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Monitor Your NGINX Webserver with Telegraf

Monitoring your instance of NGINX gives you insight into your webserver's requests and connections. These insights can help in identifying performance bottlenecks, optimizing configurations, and ensuring efficient load handling. Monitoring all layers of your technology infrastructure allows for the early detection of potential problems such as server overload, disk space shortages, or network issues.

Reduce Tech Debt + Prevent New Tech Debt with These DevOps Tips

Tech debt affects just about every software organization. For better or worse, speed is one of the core tenets of the software development industry – the rush to build more, add new features, and find solutions fast can drive short-term growth for small organizations and add value for large companies. But haste, as it usually does, makes waste: The mass of suboptimal code, redundant services, and bottlenecked processes that we call tech debt.

Custom Merge Checks in Bitbucket Cloud

Bitbucket Cloud is on a mission to become the most extensible cloud SCM and CI/CD product in the market. We believe that extensibility is a key enabler for large, complex organisations to operate effectively in the cloud, and we are excited to be leveraging Atlassian’s industry-leading extensibility platform, Forge, to bring this mission to life.

An introduction to Duet AI in Google Cloud

Join this session to discover how Duet AI in Google Cloud, an AI-powered collaborator, can boost your team’s productivity and expertise in the cloud domain. We’ll explore the powerful features of Duet AI, such as AI-driven code assistance directly in integrated development environments to increase developer productivity, AI-backed operations to help operators better manage cloud infrastructure and application, AI-powered data exploration, and Duet AI in AppSheet that empowers business users to build apps in the cloud. We’ll also share our vision for Duet AI, explore the future roadmap, and demo its key features.

Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading

All incident.io developers are given a MacBook which they use for their development work. That meant when Apple released the M3 MacBook Pros in October, people naturally started asking questions like “wow, how much more productive might I be if my laptop looked that good?” and “perhaps we’d be more secure if our machines were Space Black 🤔” Pete’s (our CTO) response to this was “if you can prove it’s worthwhile, we’ll do it”

Day 0, Day 1, Day 2 Operations: Putting it All Together on Day 2

Following good practices in the Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 software development lifecycle can help you create a consistent environment that is easier to maintain. In this blog, we will deepen your understanding of how to make Day 2 operations succeed, and how high performing teams put Puppet to work on Day 2 to make a stronger, less manual, software development lifecycle.

Ubuntu Confidential VMs on Azure: Introducing Ephemeral OS disks & vTPMs

As the adoption of confidential computing continues to grow, customers expect their confidential workloads to be strongly separated from their underlying cloud providers. To better align with these user requirements, Canonical is excited to announce ephemeral OS disks for Ubuntu confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure – a new solution that enables you to store disks on your VM’s OS cache disk or temp/resource disk, without needing to save to any remote Azure Storage.