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Top 5 Kubernetes Load-Testing Tools and How They Compare

It's not for nothing that Kubernetes is a popular choice for running a cloud workload. It can be a powerful tool for orchestrating your applications. However, one thing that can often be a last thought in a production workflow, or maybe forgotten altogether, is load testing. It might be tempting to think that Kubernetes can handle it all. In many cases it can, but it's always smart to know how much your application can take. After reading this article, you'll be equipped to determine which tools would best serve you for load testing your application.

Use Datadog's Sourcegraph extension to navigate code and visualize service dependencies

Sourcegraph is a universal code search tool that enables you to easily navigate and understand all of your code, regardless of the number of repositories you have and where they’re hosted. Its built-in code intelligence feature lets you jump to the definition and references of functions and variables, helping you learn new codebases faster.

What Professionals Need to Know About IT Asset Lifecycle Management

Companies typically seek to create centralized systems to manage IT assets, including not only hardware, software, networks, and infrastructure, but also important data. Complete control over such a complex environment is often difficult -- if not impossible -- to achieve, but proper asset management protocols can help organizations edge closer to that goal. Asset management makes it easier to manage budgets, utilize analytics, protect data, and optimize the IT environment.

A Complete Overview of Asset Labeling in the Asset Tracking Software

When an organization is equipped with lots of assets and equipment it is essential to keep track of each asset. However, keeping track of each asset is not an easy task, this is where Asset labeling comes into play. It is extremely helpful to the organization in keeping track and you can store valuable information about each asset. in this blog, we will go through a complete overview of Asset labeling. So, without any further ado let us begin!

Load Balance an Infinite Number of Servers And Never Reload HAProxy

Every load balancer you’ll find on the market must deliver performance, reliability, scalability, and security, and do it better than its competitors. Each must solve complex programming challenges that address those needs—choices that will affect the direction of the project for years to come. HAProxy is no different. When evaluating whether you should choose HAProxy or something else, it helps to know how project contributors answered the big, architectural questions.

Consulting Sales Process (5 Closing Steps)

Do you have a consulting sales process to effectively close consulting clients? When you have clear and consistent sales processes, this inevitably leads to closing more sales. While it is important to experiment and test new strategies, you must develop a repeatable sales process that is scalable. If you’re interested in learning new closing techniques, keep reading.

Using authentication decorators in Flask

Has your team worked on an API and wanted (somehow) to implement more powerful security features? If you are dissatisfied with the level of security in an API, there are solutions for improving it! In this tutorial, I will lead you through the process of creating API endpoints that are secured with authentication tokens. Using these endpoints, we will be able to make requests to the Flask API only for authenticated users.

Scaling based on the number of messages in an Azure Service Bus queue

One of the most notable advantages of the Cloud is the ability to scale resources to meet demand. We then scale out or up when the demand increases, and we scale in or down when the demand decreases. For the record, scaling out / in refers to increasing or decreasing the number of instances of a given resource, whereas scaling up / down refers to increasing or decreasing the capacity (CPU, Ram, Disk, I/O performance) or a given instance.