It's time for a newsletter from your friendly neighbourhood Package Management as a Service provider - Summer 2018 Edition. Can you believe it's summer-time already? It's hard for us to tell from the cave that we're coding in day and night, but the office thermostat indicates that it is probably sunny way up there, above the ground.

We live in exciting and worrying times. In serverless and containers, we have two amazing technologies that provide productive, machine-agnostic abstractions for engineers to work with. And yet, there seems to be an unbridgeable chasm between the two camps. If you have read anything I wrote in the last two years, you know that I am firmly in the serverless camp. But I was also an early adopter of containers.

Time for another roundup of recent StackStorm Exchange pack updates. It’s easy to miss the new packs and updates to old ones. This month it’s Bolt, Backups, Slack, Jenkins and more. Read on for details.

You were sold the promise of the cloud. The performance gains were going to make everything better. Costs would go down since you’d only be paying for the resources you were actually using. It sounded magical. You’d look like a star and save your company money. Unfortunately, when all was said and done, the cloud didn’t deliver.

This post will explain how to deploy rails app on Heroku using Razorops CI/CD Deploying to Heroku was super easy as it happens with just a git push, with Razorops you can add CI/CD support to your Heroku app.

Business leaders have lost faith in IT, which must reinvent itself as a leader driving innovation. By implementing a valuable, new technological shift with the right tools in place, IT can become a key business partner with groundbreaking ideas that drive success.

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.