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What is Docker Swarm and How Does it Work?

For most organizations, having a stable and reliable IT infrastructure is essential for success. But managing multiple servers, databases, and applications can often be difficult and time-consuming. Container orchestration is a standard solution for handling this complexity. Docker Swarm has gained popularity as a container orchestration solution because of its simplicity and scalability.

How using a database monitoring tool helps DBAs create value for the whole organization

As the size and complexity of database estates increases, with more workloads and data being hosted on more platforms, both on-premises and in the cloud, so the appeal of third-party database monitoring tools has also grown. Their ability to provide a holistic view of an entire estate and monitor multiple databases and platforms from a single dashboard has been shown to save DBAs and IT teams many hours of time when compared to home-grown solutions.

IoT Dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus

The Internet of Things (IoT) - is a number of physical devices connected to one network that enables the system to interact with the external world. A great deal of the work surrounding IoT is monitoring, as it’s impossible to react without knowing the situation. For example, we might build a greenhouse system for agriculture that can maintain optimal conditions for growing crops. For this purpose, we need to have sensors picking up information about the temperature and humidity.

incident.io: A scalable incident management solution built for enterprises

For enterprise businesses, a lot is riding on the efficiency of their incident response. These organizations have large customer bases, complex products, and many incidents. They also have loads of incident responders across various roles, making it difficult to coordinate internally.

Anything But Tech Debt

Tech debt is usually one of the most fraught topics on engineering teams. Engineers often feel they aren’t allowed enough time to address tech debt. Product partners wonder why engineers spend so much time working on it—or at least talking about it. “The business” always seems to insinuate that engineers should do less of it, instead focusing on shipping value to customers.

Using UX and Observability to Track Application Health

UX (user experience) is a core factor that determines the success of an application or platform in a distributed system. Specifically, developers need to understand the infrastructure within an entire application stack to improve and refine the user experience to meet customer expectations without guesswork. System downtime remains a significant source of revenue and reputational losses for enterprises, employees, and customers.

Here's what it feels like to deploy every day

Here's what it feels like to deploy every day. With Sleuth, Gigpro's software engineering team went from one deploy every two weeks to once a day. That made releases less stressful and helped improve team culture. 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.

cert-manager can do SPIFFE? - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Ashley Davis, Senior Software Engineer and Maintainer of cert-manager, discusses the capabilities of cert-manager, an easy way to manage certificates in Kubernetes clusters. Ashley highlights the importance of Trust-manager for managing trust bundles, enabling clients to verify certificate legitimacy. Additionally, he explores the potential of using x509 certificates as a universal identity control plane in distributed systems through the concept of "SPIFFE" (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone).