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No matter what application you’re building and who your target customers are, everyone can agree that it’s critical to avoid broken deployments. To aid in this goal, many tools and concepts have been invented, with Kubernetes preview environments being one of them. In this post, you’ll get a deeper understanding of how preview environments work, how organizations are using them, and how you can get started yourself.

A neatly setup access control telling which user can do exactly what on an incident management platform can save a lot of time and hassle in the future. In the past, Spike.sh had only 2 roles - Admin and Member. The only difference in these roles were that only Admins can remove members. It was fairly simple and most users liked it. However, with larger teams coming onboard, it gets a little difficult to control for admins. So, we have empowered the existing system by adding two more roles.

The primary DNS server hosting a zone or multiple zones acts as an authoritative DNS through which DNS administrators manage zone files and perform DNS changes like adding, deleting, and updating DNS records.

Managing your own time series database is painful. We’ve moved from servers to services, and yet, monitoring metrics data is primitive. Our managed time series database powers mission-critical workloads for monitoring, at a fraction of the cost.

The DevOps industry has been experiencing rapid growth over the past few years. However, with this growth comes a shortage of skilled DevOps engineers who can efficiently implement and maintain the practices. Organizations are facing the challenge of finding and retaining qualified professionals, but there is a solution. Utilizing the right tools and technologies can empower organizations to overcome the DevOps talent shortage.

As a site reliability engineer (SRE), you juggle a lot of moving targets. You keep tabs on your operational environment’s health and maximize service levels, all while trying to scale your business and exceed client expectations. To hold it all together, you’ve likely implemented a hybrid cloud strategy to keep a watchful eye over everything: your on-premises infrastructure, containers, and numerous cloud deployments.

I/O wait is a plaguing issue in Linux. Speaking in layman terms, I/O wait is the time taken by the processor (here, CPU) to complete an input service request. Ideally, our CPU doesn't seem to do any work when it is processing one input request at a time, thus the duration between your input and the output provided by the system can be treated as the I/O wait time.

Augmented Reality for Industry Repair When augmented reality emerged onto the scene, most people anticipated that it would primarily change consumer industries, like gaming. This idea was seemingly confirmed with the explosive popularity of Pokémon Go, the 2016 AR game that saw gamers capture virtual pokemon out in the real world, using only their phone. But some of the most powerful applications of augmented reality are in industry.

Testing in production is one of the most effective—and risky—ways of testing. The ability to use real-world conditions ensures reliability of tests, as no bugs can appear as a result of misconfigurations of the environment. However, using the same environment as your users also has an obvious downside: any bugs discovered by testing will immediately affect users.