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The software testing data provided by CI/CD tools is valuable, but it is not always comprehensive enough to give managers the insights they need to make improvements. To make effective business decisions, managers need visibility into the entire testing process, in a way that will help them understand what needs to be done and how.

Over the years, containerization has grown in popularity among organizations and will continue to grow. For example, containerization is slowly becoming the de facto approach when it comes to building applications following the microservices architecture. It is undeniable that containerization has a lot of advantages, but these advantages come at a cost.

Recently, a critical out-of-bounds vulnerability, assigned to CVE-2021-44142, was disclosed in Samba versions prior to 4.13.17. The Samba vulnerability carries a critical CVSS of 9.9 and allows attackers to remotely execute code on machines running a Samba server with a vulnerable configuration. The vulnerability was disclosed as part of the Pwn2Own Austin competition where researchers are challenged to exploit widely-used software and devices with unknown vulnerabilities.

Just like many other production DevOps engineering teams, our JFrog team deploys new version releases several times a day to AWS, Azure and GCP, across more than 20 cloud regions. This process used to take us many hours and could have even failed if it was done alongside maintenance by other teams.

In this article, we’ll deep dive into all the basics to help you decide if AWS RDS is the right decision for your architecture and help you hit the ground running if you do end up AWS RDS. For many decades now, relational databases (RDS) have been the place to store your data. They are pretty flexible often use some kind of SQL dialect, which is one of the main languages taught in computer science classes, and widely understood by the average developer.

Cooling systems are one of the most important components of a data center. They often consume about half of all the data center’s total energy and are necessary to maintain a safe operating environment. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) thermal guidelines recommend that the ideal temperature for server inlets is between 64.4° F and 80.6° F with a relative humidity between 40% and 60%.

Web page loading time, or website speed in a more technical phrase, is an important SEO component. It's also the most important aspect of the user experience. Modern internet content consumers have a short attention span and lack patience. You risk losing valuable traffic if your website does not load quickly enough. A CDN (Content Delivery Network) can help a website load faster.

One of the key benefits of the Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) approach is the level of control network service providers can pass on to their enterprise customers and partners. In this blog, we look at the role that hyperautomation is playing in the provisioning and management of networks...

Intro to the CLI – Part 1: Why Learn to Use The Terminal and Some History Long-time fans of GitKraken Client have come to love the graphical user interface, or GUI, that allows you to click on a Git branch or commit to perform an action or even drag and drop a branch to start a pull request. Version 8.0 of GitKraken Client introduced the GitKraken CLI, allowing you to interact with your repositories, and the rest of your computer, from Terminal Tabs.