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Why Jenkins might cost you 10x more than Bitbucket Pipelines

Any company still running their own CI/CD, such as Jenkins, is paying a price. The question is which one: Each of these is extremely costly, and yet many software teams still host and run their own CI/CD for two reasons: tools like Jenkins are cheap or free, and hosting Jenkins on an AWS EC2 instance is often cheaper per minute than SaaS CI/CD services like Bitbucket Pipelines. Both reasons are true, but they’re also a trap.

Code coverage standards for a Next.js project using CircleCI and Coveralls

An essential part of software development, testing helps catch bugs and errors early, improves software quality, and ultimately prevents costly issues from being deployed to production. The effectiveness of software testing will remain uncertain until it can be measured and that is where code coverage comes in. Code coverage is a metric that tells developers what portion of their codebase is executed when specific tests are run.

Easiest Way to Ship Docker & Nginx Logs to Loki with Promtail

Effective monitoring catches problems before users do, and with Promtail, Loki, and LogQL, it’s a lightweight, approachable option for any DevOps team. This guide shows how to monitor Docker itself (pull failures, restarts, health flaps) so you’ve got a baseline on container runtime health.

Middle Mile Networks: What They Are and How to Use Them

Whether it’s streaming video, powering remote work, or supporting smart technologies, the ability to connect local users to the global internet is essential. But behind the scenes, a key infrastructure layer ensures that this digital experience runs smoothly: the middle mile. Middle mile networks serve as the critical bridge between the internet’s backbone and the local networks that deliver service to homes, businesses, and institutions.

How to check CPU usage on Linux

When your Linux system feels sluggish, one of the first things to investigate is the CPU usage. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brain of your machine, and if it’s overloaded, everything else slows down. In this guide, you’ll learn different ways to Linux check CPU usage with command-line tools, how to interpret the metrics, and why automatic monitoring with Icinga ensures long-term system stability.

OTel Naming Best Practices for Spans, Attributes, and Metrics

An incident’s in progress. Services are slow, customers are frustrated, and your dashboards… look fine. At least, until you search for payment metrics and get 47 different names for the same signal. Suddenly, the real issue isn’t latency — it’s inconsistency. The OpenTelemetry project recently published a three-part series on naming conventions to solve exactly this problem.

The Open-Source BigQuery Sink Connector Saga

The BigQuery Sink connector is a critical piece of Kafka infrastructure that allows you to offload your Kafka topic data into BigQuery in real time. It is the third most-used connector among Kafka users (after the Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka and the original WePay sink connector), but it's not without its fair share of plot twists. Here's the story of how this connector switched hands three times and we ultimately ended up helping to re-build it.

Introduction to Facts in Puppet

Unlock the full potential of your Puppet infrastructure with a deep dive into Puppet Facts. This guide explains how Puppet uses facts to gather real-time data, making your code more dynamic, adaptable, and aware of the systems it manages. Discover the different types of facts, from simple structured data to secure trusted facts, and learn how to leverage them for enhanced visibility and standardization across your entire estate.