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Software development best practices checklist: 5 tips for beginners

This is a guest post from Ava Franklin of GoodCore Software. No matter how high your aspirations, you need someone to guide you through the initial steps of your career. For developers who have just started taking up real projects, we have prepared a checklist of best programming practices recommended by software development industry experts.

Artifactory Powers MicroEJ Forge IoT Application Store

Thousands of devices means thousands of software components, metadata items, and builds. Coordinating all that data for an Internet of Things system requires a binaries manager built for reliability and scale. That’s the challenge that faced MicroEJ, a software vendor of cost-driven solutions for embedded and IoT devices.

Enhancing Kubernetes Security with Pod Security Policies, Part 1

Kubernetes Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are a critical component of the Kubernetes security puzzle. Pod Security Policies are clusterwide resources that control security sensitive attributes of pod specification and are a mechanism to harden the security posture of your Kubernetes workloads. Kubernetes platform teams or cluster operators can leverage them to control pod creation and limit the capabilities available to specific users, groups or applications.

JFrog Pipelines - CI/CD for Native DevOps Automation

Learn how to optimize your complete end-to-end development and delivery process by using JFrog Pipelines. JFrog Pipelines is an automation service for performing the tasks of building, testing, and deploying software as part of a system of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). It can help you easily create smart, event-driven workflows across your tools and teams to help you release applications faster.

Configuring YAML Files after Installing the ELK Stack

What is YAML? YAML is a readable data serialization language used frequently in configuration files for software; it stands for “Ain’t Markup Language.” This article will show you samples of YAML files (written .yml or .yaml) for the ELK Stack and other programs commonly used by DevOps team. And while some people love yaml and some hate it, it’s not going away.

Question the Current Dogma - Is Kubernetes Hyper-Scale Necessary for Everyone?

This article was originally published on The New Stack Kubernetes in 2020 has become synonymous with the term cloud native and is also often used as a vehicle for vendors and IT organizations alike to claim they are transforming or modernizing their workloads. But what are they actually transforming? What is Kubernetes itself actually providing?

March 2020 Online Meetup: Automating K3s Cluster Upgrades

While developing K3s to run at the edge we had to change our assumptions about how to manage these clusters at scale. A key assumption in a data center is that you have stable network connectivity, but this may not be true at the edge. You may have unreliable cellular service or limited time during the day in which you can connect. In these environments, operations such as upgrading Kubernetes or patching an operating system require a different paradigm.