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Heroku discontinued their free tier - what are the top 3 best alternatives?

Today, It's a sad day for thousands of developers that were able to host their applications for free on Heroku. Heroku (acquired by Salesforce) announced that they discontinue their free tier to focus on "mission critical" businesses. Heroku has undoubtedly changed how developers deploy their applications in the cloud - but now, what are the valid alternatives? Here is a list of the top 3 best Heroku alternatives.

Secure Your Software Supply Chain Using Observability Webinar

Fequent software supply chain attacks are becoming the new normal for developers and security professionals everywhere. Even though it’s still relatively new, observability has continued to gain momentum as a way to identify software supply chain issues before they become a major disruption. Having access to the right data at the right time is necessary to make decisions about priorities. We’ve assembled a panel of experts from software, security, and data to talk about observability and what it means to your software supply chain security

Deploying a dockerized .NET Core app to an Azure container instance

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a custom ASP.NET Core container with Docker and host the container image on Azure Container Registry, a platform owned by Microsoft that allows you to build, store, and manage container images in a private registry. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to apply the knowledge gained here to link your container image on the Microsoft Azure registry with a web app service and launch your application.

Performing Postmortems & Postmortem Templates at Squadcast | SRE Best practices | Squadcast

Postmortems are a way to summarize the resolution for an incident once it is resolved. It is also a way for you to create a knowledge-base of failures and fixes that can be shared across your team to help build a culture of shared learning and learning from failures.

Monitor your Edgecast CDN with Datadog

Edgecast is a global network platform that provides a content delivery network (CDN) and other solutions for edge computing, application security, and over-the-top video streaming. Using Edgecast’s JavaScript-based CDN, teams can improve web performance by caching static and dynamic content with low latency and minimal overhead.

Site Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineers and SRE Practices: State of Adoption

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. The mission of an SRE practice is to protect, provide for and progress the software and systems offered and managed by an organization with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance and capacity.1.

How to Measure Data Center Sustainability

Sustainability is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, topic in the data center industry today. A sustainable data center is a facility that can maintain operations at a high level of efficiency over time. It is important for data centers to be as sustainable as possible because they use a lot of resources which makes reducing their environmental impact and carbon footprint top priorities. It is also important because these facilities need to comply with corporate sustainability initiatives.

Native vs cross-platform mobile app development

In just a decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous. They facilitate communication via texting and calling, provide entertainment, enable administration, and offer utilities for their users in the form of applications. Users access these mobile applications through their app store, whether it is Apple’s App Store or the Google Play Store. Developers construct them with the smartphone’s operating system in mind. The two mainstream operating systems that are targeted are Android and iOS.