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Power Your Consul Service Mesh with HAProxy

Many of you use HashiCorp Consul for service discovery. It makes connecting one backend application or service to another easy: Your Consul servers store a catalog of addresses to all of your services; when an application within the network wants to discover where a service is listening, it asks Consul, which gives it the address.

Environment variables and Secrets - The Future of Qovery - Week #6

During the next five weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps. This series will reveal all the changes and features you will get in the next major release of Qovery. Let's go!

How to monitor your cron jobs using Cronitor

Cron jobs handle a lot of background plumbing that keep applications running smoothly. But cron job failures often go unnoticed and be disastrous for your users and business. To make sure that you are aware about cron job issues, you should use a cron monitoring tool. In this post, we will see how to get started with Cronitor to monitor your cron jobs.

Top 20 DevOps Blogs to Keep Your Eye on in 2021

The process of developing software applications has evolved over the years. DevOps has taken over the world, and more and more companies are starting to adopt the DevOps culture in their process. DevOps is a practice of operations where engineering teams work together through the entire software development cycle. It includes functions from development to testing and deployment to production support. Because of that, DevOps has become popular in the industry.

Maximizing VMware Performance and Memory Utilization

VMware is one of the top virtualization software that allows you to create virtual machines and make the best use of your resources. One of the major focuses of virtualization solutions is to enable optimized use of resources like memory and computing power, but overcommitting your hypervisor towards greedy resource management can lead to severe degradation in the overall performance.

New SQL Monitor release gives organizations the opportunity to manage their on-premises and cloud databases from a single global dashboard

To help organizations explore and manage the advantages the cloud provides, the latest release of Redgate's popular database monitoring tool, SQL Monitor, now supports Amazon EC2 and RDS, and Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instances as well as on-premises SQL Server.

Should you ever reinstall your Linux box? If so, how?

Broadly speaking, the Linux community can be divided into two camps – those who upgrade their operating systems in-vivo, whenever there is an option to do so in their distro of choice, and those who install from scratch. As it happens, the former group also tends to rarely reinstall their system when problems occur, while the latter more gladly jump at the opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. So if asked, who should you listen to?

Creating Custom Slack Commands

Site Reliability Engineers are expected to know everything that’s happening, all of the time. That’s a lot of things! To help you sift through the noise, we’ve developed a feature that lets you find accurate data about your organization on-demand. You can do this by sending custom-designed commands to FireHydrant directly from your integrated Slack account.