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We're very excited to release AppSignal for Ruby gem 3.1, which adds a Magic Dashboard for MRI VM stats. By upgrading to the latest Ruby gem, you'll automatically get this dashboard created in AppSignal as soon as data from the new probe starts flowing in. Here's what you'll see: Magic Dashboards give people amazing insights into applications with zero setup. They work automagically to give your team performance insights into gems like Puma, Sidekiq, ActiveJob, ActionMailer, and others.

In this article, you’ll be introduced to two different load testing tools that are both able to work with Kubernetes; Speedscale and K6. Throughout this post you’ll be given a comparative view of how each tool performs in five different categories: Ease of setup, developer experience, working with the CLI, creating tests, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers wherever they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome. This is the third in a blog series covering our product’s latest features — features that we think will save you time and effort when building with time series and InfluxDB.

Happy System Administrator’s Day! July 29th is the day we thank and honor all the hard-working system administrators (and network administrators, network engineers, IT helpdesk staff – basically anyone who helps keep the networks up and running) for all their hard work. You’ve spent the last year fixing problems, onboarding users, integrating new systems and keeping the entire world connected.

Now that we have entered the back half of the year, this is a good time to do a self-check on yourself, your team, your customers and your overall MSP business.

TL;DR Yalla! DevOps 2022 community event — Learning. Networking. Fun. Driven by the DevOps community. All about the DevOps community. Yalla! DevOps was back again this year with an exciting lineup of content ranging from DevOps, DevSecOps, professional development and more. Local speakers from the DevOps community and industry leaders from around the world took the stage making it one of the best DevOps community events this year. Keep reading for a recap of Yalla! DevOps 2022.

On behalf of all Canonical teams, I am happy to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure! They are part of the Microsoft Azure DCasv5/ECasv5 series, and only take a few clicks to enable and use. Ubuntu 20.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to support Confidential VMs on Azure.

BindPlane OP is written in Go. It is a single http webserver, serving REST, Websocket, and Graphql clients. It includes embedded react applications for serving the user interface. Go provides us with the ability to produce a single binary program that has no external dependencies. The binary is not dynamically linked to external libraries, meaning it is easy to build, deploy, and run on any platform supported by the Go compiler. BindPlane OP officially supports Linux, Windows, and macOS.

With an increased shift to hybrid and remote work environments, IT teams have had to adapt their support models to meet the evolving needs of their organization at a rapid pace. For most IT organizations, the programming effort required to customize less flexible software solutions to meet the changing demands of the business can often be expensive and slow-moving.

Usually, we have top and htop to monitor the Linux system and get to know the running processes along with CPU and Memory utilization. But these commands have certain limitations which refrain them from giving a detailed overview of the system performance. This limitation is overcome by the alternative called Bashtop. In this blog, we will learn about Bashtop, its advantages, and disadvantages along with its shortcuts and installation guide.