PDB Clusters: Just like MoM used to make
A meme filled wander thru how and why we created PuppetDB clusters at Splunk.
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Native SQL Server Backup Types and How To Guide
When a disaster occurs, the ability to successfully restore SQL Server databases is fundamental for avoiding data loss. It’s not enough to rely on hardware and software technologies to replicate data because these technologies can go wrong or there can be multiple failures during a disaster, meaning you have to rely on backups to recover. SQL Server allows multiple types of backups, and a multitude of options to use with those backups.
Fold Your Repos Into PHP Composer v2 with Artifactory
If you’re among the nearly one in four professional developers using PHP (according to StackOverflow’s 2021 survey), then the maintainers of Composer would really like you to migrate from v1 of the PHP package manager to v2. On October 24 2020, Composer 2.0.0 was released with some major improvements.Since almost eight out of every ten websites on the internet use PHP in some way, that’s a change with big impact.
Building a successful Platform Engineering team
We see an increase in the number of companies building internal platform engineering teams. With this increase, we have seen some successful and some not-so-successful approaches. The goal of this article is to go through some of the practices we see out there.
How Service Catalog Increases Productivity
Productivity is defined by measuring the amount of output over a given time frame. However, this discounts the quality of output, which is crucial in moving toward a more complete definition of productivity. Relating to services, increases in productivity generally highlight the amount of feature releases over time. This leaves out the critical measurement of quality compared to quantity. This is where a Service Catalog can greatly enhance true productivity within an engineering organization.
Code-to-Cloud Visibility: An essential framework for DevOps success
In DevOps we are used to talking about application velocity. But velocity without a framework is short lived and potentially creates more risk than benefit. Code-to-Cloud visibility is the practice of making sure engineering teams have visibility across the entire SDLC in depth and breadth. With code-to-cloud visibility organizations understand the impact of application development from feature definition to it running in production.
A modern CMDB at the heart of automation
The classic view we have on the CMDB is no longer sufficient. Having a static database of Configuration Items that is heavily guarded by a Change Management process, no longer suffices in a modern, agile, or cloud-native environment. A modern CMDB should be the heart of your automation journey, both being managed by your automation as well as feed information back to your platform via automation. This session will tackle how focusing your efforts on a good, lean CMDB with the necessary (automated) processes around it, can greatly increase your platforms growth, maintenance and agility.
Google's State of DevOps 2021 Report: What SREs Need to Know
The four key takeaways for SREs from Google’s State of DevOps 2021 report
K3s vs K8s - Civo DevOps Bootcamp 2021
For this week's Civo DevOps bootcamp, we'll be discussing how K3s by Rancher Labs differs from regular Kubernetes (k8s).
How organizations handled incidents before and after deploying AIOps - Part 2
In this highly dynamic environment, organizations are looking for ways to innovate and manage resources efficiently. In the first part of the two-part blog series, we saw how organizations handled incidents without an AIOps solution and how long it took to resolve that incident — a scenario representing different steps to resolve an incident. In the second part of the two-part blog series, we look at how organizations were able to handle incidents after deploying AIOps.