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Server Monitoring 101 Guider Tools Best Practices

As IT landscape is changing from in-house systems and servers to cloud ones, server monitoring has become an essential task. Without server monitoring, it’s not possible to detect issues in memory, operating systems, storage drives or applications. Server monitoring is vital to know what went wrong and what was the cause behind the problem.

Demystifying DevOps and SRE

How different are DevOps and SRE? Are they related to each other? In this blog, James Samuel sheds light on the similarities & differences between SRE & DevOps followed by the possible ways to structure an SRE team in your organization. One of the terms that people often find confusing is SRE and DevOps. People often ask, should I hire a DevOps Engineer or a Site Reliability Engineer? What is the difference between SRE and DevOps and which one do I need? In this post, I attempt to shed some light.

Introduction to Containers - Docker Tutorial - Civo DevOps Bootcamp 2021

Join us in the Civo DevOps bootcamp, where you'll learn about DevOps fundamentals, how to get started, and some best practices. In this session, we'll give you an introduction to containers with a hands on demo of Docker. You'll learn about the Docker architecture, some important commands, and also how to Dockerise your own applications. We'll also have an introduction to containerd.

Selecting targets for plans in Puppet Enterprise

Do you author plans for Puppet Enterprise? Looking for ways to improve them? Read on! The Puppet Plan language allows a variety of methods to pick targets. In this article we will explore two of these methods (TargetSpec parameters and PuppetDB queries) and how plan authors can employ the latter to: Note: the following examples assume that you are running against targets that have the Puppet agent installed.

How to Make a Build vs. Buy Decision for a Software Solution

Buying software is often the answer for busy engineering teams in search of a quick solution with minimum aftercare. But while your team may be sure of the problem, how do you go about searching for a product to fix it? Far from being the 'easy option', there is a lot you need to consider before you invest in a bought solution – user experience, cost comparisons, and support features to name a few. Let’s explore some of the considerations when making a good decision.

Introducing the All New Serverless360!

Towards the end of 2016, it all started with developing a simple platform to manage Microsoft Azure Service Bus namespaces. The then classic Azure portal had limited capabilities to manage Azure Messaging resources like Service Bus Queues and Topics. Paolo Salvatori developed and managed a community tool called Service Bus Explorer. We identified that there are challenges or limitations in managing and monitoring Azure Messaging resources using the above two.

Low-Risk Releases

The latest video in the Rollbar Solutions series, Low-Risk Releases, shows how Rollbar can be used to improve the release process for DevOps teams. Traditionally, releasing software has been a pain point for these teams; code changes made to higher environments provide opportunities for bugs to rear their ugly heads and affect customers directly. Rollbar's real-time monitoring and intelligence solutions help you find and fix these issues more quickly and effectively, reducing MTTA/MTTR metrics and thus the overall customer impact of these issues.