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For organizations growing larger by the day, network management becomes increasingly complex, and scaling to meet this growth can be a major headache. To battle such complexity without a graphic representation of a network is a tiresome task, which is where network diagram software comes in. Network diagram software allows a network admin to portray the network clearly and legibly through detailed graphics.

Tucker Callaway is the CEO of LogDNA. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software with an emphasis on developer and DevOps tools. Tucker fosters a DevOps culture at LogDNA by tying technical projects to business outcomes, practicing extreme transparency, and empowering every person in the company to contribute.

In one of our previous articles, we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. In this article, we will take a deeper dive into the various SRE principles and guidelines that a site reliability engineer practices in their role.

State and local governments (SLG), the frontline for delivery of services much of the population rely on, face some difficult challenges when it comes to modernization of their IT networks. Among them, the tools and services being used are built on some seriously old legacy infrastructure.

Leveraging Terraform, which is an infrastructure-as-code platform, is a great match. Using both technologies together is becoming more mature and there have been some great pieces around the art of the possible between the two platforms. Though if you are unfamiliar with both, this guide will get you up and started with both Terraform and Shipa together. In this example will be using Terraform to create all of the necessary Shipa resources to deploy to a Kubernetes cluster.

JFrog security research team (formerly Vdoo) has recently disclosed a code injection issue in one of the utilities shipped with Tensorflow, a popular Machine Learning platform that’s widely used in the industry. The issue has been assigned to CVE-2021-41228. This disclosure is hot on the heels of our previous, similar disclosure in Yamale which you can read about in our previous blog post.

Incidents are a great opportunity to gather both context and skill. They take people out of their day-to-day roles, and force ephemeral teams to solve unexpected and challenging problems. In my career, I've found incidents can be a great accelerator - for both myself and others around me. It was after leading my first incident at GoCardless that I started to feel really comfortable in the codebase and the team.