, revoluntionize container management and orchestration by simplifying Kubernetes deployment at the edge. This is aimed at making deploying, updating, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters on edge devices more streamlined and accessible, benefiting industries like telecommunication, healthcare, and manufacturing where low latency and high reliability are critical.

G2's Most Recommended WAF & DDoS Protection

In case you missed it, HAProxy Technologies recently put out a press release about our stunning leadership position in G2’s Summer 2023 Grid® Reports for load balancing. We’re incredibly proud of these results, which are a direct result of the hard work and dedication of HAProxy’s community developers and our enterprise product and support teams. Looking at the Momentum Grid® Report for Load Balancing, the gap between HAProxy and the rest is impossible to ignore.

What is virtualization? A beginners' guide.

While information technology continues to evolve rapidly, virtualization remains a cornerstone of modern computing, enabling businesses to maximise resource utilisation, enhance flexibility, and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). It is a key building block of the cloud computing paradigm, and millions of organisations use it daily worldwide. All existing cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, Google or OpenStack, use virtualization underneath.

Monitoring as Code in Your Software Development Lifecycle

When we launched the Checkly CLI and Test Sessions last May, I wrote about the three pillars of monitoring as code. Code — write your monitoring checks as code and store them in version control. Test — test your checks against our global infrastructure and record test sessions. Deploy — deploy your checks from your local machine or CI to run them as monitors.

How to monitor CoreDNS with Datadog

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced you to the key metrics you should be monitoring to ensure that you get optimal performance from CoreDNS running in your Kubernetes clusters. In Part 2, we showed you some tools you can use to monitor CoreDNS. In this post, we’ll show you how you can use Datadog to monitor metrics, logs, and traces from CoreDNS alongside telemetry from the rest of your cluster, including the infrastructure it runs on.

Exploring distributed vs centralized incident command models

Recently in our Better Incidents Slack channel, there’s been some chatter around how people structure dedicated incident commanders at their company: distributed or centralized. The way I see it, there are two types of commanders: the temporary, distributed role — a hat that an on-call engineer or an engineering manager puts on during an incident. Then there’s the centralized, full-time role, where someone is the designated incident commander (or one of a few) for all incidents.

Stop the death march for your developers

Stop the death march for your developers. Developer toil directly leads to burnout, say software engineering leaders from LaunchDarkly, Okteto, Atlassian and Sleuth. And burnout leads to devs leaving your team. Don't let that happen -- remove toil. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.