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Performance Tool k6 Acquired by Grafana Labs

There was a big announcement this year at GrafanaCon 2021 that performance testing tool k6 is being aquired by Grafana Labs. It was really exciting news for folks who cheer for open source because these are two giant projects. At time of this writing, k6 has over 12K stars and Grafana with a respectable 42K stars on Github as well. In full transparency, I have used both of those repos many times over the years and am a fellow stargazer.

A Complete Guide To Use Git For Beginners

Writing code might be complex but it is easier to control with the right support tool. How do you know a new build of your software has shipped successfully? How do you know a single feature added to your website is working as you want it to? To ease the pain of tracking down all the issues, version control systems are useful tools that help you keep monitoring the changes that you make to your code.

The Confident Commit | Episode 5: Software engineering with a purpose ft. Brad Henrickson

Rob is joined by Brad Henrickson to discuss the interaction between human motivations and delivering great software. Brad and Rob dive into the leadership skill of cultivating space for employees to share their work motivations as a means to operating well together. Tune in today! Subscribe to The Confident Commit Podcast playlist for alerts to new episodes published bi-weekly. The Confident Commit: A podcast for developers, engineering managers, and business leaders alike to join in the conversation on how to deliver software better and faster.

Performance analysis for supported modules with Honeycomb

The Infrastructure Automation Content (IAC) team noticed some supported modules tests were taking significantly more time than others. David Schmitt, Principal Software Engineer on the IAC team, explains how Puppet utilises Honeycomb to debug our supported modules for potential performance bottlenecks.

Module development failure analysis with Honeycomb

Writing modules for yourself is easy, but writing modules for other people to use? Not so much. Failures in modules can have major repercussions, and our IAC team in Puppet takes that very seriously. Listen as David Schmitt and Daniel Carabas walk you through how we utilise Honeycomb for failure analysis with Github Actions during module development.

JFrog How To's - How to Set Up Xray to Scan Repositories, Builds or Bundles

In this video, I'll show you how to get started with JFrog Xray. You will see how to create rules, policies and watches and what the individual components mean. We will also take a look at the Vulnerabilities Reports. Here I will show you how to create, evaluate and export them. This introduction gives you all the essential elements you can use to start looking for vulnerabilities in your project.

How to Create Docker Images for ASP.NET Core

Microsoft has begun working with the Docker team and community so Docker can be used for the following: If you would like to run an ASP.NET Core web app in a Docker container and learn how to create images, we will explain all the steps on how to do the following: A Docker container image is a standalone, lightweight package that can be executed and contains all the requirements you need to run an application, such as: code, runtime, libraries, and settings.