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Cloudsmith Supports OpenSSF's Efforts to Secure OSS

As part of our mission to make it simple to secure software at scale through Continuous Packaging, Cloudsmith is excited to announce that we have become an Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) member. OpenSSF is a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve security in open source software (OSS). One software pipeline's output is another's dependency- we are all splashing around in each other's supply chains.

The Anatomy of a Rollback Deployment Workflow

Your new release tested fine on staging, but it’s not playing nicely with applications and services in the wild. Your monitoring application notices something going wrong and raises the alarm. But often raising the alarm isn’t enough – to solve complex issues, you might need to roll back to the last good deployment while you figure out the root cause and get multiple people working together on the solution.

Go 1.18 released on Upsun

As of yesterday, the team behind Go has released a new version 1.18 with some significant changes to the language. Those of you who want to start using these new features are in luck: you can do it right away on Upsun. If you’re already using Go on Upsun, you can upgrade by changing the number in the type key of your app configuration. In your.platform.app.yaml file: If you’re not yet using Go for your project, now’s a great time to give Go a try.

A practical approach to Active Directory Domain Services, Part 1: A beginner's guide to Active Directory

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is the traditional, on-premises domain service offered by Microsoft. It is the core component and a server role in Active Directory (AD), the specialized, proprietary directory service in Windows operating system environments. Consider an enterprise or a complex business set up with many connected network resources. In order to ensure the effective management of these resources, IT administrators use AD and its components, including AD DS.

Honeycomb Terraform Provider Now Officially Supported by Honeycomb

Previously announced as a community-led project, the Terraform provider for Honeycomb is now officially maintained by Honeycomb in partnership with Hashicorp. We recognize how valuable supporting configuration as code is for our customers, and this change in ownership affirms our commitment to ensuring your ability to quickly make the most of Honeycomb’s Management API.

The Dual Approach in Scaling: Chaos Engineering and Performance Engineering

For any enterprise, they're more than likely all too familiar with the struggles and complexities of scaling their environments and applications. Whether these applications live on premise, in a cloud environment, or somewhere between in a hybrid state, an age-old question engineering ponders on is, “Can my application and environment scale?

To NuGet and Beyond: NuGet Ecosystem & Upstream Support at Cloudsmith

Calling All.Net / C# / PowerShell Dev’s! We heard you! While Cloudsmith has supported NuGet packages for a while now, we’ve now got more robust support for the NuGet ecosystem. Whether it’s a V2/V3 NuGet package you created in Visual Studio, a Chocolatey package, a PowerShell Module, or a dependent package from NuGet.org, they can all be hosted in the SAME Cloudsmith repository! This one-hour webinar event discusses and demos the latest NuGet ecosystem and upstream support now available at Cloudsmith.

Pulumi or Terraform for applications? Maybe, both?

Cloud-native is an evolving architecture. Existing vendors will keep on evolving their offerings and different teams inside your organization should be able to use the tool that will support them better in delivering their desired outcome fast. By implementing a standard application layer, you enable teams to adopt what works best for them while the DevOps team can focus on adopting the infrastructure components they believe to be best to support their organization.

What does Pinal Dave think of SQL Monitor?

Last week we had the pleasure of speaking to SQL Authority’s Pinal Dave to show him some of our favorite SQL Monitor features! Pinal has used – and been a fan of – SQL Monitor since it launched in 2008 (fun fact: it was named SQL Response back then). There are, however, some newer features that Pinal isn’t too familiar with, and we were delighted to introduce those to him.