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Managing source code with a defined method is one vital aspect of implementing effective application development. Today, two strategies for doing this stand above the rest: trunk-based development and GitFlow. Choosing the proper method for source code control is often dependent upon several factors, such as: In this article, let’s define and compare trunk-based development and GitFlow, look at the factors that drive an organization’s decision between the two.

In the last five years, Cribl has gone from 3 employees to more than 400 employees — it’s been an incredible, crazy, difficult, tiring, fucking awesome ride. It’s also been an emotional roller coaster with all the ups and downs, but despite all the challenges, things have been trending upwards.

LM Envision is a unified observability platform from LogicMonitor that unites comprehensive monitoring and observability capabilities. In this blog post, we’ll show how to integrate Istio service mesh with a LogicMonitor APM so that application traces can be used within LM Envision to better understand, optimize, and troubleshoot application performance.

In March 2022, Grafana Labs released Grafana Mimir, the most scalable, most performant open source time series database in the world. Mimir provides significant scale — 1 billion active series and beyond — with easy deployment, multi-tenancy, durable storage, high availability, and super fast query performance. From launch, Grafana Mimir could natively consume Prometheus metrics.

The Spring framework is a robust server-side framework for modern Java-based enterprise applications. Since its introduction in 2003, its advantages have made it one of the most dominant server-side frameworks among many organizations. According to a research study by Snyk in 2020 on the usage of the server-side web frameworks, 50% of the respondents have said they use Spring Boot, and 31% of the respondents use Spring MVC.

Many companies like all their API calls to external services routed through Azure API Management (APIM). If you are a user of Serverless360 BAM, then one of the options is to use Azure API Management as a proxy to your BAM API and then use APIM from within Logic Apps.

Elastic App Search allows developers to bring the power of Elasticsearch to mobile apps in a pretuned search experience. When parsing body text, the App Search crawler extracts all the content from the specified website and spreads it in fields depending on the HTML tags it finds. Text within title tags are assumed as title field, anchor tags are parsed as links, and body is parsed as one giant field with everything else.

In software development, the name of the game is to develop reliable systems in a fast-paced manner. As development shops have evolved to increase the speed of delivery, many organizations have embraced the Agile development practices of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). But the very nature of fast-paced development introduces challenges — particularly around the quality and the reliability of the software being developed.