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Fix Vulnerabilities Faster: Puppet's Advanced Patching Solution

Break down patching silos and remediate vulnerabilities faster with Puppet. Most CVEs sit unaddressed for weeks, even after your scanner picks them up. Vulnerability Remediation in Advanced Patching (a Puppet Enterprise Advanced exclusive) gives Security and Ops teams an easy-to-use dashboard for finding, fixing, and reporting on vulnerabilities. No more tossing CVEs over the fence. No more finger-pointing when things go wrong. Just swift, efficient vulnerability management.

Evaluating Serverless Vs. Containers And How To Choose

Containers and serverless computing are two of the most popular methods for deploying applications. With the rise of microservices and modern DevOps, teams need faster, leaner ways to build and release software. However, selecting the wrong architecture can slow down delivery, increase cloud costs, or lock you into tools that don’t scale with your business. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages.

Flyway code analysis - These are a few of my favorite rules

Clean, consistent SQL code isn’t just a preference. It’s a pathway to healthier applications, faster debugging, and happier teams. Whether you’re onboarding new developers or optimizing legacy systems, having a clear set of standards can make all the difference. Flyway’s code analysis is a powerful ally in keeping your database code tidy and secure, and making sure best practices are being followed.

Set Up ClickHouse with Docker Compose

ClickHouse is built for high-performance OLAP workloads, capable of scanning billions of rows in seconds. If your analytical queries are bottlenecked on PostgreSQL or MySQL, or you're burning too much on Elasticsearch infrastructure, ClickHouse offers a faster and more cost-efficient alternative. This blog walks through setting up ClickHouse locally with Docker Compose and scaling toward a production-grade cluster with monitoring in place.

Stream AWS Metrics to Grafana with Last9 in 10 minutes

It’s 2:47 AM and your Lambda functions are timing out. API response times are spiking. You’re flipping between the CloudWatch console, your APM tool, and your logs, trying to figure out what’s going wrong. CloudWatch has the metrics you need: CPU usage, memory pressure, and request rates — but connecting that data to what your app is doing takes time. The delay in stitching it all together slows down your incident response.

Why Branding Still Matters in the Age of DevOps and SaaS Automation

In a landscape dominated by automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability dashboards, branding can feel... secondary. After all, if your platform ships fast, scales reliably, and integrates with everything - why should anyone care what it looks or sounds like? The answer is simple: they do.

Introduction to Cloudsmith: Platform Overview

Learn how to control, secure, and distribute software artifacts with this full on-demand platform demo of Cloudsmith. In this video, Solutions Engineers Dan and Ciara walk you through key features, including web app setup, logging, policy enforcement, signing, and global distribution. Through live demos, you'll see how to integrate Cloudsmith into your CI/CD pipeline, enforce security and compliance, control access with entitlement tokens, and automate everything using the API.

Navigating Change: How VMware's VCSP Partner Reduction Affects Your Business

VMware customers are once again facing major change. Under Broadcom’s ownership, VMware’s is closing its Broadcom Advantage Partner Program for VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) partners on October 31, 2025. This change will also include any VCSP Partner contracts not being renewed after this date. For many, this shift is more than an internal reshuffle.