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Lightrun & JFrog - Achieving Complete Agility With Continuous Debugging And Continuous Observability

CI/CD has become the de facto standard for infusing the software development process with hardcoded agility. Organizations are now integrating DevOps concepts and practices into their workflows in order to get great features out of the door faster and reduce internal friction. But your ability to understand what’s going on in a production service is pre-defined by the logs, metrics and traces (i.e. the three pillars of observability) your developers pre-defined during development. There is, however, a need for agility even after the service is live - in order to adhere to strict SLAs, decrease MTTR and save on logging costs.

Three Reasons Why Hosted Rancher Makes Your Life Easier

Today’s generation of makers, artists and creatives have reinforced the idea that great things can happen when you roll up your sleeves and try to learn something new and exciting. Kubernetes was like this only a couple of years ago: the mere act of installing the thing was a rewarding challenge. Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way became the Maker’s handbook for this artisan craft.

How to get Key-values from Azure App Configuration within Logic Apps

Last week, I worked on a POC – how can we dynamically set SQL Server Connector configurations within Logic Apps? – that became a real project and a real architect solution. And one of the critical pieces was Azure App Configuration. Azure App Configuration stores configuration data as key-values.

Puppet Agent 7 - Filebucket hash algorithm update

Puppet 7 upgrades the default filebucket hash digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA256, which is generally a good thing. However, this makes upgrades just a little tricky. The mitigation for this is simply to set your digest algorithm to SHA256 on server and agent both before upgrade. Gabriel shows us how to do so in this video.

MetricFire vs. Datadog

Before we dive into the specifics of MetricFire vs. Datadog, let's address the most critical point: scaling. Datadog is great for users who need to do a little bit of everything, but Datadog's biggest weakness is scaling. Datadog can do logs, APM, time-series and more, but scaling time-series metrics, alerts, and servers will cause your monthly bill to escalate. The graph below shows what you pay at Datadog vs. MetricFire: Now, let's dive into MetricFire vs. Datadog, and their key comparisons.