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A Guide To Continuous Integration

Before continuous integration was invented, developers had to work on code separately before merging it into the end product. This technique had a high chance of error. If something was left out, it took time to determine the problem. Furthermore, communication between team members became difficult as the project grew. The larger the project, the more developers, engineers, and project owners were supposed to be faithful to each other’s schedules.

Windows Autopatch: Will MSPs Still Need a Patch Management Solution?

On April 5, 2022, Microsoft announced their new Windows Autopatch feature to take the burden of patching off the shoulders of overwhelmed IT departments. With a planned released date of July 2022, it’s worth getting educated about this new service from Microsoft and what its potential impacts on the MSP ecosystem will be. Spoiler alert: It’s not that big of a deal.

Docker - CMD vs ENTRYPOINT

Containers are great for developers, but containers are also an excellent way to create reproducible, secure, and portable applications. Applications can be deployed reliably and migrated to multiple computing environments quickly using containers. It could be the developer's laptop to the testing environment or staging to the production environment. To use Dockers, Kubernetes, etc., it has been necessary to build containers.

Bug Hunting and improvements week - what we improve on Qovery

During the past two weeks, our Frontend and Backend teams were busy bees 🐝 with a particular sprint dedicated to bug hunting �� and improvements! Yes, both of the two weeks sprints were dedicated to bugs and improvements ONLY: tracking them, then solving them; gotta catch ‘em all 🚀

Customer centricity - the digital transformation driver in the logistics sector

It was clear that reality had begun to shift, and that what once would have been horrifying — the outpouring of rage against a backdrop of constant, low-grade mistrust — had become the new normal. This is how the author of the New York Times described the stories of the irate customer behaviour that started showing in the time of pandemic.

What is MongoDB and why use it for modern web applications?

Organisations of different scales and forms want to harness the power of data to identify new business opportunities and improve current business operations. Organisations that use data effectively can hold a potential advantage – the ability to make faster and more informed business decisions. However, working with data can be a long-standing problem for businesses and functions, especially in data management and software development.

How to Keep DevOps in Sync with Business Needs

If you’re an engineer, it’s probably easy enough to appreciate the technical value of DevOps. DevOps makes software delivery faster, increases agility, improves collaboration and more. That being said, this is likely not the case for business professionals. They don’t always see the value of DevOps as clearly from their perspective. After all, even if you adopt the best DevOps tools and design optimal DevOps processes, there’s no guarantee that DevOps will drive business value.

Top 10 Requirements of Cloud Monitoring Tools

Most organizations are moving applications and workloads to the cloud. Our APM survey found that 88% of organizations had some form of cloud technology deployed already. At the same time, there are several misconceptions about the cloud. There are many who believe they don’t need monitoring tools for the cloud because their cloud provider will take care of all of their performance needs. This is a myth because cloud provider SLAs are mainly around infrastructure availability.