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4 Multi-Cloud Misconceptions that Put Organizations at Risk

Shifting to the cloud? Multi-cloud environments enable organizations to expand their computing and storage capacities easily, but that comes with tradeoffs — topping the list: cybersecurity. What makes cloud computing appealing is also a reason to worry. It is easy to access your cloud environment anywhere with internet access, but that also means it’s easy for cybercriminals and digital adversaries to access it.

Get immediate visibility into Azure Kubernetes Service with Datadog's powerful AKS dashboard

We’re pleased to announce a new out-of-the-box dashboard for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that allows you to immediately visualize the health and performance of your AKS clusters. This dashboard organizes and highlights the most critical information from the standard AKS metrics, while also incorporating log data to provide observability into the control plane.

The value of blameless culture - from IC to C-Suite

At CircleCI, CI has a second meaning: Continuous Improvement. We continuously seek out feedback not only to improve our code but to improve our processes and get better at our jobs along the way. This Continuous Improvement starts with one important company value: a blameless culture. Our blameless culture extends into every part of how we operate.

JFrog Frogbot version 2

Frogbot scans every pull request created for security vulnerabilities with JFrog Xray and in version 2 it even opens pull requests for upgrading vulnerable dependencies to a version with a fix!. With Frogbot installed, you can make sure that new pull requests don’t add new security vulnerabilities to your code base alongside them. If they do, the creator of the pull request has the opportunity to change the code before it is merged.

Monitoring your Windows performance metrics with hosted Graphite

Windows is the most popular operating system in the world. It powers not only personal computers and laptops at home but also enterprise servers and systems. Due to the vast use of the software, many solutions to monitor Windows have been developed. In this article, we will discuss an efficient way to monitor Windows and the reason why we want to track the metrics of the operating system. But before we start, check MetricFire.

5 Simple Steps to Create Preview Environments on AWS with Qovery

The process of software development has changed radically. Development is fast-paced and needs testing and staging environments to reflect production accurately. Still, achieving this can be a significant operational hassle. Most engineering teams use a single staging environment, making it hard for developers to test their changes in isolation.

Extracting Value from the Kubernetes Events Feed - Civo

Kubernetes events can provide unique and clear insights into cluster health and performance, but how do you cut through the noise and better understand your environment? Matthew Lenhard, Co-founder & CTO of ContainIQ, will discuss how to extract value from the Kubernetes events feed. In this webinar, we will explain what Kubernetes events are, how to use them, and tools that can be used to get the most out of them.

Fostering Fearlessness: Working in the Middle of the Day Instead of the Middle of the Night

There’s no shortage of articles on CI/CD and how to run a configuration validation utility before reloading or restarting a service, but this type of validation is not the same as acceptance testing. Furthermore, these validations don’t always give you (or your leadership team) the confidence to allow you to make big changes to your Production Infrastructure during normal business hours, often preferring to err on the side of caution and scheduling a maintenance window when you might prefer to be in bed.

What is Ubuntu Core 22?

IoT manufacturers face complex challenges to deploy devices on time and within budget. Ensuring security and remote management at scale is also taxing as device fleets expand. Ubuntu Core 22 helps manufacturers meet these challenges with an ultra-secure, resilient, and low-touch Operating System, backed by a growing ecosystem of silicon and ODM partners. Ubuntu Core 22 is a minimal, fully containerised Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimised for IoT and edge devices.