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One of the great things about GitFlow is that it makes parallel development very easy by isolating new development from finished work. New development, such as features, is done in feature branches and is only merged back into the main body of code when developers have validated the feature and the code is ready for release. For most development teams, feature validation happens in a staging branch coupled with a single testing environment.

Ephemeral environments are getting popular among companies that need to scale their business efficiently. Traditionally, the deployment environments usually included development, QA, staging, UAT, and production. However, the bottlenecks with shared QA and staging environments have hindered the efficient workflow of IT teams. The first issue you will face is environment drift because it is a shared environment, and you cannot afford a separate static environment for each developer.

At Qoddi, we are strong advocates and sponsors of open-source projects, and with the recent decision from Heroku to stop offering free plans (used by a lot of open-source developers), we felt the importance of having an alternative ready to keep those projects running. Qoddi's infrastructure is compatible with most of Heroku's buildpacks and we wrote a guide to migrate a project from Heroku.

Akamai is one of the world’s largest CDN solution providers, helping companies greatly accelerate the secure delivery of content to their users all across the globe. Akamai provides this content delivery through its Intelligent Edge Platform, which is made up of hundreds of thousands of edge servers distributed around the planet.

Organizations scramble to adopt new frameworks and methodologies to make the software more scalable. Plus, they need to do it in a reliable way that doesn’t cause more problems. Enter Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), a set of practices introduced by a Google engineer. But how does it stack up to frameworks like DevOps? DevOps and SRE both enhance the software development and product release cycle.

HAProxy. High availability and a reverse proxy–it’s in the name, but what does it all mean? Before understanding how the two concepts work together in the load balancing space, we need to unpack the basics of high availability and how a reverse proxy functions.

Healthchecks is a cron job monitoring service which listens to HTTP requests and email messages ("pings") from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks ("checks"). It lets you update your job to send an HTTP request to the ping URL every time the job runs. When your job does not ping Healthchecks.io on time, then you will receive an alert! If you use Healthchecks for your monitoring needs, you can now integrate it with Squadcast to route detailed alerts from Healthchecks to the right users in Squadcast.

In the world of DevOps, every second counts. Problems need to be fixed fast, but with the intention that it’s done with a legitimate purpose for when something’s wrong. Continuous monitoring helps with automation and setting up the right kinds of alerts. If the system is going haywire, every moment not acting can make things worse. That’s why intelligent alerting is critical for enabling observability and continuous effective monitoring.