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Software deployment automation can simplify and speed up your delivery cycle. It can reduce risk, allow teams to easily test after changes are made, and help provide consistency for the overall development pipeline. If it sounds complicated, we’re here to break it down each step into a cheat sheet that provides tips and best practices for the software deployment automation process.

In today’s fast-paced development environment, quality testing requires two critical elements: comprehensive monitoring and intelligent test data management. Today, we’re excited to announce that Apica has acquired Orson, combining industry-leading synthetic monitoring with advanced test data orchestration capabilities.

A deep dive on different metric types in Prometheus and best practices.

We can all agree that visibility into resource usage is crucial for optimizing performance and managing costs to drive your business — especially in today’s cloud-driven world. MyJFrog is a comprehensive management portal for overseeing JFrog cloud platform instances and subscriptions. It provides a centralized control tower to manage and monitor subscriptions, resources, and usage.

Kubernetes is one of the most significant advances in cloud computing since the public cloud. It provides an open-source, highly scalable, and cloud-native platform for orchestrating containerized applications. More organizations now use Kubernetes to deploy, network, scale, and manage containers at scale. In addition, the Kubernetes architecture empowers them to deploy containerized applications swiftly across various platforms, support distributed systems, and scale operations to meet demands quickly.

Bandwidth management is not easy; it is a 24/7 juggling act. You need a team of vigilant eyes constantly monitoring network traffic, sharp minds to brew up new strategies and refine old ones in order to squeeze out every ounce of performance, and a knack for pinpointing the root cause of issues when alarms are raised and fixing them swiftly.

As we close out 2024, developer productivity and happiness continue to be a focus for many organizations. Platform engineering can play a pivotal role in shaping the developer experience. With the growing complexity of distributed systems and the ever-pressing need for faster delivery cycles, platform engineers are uniquely positioned to enable developers to focus on what they do best: shipping high-quality code.