"Artifact" and "package" are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct differences. Understand their unique roles, learn through practical examples, and discover why distinguishing between them is vital for effective software management and distribution. "Artifact" and "package" are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct differences.

Like many of our own customers, at its heart, incident.io is a software company. Because of this, it means that our work is never truly “done." One of our primary goals is to help people coordinate their response to situations where things haven’t gone well, and make it easy to always do the right thing. But we know that there will always be bugs to fix, features to be introduced and improvements to be made, as evidenced by our changelog.

Put simply, Kubernetes is an orchestration system for deploying and managing containers. Using Kubernetes, you can operate containers reliably across different environments by automating management tasks such as scaling containers across Nodes and restarting them when they stop. Kubernetes provides abstractions that let you think in terms of application components, such as Pods (containers), Services (network endpoints), and Jobs (one-off tasks).

Software development errors can wreak havoc on organizations. When software bugs make it into production due to human error, organizations can lose a lot of money. At the same time, software failures can ruin a company’s reputation, creating dissatisfied customers and crushing productivity. Depending on how bad the errors are, software companies can even face legal and compliance penalties.