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Our team at CircleCI has been hard at work this past year. From rolling out major product additions like CircleCI Insights and private orbs, along with educational resources like our developer hub and State of Software Delivery Report that includes the first CI/CD benchmarks for high-performing engineering teams, it seems like every day there is something new to look forward to. All of this has taken place during unprecedented times for everyone across the globe.
To many businesses, the pace of innovation and speed to market has been hindered by the legacy infrastructure. This is mainly due to the closed structures and inflexible old-school architectural formats that they follow. The decades-old infrastructure hesitates to scale up with the growing business demands and realize advanced cloud-based technologies.
Picture yourself flying first class. You board the plane first, you get champagne, and you feel as though you’re the most important. Why not treat your APIs the same way? In this talk, FireHydrant CEO and Co-Founder, Robert Ross (a.k.a @bobbytables) shares why putting your APIs first can be a game-changer for your business and how this mindset shaped the way FireHydrant was built.
I believe that the evolution to hybrid cloud is inevitable. Not because it’s grabbing headlines, but because it mirrors the industry’s history of new technology adoption. Take the evolution of virtualization, for example. Going back 20 years give or take, virtual machines popularized by VMware, KVM, and Hyper-V started to gain traction.
In one of our recent webinars we discussed a substantial challenge IT Ops teams face in today’s complex IT environments: defining and clearly communicating incident/operational roles and processes, in an effort to create a well-coordinated incident management lifecycle. This lifecycle is essential for restoring service as quickly as possible when disruptions occur. Following are the highlights of that discussion, also recently published in an ApmDigest article.