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How role-based access control (RBAC) works in Gremlin
Reliability testing and Chaos Engineering are essential for finding reliability risks and improving the resiliency of systems. Gremlin makes it easy to do so, but not every engineer needs access to the same experiments, systems, or services. That’s why we released customizable role-based access controls (RBAC), letting Gremlin customers control which actions your users can perform in Gremlin.
Aligning Database Operations With DevOps
Even with dedicated database staff (often with impressive technical skills), businesses need help understanding how to address database issues. IT managers and database specialists are keen to try different approaches to keeping databases working as efficiently as possible. One popular approach is ‘DevOps’. As companies navigate the complexities of digital transformation and a growing trend toward cloud migration, IT environments have become extraordinarily complex.
How do you select the best enterprise data storage solution for your business?
The choices you make around IT infrastructure have great impact for both business cost and performance, across areas as diverse as operations, finance, data analysis and marketing. Given the importance of data across all of these areas and frankly, across your business as a whole, making the right decision when choosing a new storage system is critical. In this blog post we will take a look at some of the factors to consider in order to ensure you balance cost effectiveness with performance.
Quickly and comprehensively analyze the cloud and SaaS costs behind your services
Understanding costs is an essential part of service ownership. But in cloud-based applications, the cost of any given service often comes down to a wide range of dynamic factors. Individual services can incur fees from numerous dependencies, from data stores to observability solutions, and keeping track of these expenses can mean reckoning with the intricacies of many different billing models.
Migrating from Orchestrator 2016 or 2019 to Orchestrator 2022
Following the announcement of System Center 2025, it’s clear the suite isn’t going anywhere, and many organizations are considering moving to a newer version to capitalize on the 64-bit update to the application in the 2022 release of Orchestrator. For organizations looking to upgrade from earlier versions of Orchestrator such as 2016 or 2019 to System Center Orchestrator 2022, there are several things to be aware of before migration, as Orchestrator 2022 has a major change to the application.
A Sustainable Business Strategy Starts With Your Network
The amounts of data we’re storing and moving today take up a lot of resources. Statistics vary, but we know for sure that trillions of megabytes of data are created every single day – and all this data needs somewhere to live.
Build reliability efforts into your regular engineering schedule
Improving reliability might seem daunting, but you'd be surprised how much impact you can have with a relatively light lift. "Reliability doesn't need to be everybody stopped the world for a month, kind of a tech debt thing. If we spent 20 minutes a week, we could actually save ourselves a ton of time over the course of the year. The business needs to be efficient and agile, but it's important that the reliability is there. And so we really need people to be able to react quickly, adapt, and do a little bit along the way.
Easier way to handle Merge Conflicts
When merge conflicts arise, don't panic! GitKraken's Merge Conflict tool makes handling those dreaded conflicts a breeze. Quickly compare branches, select changes, and customize lines to fit your needs.
GitKraken Desktop Tutorial: How to Create a Pull Request
Learn how to create a pull request in GitKraken Desktop! From utilizing the GUI's drag-and-drop functionality to integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, this comprehensive guide has everything you need to collaborate effectively with your team, manage your repositories, and simplify your development process.