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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Container Optimization Techniques that Cloud Providers Hate!

Watch this 20-min session to get an in-depth look at factors that must be considered when optimizing containers, and effective ways to optimize container density to make sure that they don’t get throttled or killed, while at the same time making sure that being safe doesn’t run up a huge cloud bill. We cover 3 critical factors that are key when optimizing.

Top Trends of the AWS Summit London

This week, I played at home as the rest of the DX team and I were at the AWS Summit London. 🇬🇧 The event was buzzing with excitement and overflowing with great talks and impressive exhibition stands. It didn't disappoint in terms of attendance either! Despite covering a wide range of subjects, I couldn't help but notice three super-hot tech trends that were everywhere throughout the day. So, without further ado, let's dive right in and explore these topics!

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.

From Git to Kubernetes

Join our webinar to learn best-practices when using the JFrog Platform to store and manage your Docker images and Kubernetes deployments from beginning to end, while also setting up a continuous build, test and deploy pipeline. We’ll cover best practices for managing and creating Docker registries and Helm repositories, testing and promotion of Docker containers, and taking your containers all the way to production using the JFrog Platform and Kubernetes together.