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Binary Provenance, SBOMs and the Software Supply Chain for Humans

“What’s really running in prod?” Every engineer will hear these immortal words on a long enough timeline (or career). It might be because a new security zero day was dropped, alerts fired from the depths of a vast microservice architecture, or you might just be looking to know what commit was actually tested. Either way, it often comes with the promise of a stressful day.

Mock APIs: A Beginner's Guide to Mocking Toolsets

Mock APIs are vital tools in modern software development. They allow developers to simulate APIs and continue testing and development without backend dependencies. This guide covers how mocking toolsets enhance efficiency and ensure rigorous testing, streamlining debugging and feature integration for increased productivity and innovation.

Observability as a superpower

With every job I have, I come across a new observability tool that I can’t live without. It’s also something that’s a superpower for us at incident.io: we often detect bugs faster than our customers can report them to us. A couple of jobs ago, that was Prometheus. In my previous job, it was the fact that we retained all of our logs for 30 days, and had them available to search using the Elastic stack (back then, the ELK stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).

DevOps Security Best Practices: 2025 Guide

Is your DevOps security ready for cyber threats? Embrace these best practices and make security your competitive advantage. DevOps, a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops), has revolutionized the way organizations build, deploy, and maintain software. With the rise of cloud computing, there was a need for faster and more reliable software delivery than traditional software development methodologies allowed. DevOps was the natural evolution.

3 Reasons Why This Startup Migrated From Clever Cloud to Scaleway Kapsule

Making infrastructure decisions can feel like a high-stakes puzzle: finding the right balance between technical capabilities, cost efficiency, and ease of management is no small feat. Recently, a company switched from Clever Cloud to Scaleway Kapsule (Kubernetes), with Qovery orchestrating its transition. Here’s what drove this change and how it’s paid off.

Product Release Notes October 2024

The easier it is for you to get data into CloudZero, the easier it’ll be to maximize your cloud efficiency. This month’s updates have entirely to do with ease of use: a drag-and-drop method to get unit cost metric data into the product, an improved MongoDB integration, and continued improvements to our AnyCost API and cost integrations.

How to Use Data Views to Save Your Monitoring Budget

MetricFire automatically produces different statistical views on the data you send, providing fast views on your metrics at the most appropriate resolution for viewing on your dashboard using Hosted Graphite. This allows you append views to the end of your metric to visualize your data in different ways. Append a view to the end of your metric to visualize your data in different ways.