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Product update: ensure consistent data across all your retros with two new features

FireHydrant captures your incident, from declaration through remediation, and gives you a framework to run your retrospectives. But retrospectives are only as effective as their inputs. Now we're delivering a better way to learn from and analyze retrospectives by guaranteeing consistent, structured, and sufficient data from your team.

GitKraken Client v8.4: Team Workspaces & Pull Request View

GitKraken knows that software development relies on efficiently coordinating with your A-Team. That is why we’ve added a pull requests section, more repo information to GitKraken Workspaces and a new way to organize and share them with your teams in GitKraken Client! As Mr. Keif would say: I pity the tool that doesn’t have the incredible team features included in GitKraken Client v8.4!

Resolve Actions and Espressive Barista

Resolve and Espressive have partnered to bring you an enterprise-class chatbot and Virtual Support Agent that can actually resolve incidents and complete service requests using the Resolve Actions Intelligent IT Automation platform. And because Resolve Actions is an IT automation platform, you can fully customize your automations & runbooks that are triggered by Espressive Barista to undertake almost any IT task.

Civo Update - April 2022

In March, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released its Annual Survey 2021. Civo featured alongside the likes of Amazon and Azure when CNCF asked developers "Does your organization use any certified Kubernetes installers?". Saiyam, Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo, also released an update on the new advancements so far for our 2022 Roadmap.

How-To Obtain Cloud Pricing at Scale

In 2020, we started an internal project to price our data center systems to understand what they might cost to run in the AWS or Azure cloud environments. We initially used some of the online pricing tools available from these vendors, but they were slow and difficult to use in bulk. You can find the public cloud tools here: AWS and Azure. We were forced to add individual systems one at a time and pick options for each because of the nature of these tools.

GitKraken Client v8.4 Release: Team Workspaces + Pull Request View

Pull requests are now available in GitKraken Workspaces, providing users a centralized way to find, view, and modify pull requests across multiple repositories in one place. GitKraken Workspaces can now be shared with your team, so everyone working on the same project can easily access the repos and pull requests they need. Sharing a Workspace is also a convenient way to onboard new team members who may need to clone many repos at once.

DevOps 101: How do you get buy-in from people?

In the first part of my DevOps 101 series, we tackled the fundamentals of What, who why and how. In this follow-up, I’m going to focus on how to gain buy-in across your organization. That said, who do you need buy-in from? DevOps is the union of people, processes and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users, according to Microsoft’s Donovan Brown. That’s a good explanation, because the focus is not on tooling, or processes, or even just people.

Troubleshoot faster with improved Datadog Events

Datadog Events provides customers with a data feed about their infrastructure and applications, delivering an up-to-the-minute history of activity such as code deployments, configuration changes, and triggered alerts. Events collects data from Datadog products and over 100 third-party integrations—including Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Sentry, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Service Health.

An Open Letter from the CEO of Puppet: Puppet + Perforce

When I started at Puppet three years ago, I saw a company with a tremendous customer base, an active open source community, an incredible reputation, products that solved some of the hardest problems in the operations space, and a passionate team that had deep values and was purpose-driven, both of which are at my core as a leader.