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Simplifying the Tooling you Need to Manage Infrastructure at Scale - Civo Navigate NA 2023

In this talk, Alejandro, a Go developer from Civo, introduces OpenCP, a tool aiming to simplify infrastructure management at scale. OpenCP provides a unified API for interacting with different cloud providers, rendering the need to rewrite configuration files when switching providers unnecessary. The tool simplifies infrastructure management by allowing operations to be handled through the kubectl interface, thus ensuring compatibility with most users' existing workflows.

New User Inbox and Circuit Management

As we enter the new era of 4.0, we are thrilled to introduce a range of fresh and user-friendly features. Take a peek into your brand new User Inbox, a centralized hub for all your notifications. Explore the enhanced Connectivity add-on with Circuit Management, allowing you to conveniently bundle your connections. And for those managing multiple outlets, get ready to experience the upgraded Outlet Control functionality that will surely delight you.

Best Practices and Potential Loopholes for Successful Microservices Architecture

Microservices architecture is a software development approach where an application is built as a collection of small, loosely coupled, independently deployable services. Each service focuses on a specific business capability and operates as an autonomous unit, communicating with other services through well-defined APIs. This architectural style is often used in the context of DevOps to create more efficient, scalable, and manageable systems.

Do you know where your engineering bottlenecks are hiding?

Do you know where your software engineering bottlenecks are hiding? Jacpocket used Sleuth to track DORA metrics, which revealed the software development team suffered from infrequent releases. Here's how Sleuth helped. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

The Iceberg of Engineering Incident Costs

I've long been fascinated with the metaphor of an iceberg to describe a problem who’s true magnitude is obscured beneath the surface. If you’re not familiar with this phenomenon, when ice freezes it decreases in density. This allows the solid ice to float, partially, atop the water with only a small fraction of it exposed. In fact, icebergs hold nearly 90% of their mass hidden below the water.

AZcopy and GDPR compliance

In today’s data-driven world, managing information is more crucial than ever. With the constant flow of data, both individuals and organizations are increasingly concerned about privacy and security. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has emerged as a key legislative framework in the European Union to protect citizens’ personal data. But how does this relate to the tools we use to manage and transfer data, like Microsoft’s AzCopy?

Develop, Operate, and Optimize with VMware Tanzu: A VMware Explore Round-Up

Applications are the center of your organization’s business. Success (or failure) depends on how quickly you can respond to dynamic market demands driven by cultural shifts, technical innovation, and global events. This business agility is driven by fast, predictable application delivery. The past few years have seen IT leaders in the public sector and private industry alike rushing to get better and faster at delivering applications and services to their customers, employees, and constituents.