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Business applications can be a powerful tool and streamline almost any business process. As a result, many companies and their team members are requesting mobile apps to reduce costs and enhance efficiency. The problem? There aren’t enough developers to build these apps for them. In fact, more than a third of respondents in a recent survey said that recruiting developers will continue to be challenging in 2023.

Kubernetes is essential to modern application development and runtime. As a powerful container orchestration platform, its benefits include improved scalability, portability, and automation, all of which contribute to more resilient applications and cost savings. More and more organizations are adopting Kubernetes to develop applications that can scale, recover from failures, and quickly adapt to changing business requirements.

An IT asset inventory is your best ally to keep all your IT hardware and software organized and properly managed in your organization. It should be at the base of your IT Asset Management (ITAM) strategy since having a unified IT inventory enables you to perform all the other tasks involved in ITAM and, ultimately, accomplish long-term success.

OpenStack is no doubt a wonderful and successful piece of software. It allows you to create your own cloud infrastructure, and thanks to its open-source nature, it’s free to use for everyone. But as with many giant software projects, all that power comes with a challenge: it is reasonably complex to install and configure.

The Docker project was initiated by dotCloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company that created Docker to run their internal infrastructure. Slowly, Docker became more successful than any of their other products, so dotCloud rebranded as Docker Inc. Docker provides easy-to-use tooling and grew into an entire ecosystem for container management.

The platform development team at Endeavor Streaming has a critical mission — from balancing operation of the company’s leading digital video platform, at scale, to ensuring everything in their complex cloud environment is performing as expected. Enabling the company to confidently build on top of its platform and continue to evolve their product delivery is thereby also dependent on maintaining detailed visibility into its supporting cloud applications and infrastructure.

We are excited to announce the release of Graylog 5.1! A follow-up to our 5.0 release, Graylog 5.1 brings updates across our entire product line, including changes to infrastructure, Security, Operations, and our Open offerings.

Recently, our team at Meteksan Defense is upgrading its development environment to use newer versions of many tools and programming languages. One of the more difficult transitions has been the upgrade of our C++11 code base to C++17 for our embedded applications. In this article, I will be showing some features of C++17 that can also be helpful in the embedded world. Note that the migration from C++11 to C++17 covers C++14 also, hence I will touch upon some aspects of it as well.

Google Analytics was the go-to analytics tool. It set the standard, we all learned on it, and we all used it. But Google Analytics 4? It’s a nightmare. I’ve tried to figure it out for weeks and it’s just…confusing.

We’ve put together this guide to help SREs boost developer productivity by enhancing collaboration, strengthening infrastructure, and streamlining processes. Read on to discover the importance of strong developer productivity in SRE and insights into achieving a more effective software development life cycle in your organization.