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Exploring GitLens: 12 Features to Enhance Your VS Code Setup

As a full-stack developer working on complex web applications, I often face challenges with tracking code changes, understanding commit histories, and managing branches. GitLens for VS Code has completely changed how I handle these tasks. It helps me quickly identify who made changes, when they were made, and why, all without leaving my editor, saving me countless hours of digging through commit logs and trying to piece together a project’s history.

Feature Friday #17: Tags for inventory and reporting

Let’s talk about tags and how they can be useful for Inventory and Reporting. If you have been following along with the Feature Friday series you already heard about using tags to find currently defined classes, variables and bundles, but they are also very useful for reporting. In CFEngine Enterprise the inventory and attribute_name tags are special. A variable or class tagged with inventory becomes visible in the Inventory subsystem in Mission Portal with the name given in the attribute_name tag.

How to customize your Loki deployment with Ansible

Michal Vaško is a DevOps engineer at cloudWerkstatt, with a passion for open source technology and a deep love for observability. While operations or platform teams have long relied on visibility into metrics to react swiftly, the idea of doing the same thing with logs was once just a dream. Thankfully, Grafana Loki has revolutionized the logging stack, giving you the same level of visibility with logs that you get with metrics.

What is the Well-Architected Cloud Test Suite?

When it comes to reliability, cloud providers use a Shared Responsibility Model. In essence, they’ll keep the infrastructure reliable, while you’re responsible for architecting reliability into your systems. To help make this easier, they’ve published a variety of best practice guides, such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework. These lengthy documents are filled with recommendations to help you architect a more secure, more reliable system.

Amazon DynamoDB Pricing Simplified: A 2024 Guide For Cost Savings

You’re not alone if you’ve had trouble understanding Amazon DynamoDB pricing. Getting a handle on DynamoDB costs can be complex and tedious. But with the right tools and resources, it doesn’t have to be. In this bookmarkable guide, we’ll break it down step-by-step so you can tell what drives DynamoDB costs.

Announcing... Markdown magic

We're excited to share a small but mighty new feature. Our Text tile now supports Markdown! This allows you to include rich content on your dashboards such as headings, links, lists, images and more. At SquaredUp we know that a useful dashboard is more than just a few charts. With this update you can now provide key context to the data on a dashboard to help tell the right story. For example you might want to: You can easily do all that now, and more.

The future of AI in Business: Preparing your infrastructure

As the digital age progresses, businesses are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to stay competitive and innovative. Among the various branches of AI, Generative AI (GenAI) has been rapidly adopted due to its immense potential to transform business operations.

Q2 2024 Round Up: VictoriaMetrics & VictoriaLogs Updates

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent virtual meetup, during which we discussed some of our Q2 2024 highlights, including features highlights, the 2024 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics and all the latest news on VictoriaLogs! In this blog post, we’d like to share a summary of these highlights.

Onboarding yourself as an engineer at incident.io

At incident.io we use infrastructure as code for configuring everything we can, and we feel that there’s no reason we should exclude our own product from that. As well as configuring things like Google Cloud Platform, Sentry and Spacelift via our infrastructure repo, we also configure incident.io. On your first day as an engineer here, the first PR that you make is to our infrastructure repo.