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Burn rate is a better error rate

While building our Service Level Objectives (SLO) product, our team at Datadog often needs to consider how error budget and burn rate work in practice. Although error budgets and burn rates are discussed in foundational sources such as Google’s Site Reliability Workbook, for many these terms remain ambiguous. Is an error budget a static quantity or a varying percentage? Does burn rate indicate how fast I’m spending a fixed quantity, or is it just another way to express error rate?

GitKraken Workshop: Tips from GitKraken Power Users

Level up your GitKraken IQ with insights from power users. In this GitKraken workshop, a longtime GitKraken Desktop pro covers the features and workflows they use every day to streamline their work. We dive into the deeper aspects of the Commit Graph, sidebar, commit search and more. Whether you're a new user or a vet, you'll walk away with time-saving ideas you can apply today.

Step-by-Step Guide: How to Seamlessly Integrate Jira with Azure DevOps

Whether you’re managing code commits or tracking project tasks, integrating Jira with Azure DevOps can provide an informative, unified view of your development and deployment activities. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll walk through the process of connecting Azure DevOps to Jira using Git Integration for Jira – a versatile extension that enhances project management with real-time visibility and synchronization across your development pipelines.

Guide to Monitoring Nagios Plugins Using Telegraf

Nagios is an open-source monitoring system used to track the performance and health of IT infrastructure, including servers, network devices, applications, and services. It is widely used because of its ability to provide real-time alerts, identify issues before they become critical, and ensure uptime by detecting and addressing system failures promptly. Monitoring Nagios plugins on a more robust platform allows for better scalability, deeper analytics, and long-term storage of performance data.

What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

The Cyber Resilience Act is an upcoming European Union legislation that aims to implement more rigorous cybersecurity commitments, documentation, and vulnerability reporting requirements for the IT industry. The legislation would apply to developers, distributors, manufacturers and retailers of hardware, devices, software, applications, and other “products with digitally connected elements” sold within the EU. The requirements you need to meet depend on the CRA classification of products.