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Optimizing Workloads in Kubernetes: Understanding Requests and Limits

Kubernetes has emerged as a cornerstone of modern infrastructure orchestration in the ever-evolving landscape of containerized applications and dynamic workloads. One of the critical challenges Kubernetes addresses is efficient resource management – ensuring that applications receive the right amount of compute resources while preventing resource contention that can degrade performance and stability.

SharePoint Admin Guide for Beginners

SharePoint is a Microsoft-owned platform that provides an extensive range of solutions for content management and collaboration within and outside an organization. Built on a web-based technology stack, it integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office 365 and offers features like document libraries, team sites, intranets, extranets, and advanced search functionalities. It can be deployed both on-premises or in the cloud.

Webinar: Best Practices for Measuring and Growing Developer Productivity

Knowing how productive your development team is is essential to planning your software delivery timeline and releasing high-quality software to the end-user. However, there exist several misconceptions about what developer productivity is and how it can be increased. Developer productivity is not a single metric you can measure, like the number of pull requests each developer in the team is making in a given development time. Instead, it comprises a variety of interconnected aspects that can be measured by different metrics and improved over time.

Webinar: Still using spreadsheets to track your services? You need a developer portal.

Back by popular demand, Ganesh Datta will cover Developer Portals and why users look to Cortex for running efficient engineering teams. Developer portals have become increasingly important to run an efficient engineering team especially as the number of services or engineers scale. Learn more about why companies adopt developer portals, how to maximize their impact, and how they can help your team reduce the organizational complexity that comes with running a service oriented architecture.

Rescue Struggling Pods from Scratch

Containers are an amazing technology. They provide huge benefits and create useful constraints for distributing software. Golang-based software doesn’t need a container in the same way Ruby or Python would bundle the runtime and dependencies. For a statically compiled Go application, the container doesn’t need much beyond the binary.

Building a Forge app in Bitbucket Cloud | Atlassian

Atlassian’s product extensibility framework, Forge, enables customers to extend the native capabilities of Atlassian products, like Bitbucket Cloud, to perfectly meet the needs of their unique organisation. Using Forge, software teams can use the skills they already possess to enhance the native functionality of Bitbucket Cloud to create the perfect DevOps tools for their needs.

Intro to Speedscale

Speedscale is a Y-Combinator backed startup that helps Kubernetes engineering teams build resilient and performant containerized apps. Our production traffic replication platform is a more reliable, cost-effective, and scalable way to test and deliver cloud-native software applications. Unlike other tools, we use agents/sidecars to record and playback sanitized traffic that you see in prod. With Speedscale, engineers can generate load, simulate production conditions, and mock third party backends modeled after real traffic patterns.

Build a CIS hardened Ubuntu Pro server image on the AWS Console

Learn how to elevate the security of your Ubuntu servers by creating a CIS-hardened Ubuntu Pro AMI using only the AWS web console. Join Canonical Public Cloud Alliance Director Carlos Bravo in this step-by-step tutorial as he walks through the hardening process utilizing the Ubuntu Security Guide (USG) tool to ensure your system's security aligns with industry standards including CIS and DISA-STIG.