Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

I’ve always been a huge fan of mystery novels and true crime stories. It seems true crime is having an especially big moment right now, from serial killer documentaries to podcasts. Like so many people, I find myself drawn in as I read, watch, or listen to the criminal investigation. It’s fascinating how detectives work, diving into the smallest of details to solve massive crimes.

DevOps is a software development practice that combines development and operations teams. When organizations use DevOps, they typically also use agile methodologies for managing and completing projects. The combination of DevOps and agile practices enables teams to build software faster and more efficiently. One of the primary tools of DevOps is the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Bugs will happen from time to time. As our systems grow in complexity, new functionalities mean new risks. What makes or breaks a team is not only how it handles incidents, but also how it learns from them. This is where incident postmortems come into the picture.

As businesses transform their traditional business models into new digital ones, and aggressively compete for turf within the digital economy, their constant pursuit of competitive edge drives technology, process, and architectural innovations. As a result, it seems that every 18 months a technology paradigm shift comes about that enables better agility, lower cost, improved quality of service, better intelligence and more.

We now support the upload of Cargo packages to the Cloudsmith platform using the native Cargo publish command.

Dynamic pricing has become the norm in online retailing. The dynamic pricing method is successful in attracting customer’s attention and also increases profitability for online retailers. It requires you to have a large amount of data in hand like competitors’ pricing, details concerning products and customers, and difference between supply and demand.

With the advent of more and more connected systems and devices, organizations are facing ever greater data security challenges. Moreover, with the accelerating cloudification of apps and even whole infrastructures, security professionals are also faced with the challenge of how to protect critical assets including personal and other sensitive data as well as IP.

If you’re a developer, you know all about APIs. However, if you’re in a non-technical role, you may not have the information you need to make educated decisions about the APIs your company offers and uses. In this article, we will take you through the API basics: what they are, how they work, why they’re important, and what you can do to protect your business’s reliance on API performance and uptime.