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Turbocharge your API and microservice delivery on MicroK8s with Microcks

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deliver and iterate quickly on APIs and microservices is essential. Traditional testing methods can be time-consuming and often slow down development cycles. That is where API and service mocking tools like Microcks can come to the rescue. Microcks shipped as a new community add-on for the recent MicroK8s 1.28 release. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Sandbox project dedicated to API mocking and testing tools on Kubernetes.

What's New in Serverless360: Azure SQL Elastic Pool Support, Monitor Virtual Network Gateway & more

Serverless360's latest update, version 3.1.0, brings a suite of enhancements. These include Virtual Network Gateway Connection Monitoring for enhanced security and reliability within the Business Application component.

What Is a Load Balancer?

In today’s hyper-competitive landscape, constant connection is vital for consumers, partners, and employees alike. Cloud-based architecture not only provides an elixir against downtime but is helping organizations unlock further streams of revenue. Today, the workload requirements of AI, application development and global service delivery have each individually been drivers for nearly 40% of multi-cloud adoption.

Cycle vs. Kubernetes: Why I See Organizations Making the Switch

Greetings! My name is Matt Krauser and I’m a Strategic Sales Executive here at Cycle. After participating in nearly a hundred demos of the platform, I wanted to step back from my day to day grind and share a little about my experience thus far. My goal in writing this is to compare Cycle and Kubernetes, discuss the primary pain points I hear from prospects and K8s users on a daily basis, and explain how Cycle can alleviate these challenges.

What BCDEdit Does and How To Use It

Every interaction with a Windows operating system begins with a successful boot process, paving the way for a stable user environment. Central to this process is the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store, which houses the essential boot information that guides the system during the boot process. Managing this crucial data is the command-line utility BCDEdit, or “Boot Configuration Data Editor”.

Trusted open source for everyone

Since 2004, Canonical has worked closely with the open source community to deliver Ubuntu, the most popular OS in the public cloud, known for its reliability and ease of use. Today, Canonical extends the principles behind Ubuntu to a wider portfolio of open source products. Our footprint spans from the smallest devices to the largest clouds and from the kernel to data fabric and AI solutions. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone.

Captains Log: A first look at our architecture for Signals

Welcome to the first Signals Captain’s Log! My name is Robert, and I’m a recovering on-call engineer and the CEO of FireHydrant. When we started our journey of building Signals, a viable replacement for PagerDuty, OpsGenie, etc, we decided very early that we would tell everyone what makes Signals unique, and what better way than to tell you how we’re building it (without revealing too much 😉). Let’s jump in.

Solving Common System Center Orchestrator Problems

Sometimes, when building Runbooks in Orchestrator, it can feel like you’ve hit a dead end with no way to achieve the functionality or automation you require. For newer users, Orchestrator can be daunting because it is a completely blank canvas; there are no sample runbooks included or out-of-the-box automations. In addition, with a shift in focus to cloud automation, there is limited guidance and ‘how to’ advice available to help users.