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What is DevOps?

What is DevOps? DevOps is a term for a cluster of concepts that has become a movement, “a cross-disciplinary practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving and operating, rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” (Jez Humble) The definition of DevOps is not agreed upon by everyone because of the complex processes attached to the term, however, the benefits to teams are universally agreed upon.

Users Monitoring - Monitor Remote Users and Analyze Efficiency

Something which the digitalization trend did not manage to do, was done by the global pandemic. And this is the global switch to remote work, remote learning and remote collaboration. Many companies and industries were thinking that allowing their staff to work remotely is not possible and will harm more than bring benefits. But when the pandemic started, many organizations needed to make a fast transition to remote work and remote work organization.

New Puppet Enterprise release delivers security, performance updates

The winter release of Puppet Enterprise is now available. Puppet continues to build out its flagship product to help organizations scale DevOps initiatives, meet compliance requirements, and deliver on cloud and hybrid initiatives. With this release, we’ve focused on delivering key enhancements to help boost productivity, giving organizations the ability to automate faster and more securely at scale.

Puppet Enterprise 2021 release includes support for SAML 2.0

Security is essential. It’s top of mind for organizations of all sizes and it’s certainly a top priority for Puppet. The latest release of Puppet Enterprise 2021.0 now offers support for SAML 2.0 providing a more secure and efficient authentication path for our customers to access their Puppet environments, applications and tooling.

Start Kubernetes monitoring in 5 minutes with Netdata

While Kubernetes (k8s) might simplify the way you deploy, scale, and load-balance your applications, not all clusters come with "batteries included" when it comes to monitoring. Doubly so for a monitoring stack that helps you actively troubleshoot issues with your cluster. You need robust Kubernetes monitoring, but you don’t want to spend a week setting it up, much less a single valuable day.

Challenges of growth engineering in a DevOps company

Growth engineering is a practice in which product, engineering, and design support a company’s growth efforts from within the product itself. Growth engineering has gained traction in consumer-facing companies. This practice has gained plenty of traction in the SaaS world over the last decade, to help support growth of self-serve users who often purchase services without the involvement of traditional sales teams.