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Chaos Engineering Tools: Build vs Buy

Chaos Engineering, where engineers intentionally inject failure to test the reliability of their systems, is becoming a regular practice for companies who value uptime and availability. As cloud-based systems have grown more complex, Chaos Engineering has become a critical part of the software testing and release process to uncover surprise dependencies, fix problems before they become 3am outages, and bake reliability into every feature.

Redgate SQL Monitor - Monitor SQL server performance and availability

Open up Redgate SQL Monitor and, wherever your servers are, you’ll get the full picture of their health in an instant. Its web-based interface gives you an at-a-glance understanding of your entire estate whether it’s hosted on-premises, on Virtual Machines, or in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. You can then drill down to analyse both current and historic metrics for your servers such as top queries, waits, tempdb and more.

Cut Your Cloud Burn with Intel and Densify

Intel Cloud Optimizer (ICO), powered by Densify, the market leading resource optimization analytics engine, will tell you if there are immediate and truly actionable opportunities to reduce costly excess resources safely to immediately cut cloud related burn. For qualifying enterprises (based on annual cloud spend) Intel funds the cost of advanced analytics software and expert assistance from both Densify and Intel cloud architects.

CICD Pipeline Using Razorops | Continuous Integration | Continuous Deployment

Teams can have a complete CI/CD pipeline with the aid of Razorops. It is a fully managed continuous integration and deployment platform that is a complete software package that is ready for deployment, runs tests, and builds container images from source code. With Razorops, teams have a fully managed continuous integration and deployment platform that creates container images from source code and runs tests on a complete software package that is ready for deployment.

DevOps Engineer Job Description

As a manager, it’s up to you to be on-point about who does what in your team. While all of the job titles and descriptions can get a little confusing at times, knowing comes with the territory. Nowadays, DevOps engineers are an increasingly important part of any solid IT team. Today, we’ll take a look at the DevOps engineer job description, so by the time we’re done, you’ll be an expert on the topic. DevOps, as we’ve covered before, is not one thing, but many.

Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler vs Karpenter

One of the most exciting things when using Kubernetes is the ability to scale up and down the number of nodes based on application consumption. So you don’t have to manually add and remove nodes on demand and let it go on usage. Obviously what you want is to keep control on the minimum and the maximum number of nodes to avoid an unexpected bill.

What is LDAP and How Does it Work?

LDAP or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is one of the oldest and most popular protocols used to retrieve information from directory services, authenticate users, and build applications that don’t compare on security or speed. It’s one of the protocols to manage assets and data over a network and provides secure access to them. So what is LDAP? How does it work? What are some of the best practices while using the LDAP protocol? Let’s have a look.

Bitbucket Cloud migration Q&A

With support for Atlassian Server products ending in February 2024, many of you are likely evaluating or planning your migration to Bitbucket Cloud. To help you navigate the migration process, we've put together a list of frequently asked questions that we hear from customers. Each section below has several resource links to help you learn more and start planning your migration.