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DevOps State of Mind Episode 8: What do DevSecOps and Formula 1 have in common?

Josh Minthorne is the co-founder and global technology director of Axcelinno, an IT technology consultancy and professional services company that helps organizations define and implement their DevSecOps adoption and cloud migration. Today, we're talking about why the security landscape has made companies hesitant to move to the cloud and what they can do to migrate with confidence.

Improved routing for Jira Cloud and Jira Server tickets with multi-project support

If you love Jira then you probably love customization, and we’ve made your integration with Jira Cloud and Jira Server even better with multi-project support! You can now route your incident tickets and follow-up work to remediation teams' Jira projects directly from FireHydrant, saving you valuable time and clean-up work. Let’s take a look at what has changed and some additional use cases unlocked with this integration.

AIOps in 2022 and Beyond: A Conversation with Gartner

Modern digital businesses adopt AIOps tools to enable continuous insights across an IT stack. These insights tell the full story of what’s happening behind systems, allowing IT teams to achieve the operational efficiencies and high availability that lead to customer satisfaction. Old siloed monitoring disciplines provide data specific to performance of the digital experience, IT infrastructure, application or network.

How We Define SRE Work

At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth.

8 Issues With AWS Tags And How To Overcome Them For Good

AWS resource tagging is fundamental for effective cloud cost management. By creating and allocating cost-related tags in AWS, you can organize and manage your resources according to keys and values that make sense to you. This helps you better understand your cloud costs and manage your spending. But proper tagging isn't easy. While AWS provides several useful resources, you may still run into some issues that require more involved solutions.

CVE-2021-44521 - Exploiting Apache Cassandra User-Defined Functions for Remote Code Execution

JFrog’s Security Research team recently disclosed an RCE (remote code execution) issue in Apache Cassandra, which has been assigned to CVE-2021-44521 (CVSS 8.4). This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra.

What to Know About Azure SQL Database Serverless Compute Tier

Over the past several years, I've helped numerous customers migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure SQL Virtual Machines. In this article, I'll explain some of the challenges of optimizing the compute cost for an Azure SQL Database deployment and review how the serverless compute tier can greatly simplify it.

New Year, New Features in Artifactory

Let’s start 2022 off the right with new features and updates that will extend JFrog Artifactory’s power and reach in addressing challenges with managing your binaries from development to production. Join JFrog’s Irena Guy Product Manager, Evgeny Karasik Senior Product Manager, Ben Ifrach Product Manager, and Eyal Ben Moshe Development Manager, Ecosystem. In this session, you'll learn about the new updates.

mooving To...Stability

Join seasoned veteran, Jeff Atwood (yes, that Jeff Atwood of Stack Overflow and Discourse) as he discusses the role of catastrophic failure in software design. Users of modern apps require as close to 100% uptime as possible, which also means they require quick results. When these expectations aren't met, we need to learn from them to create better design. But what if your fault tolerance design ends up being the cause of your issues? Sean Molloy, and BJ Maldonado talk with Jeff about how you can learn from failure to improve your software.