We’re in the middle of a scary, uncertain time, and we hope those of you reading are staying safe and healthy. Despite the current challenges, the 40+ members of the remote-first Netdata team have been hard at work on the next version of the Netdata Agent: v1.21.0. This release is foundational: While we do have fantastic new collectors and three new ways to export your metrics for long-term storage, many of the most significant changes aren’t even those you’ll notice.

Delivering rapid innovation to your users is critical in the fast-moving world of technology. Kubernetes is an amazing engine to drive that innovation in the cloud, on-premise and at the edge. All that said, Kubernetes and the entire ecosystem itself changes quickly. Keeping Kubernetes up to date for security and new functionality is critical to any deployment.

If you have discovered that your application demand changes over time, you’re probably wondering how you can continuously adjust your cloud capacity in accordance to application demand. If you use CloudFormation, then you’re in luck! This article walks through how you can update your template code to automatically implement infrastructure adjustments, periodically.

As continuous software deployments grow and become the accepted standard, security measures gain even more importance. From development and all the way through to production, security requirements should be adopted by all teams in an organization. JFrog IDE integrations provide security and compliance intelligence to the developer right from within their IDE.

One of the great benefits of Kubernetes is its self-healing ability. If a containerized app or an application component goes down, Kubernetes will instantly redeploy it, matching the so-called desired state. But what if a Kubernetes component or a node goes down? Kubernetes doesn’t monitor itself nor does it have access to your infrastructure. And, guess what.

We don’t have a customer support team. We have an engineering team, who talk to customers every day. We believe that the best people to help our customers use the product are the people who wrote it.

Certifications are a great way to show industry knowledge of specific tools but also display your commitment and passion for the subject. Many big tech players such as Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft offer certifications to educate users on how to use their tools and services correctly. Besides sharing valuable knowledge, DevOps certification is a great way to onboard new developers and businesses to their platform. But why should you participate in exams to receive certifications?