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Kubernetes Service Mesh Focus - Civo Community Meetup #8

This time around the topic was Kubernetes service meshes and the role they play in providing visibility and open communication between your pods/containers. Saiyam Pathak, Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo, will be led the talk and discussed the concept of service meshes and best practices. Kai Hoffman, Developer Advocate at Civo, outlined the Service Mesh Interface, a project to standardise service mesh specifications on Kubernetes.

A DBA's Habit for Success: CMMI (Part Five)

We’ve reached the final piece of our five-part series, and while I’m sad to end it, I hope you or your DBA teams have learned enough to move forward with the Information Management Maturity Model (IMMM). Although there are five steps to this model, several DBAs stop at the fourth. It’s common for large organizations to give this step to management and higher-ups, rather than DBA teams.

Developer, Transform Yourself: Digital Transformation Starts with You

As technical professionals we spend a lot of time developing technical skills. Checking the right boxes of experience with languages, tools, and technologies is what typically lands us a job interview for our specialty. But what wins the job in DevOps — and carries you to success in it — are your human skills. Even more than technical chops, personal traits like mindset, communication skills, and work habits are your strongest assets in making DevOps work.

Joe Biden's Security Order: What it Means for DevOps

What the Executive Order says today Anticipated further actions by the White House Reasons the software bill of materials (SBOM) will become the source of truth Differences between a SBOM and an “ingredients list” How tools and methods will position developers for success How securing and certifying processes - not just components - may be the key to future compliance

Ribbon IP and Optical Solutions for Research and Education Networks RENs

National and regional research and education networks are strategic assets that bolster economic competitiveness and are also a showcase of high tech excellence. Ribbon has a record of accomplishment worldwide implementing RENs, from national to regional RENs, as well as smaller university networks. Ribbon’s REN solution encompasses a flexible high bandwidth optical backbone, IP connectivity, management and automation, as well as value-added communications services.

Using the Redis Command-Line Correctly

Redis is an open-source in-memory data store. You can use Redis as a database, message broker, or cache. It also supports Lua script evaluation so you can build automation scripts or custom operations on top of your key-value Redis store. Typically, developers use language-specific client libraries when building apps with Redis. These clients abstract Redis’ command-line interface (CLI), making it easier to work with but more work to set up.