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A DevOps Self-Assessment provides 15 questions about your DevOps processes and practices and ranks the maturity of your DevOps initiative. Achieving better business outcomes hinges on the ability to release software faster and provide responsive support. DevOps maturity assessments play a critical role in this process by helping organizations pinpoint inefficiencies, identify gaps in collaboration, and refine their workflows.

We are thrilled to announce that Kosli has joined the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a Linux Foundation organization dedicated to fostering collaboration and innovation in financial services technology. Our goal is to engage the community establishing common standards and automation practices for DevOps controls and change management automation.

Understanding how your applications perform is crucial. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful observability framework, offering a standardized approach to collecting telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces. For Java developers, the OpenTelemetry Java SDK provides the tools necessary to instrument applications effectively. This guide is all about the OpenTelemetry Java SDK, exploring its components, configuration, and advanced features to help you harness its full potential.

Incident response has always been a vital function within IT and the organizations it supports. However, as technology landscapes become increasingly hybrid and IT environments grow more complex, the need for a fast, efficient, and adaptive incident response system has never been greater. Teams in this environment face many challenges, starting with overwhelming event noise. When systems generate too many alerts, critical warnings can get lost in the chaos, leading to missed issues and delayed responses.

Smooth and efficient software deployment is critical to delivering high-quality applications that meet user expectations. Still, many software failures can be traced back to deployment issues. A well-structured deployment strategy can help DevOps & SREs teams prevent these errors, ensure system reliability, and enhance user satisfaction. This guide explores software deployment best practices, from planning and execution to post-deployment monitoring and incident management.

There’s good news in the US federal compliance space. The latest FedRAMP policy on the use of cryptographic modules relaxes some of the past restrictions that prevented organizations from applying critical security updates. There has long been a tension between the requirements for strictly certified FIPS crypto modules and the need to keep software patched and up to date with the latest security vulnerability fixes.

Is your ecommerce store traffic resulting in enough conversions? If not, your store might be facing performance issues. Amazon loses 1% of its $141 billion online sales for every 100ms of latency. BBC risks 10% of its website visitors for every additional second of load time. As your business grows, the need to build new features, customize code, and integrate third-party systems grows.

Secure Shell (SSH) is a fundamental tool for remote system administration, and its logs play a critical role in security monitoring, debugging, and compliance. SSHD logs provide insights into authentication attempts, connection successes, failures, and potential intrusions. This guide explores everything you need to know about SSHD logs, including their location, format, analysis, and lesser-known security practices to maximize their effectiveness.

When it comes to your website, speed is everything. A slow site frustrates users, drives up bounce rates, and even impacts your revenue. That’s where website performance benchmarks come in. They help you figure out how well your site is performing, where it needs improvement, and—most importantly—what you can do to make it faster. In this guide, we'll walk you through the key benchmarks, the tools you need, and a few tips that’ll help your site outshine the competition.

APIs are the backbone of modern software, quietly powering everything we interact with. But just because they’re invisible doesn’t mean they can’t run into issues. From response times to uptime, keeping an eye on your APIs is key to making sure everything works smoothly. In this guide, we’ll explore 11 popular API monitoring tools to help you find the one that best fits your needs.