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The business of a platform organization: A look into ROI and metrics

A successful platform is normally measured by adoption and usage — important metrics to track to ensure you’re serving your internal customers. From a business perspective, though, you also need to show that your platform delivers a worthy return on the investment your organization makes to build, run, maintain and evolve it.

Using Process Mapping to target your automation efforts

In the Puppet Solutions Architect team we work closely with customers to examine existing processes and improve them through automation. We use a lightweight version of Event Storming that has proven to be very effective at reducing toil and applying automation effectively, and in this session, we will show you how you can use this technique yourself.

Build Connected Solutions with APIs at Scale

As we have seen, the world can change quickly. What you were working on yesterday may not be what you work on today. How do you adapt and be able to existentially flex, stay ahead, and deliver quickly. This session will look at how to do this by building composable solutions with APIs to integrate, connect, and automate various infrastructure operations. Leverage various cloud APIs to build high quality solutions through reusability and sharing for quicker time to delivery.

How to use the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant - Demo Den October 2021

Bitbucket product manager, Andrew Parkevicius, gives an overview of how to use the new Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant, an Atlassian-supported app to automate the migration process from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Cloud. Demo Den is a regular series by Atlassian Product Managers, Engineers, and Product Designers.

How to Test HTTP/2 APIs

Slowly but surely, HTTP/2 is becoming the favored protocol for transporting data files between clients and servers. While HTTP/1 used to be the only way of loading web applications, it’s now lagging behind, especially on the UX front. Since 2015, HTTP/2 APIs have taken the lead with lightning-fast server responses. In particular, they’re responsible for state changes and server responses without the need for browser reloads.

CI/CD and state management for Flutter apps with MobX

MobX is a scalable library developed to ease the process of state management in frontend applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to manage the state of your Flutter applications using MobX, and then set up a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for your application using CircleCI. You can find the sample project developed for this tutorial in this GitHub repository.

Five Kubernetes Deployment Best Practices (Part 2)

In our previous post , we focused on tips for making the transition and migration to Kubernetes a smoother, and less painful process. In this post, we’d like to now provide some tips from the operational trenches for future-proofing your Kubernetes operation, after making the move. Kubernetes, as a software-driven system, has many benefits for engineers and DevOps teams to take advantage of.

Four Best Practices to Migrate to Kubernetes (Part 1)

Kubernetes has evolved into the leading platform to build your microservices systems. Given its increased maturity over the past few years as well as the robust ecosystem which has been built around its technology, Kubernetes has become more production-ready than ever. Nevertheless, it still has its own unique set of challenges. In particular, it brings a lot of complexity into play with its adoption.