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Use Datadog monitors as quality gates for GitHub Actions deployments

With the growing adoption of automated deployment tools, many organizations are releasing code more frequently. As releases increase, it’s important to ensure that you don’t accidentally introduce faulty deployments, which can have wide-ranging impacts on your infrastructure, application, and end-user experience, and can potentially lead to costly rollbacks.

Top 16 CDNs to Speed Up Your Website in 2023

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of servers or nodes spread around the world that stores and delivers the components of a website such as images, videos, or other static files. It can help both big and small websites deliver their content to users at the fastest speeds possible. If you’re new to the world of CDNs, it might seem intimidating when you’re trying to choose one that best fits your website.

Web checks in Kubernetes: a simple alternative to Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

The continued adoption of Kubernetes, a leading container orchestration platform, increases the demand to monitor these complex environments accurately and efficiently. Maintaining optimal performance and ensuring quick issue resolution are vital aspects of efficient Kubernetes management.

Kosli Changelog - March 2023

Hello, and welcome to the March edition of the changelog. Spring is on her way, days are now longer than nights (at least in the northern hemisphere where me and my Kosli colleagues reside) and new Kosli features are popping up like snowdrops. We have the latest release of the CLI and a bunch of other stuff to share with you, so let’s get right into it.

Why is hybrid cloud the "next generation of cloud"

It is a rare pleasure to both have ones cake and eat it. But that is precisely what next generation, hybrid cloud, offers organisations looking to reduce the cost whilst increasing control of the technology that underpins modern, digital business. Hybrid cloud refers to mixed computing, storage, and services environments that blend on-premises infrastructure, private cloud services, and a public cloud.

What Are Append Blobs

Azure Blob Storage is a highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud storage service offered by Microsoft Azure. It allows you to store a vast amount of unstructured data, such as text or binary data, in the form of objects or blobs. There are three types of blobs: Block Blobs, Page Blobs, and Append Blobs. In this article, we will focus on Append Blobs, their use cases, management, security, performance, and pricing. Let’s dive in!

How we built it: incident.io Status Pages

We kicked off 2023 with a new team and a new product to build - Status Pages. We wanted to build a solution we could ship to customers as quickly as possible, while making sure that it’s reliable, fast and beautiful. Here’s how that process played out over the course of three months.

Walking the Talk: How MDMs Help Recycling Businesses Stay True to Their Values

The call for digital transformation is largely directed toward for-profit companies: Digitizing their operations is presented as a means of increasing their efficiency, productivity, and ultimately, revenue. But organizations focused on social impact should care as much about digital enablement as their for-profit counterparts.