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Containers and microservices have revolutionized the way applications are deployed on the cloud. Since its launch in 2014, Kubernetes has become a de-facto standard as a container orchestration tool. In this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy a Node.js application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).

In this article, you’ll be introduced to two different load testing tools that are both able to work with Kubernetes; Speedscale and K6. Throughout this post you’ll be given a comparative view of how each tool performs in five different categories: Ease of setup, developer experience, working with the CLI, creating tests, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.

This is the second piece in a series about automated diagnostics, a common use case for the PagerDuty Process Automation portfolio. In the last piece, we talked about the basics around automated diagnostics and how teams can use the solution to reduce escalations to specialists and empower responders to take action faster. In this blog, we’re going to talk about some basic diagnostics examples for components that are most relevant to our users.