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Treading in Haunted Graveyards

At Honeycomb, we’ve often discussed the value of making software deployments early and often, and being able to understand your code as it runs in production. However, these principles aren’t specific to only your customer-facing software. Configuration-as-code, such as Terraform, is in fact code that needs to go through a release process as well. Lacking formal process around Terraform deployment means a de-facto process that generates reliability risk.

.NET Debugging: 6 techniques you need in your arsenal

Debugging. It’s one of the most time-consuming ways of finding a bug. As a senior .NET developer, I can tell you that it’s best to avoid the necessity for debugging altogether by writing clean code that’s covered by automated tests. If you’re a senior developer yourself, you probably already know this. And if you’re a junior developer, now you know it too! However, the world isn’t binary.

From Steps to Credits in Transactions and Multi-Step API monitors

We’ve changed Transaction steps and Multi-step API Monitoring steps to Transaction credits and Multi-step API Monitoring credits. In short: Steps are used to group your actions in your monitor definitions, and credits are used to buy Transaction or Multi-Step API monitors. Let’s explain that in more detail.

Seeing is Believing: Announcing the DevOps Pulse 2019 with a Focus on Observability

In the world of Software Engineering, observability seems to be the talk of the town. We discuss it at conferences, read about it in blogs or articles, and see it promised to us by vendor after vendor. But what is observability? What issues have recently evolved to make it such an integral concept? What strategies are engineers employing to ensure observability? And most importantly of all, why are engineers looking to achieve it?

Exception Monitoring Across Environments

Tools like Rollbar have changed the way development teams are recording and managing their exceptions. What used to be a very personal developer-by-developer activity can now be a team-wide tool for greater transparency, and increased application quality. But many still treat exception monitoring as a developer activity, and they are not leveraging its benefits across all environments, from development to stage and integration, to systems testing and production.

Why Cisco UCS PM Users Switch to Zenoss Cloud

On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 space flight launched toward the moon carrying a crew of three. Several days later, on July 20, 1969, the United States successfully landed two humans on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin later relaunched from the moon’s surface to join Michael Collins and return to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969.

Mattermost 5.13: Community plugins, DevOps integrations, Series B announcement, and more

Mattermost 5.13 ships with several platform and mobile improvements designed to help your team work better together. Try these new features by downloading Mattermost 5.13 today. Since it includes security updates, upgrading is recommended.

Running Spark with Jupyter Notebook & HDFS on Kubernetes

Kublr and Kubernetes can help make your favorite data science tools easier to deploy and manage. Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) carries the burden of storing big data; Spark provides many powerful tools to process data; while Jupyter Notebook is the de facto standard UI to dynamically manage the queries and visualization of results.