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What is the Well-Architected Cloud Test Suite?

When it comes to reliability, cloud providers use a Shared Responsibility Model. In essence, they’ll keep the infrastructure reliable, while you’re responsible for architecting reliability into your systems. To help make this easier, they’ve published a variety of best practice guides, such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework. These lengthy documents are filled with recommendations to help you architect a more secure, more reliable system.

MongoDB use cases for automotive industry

The automotive industry is a vast and complex sector that includes all companies and activities involved in manufacturing vehicles or their components (such as engines, electronic control units (ECUs) and bodies). However, this sector is growing even more, as it experiences a technological revolution driven by new technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics.

SimpleTalks Podcast | Episode 1 - The power of community events and networking

In this episode of Simple Talks, Steve, Ryan and Grant delve into the latest happenings in their world of travel and events. From major conferences to smaller user groups, here’s an overview of recent and upcoming events such as PASS Data Community Summit, PGConf, THAT conference, Data Grillen and local developer meetups. They discuss key takeaways, the impact these gatherings have on the industry and the benefits of building a diverse professional network and how it can open doors to new opportunities.

In-App Wiki - Built-in Knowledge Repository | Turbo360

Turbo360 provides a built-in knowledge repository through Wiki, allowing users to create informative articles. Michael Stephenson walks through this new feature in Turbo360. The in-app Wiki helps create and manage knowledge base information directly within Turbo360, making it easier for support teams to access and share information. Key points covered include: The goal of Wiki is to reduce the number of support tickets escalating to the development team by empowering L1 and L2 support teams with better resources.

Runbooks vs Playbooks: Differences & How to Choose

Are you documenting your incident response process, and are unsure which you should be writing—a runbook or a playbook? Could these be two names for the same kind of document? Read on to learn about two different and complementary structures: playbooks and runbooks. The two are used in tandem, and because the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, they can be mistaken for one another.

Live Call Routing with Squadcast: Helping Teams Achieve Faster Resolutions

This is a recording of our webinar on how Squadcast's Live Call Routing is revolutionizing incident response for teams. In this informative session, you'll learn: The hidden costs of traditional incident reporting methods How a dedicated phone line streamlines incident communication Squadcast's easy-to-use, no-code setup for Live Call Routing Real-world case studies: See how companies have drastically improved their MTTR About Squadcast.

AppSec Decoded: How to Implement Security in DevOps

In the realm of software development, the requirement for speedy delivery often conflicts with software security. The technology of DevSecOps bridges this gap by using security practices in DevOps techniques. With the majority of data being made and processed over the internet, it's important to safeguard your digital infrastructure from dangerous cyber attacks. For that, modern Application Security (AppSec) is used. In this guide, we will learn comprehensively about AppSec with DevOps and more.

How to prevent accidental load balancer deletions

The worst thing you could do after successfully deploying to a new environment is to accidentally delete critical infrastructure. Unfortunately, that happened to one Google Cloud customer when their private cloud subscription was accidentally deleted, resulting in nearly two weeks of downtime. This isn’t an isolated problem either: Microsoft Azure had a similar problem when a typo inadvertently deleted an entire SQL Server instance rather than a specific database.