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Searching GitHub: Improving developer efficiency with Workplace Search

More than 40 million people use GitHub as a collaboration tool for building software around the world. For most companies — including distributed teams like Elastic — GitHub has become a critical content source for building software, holding much of the information and knowledge upon which the organizations are built, across items like issues, pull requests, and more.

Serverless Continuous Integration in the era of parallelism

As a team that does pure serverless, we place a lot of emphasis on fast deployments. Lately, though, as our codebase has gotten larger, and the number of interactions between the microservices has increased, we have come up against the classic problem of excessively long test execution times in our serverless continuous integration.

Episode 8: Configuring NGINX with Ansible to Support ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core applications have a built-in webserver called Kestrel. This internal webserver is not intended to serve requests directly. It must be placed behind a production quality webserver such as NGINX or IIS. We use Ansible to provision NGINX on our Linux server.

How to deploy and monitor software with speed and confidence using Octopus Deploy and Raygun

In this live demonstration, you’ll witness experts from Octopus and Raygun deploying software into production and monitoring the impact of these changes in real-time. Learn first-hand how to seamlessly configure deployments, identify issues, and track performance gains.

Kubernetes Master Class: Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus & Grafana

Rancher users and operators can collect custom metrics, automate alerts, notifications, and actions, and create cluster and project-level dashboards. In this class, you'll learn how to setup alerts with Rancher and Prometheus Alert Manager to find problems in your clusters before there's an outage. You'll also learn to visualize metrics for Kubernetes and for your applications so you can gather new insights to your users' usage patterns and your applications' run-time behaviors.

Creating a thriving, agile, remote team

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced many organizations to take unprecedented steps towards remote working. As a fully distributed team, we’ve faced the common challenges of remote work. Based on our experience from our very beginning in 2018, all but a few of these organizations new to remote working will face hurdles to overcome and may try to revert to colocation as soon as possible. Remote working is hard, even when it’s carefully planned and executed.

IAM Access in Kubernetes: kube2iam vs kiam

IAM is the de-facto method of authorization in AWS. Most Kubernetes “Quick Start” guides for AWS do not adequately cover how to manage IAM access in your pods. This blog series will first go over the security issues specific to AWS IAM on Kubernetes, then compare solutions, and then end with a detailed walkthrough for setting up your cluster with one of those solutions.

Galileo Introduction

Businesses today can’t afford downtime and wasted assets. That’s why you need comprehensive infrastructure monitoring that’s proactive and easy to use. Galileo provides you with an infinite monitoring solution with insights into all infrastructure assets in a single pane of glass. With Galileo it’s easy to discover, predict, and prevent issues. Setup is simple. Maintenance is non-existent. You will be up and running in under two hours!