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The Visual Git Road to Technical Leadership

Not every developer prefers the CLI. From devs to non-technical team members alike, a growing number of users—from beginners to advanced Git users—are choosing to use Git tools that enable better project visualization. With the proper workflow, visual Git tools can leverage the power of project history in Git far beyond version control. Monitoring projects and keeping teams in sync set the foundation for an efficient, integrated, and pleasant daily developer experience.

Ask Miss O11y: I Don't Want to Be On Call Anymore. Am I a Monster?

First, I’d like to say that pager duty isn’t something we should treat like chronic pain or diabetes, where you just constantly manage symptoms and tend to flare-ups day and night. Being paged out of hours is as serious as a fucking heart attack. It should be RARE and taken SERIOUSLY. Resources should be mustered, product cycles should be reassigned, until the problem is fixed.

Why are you being such a git about it? - Git Best Practices

Are your Git repositories just a dumping ground for code? In this Git best practices session from the GitKon Git conference, we will look at Git branching strategies, the importance of a Git commit message, and how often you should commit, with Joe Glombek, Umbraco developer with Bump Digital. With 5 simple Git tips, you can turn a code dump into a glorious archive or software while saving time, frustration, and money.

Advanced Service Bus Dead lettering with BAM

In the real world, when we implement systems, there are often many kinds of users, such as super business users and some level 1 support technicians who understand the application domain and can support a lot of your applications. Still, due to limited skills and experience with Azure, they are constrained to how much of the application they can help. A great example of this is when you have a solution that uses Azure Service Bus.

Kubernetes and the Enterprise

As more organizations transition to cloud-native applications in the enterprise, Kubernetes and its APIs are laying the foundation for a next era of distributed computing. But despite its growing adoption in the enterprise, Kubernetes remains complex to implement and manage effectively. This topic spotlight highlights the most common challenges of Kubernetes in the enterprise and offers up some recommendations on how to make Kubernetes adoption smooth and effective to drive productivity and business value.

Avoid frostbite: Stop doing code freezes

As the holiday season aggressively approaches I want to perform a public service announcement for everyone toying with the idea of a code freeze for the holidays: please don't. It’s getting cold outside and the season of peppermint mochas is upon us, which might get you thinking about putting a code freeze in place for the holidays. A Word of warning: instituting a code freeze may have unintended consequences.

Store and retrieve static assets on AWS S3 with NodeJS on FlashDrive

AWS S3 is a cloud storage service that saves data as an object associated with a key. Objects are like files and keys are like filenames. Objects are stored in a bucket. We will be auto-generating our object keys while uploading. In a free tier account, you get 5GB of free cloud storage with AWS S3. Note: This tutorial is made for AWS S3 but works as well with S3 compatible providers like Wasabi.com

Discover VirtualMetric's Dashboard Playlists

VirtualMetric Real-time Monitoring Suite is supporting Dashboard Playlists, providing full visibility over your infrastructure and virtualization monitoring for your whole team. Monitoring a complex infrastructure is a hard task. We make it simple thanks to our Dashboard and a bunch of functionalities focused on your user experience, time-saving and improving the efficiency of your team.

Stay Alert! Building the Coralogix-Nagios Connector

Ask any DevOps engineer, and they will tell you about all the alerts they enable so they can stay informed about their code. These alerts are the first line of defense in the fight for Perfect Uptime SLA. With every good solution out there, you can find plenty of methods for alerting and monitoring events in the code. Each method has its own reasons and logic for how it works and why it’s the best option. But what can you do when you need to connect two opposing methodologies? You innovate!