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Webinar: Shining a light on developer productivity
In the last 5 years, we’ve watched the world's fastest growing engineering teams ditch development monoliths in favor of service-oriented architectures that speed time to market. And as microservices multiplied—making it harder to track ownership and quality—Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) emerged to help. But while the prospect of a single portal for developer productivity sounds enticing, veteran leaders know the perception of “one more tool” can make org-wide adoption challenging.
How do you measure software health?
Just like personal health, software health is best managed proactively so you can prevent issues before they occur and avoid costly, stressful outages. Cortex helps you track and improve the health of your software with Scorecards and Initiatives. Scorecards quantify software health by aggregating data from multiple sources to give you a continuous view into the health of your system. Initiatives use Scorecards to drive organizational improvement.
Implementing Backstage 3: Integrating with Existing Tools Using Plugins
This third part of the “Implementing Backstage” series explains how to integrate Backstage with existing tools and plugins. If you’re at an earlier stage of your Backstage implementation, the two previous installments in this series focus on getting started and using the core features. If you’re looking for a more general introduction to Backstage, you can read the first article in the “Evaluating Backstage” series.
AWS vs GCP: Choosing the Best Cloud Provider for Your Needs
If you are confused about whether to go for AWS or Google Cloud (GCP) in 2023, then you should read this article. Both AWS and GCP have made tremendous progress over the past few years. There was a time when AWS was much ahead of Google, but not anymore. Google has reduced the gap to a great extent; it even surpasses AWS in some areas, especially data analytics. However, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this problem.
Logic Apps standard The developer experience
In this session titled " Logic Apps standard: The developer experience" by Wagner Silveira, Senior program manager at Microsoft, offers an insightful dive into Logic Apps Standard from a developer's lens. He delves into the existing Logic App model, differentiating between Built-in and Azure connections, and highlighting the distinction between portal and local Logic App workflow development. Uncover the latest developer tools, including the enhanced designer 2.0, data mapper for visual component mapping, custom code support, and the convenient export tool.
Running MongoDB on Kubernetes
Containers are a lightweight, portable, and consistent way to package applications and their dependencies. Containers provide an isolated environment, ensuring an application runs reliably across different environments. Enterprises and tech-savvy individuals are using container technologies because of their benefits. However, container orchestration tools have become necessary to manage clusters with the rise in container usage.
The Unplanned Show, Episode 18: Resilient architectures with Matt Stine
We'll catch up with Matt Stine, the author of "Migrating to Cloud-Native Architectures" (O'Reilly), about his current thinking on resilient architectures.
Mattermost Playbooks for Enterprise Workflows
Mattermost Playbooks are configurable checklists that power team workflows with automation and real-time messaging. At a high level, Playbooks help teams work through recurring workflows efficiently, making sure all important tasks are taken care of while keeping teams aligned.
Replay messages in Azure Service Bus dead-letter queue
When working and dealing with asynchronous messaging patterns – in this case, using Azure Service Bus – depending on the requirements, you will find many scenarios when you need to reprocess messages. Sometimes, a message failed because a system was offline for a certain period, there was a bug with the service, and we needed to resend specific messages and many other reasons.