Just a quick post highlighting some of the changes made since Apex Up v0.5.0! If you’re unfamiliar with Up, it’s a command-line tool to help you deploy and manage near-infinitely scalable serverless web applications and APIs on AWS. You can deploy as many applications as you need, for the fraction of the price of other providers, with zero operational maintenance or manual scaling efforts.
Jira is one of the most common applications for managing software projects, but it's not just for project managers. Increasingly, software developers find themselves behind the wheel on a Jira project, but without the knowledge to make it work best. Use this tutorial to make Jira a valuable tool for you and your team.
Open source has come a long way. Open source components are the building blocks of arguably every organization’s software. According to Stack Overflow’s 2018 developer survey results, nearly half of professional developers contribute to open source projects, and 40% listed contribution to open source software as part of their non-formal learning background.
When you’re in IT, you see it all. Complicated issues, like that one Windows update that just won’t install, and quick fixes that you could do in your sleep. And of course, there’s also those repeat requests. I can’t get any email. The printer’s broken. My internet doesn’t work. What’s my password again?
Modifications in PushMon 1.21 Release.
We’ve added the ability to receive Pushover notifications for all our services. Our notification system already supports Slack, email, SMS, voice call, PagerDuty and webhooks, but following feedback from our customers we felt Pushover provided extra functionality for smarter notifications.
When developing mobile apps it’s important to monitor errors so that you can understand your user’s experience. You need deeper insight than just a crash report because errors could cause a degraded user experience or a drop in key behavioral metrics. Your team needs to know quickly when there are production problems either with the app itself or with your backend services so you can fix the issue before more customers are impacted.
Often I am asked how I always seem calm and poised during incidents. This persona is not entirely accurate as I am more like a duck in these scenarios, calm on top of the water, but paddling frantically under the water. I have learned some tricks that have helped me stay calm and drive incidents to resolution.
Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS beta. The release of 3.12.0 beta took longer than expected. As a result we have decided to adjust our release schedule, and we releasing 3.12.0 beta now and later this year 3.12.0 will be the next official LTS release.
In the previous two parts of OpenTracing series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve and looked at Zipkin – a popular open-source distributed tracer. In this blog post, we will look at Jaeger, a newer open-source distributed tracer developed under the CNCF umbrella.
