ELK and Kubernetes are used in the same sentence usually in the context of describing a monitoring stack. ELK integrates natively with Kubernetes and is a popular open-source solution for collecting, storing and analyzing Kubernetes telemetry data. However, ELK and Kubernetes are increasingly being used in another context — that of a method for deploying and managing the former.

Today, I’m happy to announce a significant new feature to Skeddly: Managed Backups. Once you have created your plan and added resources, Skeddly will create the necessary actions to create and delete those backups according to your desired schedules.

Lumigo, the serverless monitoring and troubleshooting platform, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency status. The AWS DevOps Competency status indicates that Lumigo has demonstrated its ability to provide specialized technology that has directly contributed towards its customers’ success. To receive the designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

Virtana, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, today announced a wide range of new channel-focused features in the latest version of VirtualWisdom, the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform. The new features include the introduction of WisdomPacks,simplified packages of integrations specific to customer deployment environments.

Stackery has launched a partner program currently centered around Systems Integrators. Here’s why.

Once you’ve hired a software engineer, it’s easy to feel like the recruiting process is over. However, the first few days and weeks of your new engineer’s experience are critical to their long term success and happiness at your startup. In this last part of our series on hiring software engineers as the CTO of a startup, we’ll talk about how we onboard software engineers at Blue Matador and the insights I’ve gained in this part of the CTO experience.

At Codefresh we are all about collaboration and reusing existing standards instead of implementing proprietary solutions. A Codefresh pipeline is based on a series of Docker containers that act as individual steps. All Codefresh plugins are also just Docker images which means that extending a Codefresh pipeline is the same thing as writing a Dockerfile. Github has recently announced an integrated automation solution called Actions.

Real-time collaboration helps teams resolve issues quickly, which is crucial during outages when you don’t have a minute to lose. If your organization is using DingTalk, Alibaba’s platform for cross-team communication and collaboration, Datadog’s new integration lets you share and discuss annotated graphs on the fly and route alerts to your teams’ group chats so you can start troubleshooting issues without skipping a beat.