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Service Mesh Comparison: Istio vs. Linkerd

As service architectures have transitioned from the monolith to microservices, one of the tougher problems that organizations have had to solve is service discovery and load balancing. The advent of service mesh technologies seeks to solve these and other problems exacerbated by the number of hosts that has grown exponentially. In this article, we’re going to explore what a service mesh is.

CI/CD: What is continuous integration?

Continuous integration is the first half of the acronym CI/CD, with Continuous Delivery completing the second half. In this three-part article, we look at the two halves of CI/CD to define and understand them, and then, in part three, we talk about how Uptrends fits into your CI/CD processes. Let’s get started at the beginning with continuous integration.

T-Mobile - Building the data centre: Implementing self-service for large scale operations

Joshua talks about design considerations when implementing MAAS as the foundation of a bare metal self - service offering in a large enterprise. Examples he discusses include translating tickets to APIs, humans to computers and doing more with less.

Advanced Packaging Options with JFrog CLI

In some cases, our application requires a unique layout when it is packaged. The package should include various binaries, and test files with metadata, arranged in specific directories. The various components of the package sometimes have their own versions and they can be created by different process. If all of those components are managed in Artifactory, JFrog CLI can be configured to pick the right components, and package them together, according to a defined layout. In this webinar we'll see how you can use JFrog CLI as a packaging tool for your binaries.

Web Monitoring Dashboards | The SRE's Ultimate Multi-Tool

It’s 3 AM and you are roused out of sleep by the dull buzzing of your phone in the other room. Some sort of emergency, you conclude as you fumble with the lockscreen. There it is: an alert that the API governing user registration is acting up. When we think about the lag between time of incident and time to respond, it’s not just about how long the system went down. How long it physically takes us to respond to the problem also contributes to lost downtime.

Integrate 2020 Remote - Day 3

After an exciting Day 1 and Day 2 from Integrate Remote, the floor was all set for the final day of the virtual event. To know the session highlights, key announcements, and other spotlights from day 3, check out the below blogs. Also, we would highly recommend you to take a look at Day 1 and Day 2 blog coverage of the event.

Deploying apps directly on Kubernetes vs through Shipa

This video covers some of the differences on deploying applications directly on Kubernetes vs deploying them to Kubernetes but through Shipa. We should how Developer experience is improved, applications can be deployed much faster and DevOps/Platform Engineering teams can keep a controlled and dynamic environment when managing multiple Kubernetes clusters.

Creating cross-platform applications with .NET on Ubuntu on WSL

.NET is an open source software framework for building cross-platform applications on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Ubuntu on WSL allows you to build and test applications for Ubuntu and Windows simultaneously. What happens when we mix these together? This blog will demonstrate how to install a .NET development stack on WSL, build a simple OS-aware application, and then test it on both Linux and Windows.