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Have You Outgrown Your RMM? The Obvious Red Flags to Look For

As your MSP business grows and develops, it’s highly likely that at some point you’re going to find that the tools you originally chose to support your business may not be enough for your current needs. Obviously, no vendor wants to lose customers, and we’d all rather make sure you’re using your existing tools to their full capacity. However, there are going to be times when your existing toolset will be holding you back, and you need to know how to spot that.

Caching Database Queries in SQLAlchemy - Part 1/2

The database is one of the most critical components here at Rollbar and its performance ripples across most of our SLOs. One of our goals last months has been to remove unnecessary or repetitive load from it as much as possible. Caching queries is the 101 solution whenever you need to keep scaling up while maintaining, or even reducing, database costs (very relevant these days). Here’s an example of how just one query has been drastically reduced thanks to caching.

Deploy autoscaling self-hosted runners using AWS CDK

You can use CircleCI’s cloud resources to run your CI/CD jobs, but there may be times you want to run them on your infrastructure. If your team imposes privileged access and control requirements, a self-hosted infrastructure might be best for running your jobs. CircleCI’s self-hosted runners lets you do exactly that. It is easy to get started and start using self-hosted runners.

Ship high-quality, secure code faster with Datadog Code Analysis

As your engineering teams grow and commit code more frequently, it becomes increasingly difficult to release high-quality, secure code while achieving your desired development velocity. To create smoother developer workflows that ensure high standards for code quality and security, it’s critical for developers to detect and remediate issues earlier in the software development lifecycle— without switching tools or contexts.

Kubectl wasn't intended for Devs. Why should you force them to use it?

Kubernetes is a quintessential operating system for the cloud, providing a platform for the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized microservice applications. At the heart of Kubernetes is the Kubernetes API, which serves as the primary entry point for interacting with the system. The official client for the Kubernetes API is kubectl, a Kubernetes CLI tool that allows users to manage a Kubernetes cluster and perform a wide range of tasks.