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Optimizing Your Kubernetes Load Testing with Speedscale

One of the major factors that come into play when deciding on a load testing tool is whether it can perform as you expect it to. There are many ways to measure how well a load testing tool performs, with the amount of requests per second undoubtedly being one of the main ways. Speedscale creates load tests from recorded traffic, so generating load is at the core of the tool.

Installing the HG Heroku Monitoring & Dashboards Add-on

HG or HostedGraphite provides a complete infrastructure and application monitoring platform from a suite of open-source monitoring tools. Depending on the setup, you can choose Hosted Graphite as your data source and view all required metrics on beautiful Grafana dashboards in real time. Hosted Graphite offers a wide range of tools, add-ons, and plugins that make it possible to measure, analyze, and visualize large amounts of data about your applications with ease.

Sunbird Named a Top 10 Most Innovative Data Center Company to Watch by CIO Insights

We are proud to share that Sunbird was recognized by CIO Insights as one of their 10 Most Innovative Data Center Companies to Watch. "We will present the leading data center companies in the world and their contribution to making the world more digital-friendly," said Richard Thomas, Editor, CIO Insights. "They are constantly innovating and disrupting the data center space with their ability to look at the future.

The Start of Sleuth: Filling a Gap in Software Delivery Performance

Sleuth's founders -- Dylan Etkin, Michael Knighten, and Don Brown -- talk about where the idea for Sleuth came from, how it's filling a need in measuring and improving on software delivery performance, and how it helps teams unlock their ability to experiment. Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

Configuring notifications for your CI builds with Slack and Twilio

CircleCI notification orbs were built to deliver messages to the appropriate channels when a build is successful or when it fails. This helps everyone involved in a project stay up-to-date with the status of the latest build. In this tutorial, you will explore and implement notifications sent to a Slack channel and also sent via SMS. To accomplish this task, you will make use of the Slack and Twilio orbs from the CircleCI orb registry.

Kubernetes Monitoring: Metrics, Tools & Best Practices

Monitoring any type of resource can be challenging. But Kubernetes monitoring is a special kind of challenge. Not only are there a variety of different Kubernetes layers and resource types to monitor, but collecting monitoring data from Kubernetes can be difficult if you use a managed Kubernetes service that limits your access to the underlying infrastructure. For all of these reasons, Kubernetes monitoring requires a different approach.

Season 2 finale: How to grow from failure in 2023 + Rob's worst failure

In the finale episode of season 2, our podcast producer Julia McClellan turns the tables on Rob to see what he's really learned from interviewing 18 top tech leaders in 2022. Rob reflects on how to grow, communicate, and change our ways from experiencing failure. Tune in today to hear Rob share his most catastrophic failure and catch a special preview to season 3.

What is SD-WAN technology, and how does it work?

In recent years, Software-Defined WAN Technology (SD-WAN) has changed the way networking professionals secure, manage, and optimize connectivity. As organizations continue to implement cloud applications, conventional backhaul traffic processes are now inefficient and can cause security concerns. SD-WAN is a virtual architecture that enables organizations to use different combinations of transport services that can connect users to applications.