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Demo: Running a Patch Job with Puppet Advanced Patching

With Puppet, patching is faster and easier than ever. Watch this video to learn how to set up and run a patch job with Advanced Patching in Puppet Enterprise Advanced. Puppet's Barr Iserloth and Liam Sexton cover activating Advanced Patching, creating a patch group, and running a patch job from the Puppet Enterprise console. Highlights include the easy-to-use patching GUI, custom patch groups for cross-OS patching, streamlined scheduling that obeys your defined maintenance and blackout windows, and reporting that shows you where each patch was applied.

Automating High CPU Utilization Remediation with Resolve

High CPU utilization alerts can overwhelm IT teams and disrupt user productivity—especially in virtualized environments. In this video, see how Resolve automates the end-to-end remediation process for sustained CPU spikes. From detecting alerts and creating incidents to gathering host data, verifying VM configurations, and dynamically adding vCPUs—watch how Resolve eliminates manual effort and speeds up incident resolution.

Jaeger Metrics: Internal Operations and Service Performance Monitoring

You're monitoring a microservices-based system. Alerts trigger when response times exceed 2 seconds. But when you open Jaeger, you're faced with thousands of traces. Identifying which service or operation is responsible becomes time-consuming. Jaeger metrics help reduce this friction by exposing aggregated telemetry. Instead of scanning individual traces, you get service-level and operation-level performance metrics, latency, throughput, and error rates that highlight where the issue lies.

IT Process Improvement Is Great... If You Can Find Someone to Build It

IT leaders know the value of process improvement. Smoother onboarding, faster incident resolution, streamlined change management, etc. It’s not for lack of ideas that IT teams fall short; it’s almost always a lack of bandwidth. Because of that, most process improvement efforts stall before they scale. Great ideas get captured in diagrams, Confluence pages, and strategy decks, but they rarely make it into production. Why?

Playwright fixtures: A deep dive

Fixtures may be one of Playwright’s most powerful yet under-used features. Playwright fixtures can be used to simplify repetitive setup or teardown in your tests, manage test data ,and test state better. Fixtures are key if your objective is to write cleaner, maintainable and manageable Playwright tests. This tutorial is aimed at helping you master using Playwright fixtures, understand their purpose, and showing how you can use them most effectively in your tests.

Flyway Autopilot: Ingeniously Simple Database DevOps

Can Flyway Autopilot really help you get up and running with database migrations, CI/CD, and deployment best practices in under 20 minutes? In this special episode, Tonie and Tony sit down with Huxley Kendell, the co-creator of Flyway Autopilot, to find out what it does, how it works, and what inspired him to build it. Whether you're new to Flyway or looking to improve how your team handles database changes, this is your shortcut to getting started.

Getting Started Guide with Netdata

New to Netdata? Start here. In this quick and practical guide, we’ll help you get set up and confident with Netdata in just a few minutes. You’ll learn how to: Access your Netdata Space Connect your nodes—servers, VMs, containers, network devices, and more Organize your infrastructure with Spaces and Rooms Collaborate with your team in real time Explore alerting and integrations Customize notifications so you’re only alerted when it truly matters.

Overcoming the common networking challenges when connecting the "big three" clouds

Adopting a multi-cloud strategy is common for many businesses as it promises flexibility in managing their data. However, this isn’t without complexity especially when it comes to networking. In a recent podcast episode, Trent Blakely and Jay Turner unpacked some of the most frequently missed challenges that come with multi-cloud deployments.

Reliability means being there right when your customer needs you

When your systems are reliable, it means your customers can count on your applications to be there for them. Full transcript:  To me reliability means a good night's sleep, and being able to confidently go to bed and wake up the next day feeling ready to get out there and do my best work and not worry about the experience that our customers might have had through the night.