Creating, managing, and tracking high level goals can be incredibly burdensome and complex for organizations with numerous stakeholders and cross-functional collaboration. Team leads and executives manage multitudes of reporting tools and departments while contributors often have little visibility into the process of creating goals or the progress towards achieving those goals.

Efficiently retrieving Kubernetes metrics is the beginning of cluster performance optimization. Cluster metrics such as logs and resources descriptions are crucial as they map the health of your cluster. There’s a Kubernetes tool called K9s that lets you access your Kubernetes cluster metrics swiftly using short keys. K9s prioritizes aesthetics and performance as it displays its contents and functions in an aesthetically pleasing UI.

Mattermost v7.2 is generally available today. The following new features are included (see changelog for more details).

The demands of a tight production schedule can make it difficult to produce consistent, readable, and concise code in the lead-up to a manual code review. This often makes the process stressful — if not outright dreaded. Standard tests are a critical part of development that verify that our code produces the expected outputs. But great tests don’t always lead to good code.

Implemented well, automation can be a powerful tool for accelerating and scaling DevOps processes to keep your team building and shipping code quickly. But knowing what and how to automate DevOps workflows can be challenging; every organization’s DevOps practices are unique, and there’s no one “right” way to approach automation. Let’s look at a few tips for approaching DevOps workflow automation to help your team move faster.

Welcome to the August 2022 edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

In this article, I’ll provide a guide to Git for non-developers. So, if you are reading this as a full experienced Git user, you may disagree with some of my statements. Don’t bother reading on; we recognize you as the expert! If, on the other hand, you’re new to Git, this piece is for you.

Your team has worked hard on a software product for months, and it’s finally ready to release to your users! But then the worst-case scenario happens: a wide release soon indicates that the software is plagued with bugs and performance issues, resulting in poor reviews and widespread user dissatisfaction.