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Looking back on Chaos Conf 2020

It’s already been a week since we closed our third annual Chaos Conf! While we were forced to take the conference online, this meant that more of you could join us. Over 3,500 people signed up to help make this the world’s largest Chaos Engineering conference. That’s 5x more than 2019, and nearly 10x more than 2018! This is a testament to the growth of Chaos Engineering as a practice across many different industries and around the world.

The Jfrog Platform - End-to-end Devops Solution

Manage your DevOps pipeline from a single pane of glass. The JFrog Platform provides a universal end-to-end solution that integrates with your ecosystem to orchestrate and optimize all key processes in your CI / CD pipeline. Deliver fearless updates from code to the edge in self-managed, on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Lead Times and Psychological Safety within the Five Ideals - Gene Kim

The biggest challenges engineering organizations face are not technical. They’re fundamental problems with how we think and go about doing work, and the environments that we work in. In this talk, Gene Kim will share the Five Ideals and how they relate to Chaos Engineering. He’ll also show how the Five Ideals help build stronger, better performing, and ultimately more reliable companies.

Everything You Need to Know About DNS Monitoring

In order to communicate, web pages, devices and applications need a common naming system which allows them to identify each other and send information. This is particularly important when the communication takes place over the Internet because of the large number of services and websites that need to be identified. This is why the Domain Name System (DNS) is so important for businesses. It matches website pages and devices to an IP address that can be traced by other devices.

Scaling CD Platforms in the Enterprise Through Self-Service

The concept of Continuous Delivery (CD) has been around for over a decade. Early adopters of CD have reaped the benefits of reduced cycle times coupled with greater stability and reliability. Yet CD is far from a “solved problem” with many organizations struggling to implement CD at scale (or at all!) due to organizational, process and technology challenges.

Lift the Haze of the Cloud With These 6 Considerations

Gartner says when COVID-19 hit the United States in March, 88% of businesses mandated or strongly encouraged employees to work from home. Sales, marketing, human resources, and most other business operations were all conducted from somewhere outside of the office. This drastic move required IT to accommodate employees in an entirely new way than what they had become accustomed to.

A Few Minutes More: Add Xray DevSecOps to Artifactory Enterprise on Azure

In a prior blog post, we explained how to install or update Artifactory through the Azure Marketplace in the amount of time it takes for your coffee order to arrive on the counter. Now you can add to your self-managed (BYOL) Artifactory deployment Xray, the cream of software component analysis (SCA) tools, through the Azure Marketplace as well.

Introducing HA MicroK8s, the ultra-reliable, minimal Kubernetes

15th October 2020: Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer workstations, MicroK8s now gains resilience for production workloads in cloud and server deployments. High availability is enabled automatically once three or more nodes are clustered, and the data store migrates automatically between nodes to maintain quorum in the event of a failure.

Dangers of Console-Driven Development

AWS offers the ability to login to a web UI dashboard. In this dashboard, you can add, edit, and deploy various cloud resources. When I was first getting started with AWS, this is where I began for two reasons: My very first full-time job as a Software Engineer was on a small enough team that all of our infrastructure was setup using the AWS console in a single AWS account.

How To Minimize Business Losses By Monitoring Your Infrastructure

System downtime is a part of the IT infrastructure. Very often, the system goes into a snag or downtime involving an unplanned stoppage of operations. More often than not, this is a direct result of a lack of appropriate maintenance. However, the smallest of downtimes can lead to heavy business and financial losses within the company. Hence, the idea is to conduct maintenance tasks and operate the IT infrastructure to reduce potential downtimes.