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What Comes After Kubernetes?

You probably can’t believe I’m asking that question. It’s like showing up to a party and immediately asking about the afterparty. Is it really time to look for the exit? No…but yes. We used to deploy apps on systems in data centers. Then we moved the systems to the cloud. Then we moved the apps to containers. Then we wrapped it all in Kubernetes for orchestration, and here we are. Each advance in technology unlocks doors we couldn’t reach before.

Software Engineering Daily Podcast

Large portions of software development budgets are dedicated for testing code. A new component may take weeks to thoroughly test, and even then mistakes happen. If you consider software defects as security issues then the concern goes well beyond an application temporarily crashing. Although even minor bugs can cost companies a lot of time to locate the bug, resolve it, retest it in lower environments, then deploy it back to production.

CI/CD Pipeline Security 101

In our previous post, we discussed the recent security incident at Codecov and the following investigation at Mattermost. As a follow-up to that we wanted to share some of the basic design principles as well as a handful of more technical tips and tricks around CI/CD pipeline security that helped Mattermost come out of the incident unscathed.

Using Dokku On DigitalOcean

Dokku can be a cost-effective, convenient way to deploy apps to DigitalOcean. SolarWinds® Papertrail™ can make monitoring the logs of those apps simple and frustration-free. Combine these two technologies and you have an effective deployment process and log management system. Let’s look at Dokku first. Dokku is an open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS). If you’re familiar with Heroku, you can consider Dokku a private Heroku that you manage.

A DBA's Habits for Success: CMMI (Part One)

Finding the perfect flow for your business can take time and patience. Like almost anything else in life, a business must go through stages of maturity before it reaches its final form and only requires regular maintenance. In this five-part series, we’ll dive into Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and what phases businesses and their DBAs must go through to successfully manage IT as a business.

New Gartner AIOps Platform Market Guide Shows More Use Cases for Ops and Dev Teams

Gartner jumps right into it, describing a reorientation of a tool that has previously focused on IT service management and automation. AIOps is now also enabling a variety of new observability use cases for DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. This blog presents the guide’s major findings and a link so you can read the report for more details. About the AIOps Platform Market

FireHydrant April 2021 Product Updates: Incident Tags & Customizable Slack Incident Modals

We're excited to announce the release of two new features this month: customizable Slack incident modals and Incident Tags. Keep reading to more about how they can help your teams manage incidents better!

Continuous Monitoring: What Is It and How Is it Impacting DevOps Today?

Continuous monitoring (CM), also referred to continuous control monitoring (CCM), is an automated process that allows DevOps teams to detect compliance and security threats in their software development lifecycle and infrastructure. Traditionally, businesses have relied on periodic manual or computer-assisted assessments to provide snapshots of the overall health of their IT environment.

[Webinar] Observability and Resilience in Microservice Environments with Komodor & Epsagon

Kubernetes has made it easier to manage and scale microservices. However, keeping track of so many moving parts is often challenging for Dev & Ops teams. Achieving clear observability for better monitoring and troubleshooting is key to improving the development process. Part 2 of the webinar, which includes a talk by Komodor's CTO and co-founder, Itiel Shwartz, concluded with a quick demo of Komodor's troubleshooting platform and a Q&A session.