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Best practices for continuous testing with Datadog

In Parts 1 and 2, we looked at how you can build and maintain effective test suites. These steps are a key part of ensuring that application workflows function as expected. But how you run your tests is another important point to consider, so in this post, we’ll walk through best practices for executing your tests across every stage of development. Along the way, we’ll also look at how Datadog supports these practices for the applications that you are already monitoring.

Maximize efficiency with Terraformer: Manage Squadcast resources via IaC

Ever since Terraform was first launched by HashiCorp, infrastructure teams have been quick to leverage its functionality. Because deploying infrastructure via code became so much easier and error-free. This surely became a great way to deploy new infrastructure with custom configurations, but what about managing cloud infrastructure that is already defined? Can Terraform be used to make changes to them? Or can it be used to deploy the same configurations to new environments?

Datadog on Building an Event Storage System

When Datadog introduced its Log Management product, it required a new event data storage platform, as storing logs and events is a completely different problem from storing metrics, which was the first Datadog product. Over time, Datadog introduced more and more products that needed to store and index multi-kilobyte timeseries “events”, re-using the Event Platform infrastructure from Log Management. The increased use of the Event Platform and the new feature requirements coming from new products started exposing the limitations of the legacy system and the need for a new approach

How Tint Streamlines Infrastructure Automation and Meets Compliance Requirements

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Maschtaler, the Platform and Reliability lead at Tint, about their experience with Qovery. Tint began using Qovery in early 2022 to automate their infrastructure and support their team and customer growth. In this article, we will explore Tint's journey with Qovery, including how we continue to assist them with compliance in the testing and release process and how we help them save on cloud costs through our partnerships.

Optimizing Azure Cost with Azure Cost Management

Enterprise use of Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Services is expanding at an unprecedented rate as cloud computing usage expands. However, enterprises that have recently switched to Azure continue to have serious concerns about Azure cost efficiency. Managing the costs associated with Azure cloud infrastructure differs from reducing the cost of an on-premises server because Azure cloud infrastructure can be built as needed, typically outside the control of a traditional IT department.

Elastic: Emerging trends in search

What's on the search horizon for the coming year? Join us as we sit down with Forrester machine learning expert Rowan Curran to examine the current state of search and peer into the future to examine developing search trends. According to Forrester's data, advanced insights-driven businesses have adopted cognitive search technologies at nearly 2X the rate of other organizations, driving better growth and revenue outcomes.