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Wake on LAN(WOL) has been a go-to solution for most network admins to ensure an uninterrupted IT resource. Aiding in remote booting of wired and wireless networks, WoL helps optimize energy usage even as it ensures your network resources are readily available. Enabling you to boot your machines on demand, and switch them to a low power mode when not in use, WoL saves you hefty power bills and helps you avoid the time-consuming manual task of restarting your network devices physically.

Datadog dashboards provide a unified view of your application, infrastructure, and business data, giving stakeholders the context they need to make decisions. Sharing dashboards publicly is useful when you want to make them easily accessible to a large audience. But oftentimes, your dashboards include sensitive information, which is why you need finer-grained controls over the data you share—and who you share it with.

When an alert triggers in your application or environment, you want your team to know as soon as possible so you can troubleshoot quickly and minimize any user-facing issues. Datadog can automatically alert you via email and collaboration services like Slack and PagerDuty. The simple, real-time communication provided by SMS can also be an effective way to alert your team.

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One of the most typical challenges when deploying a complex application is the handling of different deployment environments during the software lifecycle. The most typical setup is the trilogy of QA/Staging/Production environments. An application developer needs an easy way to deploy to the different environments and also to understand what version is deployed where. Specifically for Kubernetes deployments, the Helm package manager is a great solution for handling environment configuration.

Coveralls is a web service that allows users to track the code coverage of their application over time in order to optimize the effectiveness of their unit tests. Once you are managing your application and associated resources within a CI/CD platform like Codefresh, you want to receive insights on the test coverage automatically with every pipeline build. This post provides an overview of how this can be achieved with Coveralls and Codefresh.

Options for filtering when generating migrations and when reporting on database drift help teams make the best of tricky database environments. From Enterprises to tiny startups, most developers prefer to do work in small teams these days. But when it comes to database development, teams in Enterprises often have a hard time keeping these small teams fully separate in the development process.

Earlier this year, Gartner published a report called “How to Manage and Optimize Costs of Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS.” Overall, we agreed with the piece and wrote a blog post about what they get right (and where they miss). However, one thing that stood out to us is how many aspects of optimization Gartner described as very difficult — which CloudZero can help make easier.

Many users need their Elasticsearch clusters to always be available. And a lot of these same users also want to upgrade their Elasticsearch environment when a new version is released, so they can take advantage of all the new features and functionality. The result is that admins end up upgrading the Elasticsearch engine while it is operating at full capacity in production. Sound too good to be true?

Creating software products without DevOps and DevOps tools is nearly impossible today. Unless you are a huge fan of buggy code and chaotic version deployments. Development Operations professionals, combine IT, QA, infrastructure, and even some development tasks in their work. Devops are increasingly important members of any R&D department aiming to efficiently produce and deploy software products.