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Our simple incident post-mortem template

Clean, clear, and ready to be customized to suit your needs. Google Docs Having a dedicated incident post-mortem is just as important as having a robust incident response plan. The post-mortem is key to understanding exactly what went wrong, why it happened in the first place, and what you can do to avoid it in the future.

Bitbucket vs GitHub - Which One Is Better?

Bitbucket is a web-based version control repository hosting service owned by Atlassian, an Australian software company. It provides a platform for teams to work together on code and manage their software development projects. Bitbucket supports the popular Git version control system and offers both public and private repositories.

MySQL Tutorial

Welcome to our MySQL Tutorial, tailored for both beginners and seasoned professionals. Dive into the core of MySQL, a leading relational database management system that empowers users with SQL, the essential language for database operations. Our tutorial, endorsed by Oracle, offers an open-source learning experience under the GNU license. Embark on a journey through key MySQL topics, from basic database functions to advanced SQL data manipulation.

Monitor AWS Batch on Fargate with Datadog

AWS Batch on Fargate is an AWS offering that combines the benefits of AWS Fargate—a serverless compute engine for deploying and managing containers—with AWS Batch, a fully managed service for running batch workloads. Leveraging a pay-per-use pricing model and automatic scaling, AWS Batch on Fargate provides you with a cost-effective and scalable solution for running batch computing workloads without needing to worry about managing any underlying infrastructure.

How Test Data Management Improves Security & Efficiency - Kellyn Gorman | Redgate

Kelly Gorman, Director of Data and AI at Silk, shares how Test Data Management improves security and efficiency. Test Data Management is the process of providing DevOps teams with test data to evaluate the performance and functionality of applications.

Grafana Provisioned Alerting for Effective Observability

Implementing a consistent and reliable alerting system across a sprawling organization is a significant challenge for just about any engineering team. For example, diverse infrastructures across different teams and numerous team-specific customizations may not translate well when investigating specific incidents. Inconsistent alerting practices can eventually lead to fatigue, leading to triggering of alerts that may not be relevant or actionable.

Developer Onboarding Checklist: Put DevEx First

Anyone who has been reading this blog or who has worked at Cortex can tell you that we are quite passionate about Developer Experience (DevEx). But just what is DevEx, and how does it relate to onboarding new developers? It's a fair question, since the word can mean different things in different contexts. We are even on the record as saying that definitions are necessarily vague to allow for DevEx being inherently subjective to a given environment.