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If you’re like many of our customers, the phrase software supply chain entered your lexicon this year. You’ve begun to feel the complexities and vulnerabilities of that supply chain. You’ve connected the dots between more reliable software delivery and business success. You’re recognizing the gains developer efficiency can have on profitability.

We are going to deploy a Go application directly from your repo to AWS with Cloud 66. Any application using any language on any framework can be deployed with Cloud 66 as long as it has a Dockerfile. Note: Rails applications are exceptions as we deploy them natively. If your application does not have a Dockerfile, we will suggest one for you based on your code. However, we would recommend reviewing what we have suggested and making sure the Dockerfile meets your requirements.

Over the last decade, containers have become an essential part of running infrastructure more efficiently. Containers enable productivity, automation, and cost-effective deployments. But there are different types of containers to consider, and this blog explains what Linux containers are, and how they differ from application containers.

Engineering teams can now manage incidents in Microsoft Teams. You’ll have the consistent process and automation of FireHydrant right in the messaging tool you use every day. Effectively run through the entire incident response lifecycle: declare and manage incidents, collaborate with stakeholders, and resolve incidents faster when you integrate FireHydrant with Microsoft Teams.

The global footprint of Microsoft Azure is made up of physical infrastructure of over 200 data centres and connective network components, arranged into regions, and linked by a large interconnected network. Each of the Azure data centres provides high availability, low latency, scalable cloud services close to users to improve reliability and speed. In this blog, we look at the Azure Regions, and explain the benefits of using a direct connection to access Azure infrastructure.

I recently returned from a birthday trip to Napa Valley and got to spend some time with the Shipa Team in Palo Alto during the trip. Grabbing a coffee on my trek back to San Francisco, I overheard someone talking about YAML at the coffee shop and I had to hold back my laugh. You usually do not hear folks talking about YAML out in the public but this is San Francisco. For many engineers, YAML is a way of life.

Business leaders and team members face countless decisions every day, some of which are certain to have an impact on the future of a company. Perhaps the most impactful to a SaaS company’s bottom line are financial decisions related to the cloud. Engineers and team leads need to know which cloud architecture choices are worthwhile and which should be scrapped in favor of a more cost effective model.

Companies depend on observability insights to provide reliable online services to their customers. To support their efforts, StackState is proud to announce a new version of our unique topology-powered observability software, StackState v4.6, available now. This new version brings powerful new capabilities to DevOps and SRE teams who need to maintain a deep understanding of how their stack is behaving to meet their SLOs.

From the history of supply chain security threats to security development and deployment we've covered everything you’ve always wanted to know about the software supply chain but were afraid to ask. Dan Lorenc, Founder/CEO, Chainguard, Paddy Carey, Senior Staff Engineer, Cloudsmith, Adil Leghari, Solutions Architect Manager, Cloudsmith and Dan McKinney, Developer Relations, Cloudsmith, gathered for a fireside chat to cover your most burning questions.

With our latest releases of Epinio, we’ve focused on making both the setup and developer experience much more streamlined. We’ve looked at where users are having issues and removed many of the roadblocks. This reduced footprint also allows for more customizability and easier long-term maintenance. If you are not familiar with Epinio, it is an application development engine for Kubernetes that lets you go from code to URL in a single step.