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Test Automation - A Key to Telco Cloud Adoption

While industry experts struggle to find consensus on the path to Telco Cloud, almost everyone agrees that automation will play an outsized role in helping network operators overcome the challenges they face in adopting and successfully deploying Telco Cloud. For many network operators, the very inefficient pace of their existing software upgrades is a key challenge they must address to migrate their network to a modern Telco Cloud.

Still running Ubuntu 18.04? What you need to know

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, installed by millions of users and continuing to have a massive footprint on AWS, hit its End of Life (EOL) in May 2023. When using an unsupported version of Ubuntu LTS, your system and your end users are vulnerable to security risks. Not every company has the time or resources to undertake a migration project to a later and supported Ubuntu LTS distribution which is why many are adopting Ubuntu Pro.

Deploy or defer the latest macOS 14 Sonoma update with Endpoint Central

The wait for the latest macOS 14 update is finally over. The newest macOS Sonoma update comes with a plethora of security and privacy features intended to make your computing environment safer. Apple users can now explore new video conferencing features and advanced game mode, enable password and passkey sharing, and so much more. While there’s plenty of excitement that comes with an update like this, it’s important to proceed with caution.

Implementing Backstage 1: Getting Started

Backstage is a platform for building developer portals. Originally developed internally at Spotify, it’s now open source and available through GitHub. Backstage allows DevOps teams to create a single-source, centralized web application for sharing and finding software (through the software catalog feature), as well as templates and documentation.

Security in the cloud: Whose responsibility is it?

While the cloud is recognized as more secure than on-premises servers and infrastructures, it does come with the often talked about shared responsibility model. Cloud providers are responsible for security ‘of’ the cloud, while their clients are responsible for security ‘in’ the cloud. It’s ‘differently secure’, rather than the traditionally secure organizations have been used to when working with on-premises environments.

Virtual Kubernetes Clusters - Tips and Tricks - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Explore the world of virtual Kubernetes clusters in this comprehensive session from Rich Burroughs and Carl Montanari. Dive deep into Kubernetes multi-tenancy models, understand the power of vcluster, and uncover ten essential tips and tricks to optimize your virtual cluster experience.

Introducing the Datadog Open Source Hub

At Datadog, we have always been deeply involved with open source software—producing it, using it, and contributing to it. Our Agent, tracers, SDKs, and libraries have been open source from the beginning, giving our customers the flexibility to extend our tools for their own needs. The transparency of our open source components also allows them to fully audit the Datadog software that is running on their systems. But our commitment to open source only starts there.

Monitoring Machine Learning

I used to think my job as a developer was done once I trained and deployed the machine learning model. Little did I know that deployment is only the first step! Making sure my tech baby is doing fine in the real world is equally important. Fortunately, this can be done with machine learning monitoring. In this article, we’ll discuss what can go wrong with our machine-learning model after deployment and how to keep it in check.