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Puppet Enterprise Installations with the Administration Module (PEADM)

In this real-time walkthrough, learn how to install and upgrade Puppet Enterprise using the Puppet Enterprise Administration Module (PEADM). This module helps you with admin and maintenance tasks and really helps you ensure that installations are consistently executed each and every time. Follow along from configuration to execution as Tony Green runs a monolithic installation example and provides an overview of the resources and options available to you.

Your APIs Are Green. Your Background Jobs Are Dying.

Launch Week Day 2: Introducing Discover Jobs Your dashboard looks perfect. APIs responding in 80ms. Error rates at 0.02%. Kubernetes pods healthy. Everything's green. Then Slack explodes: "Why didn't my invoice generate?" "Where's my password reset email?" "The data export I requested yesterday is still processing?" You check your job queue. Sidekiq dashboard shows 47,000 jobs processed today. Redis looks fine. Workers are running. But somehow, your business logic is silently falling apart.

How to Build a Strategic Roadmap for Site Reliability Engineering Implementation

Getting your site reliability engineering solutions in place can seriously boost how your systems perform. But implementing site reliability engineering (SRE) isn't a simple flip of a switch-it's a process. If you want to keep your systems running smoothly, with minimal downtime and top-notch performance, you need a solid, strategic plan. This roadmap should guide you step-by-step, from setting clear goals to constantly improving your processes.

Zero Trust Architecture Needs Zero Guesswork

The Zero Trust model has fundamentally shifted how organizations secure their applications and infrastructure. Instead of assuming anything inside your network is safe, the Zero Trust security model requires continuous verification of every identity, every device, and every access request across the entire trust model, forcing users and devices to prove that they can access what they are trying to access.

The Service Discovery Problem Every Developer Knows (But Pretends Doesn't Exist)

Launch Week Day 1: Introducing Discover Services Picture this: It's 2 AM, alerts are firing, and you're staring at a dashboard trying to figure out which service is causing the cascade of failures. Your service map is a six-month-old Miro board, and you have no idea what's actually talking to what in production right now. If you've been there, you're not alone. In fast-moving teams, new services get deployed faster than you can track them.

Hybrid Logic Apps & Azure Migration with Harold Campos

Lex is joined by Harold Campos from Microsoft to discuss the latest advancements in Azure integration. The conversation explores the newly announced Hybrid Logic Apps and its role in enabling seamless connectivity across cloud and on-premises environments. Harold shares insights on migration strategies, common challenges enterprises face, and how these updates simplify complex integration scenarios.

Mastering Cloud Governance: Build A Strategy That Works

One of the biggest benefits of the cloud is that it gives engineering teams the freedom to deploy and iterate applications quickly. Unlike traditional IT environments where engineers require a series of approvals before embarking on projects, in the cloud, engineers can choose from several managed services and deploy them at the click of a button. This means your team can innovate faster and respond quickly to market demands.

Stop Asking What AI Costs, Ask If It Is Worth It

AI is surging into products. And the invoices are exploding with it. The key question is no longer, “How much did we spend?” It’s now: “Was it worth it?” That shift, from totals to value, is at the heart of FinOps. The FinOps community defines the practice as bringing financial accountability to the cloud, so teams make tradeoffs with clear business context. In plain English, measure value per dollar, then optimize the system and not just the bill.

How to Spot More Threats in Less Time Using AI

Can AI really help security teams build better threat models? Microsoft's Senior Gaming Security Architect, Audrey Long breaks down the strengths and limits of AI in threat modeling, shows how she uses Azure OpenAI for attack tree automation, and reveals why human review still matters. Includes practical examples and live demos. Git Blog: gitkraken.com/blog.

Built for simplicity and scalability: why organizations choose Redgate Flyway

Redgate Flyway is renowned for its low-friction, SQL-first approach. Our customer stories share the wins seen in organizations worldwide for Redgate Flyway. And when it comes to community endorsement for Flyway OSS, the GitHub and Docker statistics prove it, with 9k+ GitHub stars and 50M Docker downloads advocating for its appreciation.