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Using incidents to level up your teams

I joined GoCardless as a junior engineer. It was one of my first coding jobs, and in my time there I progressed to senior much faster than I had expected. When I reflect on how this happened, one pattern stands out to me; the big step changes in my understanding, and my ability to solve larger and more complex engineering problems, came as a result of incidents.

Kubernetes operators - the top 5 things to watch for

Software operators are steadily revolutionising how we deploy and run complex distributed systems. They offer the promise of low-intervention, self-driving software – ideally leading to service reliability gains and better uptime. For an introduction to Kubernetes operators, check out our introductory webinar or download our guide to Kubernetes operators.

Improve, enforce, and ensure microservice quality

Is microservice quality a focus for your team this year? Perhaps you’re looking to improve your service performance. Maybe you feel like your organization needs better ways to enforce best practices or ensure that service quality doesn’t degrade over time. Let’s take a look at these three areas and share some concrete recommendations for strengthening your services and creating a long-term culture of quality.

Bridging the gap between Engineering and Customer Support during incidents

Customer trust and satisfaction are the most important currency your business can own. No matter how brilliant your product, without happy customers your business will struggle. When everything is running smoothly, it’s easy to feel that heady dose of customer love. It’s when things break during an incident that these relationships are really put to the test.

Where can IT process automation make a real impact? | Resolve

Is your IT department buried in service desk requests or incident response tickets? Is your IT Operations team scrambling to assess and isolate a network application problem? In this video Resolve CEO Vijay Kurkal explains how automation can help clean up the mundane service desk tasks and communication while freeing up your ITOps resources to do more meaningful work by providing automation solutions for auto-remediation, provisioning, observability and much more.

Introduction to various Kubernetes dashboards by @Saiyam Pathak

In this session, Saiyam Pathak, Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo will discuss various Kubernetes dashboards that can be used to view the cluster and its related metrics and discuss the benefits of each. Saiyam will also look into the Kubernetes dashboard, Skooner, Headlamp, Lens, and Octant.