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Simplify Your Cloud-Native Development Workflow With These DevOps Principles

Cloud-native technologies allow you to more efficiently deploy your applications at the enterprise level. But the learning curve can be steep, and it may be confusing to figure out the world of cloud-native tech and establish how you’ll make your development workflow as efficient as possible. A working knowledge of DevOps technology is crucial to effectively start your deployment and creating a sustainable and manageable workflow.

Something IT professionals need to know and miss

At Pandora FMS we have IT professionals on an altar. Literally, one next to the water dispenser in the office. I’m serious! It even has its blessed liturgical cloth, its flattering parsley, its candles and the incense! But there are still things that these people miss. Here’s a hint: it’s related to ITOM.

CDN Log Analysis

Since the beginning of the Internet, the speed of delivering content has been an issue. While processor enhancements, network acceleration, and web frameworks have brought drastic improvements to performance, the goalposts have continued to shift further away; devices operate on wireless connections with limited bandwidth, and the Internet is accessed from every corner of the globe.

Building an On-Device Embedded Testing Library

There are too few C/C++ testing libraries designed for embedded devices. The traditional libraries are not designed for constrained resources and rely on host functionality like a filesystem or standard output. In this post, I detail why I’ve decided to design a new testing library for microcontrollers and cover the rationale, design choices, and thoughts on the prototype. Like Interrupt? Subscribe to get our latest posts straight to your mailbox.

Is it Time to Retire Your VPN?

VPNs: not just sponsors of YouTube tech videos! If you think of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as data privacy tools or a way to access geographically restricted content, then the idea they’re dying out probably seems far-fetched. But if we’re talking about internet-based VPNs, the kind that enables access to corporate networks, there’s been plenty of prognostication that the last days of VPN may be upon us.

Continuous integration for a production-ready Dockerized Django application

Continuous integration has become a widely accepted practice for software projects. As more technologies are introduced in both continuous integration and software development, developers are looking for practical ways to benefit from them. Basic tutorials that cover toy examples are not always enough for real-life practitioners. As an actual user of Django, Docker, and CircleCI, this was certainly a pain point for me. That is why I wrote this tutorial.

Spark Tuning Helps You Optimize Your Resources (Part One)

As our recent survey showed, Apache Spark is poised to continue as big data’s most dominant large-scale big data processing platform. Thus it is imperative that Spark users learn and master Spark tuning if they want to get the most out of their Spark environments. But what is tuning in Spark? How is it done? Read on to know more about Spark tuning.