SAN FRANCISCO — July 22, 2020 — InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced that InfluxDB Cloud is now available on Microsoft Azure, furthering the company’s commitment to increase accessibility to developers. With this announcement, InfluxDB Cloud is now live on all three major cloud platforms — Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.

Hackers arm themselves with the latest technologies, employ different techniques, and try to exploit all possible vulnerabilities in the security of an organization. With these tools under their belt, hackers will persist until they get what they want. To stay one step ahead of hackers and remain up to date on cutting-edge technologies, your organization needs a dedicated team whose main objective is to detect and stop cyberattacks that threaten it.

In Part 1, we looked at some best practices for getting started with creating effective test suites for critical application workflows. In this post, we’ll walk through best practices for making test suites easier to maintain over time, including: We’ll also show how Datadog can help you easily adhere to these best practices to keep test suites maintainable while ensuring a smooth troubleshooting experience for your team.

Here’s the July issue of SREview! This monthly zine features epic Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community.

Service ownership is becoming a best practice for teams looking to innovate while maintaining the level of reliability that customers expect. Service ownership means seeing the service through its entire lifecycle. In short, it means you build it, you run it. You’ll be responsible for the service’s security, reliability, performance, and quality. This doesn’t mean you won’t have help from SREs to optimize or automate toil.

Goliath adds SSI to a growing list of managed service partners Philadelphia, PA – July 21, 2020 – Goliath Technologies, a leader in end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting software, announced today a new partnership with SSI, a global IT and cloud managed service provider. Goliath adds SSI to its growing list of managed service partners which includes HCL, Tech Mahindra, MTM, DXC, and many others.

As the industry leader in the DevOps space, we’re excited to share recent updates to the Puppet Enterprise platform that give infrastructure operations teams the flexibility to manage and automate more infrastructure and complex workflows in a simple yet powerful way.

Patching systems is not a new problem; this is something that organizations are very familiar with. Organizations have tried solving this issue in various ways by cobbling together multiple tools, processes, different teams, and more. Organizations are constantly trying to stay secure and keep their systems up to date, but patch management isn’t a simple process. In fact, applying the patch itself is just one part of the overall workflow, which involves multiple teams and various steps.