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Infrastructure monitoring consolidation for achieving agile IT management

Managing large-scale deployments efficiently and resolving issues in a timely manner can be an easy task. What you need is a reliable and agile set of infrastructure monitoring tools for your enterprise IT infrastructure that possesses all the needed features for simple and stress-free management.

Docker Hub rate limits in Bitbucket Pipelines

Docker recently announced that, starting November 1 2020, pull rate limits will apply to anonymous image pulls from Docker Hub. For anonymous (unauthenticated) users, pull rates are limited based on the individual IP address, and therefore some service disruption was expected for Docker Hub users. Bitbucket is working with Docker to ensure that Bitbucket Pipelines users can continue transparently using Docker Hub without rate limits nor any configuration.

Lessons Learned in CI/CD Transformation

Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a methodology which helps technology teams deliver higher-quality software faster through automation. At OpsRamp, we have embarked on the journey of CI/CD transformation and have seen tremendous change in the way we build and release our products. Michael Fisher, Group Product Manager, OpsRamp explained the journey and lessons learned in this process during a recent webinar.

Introducing etrace - a multi-purpose application profiling tool

These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things go wrong or run slower than expected. Tracing an application’s execution is one way of understanding potential issues without diving into the source code. To this end, we wrote an app-tracing tool called etrace, designed to detect performance bottlenecks and runtime issues in snaps.

New installation options coming for Ubuntu on WSL

The experience of installing Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) just keeps getting better. Beginning in Windows 10 Insiders Preview build 20246, released today by Microsoft, users can enable a complete WSL experience. This will enable WSL 2, download and install the latest WSL 2 Linux kernel, and then download and install the most recent Ubuntu LTS on WSL.