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What Is Platform Engineering?

If DevOps is an approach to software development that emphasizes collaboration between Development and Operations teams, then Platform Engineering operationalizes that approach by creating a centralized platform that has specific sets of tools and processes. It’s the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in a cloud-native era.

How to get started with incident management metrics

Tracking incident metrics can help you discover patterns in the causes and costs of incidents and help you understand brittle parts of your organization. We've seen them help teams zero in on things like: But it can be intimidating to get started. Do you really need metrics if you're a small team or just beginning to formalize your incident management program? I say yes. The key is to start with something manageable and grow.

Sleep More; Triage Faster with Sentry

As a developer, triage duty week was often the worst week of my month. Anytime a bug was reported, I’d search for the right environment, wander through logs, pray there was an associated stack trace, use my mental mapping of our code base, and route bugs to the right teams. Developers on triage rotation need to ensure bugs are routed to the correct team along with adequate information to help the team investigate the bug.

Platform Engineering: The Key to Successful Digital Transformation for the Enterprise

Explore how Platform Engineering can transform your enterprise and empower individual teams to work and ship independently, while maintaining compliance and governance requirements, through a centralised system. Discover: How CircleCI can help make platform engineering an integral part of their internal development platform. How to easily centralise essential components such as development processes, testing, infrastructure provisioning, project management, and observability. How platform teams operate in large organisations.

Monitoring Azure Integration Services with Proactive Strategies

Enterprises are increasingly turning to cloud-based integration solutions to streamline their application development and management processes. Azure Integration Services is a cloud-based integration platform provided by Microsoft, designed to facilitate the integration of various enterprise applications and systems. It offers a range of tools and services that help to simplify and accelerate the development of enterprise applications, as well as improve their scalability, reliability, and security.

Docker Secrets: An Introductory Guide with Examples

Securing sensitive data is crucial for any application, but managing this data can be complex and error-prone. Docker secrets provide a reliable and secure way to handle sensitive information like passwords, API keys, and certificates in your Docker environment. In this introductory guide, we’ll explore what Docker secrets are, how to use them with practical examples, and share some best practices to help you safeguard your sensitive data effectively.

What Is Broken-Access Control? Examples and Prevention

Access control is a security mechanism that regulates who has access to sensitive data, resources, and systems. It ensures that only authorized users can access sensitive data and activities while keeping unauthorized users out. Access control is critical for protecting sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial information, and intellectual property.

Understanding Azure Subscriptions

Azure Subscriptions are a key component of Microsoft Azure’s cloud platform, as they form the foundation for managing and organizing resources in the Azure environment. In essence, an Azure Subscription is a logical container for resources that are deployed within an Azure account. Each subscription acts as both a billing and access control boundary, ensuring that resources are accurately accounted for and that users have the appropriate permissions to interact with them.