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Pipelines Full of Context: A GitLab CI/CD Journey

Do you know what version of your software is running in production? How often is that software deployed, and was it deployed right before last week’s p0 incident? What sort of dependencies are being deployed along with that software, and are any of them potential security risks? These are all common observability questions that may be difficult to answer.

How to Monitor a Heroku App with Graphite, Grafana and StatsD

This article explores the efficient monitoring of Heroku Apps using MetricFire's HostedGraphite plugin and Grafana dashboards. By combining these tools, developers can gain valuable insights into their app's performance and resource utilization. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on setting up MetricFire, integrating StatsD, and creating comprehensive Grafana dashboards for effective monitoring and debugging.

The Role of AWS Direct Connect in Hybrid Cloud Networking

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is a system that connects your business to an AWS service without using mainstream internet. Implementing this system into your company means any information transferred over the internet will use a private, secure network. AWS Direct Connect designs virtual interfaces that are directly connected to public AWS service. It makes the transfer of information quicker and more streamlined for your company.

A guide to dynamic application security testing (DAST)

Dynamic application security testing (DAST) is a critical security measure for modern software delivery pipelines. It involves evaluating the security of web applications by actively testing them in real-time, simulating real-world attacks to identify vulnerabilities. As the cybersecurity threat landscape has evolved, DAST has emerged as a key tool for enforcing application security in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

The 7 IT Automations for Highly Effective Organizations - Load Balancer Sanity Reboot

According to a recent Gartner report, less than 35% of enterprise network activities are automated today. Manual network management can negatively affect the business, creating bottlenecks in provisioning and incident resolution, resulting in poor service delivery to lines of businesses, and reduced uptime. Watch Resolve's Brinda Sreedhar and Brent Hunter as they demonstrate how teams can leverage network automation to automate common use cases such as network management, optimization, and security. Automation can standardize processes and allow network operations teams to operate faster.

Site Reliability Engineering: Definition, Principles & How It Differs From DevOps

Site crashes and outages can cost hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and inconvenience users. Site Reliability Engineering helps build highly reliable and scalable systems, particularly important for companies that depend on their software to support their customers performing critical operations. Hiring a Site Reliability Engineer is the best way to ensure a software system stays up and running at all times.

How AirDroid Business enables Digis Squared's team to remote control mobile devices efficiently

Are you looking for a reliable and efficient mobile device management solution? To better support their fieldwork across 25 countries, Digis Squared decided to use AirDroid Business to remotely control their fleet of mobile phones in the field. The company also integrated a remote control function with its in-house software, the INOS AI tool, to further enhance the process of testing mobile networks.

Technical deep-dive into a real-time kernel

Canonical announced the general availability of Ubuntu’s real-time kernel earlier this year. Since then, our community raised several questions regarding the workings of the kernel and tuning guidelines. We aim to provide answers in this and an upcoming follow-up post. Depending on your background knowledge, you may wish to start with the basics of preemption and a real-time system. In that case, this introductory webinar or our blog series on what is real-time Linux, is for you.