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Getting internal documentation right

One of the most needlessly time-consuming tasks that your team members can engage in is looking for information on work that has already been done by somebody else. Perhaps a developer is seeking to perform an oft-repeated task like the creation of a new microservice. Or a new employee on the team needs guidance regarding designing a product roadmap and wants to look at one that was made for a similar project.

The quickest way to integrate Mattermost into your GitLab release pipeline

Organizing a software release is a cross-team effort and a large undertaking. Leveraging the power of Mattermost Playbooks can help your team stay on deadline and keep confusion at bay. In this post, we’ll learn how to quickly integrate Mattermost into your GitLab release pipeline to help streamline your release processes. At the end of the blog post, there’s a link to a release management demo that you can try out in the browser to see these ideas in action.

How CloudZero's New MongoDB Support Brings Cost-Efficiency To Cloud-Native Databases

MongoDB has evolved into the database solution of choice for developers looking to build efficient, scalable applications in the cloud. But, as when using any cloud-based infrastructure, using MongoDB introduces an additional layer of complexity to customers’ IT spend. This week, we announced support for MongoDB on the CloudZero Platform.

DevOps Institute SKILup Hour: CI/CD | Dec 13, 2022 | Feat Cloudsmith Co-Founder & CEO Alan Carson

Join our experts for this SKILup Hour to learn more about the latest CI/CD practices and how to extend CI/CD to deliver a traceable, end-to-end DevOps toolchain that includes connecting planning to delivery and learning from the wisdom in production. In this Session, you will learn: How system and organizational design affect the ability to deliver effective CI/CD How CI/CD supports regulatory and compliance requirements such as segregation or separation of duties How to know when it’s time to level up to continuous deployment and how to do this safely with automation and dark launches

What is FluentD, and how does it work with Kubernetes?

FluentD is a free and open-source data collector. With its decentralized ecosystem, it’s known for its built-in reliability and cross-platform compatibility. One of the biggest challenges in big data collection is the lack of standardization between collection sources. They just aren’t able to talk to each other. With FluentD, you can address one of the biggest challenges to big data log collection.

Using Squadcast's SLO Tracker | Error Budget | Setting up SLOs and configuring SLIs | Squadcast

With Squadcast, you can define and monitor Service Level Objects for your services. SLOs allow you to define and enforce an agreement between two parties regarding the delivery of a given service. A Service Level Objective (SLO) is a reliability target, measured by a Service Level Indicator (SLI), and sometimes serves as a safeguard for a Service Level Agreement (SLA). SLOs represent customer happiness and guide the development team’s velocity.