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Create a URL shortener API with Kotlin, the micro-framework Ktor and PostgreSQL (Part 1/2)

The source code for this post can be found on this github repo Ktor is a brand new micro-framework created by the Jetbrains team and running over the JVM. Jetbrains are the authors of Kotlin - the official language for Android, and Intellij - one of the popular IDE. I personally have +4 years of experience using Spring and I wanted to give a try to Ktor which seems promising. Creating a URL shortener is a good way to start.

Azure Service Bus Topics vs Event Grid

This blog will brief on the distinction between Azure Service Bus Topics and Azure Event Grid. First let us see a short introduction of what these Azure services are, before getting deeper into their distinctions. It is important to note the difference between services that deliver an event and services that deliver a message. Service Bus topics handles messages whereas Azure Event Grid handles events.

Succeeding With Service Level Objectives

In this blog, Danny Mican, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, outlines how to implement SLOs from scratch using the IIDARR process. He also states it is extremely crucial for your SLOs to be actionable and is always following a feedback approach as it will play an important role in the debate of Features Vs Technical Debt.

Great Incident Response Requires 3 Major Components

With remote work becoming more common, and distributed teams the norm, incident response has become even trickier. Years ago, everyone would gather in a war room and sort through the issue together, boots on the ground. Now, things have shifted. Remote work is only projected to increase, and teams need to be able to adapt in order to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently, even if team members are a thousand miles away. But how can we make great incident response a reality?

How to Improve Downtime Response: Error Budgeting and Unplanned Downtime

Every one of us reading this blog has seen a fire spring up and quietly walked away from the impending chaos. And everyone one of us has managed to live this long because we understand when to react to a fire. A real fire affects our Service Level Objectives (SLO), and affects the user base. You need to figure out where it is, what started it, and what your team will do about it, and you need to do that now.

Visualizing SAP PI/PO with SquaredUp

We are delighted to have a guest blog from Ruben Zimmermann, Infrastructure Architect, knowledge-sharing enthusiast and author of this cool new MP! Today, Ruben gives us a step-by-step guide on how to use SquaredUp to visualize SAP PI/PO. SAP Process Orchestration (or Integration) is a software within SAP which functions as data transformation gateway. It’s a central component of an SAP infrastructure and the standard way to communicate with external parties.

AI Meets Kubernetes: Install JupyterHub with Rancher

AI and Machine Learning are becoming critical differentiators in the technology landscape. By their nature, AI and ML are computation hungry workloads. They require best-in-class distributed computing environments to thrive. AI and ML present a perfect use case for Kubernetes, the distributed computing platform engineered at Google to run their massive workloads.

Onboarding as a remote engineer with Mattermost

We decided to make Mattermost a remote-first company for several reasons. For example, employees don’t have to waste time commuting, we are able to hire from a wider talent pool of self-motivated individuals, and we have coverage in all time zones, which helps us respond to our customers around the world more effectively. And since we’re a remote company building collaboration software, we have plenty of opportunity to dogfood our own product.

Pipelines CI/CD and the JFrog Platform Difference

With the release of the JFrog DevOps Platform, we launched the first general availability of JFrog Pipelines, our powerful system for next-generation CI/CD. Pipelines’ many great features help make DevOps pipelines automation rapid, repeatable, and secure. With flexible runtime management, a robust DSL, and a real-time interactive UI, Pipelines is a muscular CI/CD solution we know you’ll love. But what makes Pipelines different?