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This blog will be the first in a three-part blog series where we explore the benefits of the GitOps practice, how to get the most from GitOps, and how to measure and maintain success. Here is what you can expect from the series: Let’s start at the very beginning — what is GitOps? If you want to start to build a single source of truth for both your code and your infrastructure, if you want to ensure your deployments are automated and reliable, you’ll want to know GitOps.

Customer expectations and business tactics often take a new turn with the difference in demands. Depending on the requirements and upcoming technologies, change management becomes important. In fact, over the past few years, digital transformation has been the key contributor to business success and change in dynamics. It has improved IT management by eliminating problematic areas and making businesses capable of facing challenges.

The modern workforce thrives on mobility. Employees access data, collaborate with colleagues, and connect with clients — often all from the palm of their hand. But as Uncle Ben taught us, with great power comes great responsibility, there’s a lot of danger in the form of mobile security vulnerabilities. Lost phones, phishing attacks, and app-borne malware can expose your organization’s sensitive data. So, how do you know if our mobile workforce is a security asset or a vulnerability?

Cloud computing has emerged as a game changer for organizations looking for agility and flexibility from their IT infrastructures. A cloud-native infrastructure further enhances this by using microservices, containers, and DevOps for a scalable foundation for modern applications. However, like any technology, it has its advantages and disadvantages. In this article, we'll discuss the pros and cons of cloud-native infrastructure so you can decide if it's the right fit for your business.

As a business or organization grows, managing your IT infrastructure and equipment becomes more and more complicated. Enter IMACD: Installation, Move, Add, Change, and Disposal. An approach simplifies the lifecycle management of IT resources, ensuring that businesses remain agile, secure, and efficient.

Article updated July 2024 Source control, aka version control, is the method of tracking and managing changes to software code. Source Control Management (SCM) systems offer a running history of code changes and can be particularly helpful for teams of developers making changes to the same files. As a critical aspect of responsible software development, source control helps developers track code changes, see complete revision history, and revert back to a previous version of a project if needed.

In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency is everything. Developers are constantly under pressure to keep up with rapid technological changes, unclear requirements, and tight deadlines. With the demand for skilled developers rapidly increasing and projected to grow by 22% by 2029 in the US alone , finding ways to enhance productivity and streamline workflows can provide a much-needed relief, making the difference between delivering a project on time or spending long nights debugging.

In most situations, you will have several sources of telemetry data that you want to send to multiple destinations, such as storage locations and observability tools. In turn, the data that you are sending needs to be optimized for its specific destination. If your data contains Personally Identifying Information (PII) for example, this data will need to be redacted or encrypted before reaching its destination.

While building an app with FastAPI can be reasonably straightforward, deploying and operating it might be more challenging. The whole user experience can be ruined by unexpected errors, slow responses, or even worse — downtime. AppSignal is a great tool of choice for efficiently tracking your FastAPI app's performance. It allows you to easily monitor average/95th percentile/90th percentile response times, error rates, throughput, and much more. Useful charts are available out of the box.

Getting the right people working in the CoPE is crucial to success because these change agents must limber up the organization and promote the flexibility necessary to perform resilience. We’ll look for teammates who share enough in common to work well together, but who don’t necessarily perfectly overlap so that they can play off each other’s strengths.