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Automating testing for FeathersJS applications

This is one of a two-part series. You can also learn how to automate the deployment of FeathersJS apps to Heroku. In the software development lifecycle, testing offers benefits that reach far beyond the code itself. Testing assures all parties (developers, clients, project managers, etc) that, while the application may not be completely bug-free, it does what is expected, as expected.

Manage Service Catalog entries efficiently with the Service Definition JSON Schema

The Datadog Service Catalog helps you centralize knowledge about your organization’s services, giving you a single source of truth to improve collaboration, service governance, and incident response. Datadog automatically detects your APM-instrumented services and writes their metadata to a service definition before adding them to the catalog.

Resiliency As the Next Step in the DevOps Transformation

We’ve reached the point in the DevOps transformation where efficiency and automation are no longer the highest objectives. The next step is engineering past automation and towards fully autonomous, self-healing systems. If you aren’t conversing about building this type of resilience into your systems and applications, there’s never been a better time than now to start.

Essential tips for automating DevOps workflows

Implemented well, automation can be a powerful tool for accelerating and scaling DevOps processes to keep your team building and shipping code quickly. But knowing what and how to automate DevOps workflows can be challenging; every organization’s DevOps practices are unique, and there’s no one “right” way to approach automation. Let’s look at a few tips for approaching DevOps workflow automation to help your team move faster.

How To Handle Untaggable And Untagged Cloud Spend

Let’s imagine, for a moment, that we live in a perfect world. In that world, you could check your company’s cloud bills and financial reports and find cleanly organized categories of spending that help you instantly understand where your money is going and why. Your engineers would meticulously label every spend item with useful metadata tags so you can clearly see which costs have increased and which are most affecting your bottom line.

Announcing the Open Beta for Linux Shell Runners in Bitbucket Pipelines

We are happy to announce that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports non-containerized Linux Shell self-hosted runners. This is currently in beta. You can now create a self-hosted runner and run it on your Linux infrastructure without container restrictions. Since it is your infrastructure, you will not be charged for the build minutes used by your self-hosted runner.