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What is YAML? A Beginner's Guide

YAML is a digestible data serialization language that is often utilized to create configuration files and works in concurrence with any programming language. YAML is a data serialization language designed for human interaction. It’s a strict superset of JSON, another data serialization language. But because it’s a strict superset, it can do everything that JSON can and more.

Can devs and designers get along? - Dev Matters S1E02

In this episode of Dev Matters, Don and his guest Ben Sanders discuss whether software developers and designers can really get along. Ben shares stories, tips, and strategies pulled from his experience of over 15 years in the software industry. This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience on Twitch.

IDC: Become a Digital Innovation Factory with These 4 Pillars of Modern DevOps

It’s do or die. In today’s brutally competitive digital economy, it is imperative for organizations to transform themselves into software-driven businesses — becoming “digital innovation factories” that can quickly and efficiently create and distribute new digital services. This enables them to be resilient, nimble, and innovative, creating business value and responding to market shifts and to customer needs. What does it take to keep your digital innovation factory humming?

The Top 8 Tools For Any Java Developer's Toolkit

Java developers are unlikely to ever suffer from a lack of libraries, utilities, and programs at their disposal. There's no shortage of tools that offer niche as well as fundamental features. However, some tools undoubtedly stand out due to their popularity, usefulness, data representation, and in-tool features. These 8 tools listed below are often listed as some of the best Java development tools available on the market.

Reduce Toil with Better Alerting Systems

If not tackled early, increasing toil can affect the morale and productivity of your SRE team. In this blog we look at some of the ways you can counter toil with the help of better alerting systems in place. Are you an SRE or On-call engineer struggling to manage toil? Toil is any repetitive or monotonous activity that can lead to frustration within an incident management team. Also at the business level, toil doesn't add any functional value towards growth and productivity.

Run confidently with secure DevOps

The rapid pace of digital transformation is accelerating the shift to cloud-native applications using containers and Kubernetes to speed the pace of delivery. But application delivery is one thing. Application uptime performance and protection are another. For cloud teams already running production one fact is clear, monitoring and troubleshooting are only the beginning. They also need to own security and compliance for their apps. In cloud-native DevOps is not enough. It's time for secure DevOps.

HAProxy Forwards Over 2 Million HTTP Requests per Second on a Single Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Instance

For the first time, a software load balancer exceeds 2-million RPS on a single Arm instance. A few weeks ago, while I was working on an HAProxy issue related to thread locking contention, I found myself running some tests on a server with an 8-core, 16-thread Intel Xeon W2145 processor that we have in our lab. Although my intention wasn’t to benchmark the proxy, I observed HAProxy reach 1.03 million HTTP requests per second.

Top Observability Strategies for Distributed Systems

In a distributed IT environment, there are a lot of moving parts, and all of them need to be monitored to ensure everything is working as it should. The rise of more complex infrastructures interweaving the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures makes this a challenge. To make sure you have adequate visibility, you need an IT observability strategy.