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How to Become a Site Reliability Engineer: Job Description, Roles & Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is still going strong in the world of software development. As a bridge between developments and operations, it’s a necessary part of any organization that wants to work like a well-oiled machine. Simply put, SRE tries to fix a widespread problem in organizations: siloing. But not much is known about the job requirements of becoming a site reliability engineer.

Civo Update - August 2022

In July, we released two new enterprise offerings, CivoStack and Edge! CivoStack is an enterprise-ready hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built for security, performance, and scale. To find out more visit our product page! Edge is our purpose-built Kubernetes hosted infrastructure, designed for on-location edge computing. Created with security, compliance and low latency in mind, find out more here.

The relationships between ITOM and DevOps

As explained in the earlier “What’s ITOM?” blog, there are various definitions of IT Operations Management (ITOM). This variation has a knock-on for everything related to ITOM, including the relationship between ITOM and DevOps. This issue is further complicated when people and organizations have different views of what DevOps is and isn’t. Hence, we must start with a single definition for ITOM and DevOps.

17 Best DevOps Tools to Use in 2022 for Infrastructure Automation and Monitoring

You must adopt proper infrastructure automation if you want to enable your teams to achieve faster application delivery while eliminating human errors. Automation of servers, deployment environments, configuration management, and deployments play a vital role in getting a competitive advantage for your product. Monitoring both the infrastructure and application is equally important as well. In this article, we will discuss top tools for infrastructure automation and monitoring.

Using BAM from Azure Synapse Pipelines

Many organizations are investing heavily in the data space, and Azure Synapse is one of the technologies in the Microsoft stack which is very popular. Within Synapse, Data Flows are the component of Synapse used to orchestrate the movement of data into and out of your Data Lake and for orchestrating jobs within your Data Platform. The business heavily depends on your data platform for movements of data within the organization and the analytics-driven from data via Synapse.

Securing software supply chain without panicking ft. Chainguard co-founder Kim Lewandowski

Chainguard co-founder, Kim Lewandowski joins Rob to discuss the ways she presses forward in the fear-driven world of software supply chain security. In any kind of mistake or failure, security breaches have to be something that we can learn from. On the other hand, particularly during investigation, there are often walls of trust and other factors affecting fully transparent communication. Does this impact our ability to learn? Is there something we have to do differently to get better at it?

What pressures are forcing rapid IT transformation? | Resolve

The business landscape is changing. IT resources are dealing with growing pressures from both inside and outside their organization, hindering them from keeping up with demand. In this video, Resolve CEO Vijay Kurkal describes in more detail the challenges that they are facing today and in the future.