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Healthchecks + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy

Healthchecks is a cron job monitoring service which listens to HTTP requests and email messages ("pings") from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks ("checks"). It lets you update your job to send an HTTP request to the ping URL every time the job runs. When your job does not ping Healthchecks.io on time, then you will receive an alert! If you use Healthchecks for your monitoring needs, you can now integrate it with Squadcast to route detailed alerts from Healthchecks to the right users in Squadcast.

SRE vs. DevOps: Differences and Similarities

Organizations scramble to adopt new frameworks and methodologies to make the software more scalable. Plus, they need to do it in a reliable way that doesn’t cause more problems. Enter Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), a set of practices introduced by a Google engineer. But how does it stack up to frameworks like DevOps? DevOps and SRE both enhance the software development and product release cycle.

Qovery is a G2 High Performer for Summer 2022

We at Qovery are excited to announce that G2 has named Qovery as a Summer 2022 High Performer in the following categories: Continuous Deployment / Environment as a Service. G2 is the world’s largest tech marketplace. The High Performer Award recognizes companies with high customer satisfaction ratings relative to their market presence.

Continuous integration for Android projects

CircleCI is popular among Android developers for several reasons: it’s quick to get started, fast to execute your builds with high parallelism, (whether native, cross- or multi-platform), and even supports running Android emulators right from CircleCI with our Android machine images. This article will show you how to build and test Android applications for an example project on the CircleCI platform.

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What are Runbooks? And why are they needed?

Imagine being an Ops engineer in a team just struck by tragedy. Alarms start ringing, and incident response is in full force. It may sound like the situation is in control. WRONG! There's panic everywhere. The on-call team is scrambling for the heavenly door to redemption. But, the only thing that doesn't stop - Stakeholder Inquiries. This situation is bad. But it could be worse. Now imagine being a less-experienced Ops engineer in a relatively small on-call team struck by tragedy. If you don't have sufficient guidance, let alone moral support- you're toast.

Performing Postmortems & Postmortem Templates at Squadcast | SRE Best practices | Squadcast

Postmortems are a way to summarize the resolution for an incident once it is resolved. It is also a way for you to create a knowledge-base of failures and fixes that can be shared across your team to help build a culture of shared learning and learning from failures.

Deploying a dockerized .NET Core app to an Azure container instance

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a custom ASP.NET Core container with Docker and host the container image on Azure Container Registry, a platform owned by Microsoft that allows you to build, store, and manage container images in a private registry. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to apply the knowledge gained here to link your container image on the Microsoft Azure registry with a web app service and launch your application.

Secure Your Software Supply Chain Using Observability Webinar

Fequent software supply chain attacks are becoming the new normal for developers and security professionals everywhere. Even though it’s still relatively new, observability has continued to gain momentum as a way to identify software supply chain issues before they become a major disruption. Having access to the right data at the right time is necessary to make decisions about priorities. We’ve assembled a panel of experts from software, security, and data to talk about observability and what it means to your software supply chain security