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Site reliability engineers manage a lot, and often in incredibly high-stakes environments. Remember that scene from "The Matrix" where Neo dodges bullets in slow motion? Of course you do. As an SRE, it can feel like you're the person getting hit by those bullets, frantically trying to investigate performance issues, automate away toil, and support the engineers around you, all before the next wave of attacks.

It’s fair to say that delivering software faster has never been more relevant. But in doing so, it’s easy to let your bar for quality slip. Often, the guardrail to avoid this is to hire dedicated QA Engineers, whose sole job is to ensure your software works as it should and to spot any issues that arise. Seems sensible, right? Well, at incident.io, we take a different approach.

DevOps engineers are under intense pressure to provide reliable, high-quality services to teams and stakeholders. In large part, this is because end users today demand seamless access to software and a great user experience – a trend that will only increase as digital transformation accelerates and we move further into the future. DevOps professionals rely on various metrics to meet performance and reliability goals, one of the most important being service level objectives (SLOs).

Cybercrime is one of the greatest threats to modern businesses, so naturally, cybersecurity is becoming a top priority among business leaders worldwide. It’s easy to see why. Cybercrime can result in significant losses for companies, particularly financially. In fact, the global cost of cybercrime is expected to rise to $23.84 trillion by 2027, up from $8.44 trillion in 2022. Businesses collect and store mountains of data daily, and are obligated to keep that data secure.

Working on software infrastructure for the sake of infrastructure is rarely a good use of time. That probably sounds obvious, but perhaps the next question is less straightforward: what should engineering platform teams do instead?

InfluxDB vs Thanos: Overview, Pros and Cons, and Differences.

Hey there! We're excited to share a new troubleshooting feature we have added to Netdata, the Netdata Assistant. We've built this tool to help you troubleshoot more effectively and with less stress. Let's dive in.

Today’s guest blog is by Mike Stem­le, a software engineer and Principal Architect for the Ar­c XP di­vi­sion of the Wash­ing­ton Post. In his role, Mike focuses on AppSec and large-scale architecture. Any­body who works with me knows that I love the Data­dog Service Catalog.

Insights sings, while SSH signs (yes, I was proud of that one). GitKraken Client 9.6 has arrived, and we’re introducing a dedicated page for GitKraken Insights, improved commit message UX, support for SSH commit signing and SSH strict host key checking, and Azure DevOps workspace enhancements.

Put simply, Kubernetes is an orchestration system for deploying and managing containers. Using Kubernetes, you can operate containers reliably across different environments by automating management tasks such as scaling containers across Nodes and restarting them when they stop. Kubernetes provides abstractions that let you think in terms of application components, such as Pods (containers), Services (network endpoints), and Jobs (one-off tasks).