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For our second community meetup we focussed on using Civo for CI/CD through GitOps and Github actions for cloud native application development This installment featured talks from our CTO Andy, our Developer Advocate Kai, and guest talks from community members Sam Weston and Johannes Tegnér. The talks touched on a wide variety of topics within CI/CD, from automating builds to monitoring and observability. Here's what was on the agenda...

We just released Ruby Gem 2.11. We are always making things easier to use for you, so more things work out of the box and more instrumentation and dashboarding is built without you doing any heavy lifting. This release has a big overhaul of Active Job support. The cherry on the stroopwafel cake is the automatically generated dashboard with status per queue, queue throughput and queue times. 2.11 also polishes a lot of other integrations. Let’s dive in.

We are excited to share that Resolve has been named a Strong Performer in “The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3 2020.” This report evaluates how the 13 most significant infrastructure automation platform providers measure up and helps infrastructure and operations professionals select the right solution for their needs.

One of the most common complaints about SCOM is the noisiness of alerts from Management Packs. Getting on top of these alerts can be a huge challenge and often the thing that most gets in the way of an organization getting value out of SCOM. In SquaredUp for SCOM 4.7, our recent feature-packed update, we bring you three new alert-handling super-powers to help you get on top of alerts.

The audience was buzzing when Ryan McKinley, VP of Innovation at Grafana Labs, demoed the new native support for InfluxDB Flux queries in his talk at the InfluxDays virtual conference in late June. Whether the goal is to build IoT applications, or monitor DevOps infrastructure or another application or system, it’s important to move beyond just visualizing the data.

Interviewing for a new job and finding your right fit is tough enough, not to mention the added stress of interviewing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As stated on our Careers Page, our process is pretty consolidated and we move quickly (you have to when you’re a growing tech company).

If you know anything about WebAssembly (WASM), it’s probably that WASM lets you execute code compiled from languages such as C, C++, Rust, or others in the browser at almost native speeds. You might be less familiar with the fact that WASM is not only an interesting technology in the browser, but also in other environments that require fast sandboxing. As such, WASM has found some popularity with edge computing and as a lightweight docker replacement for certain situations.

Discover what registry scanning is, how it helps with shifting security left, and how you can implement it using Harbor and Sysdig. Shifting security left is all about moving security to the earliest possible moment in the development process, dramatically improving “time to fix” and security impact. In this article, we’re going to show you how to shift left with Harbor registry and Sysdig Secure.