“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates A network, as we all know, is the connection of multiple devices to share information between them. While it’s a major task to manually manage every device connected to a network, a software-based feature called network automation can be utilized to help overcome this challenge.
As business has become more digital, data has become the most valuable asset of many organizations. But protecting that data has also become much more complicated as organizations increasingly migrate it to a mix of public and private cloud infrastructures, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud.
Reliability and serverless are at the forefront of today’s conversation. For this episode Gunnar Grosch, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, is here to talk about Chaos Engineering, AWS Serverless, and the work that AWS is doing when it comes to reliability.
The role of an engineer at a startup is a tangled web: as well as writing code, you have to be your own product manager, QA tester, customer support and designer. But there’s another hat that you have to wear which you might not have thought about: copywriter. All products have copy, from welcome messages to text on a submit button. At incident.io, we have to put on our copywriting hats every time we add a new feature.
Gartner introduced the word ‘AIOps’ back in 2017, and ever since, the enterprises have been adapting to the various strategies to streamline their IT operations. AIOps is a successful venture because it meets the challenges and tackles the amount of data created in the tech infrastructures amid complex architectures.
Postman is a great tool for API testing during development. It’s GUI is simple to learn and ubiquitous. However, manually writing test cases for local development gets tedious fast if you have a lot of endpoints. Meticulously entering every detail for every use case takes forever. Also, if you get one HTTP Header or parameter wrong, it can take hours to diagnose. And even when it’s done, the API tests are almost immediately out of date because the API contract changes.
