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What the heck is an incident?

Incident management is easily one of the most annoying things anyone has to ever deal with. There will always be only a handful of people who would ever want to walk into the building on fire to mitigate. That’s the same with most engineering teams. Only a handful are willing to get in, find the root cause, and mitigate the incident.

Introducing the CircleCI Config SDK

We are excited to announce the new CircleCI Config SDK is now available as an open-source TypeScript library. Developers can now write and manage their CircleCI config.yml files using TypeScript and JavaScript. For developers used to the ecosystem and flexibility of a full-fledged programming language, sometimes YAML can feel limiting or intimidating. With the Config SDK you can define and generate your YAML config from type-safe and annotated JavaScript.

Making Peace with the Grim Reaper - Liveness & Readiness Probes | Guy Menahem & Anais Ulrichs

Learn all about liveness and readiness probes (done right) from Guy Menachem - Solution Architect at Komodor, the first Kubernetes-native troubleshooting platform, with vast experience working with DBs from old-timey mainframes to cloud-native systems.

ASUS IoT and Canonical partner on Ubuntu Certification for IoT Applications

TAIPEI, Taiwan, September 14, 2022 — ASUS IoT, a global AIoT solution provider, today announced a partnership agreement with Canonical to certify the device manufacturer’s boards and systems with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. ASUS IoT devices are used in a wide range of edge computing applications. New devices like the PE100A will be certified for optimised performance with Ubuntu, ensuring faster development times and ease of configuration.

FAQ: MLOps with Charmed Kubeflow

Charmed Kubeflow is Canonical’s Kubeflow distribution and MLOps platform. The latest release shipped on 8 September. Our engineering team hosted a couple of livestreams to answer the questions from the community: a beta-release webcast and a technical deep-dive. In case you missed them, you can read the most frequently asked questions (FAQ) about MLOps and access helpful resources in this blog post. Note that you can also watch the videos on Youtube: Beta-release & a technical deep-dive.

What is DevOps? A Comprehensive Guide

The term DevOps is a combination of the words “development” and “operations.” In practice, DevOps is a collaborative approach to the work that is performed by an enterprise’s IT operations staff and their application developers. Collaboration and communication between these two teams, who might otherwise function separately, are meant to increase the speed and quality of product or application releases.

The DORA metrics backstory

DORA metrics are becoming the industry standard for measuring engineering efficiency, but where did they come from? ‍ We talk a lot about DORA metrics here at Sleuth — what they are and how to measure them. But we haven’t shared much about the context of DORA metrics — their history and why we use them. So let’s do that. This article provides a summary.

Tips to make your Retrospectives Meaningful

If done right, retrospectives can help you inspect past actions, help adapt to future requirements and guide teams towards continuous improvement. However, organizations find it difficult to adopt the right mindset to execute retrospectives effectively. This blog will help you understand what retrospectives are and provide valuable tips to make your retrospectives meaningful. This blog will cover,