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Part I: A Journey of a Thousand Binaries - Types of Software Dependencies

As software developers, one of the things that we worry a lot about is our software dependencies. To speed up delivery time of new functionality within our code we reuse software – we don’t have time to reinvent the wheel. We stand on the shoulders of giants and leverage all the hard work and lessons learned from the software developers of our past. Sounds great right! Well mostly great because we are faced with the underlying trials intrinsec to software development.

Trunk-based vs. feature-based development

When you are the only dev building a software project, you can create and modify your code according to personal preference. When you contribute code to a team-run project, you need to follow a standardized set of guidelines and coordinate precisely with other team members. Standard guidelines and coordinated work effort are vital to the success of every team-based software development project.

The Path to Continuous Cloud Optimization

Implementing change in an organization always has its challenges, and for it to be successful it requires support from executive management. For one of our large Managed Service Provider (MSP) clients, their new CIO was focused on making their customer’s cloud consumption more efficient, with the outcome being cost savings.

Integrate with AWS CloudWatch | Moogsoft Product Videos & How-Tos

You can get the source data into Moogsoft in two ways – You can install a collector to the system you want to monitor, or integrate with the source monitoring system. This video shows you the latter option using AWS Cloudwatch. Don't forget to subscribe for content on DevOps, Observability, AIOps and more!

Monitor SQL Server and Azure managed databases with Datadog DBM

Datadog Database Monitoring (DBM) provides comprehensive visibility into SQL queries running on your databases. Using DBM, you can troubleshoot database performance issues by drilling into frequently used queries and analyzing historical trends in your queries’ metrics and execution plans. Whether you operate self-hosted SQL Server instances or leverage Azure’s fully managed services, DBM can provide deep visibility into the databases your application depends on.

Upsun announces $140m series D round of funding

Today is a big moment in the Upsun story and a bright day to celebrate in our seven-year history. This latest round of fundraising comes at the perfect time. We’ve already laid the groundwork by providing clients with the most efficient, most powerful management service to build and run web applications at scale. We’re extremely happy with what we have been able to accomplish in previous years. Now, we can dramatically accelerate our plans to build the best cloud platform possible.

Qovery revival: Brand New Web Console for a world new Developer Experience

Hi everyone, Albane here 👋 If you read my changelogs, you probably realized that I have been talking about a V3 in the making; almost a year after our V2, the wait is almost over because after gathering all of your precious feedback and nearly a quarter of work the Alpha testing is coming before the end of the month! 🤩 This V3 is undoubtedly the most significant product evolution of the last twelve months, but what’s so special about it?

Are your applications secure? Can you find it out without complex rules?

The modernization of infrastructure and applications is driving the rapid growth of containers, and as companies scale the adoption of Kubernetes, it’s critical to incorporate security and compliance. The challenge? Compliance and security is a journey, not a state in time, and application security in Kubernetes has a large surface area. This challenge increases exponentially as you run more applications, onboard more developers, add more environments, add new pipelines, and more.