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How Database Performance Analysis Can Inform Database Selection

May 12, 2021 By Joey D'Antoni In SolarWinds

There’s a big difference between the MySQL database powering your internet of things (IoT) lightbulb and the one powering your website. There’s a chasm between the SQL Server Express database in your lightly used application’s VM and the monster multi-region SQL cluster you have running on Microsoft Azure. This kind of database diversity is everywhere today. But what are the differences between these databases, and how can administrators justify database spend?

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7 Strategies to Contain Network Costs (Layer 6 Will Amaze You)

May 12, 2021 By Patrick Hubbard In SolarWinds

First, thanks for indulging the clickbait title joke. Serialization is the unsung hero of harmonizing network and application relations and deserves the occasional, snarky callout. Moreover, identifying how the unique mix of network clients in your environment consume your carefully manicured infrastructure is critical for managing network cost. Because today, a rapidly expanding, diverse pile of new technologies all assume the network is a magic grid, no tuning required.

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The rise of the developer platform

May 12, 2021 By admin In Shipa

I have recently seen quite a few articles and talks covering why organizations are aiming at implementing a developer platform to help speed up the adoption of microservices within their organizations but before we get started on discussing what a developer platform is, the developer experience and productivity on Kubernetes, and how different teams are working through it, let’s define some common ground.

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Celebrities Explain WTF is Incident Management

May 12, 2021 By FireHydrant In FireHydrant

Our friends Felicia Day, Steve Wozniak, and Brian Baumgartner help us explain what the heck incident management is. FireHydrant is the only comprehensive incident management platform that allows you to create consistency for the entire incident response lifecycle to focus on fighting fires faster. From alert to retrospective, tracking, communicating, and reporting on results: FireHydrant will automate the process so you can focus on resolution. Visit firehydrant.io to learn how you can manage the mayhem.

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Redgate's roadmap for cross-database DevOps

May 12, 2021 By Jakub Lamik In Redgate

At Redgate, we strongly believe that all databases should be managed and orchestrated in the same way, with the same standards of security and quality in releases. For the past few years, we’ve been leading the adoption of database DevOps by focusing on the most challenging parts of the process like version control, continuous integration and making deployments consistent, predictable and repeatable.

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Automating Government Compliance and Security

May 12, 2021 By Alexa Sevilla In Puppet

This blog is the first in a four-part series on infrastructure automation for government agencies that are modernizing digital systems while grappling with budget and staffing constraints and the challenges of COVID-19. The last 12 months have been a turning point for many government agencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the drive towards modernization and, with it, the need to ensure security and compliance requirements across a host of legacy systems and processes.

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Continuous delivery with Ketch, GitHub Actions, and k3d

May 12, 2021 By Shipa In Shipa

Can we combine the simplicity of deploying applications with Ketch with GitHub Actions and accomplish a fully automated continuous delivery pipeline? Here's what we'll do. We'll create GitHub Actions that will fully automate all the tasks starting from creating a pull request all the way until a release is deployed to production.

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Continuous deployment of Node.js to Azure VM

May 12, 2021 By Fikayo Adepoju In CircleCI

Virtual machines (VM) offer great flexibility for hosting web applications. A developer/engineer is able to configure and control every piece of software and every setting that the application needs to run. Azure, one of the largest cloud hosting platforms, has virtual machine offerings for both Linux and Windows-based operating systems. In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up a continuous deployment pipeline to deploy a Node.js application to an Azure virtual machine.

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CircleCI Reaches $1.7 Billion Valuation with $100 Million in New Financing

May 11, 2021 By CircleCI In CircleCI

Greenspring Associates leads Series F financial round as demand for the leading CI/CD provider explodes, topping 2.5 million jobs processed per day.

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CircleCI acquires Vamp, adding release orchestration to their CI/CD platform to help engineering teams deliver business growth

May 11, 2021 By CircleCI In CircleCI

CircleCI, the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced the acquisition of release orchestration platform, Vamp. Combining Vamp's industry-leading release orchestration capabilities with CircleCI's robust CI/CD platform will be transformative for engineering teams amid a growing need for increased change validation in the industry.

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