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Your Puppet Enterprise (PE) installation’s primary job is to compile catalogs and send them to agents to be enforced. When you deploy code, all catalog compilation stops and waits for the code deploy to complete. This impacts performance in any installation, and the impact escalates with more frequent code deployments. Code deployments usually increase when you use Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise, making the impacts of stopped catalog compilations even more apparent.

Software development in the banking and finance industry can make you feel like you’re wearing chains. Regulation, compliance, upfront costs, privacy, legacy systems, fear of cyberattacks, and an “if it ain’t broke” approach can lead to a lack of innovation. Despite these challenges, some technology-forward banks like Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, and Wells Fargo have embraced the cloud and introduced DevSecOps and cloud-friendly architectural practices.

At Netdata, we love two things more than anything else: Our goal is to make troubleshooting and monitoring as seamless as possible with the open-source Agent. This includes giving you pre-configured alerts so that you get notified immediately when a disruption occurs. The Netdata Agent comes with over 250 pre-configured and optimized alerts.

Continuous integration (CI) involves the test automation of feature branches before they are merged to the main Git branch in a project. This ensures that a codebase does not get updated with changes that could break something. Continuous delivery (CD), on the other hand, builds upon CI by automating releases of these branches or the main branch. This allows small incremental updates that reach your users faster, in line with Agile software development philosophy.

AWS ELB (Elastic load balancer) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs). That helps you achieve high availability and fault tolerance. In this article, we will share with you some tips that will help you best utilize AWS load balancer. We will also provide insights on the best use cases of ALB and NLB, which are the two most commonly used load balancers.

Kubernetes has become the de-facto container management solution of the last decade—and we have no doubt it will stay that way in the upcoming years. It provides a solid abstraction between the infrastructure layer and applications, so that developers can quickly develop, deploy, and operate their applications. Kubernetes is designed as a set of APIs that work together. If you deploy simple applications and make them run, Kubernetes will do it for you.

Welcome to the concluding chapter of this journey assessing Yocto and Ubuntu Core for your embedded Linux project. Among the go-to solutions in the industry and benefiting from wide popularity, Yocto enables developers to build a custom embedded Linux distribution from scratch. With extensive control over every stage of compiling and building the target, Yocto provides extreme flexibility to the expert end-user and kernel engineer.

We are well into 2022 and are busy bringing new exciting features to market. Our customers continue to provide input into our product roadmap and many new features are based on this collaborative effort. A big thank you to our valued customers. Throughout the year we will continue to drive innovation and allow our customers, of all sizes, to implement the most advanced AIOps solution in the shortest time possible.