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The Confident Commit | Episode 5: Software engineering with a purpose ft. Brad Henrickson

Rob is joined by Brad Henrickson to discuss the interaction between human motivations and delivering great software. Brad and Rob dive into the leadership skill of cultivating space for employees to share their work motivations as a means to operating well together. Tune in today! Subscribe to The Confident Commit Podcast playlist for alerts to new episodes published bi-weekly. The Confident Commit: A podcast for developers, engineering managers, and business leaders alike to join in the conversation on how to deliver software better and faster.

Performance analysis for supported modules with Honeycomb

The Infrastructure Automation Content (IAC) team noticed some supported modules tests were taking significantly more time than others. David Schmitt, Principal Software Engineer on the IAC team, explains how Puppet utilises Honeycomb to debug our supported modules for potential performance bottlenecks.

Module development failure analysis with Honeycomb

Writing modules for yourself is easy, but writing modules for other people to use? Not so much. Failures in modules can have major repercussions, and our IAC team in Puppet takes that very seriously. Listen as David Schmitt and Daniel Carabas walk you through how we utilise Honeycomb for failure analysis with Github Actions during module development.

JFrog How To's - How to Set Up Xray to Scan Repositories, Builds or Bundles

In this video, I'll show you how to get started with JFrog Xray. You will see how to create rules, policies and watches and what the individual components mean. We will also take a look at the Vulnerabilities Reports. Here I will show you how to create, evaluate and export them. This introduction gives you all the essential elements you can use to start looking for vulnerabilities in your project.

Netdata is launching its Discord server

It’s been a long time since our last community update, rest assured that we have been hard at work here at Netdata. Community building is hard, especially when you have such a venerable community like the one here at Netdata, where hundreds of contributors have contributed to creating one of the best monitoring solutions that exist. Last year we started to concentrate working on consolidating the community by integrating the various platforms where people come together to talk about Netdata.

Rancher Desktop - An Open Source App for Desktop Kubernetes and Container Management

For those of us who need to get applications running in Kubernetes, having Kubernetes on the desktop is incredibly useful. When we want to focus on our applications, it’s especially useful when Kubernetes is easy to use. This is where Rancher Desktop comes in. Rancher Desktop provides easy-to-use Kubernetes and container management (something we’ll look at in a moment) for Mac and Windows. Having Kubernetes isn’t enough.

What's new in Sysdig - June 2021

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! Happy Pride month! We hope you are celebrating safely, in whatever manner you choose. It’s been over 50 years since the Stonewall riots, but we continue to fight for equality and justice. Love is love, and we’re sending you all of ours! Thank you to Marsha P. Johnson, Brenda Howard, and countless others for fighting for the freedom that many of us today enjoy.

Mattermost plugins: The web app

This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on Mattermost plugins. First, we talked about how to set up your developer environment. We then examined the structure of server-side and web app plugins before walking through how to build a server-side plugin in Mattermost. In this piece, we’ll explore how to create web app plugins. The web app is written in JavaScript. It uses Redux, and you can write your plugin in Typescript as well. In this article, we’ll use JavaScript.

GDIT and NIH: Why ScienceLogic?

The ScienceLogic platform is packed with connections, integrations, customizations and automation. Hear from system integrator General Dynamics IT sharing some insight with National Institute of Health (NIH) about pushing the edge of integrations with PowerFlow to help integrate with even more tool across the infrastructure landscape.