Mike Smith, Senior Software Consultant at Interlink Software discusses how bringing together a broader range of insights, metrics, availability and performance data can help avoid service interruption and aid IT/business alignment.

Portworx provides solutions for Kubernetes storage as well as other leading container schedulers, dramatically reducing storage, compute, and infrastructure costs for running mission-critical, multi-cloud applications with zero downtime or data loss. With Portworx, you can manage any database or stateful service on any infrastructure using any container scheduler. Portworx is trusted by many of the world’s most sophisticated IT organizations including Comcast, GE, Lufthansa Systems, the U.S.

Containers are eating the world and the newly added Containers view in Sematext Cloud helps you manage that. You can experience container monitoring with the new Containers view that provides you with enhanced visibility into all your hosts and containers, drawing your attention to the ones that need it the most.

Last week I attended ServerlessConf SF. This was the 8th and largest ServerlessConf to date with more than 550 attendees. The conference had an effective agenda with a strong slate of talks and an impressive presence of community thought leaders. Kudos to the ACloudGuru team for organizing the event!

Ready to automatically provision and maintain StackStorm nodes in production? Then the stackstorm-st2 Puppet module is for you! We’re proud to announce the v1.0.0 stable release of github.com/StackStorm/puppet-st2, the StackStorm Puppet module.

Ahoy there. Continuous shipping: a concept many companies talk about but never get around to implementing. In the first post of this three-part series, we discussed the use case for continuous shipping. Let’s move on to part two: the integration and deployment stages of the continuous shipping process. Part three will wrap up the series with a look at the monitoring and feedback phases. All aboard that’s coming aboard.

How much time do you spend every week trying to find things? At home, it’s finding your keys and, at work, it’s finding the root cause of a bug or an old pull requests that introduced the bug. Since we’re not in the business of tracking your keys, Bitbucket Server 5.13 is making it easier to discover repositories and find pull requests tied to a given commit. You can also enjoy support for Git v2, with faster no-op fetches.

A chasm remains between IT experts who live and breathe DevOps, and FinServ firms that struggle to embrace digital transformation. But by adopting pragmatic solutions, FinServ can make DevOps work.