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Introduction As all companies become software driven, DevOps is becoming an important practice in enterprises and startups across the world. DevOps is about bringing velocity to delivering tech products and services, so you can delight customers and meet business goals. To achieve this velocity, development (dev) and operations (ops) teams work closely together across the software lifecycle - from planning to release. And this has led to a new role in engineering teams - DevOps Engineer.

Gartner Hype Cycle 2021: The Status of I&O Automation

In today’s lightning fast digital age, I&O leaders across the globe are finding themselves under increasing pressure to find new and innovative ways for improving efficiency, optimizing costs and delivering fast, quantifiable and sustainable value. In order to achieve these goals, these leaders must not only be willing to adopt cutting-edge technologies, but be strategic about what tools in particular they choose to pursue and how they should prioritize them in terms of potential ROI.

Metric Correlations using unlimited data for monitoring and observability

Correlate your monitoring metrics to make even better decisions about how to handle incidents in your infrastructure using our Metric Correlations. You can now select an unlimited amount of time to troubleshoot all of your monitoring metrics. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

The Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability: Overview, detection, and remediation

On December 9, 2021, a critical vulnerability in the popular Log4j Java logging library was disclosed and nicknamed Log4Shell. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-44228 and is a remote code execution vulnerability that can give an attacker full control of any impacted system. In this blog post, we will: We will also look at how to leverage Datadog to protect your infrastructure and applications.

FinOps Tools: Supercharge Your Investment with Optimization

Cost analysis and allocation tools like CloudHealth, CloudCheckr, and Cloudability play an important role in many organizations’ FinOps journeys by assisting with keeping Finance informed, enabling forecasting, and driving accountability. These tools may also help provide visibility and direction around long-term purchases like Savings Plans and RIs. But, slicing and dicing your cloud costs is only the tip of the FinOps iceberg: 85%+ of your cloud savings potential lies beyond refining how you buy cloud services. You also need to optimize what you’re actually purchasing.

Log4shell fix with the Bitbucket Cloud and Snyk integration

By now, you’re probably assessing your level of exposure — or are in the middle of remediating — the recently disclosed vulnerability known as Log4Shell. We recently introduced a native integration with Snyk, a leading provider of developer security solutions, to help you address zero-day vulnerabilities. Once enabled, Snyk scans your code and its dependencies, and alerts you about security vulnerabilities, including Log4j. All current versions of Log4j 2 up to 2.14.1 are vulnerable.

Build and deploy an ASP.NET Core application to Azure

Automating the deployment of a new web application and the release of feature updates goes a long way towards improving the productivity and efficiency of your development team. Another benefit of automation is that it minimizes or even eliminates repeated manual deployments. Manual deployments introduce the risk of human error during this critical part of the development process.

Breaking down complex projects into smaller, shippable increments

Building a complex new product can be scary. What if no-one gets value from it? What if it doesn't work? What if it's hard to change? One way to mitigate these risks is to break down the product into smaller shippable increments, allowing you to capture feedback early and confirming the most important assumptions before fully committing to a solution.

Gartner IT IOCS Highlights: How Accenture Powers Automation Through Observability and StackState's 4T Data Model

Accenture’s vision for value-led, business-aligned operations applies Machine Learning, Automation and Observability to help cloud-hosted and on-premise systems diagnose and heal themselves. The company’s ubiquitous myWizard® platform, used by 100,000+ practitioners at more than 3000 companies, applies StackState’s advanced 4T Observability data model to improve service to Accenture’s customers.