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Technical debt: how to measure and manage it with DevOps

Every technical team in the software industry is familiar with technical debt. That is because every software team incurs technical debt along the way. This article answers some critical questions about technical debt. It reviews what technical debt is and what its causes are, why it is essential to address technical debt, and how this debt accumulates.

Five tools to increase Kubernetes developer productivity

This article was inspired by our recent "5 tools to increase Kubernetes developer productivity" video, hosted by Saiyam Pathak and Kunal Kushwaha. Over the years Kubernetes has become the de facto orchestration platform, as such it's crucial that developers have the right set of tools to increase their productivity for development and operations. In this article, we take a look at five such tools that can help developers inprove productivity while when Kubernetes. Let’s jump in.

Kubernetes for the JavaScript Developer - Part Two - Deploy to Kubernetes

Continuing on from Part One where we went through a brief history of containers and Kubernetes then Dockerized a NodeJS application, now we are ready to deploy to Kubernetes. If this is your first or nth time deploying to Kubernetes, Shipa makes this simple. You don’t have to worry about authoring multiple Kubernetes manifests and templates to deploy your application, all you need is an image.

VirtualMetric Presents: Database Monitoring

VirtualMetric provides a powerful tool to observe your database performance and health. With VirtualMetric's tool, you can monitor #Database Transactions, Database Statistics, #PerformanceMetrics and #Inventory from a single dashboard. Drill down into detailed statistics to troubleshoot your database performance and optimize it. Ensure compliance and guarantee the security of stored data with advanced visibility across datasets.

37 minutes to deploy a fullstack app on my new AWS account

Today, I was working on our Terraform Provider, and I noticed that I never tried to deploy an application from scratch on a new and clean AWS account. Meaning, an empty AWS account - with 0 resources created. No VPC, no EC2, no Load Balancer, nothing... just an IAM user to get access to my AWS account programmatically. This post explains what I did and how it took 37 minutes and 33 seconds to literally: 😅 Let's explain all of that!

Load test WordPress + nginx on Kubernetes

Why this combination you ask? Load testing is my passion, and I am partial to Kubernetes. I challenged myself to share a use case that many could relate to, focused on a business critical application. Websites came to mind and WordPress is the world’s most popular website management system. Of course, nginx is the most popular web server so let’s throw that into the mix. And Kubernetes? With more than 50% of corporations adopting Kubernetes in 2021, what better system to run in.

Wind River Studio Supports Intel SoCs for Real-Time and AI-Driven Intelligent Systems for Aerospace and Defense Edge Applications

Wind River today announced support for new Intel Xeon D processors. Part of a multiyear effort to optimize Wind River Studio for Intel IoT system-on-chip (SoC) offerings, the combined technologies address the challenges of enabling greater compute in the space- and power-constrained rugged environments of verticals such as aerospace and defense, in order to meet the demands of edge applications.

What Is AWS MAP? (And How To Get The Most Out Of Your Migration)

In 2021, the most popular vendor in the cloud infrastructure services market, Amazon Web Services (AWS), controlled 32% of the entire market. To encourage more businesses to choose AWS, Amazon started a program to help accelerate migration — the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (AWS MAP). Below we’ll cover the details of the program, the potential financial benefits for companies looking to take part, and how to make sure you get all the financial benefits available.