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DevOps your way using the Jira Cloud mobile & desktop apps - Demo Den

Rayen, a Jira Cloud Product Manager, demos improvements to the mobile and desktop apps to help you better manage development work. Three new use cases are available: reporting, code visibility, and release management. Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our channel! Take a look below for download links.

Install Netdata on Linux in two minutes

We've tried really hard to make Netdata's open-source monitoring and troubleshooting Agent as simple and hassle-free as possible. This includes installation, which involves a single command, a few minutes of your time, and zero configuration. Once you've installed Netdata, you'll have access to thousands of metrics on hundreds of interactive charts that update every second, with zero configuration required. It'll even auto-detect your favorite services, like an Nginx web server or MySQL database, and collect metrics from those.

The State of Event-Driven Automation

Talking about competition can be hard. It’s understandable. Product positioning can be touchy subjects especially when those use cases overlap. In the DevOps space, event-driven architectures are certainly not a new concept. Companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, and Facebook have in-house tools built specifically for this type of automation. However, Relay’s mission is make it easy for everyone to build event-driven workflows – not the Netflix-es of the world.

Distributed Tracing & Logging - Better Together

Monitoring requires a multi-faceted approach if DevOps teams want end-to-end visibility and deep insight into issues. This is especially true in the case of modern microservices applications, which are essentially collections of distributed services that talk to each other over a service mesh. With monolithic applications, requests can be tracked easily from the client to the server and back, but with modern applications, every request passes through numerous services before completion.

Identifying Environment Right Sizing Opportunities for Cost Efficiency | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to use the host map to identify opportunities to rightsize your environment to become more cost efficient. MoneySuperMarket Group was able to cut their cloud infrastructure costs by over 50% by utilizing Datadog. This video unpacks some of the practices used by MoneySuperMarket’s engineering team to accomplish that.

User interface design and its importance in the user experience

A product’s user experience consists of the before, during, and after of a user’s interactions with it, or more precisely, their expectation, satisfaction, and fulfilment. Experience can be influenced by anything from marketing materials, product reviews, interaction with sales, through to cost, installation and onboarding process, product stability, post-sales support, and numerous other factors. So it’s clear that creating a positive experience is a collective responsibility.

What's the reliability of your checkout process?

One of the reasons companies practice Chaos Engineering is to prevent expensive outages in retail (or anywhere, for that matter) from happening in the first place. This blog post walks through a common retail outage where the checkout process fails, then covers how to use Chaos Engineering to prevent the outage from ever happening in the first place. Let’s dive in. Maybe you’ve been there.

Announcing HAProxy 2.2

HAProxy Technologies is excited to announce the release of HAProxy 2.2, featuring a fully dynamic SSL certificate storage, a native response generator, an overhaul to its health checking system, and advanced ring logging with syslog over TCP. Watch our on-demand webinar Ask Me Anything About HAProxy 2.2. If you missed the webinar about HAProxy 2.2, you can watch it on-demand as well.