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The SRE Dogfood Series: SignalFx SRE Team

Splunk is a tech company, which regularly gives us exposure to modern development practices, and the ability to implement them with our own technology. We want to share that with you. In this post, as part of a dogfooding series, I sat down with Ram Jothikumar, Head of Cloud Infrastructure & Operations for Observability at Splunk. Ram and I talk about how we support our SignalFx offering at scale, efficiently with resilience and reliability baked in.

Announcing the Open Observability Conference

Today, I’m excited to announce the Open Observability Conference – a virtual event on May 27th at 11:00am EDT providing a platform for learning, sharing and discussion of open source observability technologies for DevOps teams around the globe. Register for the Open Observability Conference here.

Boot machines remotely with OpUtils: The Wake on LAN advantage

When businesses have a high number of computers, getting all of them turned on manually can be a herculean task for any network admin. This can lead to organizations keeping their computers on even when not in use. Of course, this approach is not ideal, as electricity bills would skyrocket in result. That said, there are legitimate reasons for a network admin to leave a machine running after business hours (e.g., system maintenance or configuration management).

Remote Workforce Monitoring Dashboards 101

It's more important than ever to ensure your applications, tools and services are available for your remote workforce. Having visibility into the health and performance of these business-critical applications and infrastructures is critical for IT to maintain business continuity. With visibility into cloud applications like Zoom and Office 365, as well as the performance of critical services like VPNs and other tools, your team can quickly respond to issues and prevent outages.

Razorops CI/CD with Linode Kubernetes Engine

Linode is one of simplest, affordable, and accessible cloud computing platform, It has recentely launched managed Kubernetes called Linod Kubernetes Engine(LKE). Following video expalins how to create Linode Kubernets Cluster and Connect to RazorOps Dashboard. Razorops is a container Native CI/CI tool to automate and ship you application to any Kubernetes.

JFrog Leaps for Growth: Appoints Independent Board Members From Jive, Netflix and Five9

The world of software drives digital innovation, and software delivery is increasingly being driven by JFrog. We’re honored and humbled to continue to grow alongside our customers. To enable our next leap ahead, we’re proud to announce that we’ve appointed key industry leaders as independent members of our Board of Directors that will assist us to further grow in the DevOps market.

Go for ROS

If you started reading this post thinking I would explain why you should go for ROS when building robots, think again. To be fair, that topic deserves a post of its own. But for this article, I’ll be using Go in the context of Golang. As in the Go programming language. As in the one designed by Google with an adorable Gopher for a mascot. Specifically, we will talk about ROS client libraries for the Go programming language; their features, their advantages, and what gaps still remain.