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Speed up your dashboard workflow with dynamic template variable syntax

Template variables enable you to use tags to filter your Datadog dashboards to the hosts, containers, or services you need for faster troubleshooting. However, there are some cases where it may be difficult to use a standard set of template variables to aggregate all of the data you need without creating a complicated, difficult to manage set of variables. For example, you may use tag values that are a subset of another tag.

CircleCI acquires Vamp, adding release orchestration to their CI/CD platform to help engineering teams deliver business growth

CircleCI, the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced the acquisition of release orchestration platform, Vamp. Combining Vamp's industry-leading release orchestration capabilities with CircleCI's robust CI/CD platform will be transformative for engineering teams amid a growing need for increased change validation in the industry.

What's New with JFrog Xray and DevSecOps

As we look to improve the quality and capabilities of the JFrog DevOps Platform, especially in the world of DevSecOps, we have added powerful new features to further enhance the award-winning JFrog Xray. The capabilities detailed below cement Xray’s position as a universal software composition analysis (SCA) solution trusted by developers and DevSecOps teams globally to quickly and continuously identify open source software vulnerabilities and license compliance violations.

Replay Single Transactions for Root Cause Analysis

Speedscale was built primarily to provide engineering teams with better insight into their applications over time, replaying single transactions for root cause analysis that give developers and SREs confidence that tomorrow’s application code will work just as well in production as it did yesterday.

Observability: It's the User Experience, Stupid!

Observability, which originated from control theory, measures how well you can understand a system’s internal states from its external outputs. Observability uses instrumentation to provide insights that aid monitoring. In DevOps, gaining observability is achieved through a set of monitoring solutions. The shift to use one vendor platform to do so, versus multiple solutions, make sense as.

A guide for CTO: 8 questions to ask before using Kubernetes

Congratulations, you finally consider moving your apps to Kubernetes. It is a big day! Here is a checklist to ensure you did not forget anything essential to increase your chances of success using Kubernetes. We divided those points into three sections, from the most important to the least. Let’s go.