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The future of Prometheus remote write

At PromCon last month, Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs VP of Product, described the origin and purpose of Prometheus remote write and previewed exciting developments on the road map. “We covered our efforts to standardize remote write, document how it works and why it works that way, and then test implementations,” Wilkie said. “In the next release or two of Prometheus, we’ll improve how we send metadata via remote write and start sending exemplars.

The top three insights from the 2021 State of Database DevOps report

Last year was a year of unprecedented challenges for everyone in every part of the world and every industry, and it was also a year of big changes in the IT sector. The pandemic underscored the role of the IT department as an enabler and a critical part of the transition to remote working. While digitalization was well underway before 2020, no one could have predicted the acceleration the pandemic brought on.

Adding IaC security scans to your CI pipeline with Indeni

With CircleCI, there are many different CI/CD flows that can be automated. One such flow is the use of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to build cloud environments. For example, you can use CircleCI to automate the process of building Terraform plans and applying them, in order to create massive production setups in AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud environments.

The Industry's First Private Distribution Network

Private Distribution Network (PDN) enables enterprises to easily set up and manage a secure, massively scalable, hybrid distribution network for software updates. This new innovative technology accelerates software distribution 40X to speed up deployments and concurrent downloads across large-scale environments spanning hybrid infrastructure, edges, and IoT devices. PDN provides two integrated network utilization and acceleration technologies - HTTP-based, secure P2P, and CDN - that can be rolled out across large-scale mixed-infrastructure and multi-tiered, customizable network topologies, and are managed as-a-service with usage-based pricing.

Integrating AppSignal With Microsoft Teams

We’re constantly looking for interesting integrations for our performance incidents, exception incidents, anomaly detection and uptime monitoring notifications, and our latest addition is an integration for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is a hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365. It integrates people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective.

How to achieve acceptance testing through abstraction

Beaker is a Puppet testing harness focused on acceptance testing via interactions between multiple (virtual) machines. It provides platform abstraction between different Systems Under Test (SUTs), and it can also be used as a virtual machine provisioner setting up machines, running any commands on those machines, and then exiting. Recently, Vox Pupuli, a collective of Puppet community authors, has taken over responsibility to care and feed Beaker for its continued widespread community use.