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Mickael Alliel 5 Min read September 20th, 2022 DevOps Kubernetes

Digital twins have become somewhat of a buzzword in the past couple of years. But what exactly are they? A digital twin, as its name indicates, is a non-physical copy of a physical object. Just like a digital scan of a physical picture. This virtual element enables a real-time view of all relevant data coming from said object. Depending on the system being studied, specific sensors can be tracked and monitored.

It’s not surprising that most failures are caused by a change somewhere in a system, such as a new code deployment, configuration change, auto-scaling activity or auto-healing event. As you investigate the root cause of an incident, the best place to start is to find what changed. To understand what change caused a problem and what effects propagated across your stack, you need to be able to see how the relationships between stack components have changed over time.

The concept of containerization helps you run applications as lightweight virtual machines. As a web developer, setting up local development environments can be tiresome. However, using tools like Docker and Kubernetes gives developers an upper hand to quickly set up and deploy applications. This guide uses Docker to deploy a React app to Kubernetes.

Over the last couple of years, Spike.sh has largely been a Simple Incident Management Platform helping engineering teams across the world. Our focus on simplicity has been well received by all of you and we couldn't be more happy about it. After speaking with users earlier this year, we quickly realised there is a lot we can do to help our responders and help them better than we currently are.

The why and what we learned from surveying 1,900 engineering teams around their best practices to build, scale, and maintain high availability.