Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore Anywhere Operations as a new business model.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps share a goal of building a bridge between development and operations. We'll explore and compare both approaches. Wondering to yourself, which is better for your company, SRE or DevOps? Neither SRE or DevOps is “better,” exactly, since they’re similar yet different in a few key ways: SRE, or site reliability engineering, is a methodology developed by Google engineer Ben Treynor Sloss in 2003.

Onboarding a new tool can be boring. Or stressful. Or both. When onboarding an incident response tool, it can be difficult to make sure that your team is getting the most from the experience. Do you opt for a run-of-the-mill meeting, or try to learn while in an incident? Neither option is ideal. That’s why Petal’s DevOps Engineer Michael Cole found a new way to get his team using Blameless for their incident response process.

The new Kemp Flowmon ADS 11.3 enhances your contextual understanding with built-in knowledge of adversary tactics and techniques described in the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Uptime.com is GDPR compliant as of 2021. Becoming GDPR compliant required an organization-wide dedication to maintaining privacy and security to meet these new standards. These updates impact everything from working with support to our team logging in for work each day. Today, we’ll tackle what GDPR means to our organization, how these changes affect your usage of Uptime.com, and what we’re doing now (and into the future) to protect your personal data.

The interconnected enterprise model is a natural response to the high frequency change that we are seeing across multiple industries. Today’s enterprises are now find themselves interconnected with a vast pool of cloud and SaaS providers as well as other business partners, which allows organisations to adapt more rapidly to changing market conditions and opportunities. But like any business model, this presents risks and challenges as well as its rewards…

What an exciting month, with PromCon Online 2021 and KubeCon EU 2021! These presentations were full of feature announcements, live demos, and inspiring use cases. Here are our highlights of the PromCon Online 2021!

The spring release of Puppet Enterprise is now available. Puppet continues to build out its flagship product to help organizations scale DevOps initiatives, meet compliance requirements, and deliver on cloud and hybrid initiatives. With this release, we’ve focused on delivering key enhancements to help boost productivity, giving organizations the ability to automate faster and more securely at scale.

Security is essential. It’s top of mind for organizations of all sizes and it’s certainly a top priority for Puppet. The latest release of Puppet Enterprise 2021.1 now offers support for SAML 2.0 providing a more secure and efficient authentication path for our customers to access their Puppet environments, applications and tooling.

Are slow FCP scores getting you down? Worried that website performance is frustrating your users and hurting your SEO rankings? This FCP cheat sheet has all the tactics (with links) you’ll need to have screaming-fast FCP scores. First Contentful Paint (FCP) is a measurement of how long it takes to show the user the first bit of content. Measuring FCP encourages your website to respond quickly to requests so that users know their request has been received.