We're happy to announce that on September 15th, 2020, we will begin gradually enabling a new traffic acceleration improvement for all Bitbucket Cloud users (Free, Standard, and Premium) when accessing Bitbucket.org for Web- or Git-based (ssh/https) operations. This new improvement leverages AWS Global Accelerator to route traffic to and from Bitbucket Cloud via 83 Points of Presence in 73 cities across 38 countries, potentially dramatically speeding up transaction times.

Eric Sorenson and Melissa Sussmann discuss Puppet’s event-driven automation platform, Relay, and how it helps clean up the “DevOps Dumping Ground” left behind from a tangled web of gitops and cloud events. Ditch your digital duct tape with a repeatable and reusable platform. Home-grown glue logic is expensive and high risk compared to the alternative.

Recently we hit the infamous kmem bug in our internal Production Konvoy Cluster. We discovered that we were having this issue after users began reporting a particular CI Job was failing intermittently throughout the Cluster with the following error: From the Pod Logs: From the Kernel Logs.

Automation is a key component in the management of the entire software release lifecycle. While we know it is critical to the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery process, it is now becoming equally essential to the underlying infrastructure you depend on. As automation has increased, a new principle for managing infrastructure has emerged to prevent environment drift and ensure your infrastructure is consistently and reliably provisioned.

GitLab users will feel even more cunning 🦊 managing your issues directly from GitKraken. The GitKraken Git GUI now integrates with GitLab and GitLab Self-Managed Issues! Now there’s no need to leave the comfortable foxhole of your GitKraken environment to stay on top of your issues. Context switching is, after all, the enemy of an optimal workflow.

At the 2019 Blameless Summit, Lauren Rubin spoke about how to bring operational expertise to development teams. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Lauren Ruben: I was going to ask for a show of hands of how many people here who are on call right this minute right now. I am actually on call right this minute. I like to live dangerously. If my phone beeps, the specific noise that means I have been paged, I'm sorry, I am going to look at it.

If you’re a JavaScript developer there’s a very good chance you’ve heard of or use Vercel. In the small chance you haven’t, Vercel is this awesome platform that makes building and deploying Jamstack frameworks like Next.js incredibly fast and easy. Next.js is gaining in popularity with 51k stars on GitHub and it’s one of the most trusted stacks in the JavaScript world these days.

Many organizations use Kubernetes to quickly ship new features and improve the reliability of their services. Rancher enables teams to reduce the operational overhead of managing their cloud-native workloads — but getting continuous visibility into these environments can be challenging. In this post, we’ll explore how you can quickly start monitoring orchestrated workloads with Rancher’s built-in support for Prometheus and Grafana.