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What the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) means for IoT manufacturers

The EU Cyber Resilience Act is coming. I’ve talked about this piece of upcoming regulation in some depth before, having covered its background and stipulations in previous pieces on our website and for the Forbes Technology Council, and explored what it means for the businesses who consume open source in later articles (you can also read a version of this blog on Forbes).

The waiting game is over. 5G is coming to the edge.

Cédric Gégout (VP of Product at Canonical) reflects on a recent research report that Canonical published in collaboration with Omdia. The report uncovered that despite the lack of widespread 5G standalone infrastructure, enterprises, industrial actors and service providers are preparing for 5G edge computing to produce returns within two years.

How to deploy AI workloads at the edge using open source solutions

AI is driving a new wave of opportunities in all kinds of edge settings—from predictive maintenance in manufacturing, to virtual assistants in healthcare, to telco router optimisation in the most remote locations. But to support these AI workloads running virtually everywhere, companies need edge infrastructure that’s fast, secure and highly scalable.

Syncing PagerDuty Schedules to Slack Groups

We’ve posted before about how engineers on call at Honeycomb aren’t expected to do project work, and that whenever they’re not dealing with interruptions, they’re free to work on whatever will make the on-call experience better. However, all of our engineering rotations rely on hand-off meetings where they update the Slack groups with everyone who’s on call. During my last shift, a small problem kept causing friction for some of our incident management automation.

Docker Log Rotation - Definition, Configuration Guide, and Best Practices

Docker containers generate logs to monitor their operations, but without a mechanism in place to manage these logs, they can grow indefinitely, leading to excessive disk space consumption and performance degradation. Implementing docker log rotation is crucial to control log file size and quantity, ensuring efficient log management and optimal system performance.

How Effective are Your Alerting Rules?

Recently, I came across this Reddit post highlighting the challenges of having ineffective alerting rules: And, here at OnPage we have experience with various companies who have dealt with just that, so I felt I should share some of our top tips for creating effective alerting rules in this blog. Read on to discover…

Git, your way: Expanded strategies for branch sync & merge

By popular demand, we are happy to introduce several new strategies for syncing and merging branches in Bitbucket Cloud. Our goal is to provide you the full functionality of rebase and merge within the Bitbucket UI to help you manage your Git history according to your team's preferences. These new options have been among our most highly voted feature requests. In brief, here's what we've added.

How to build automatic remediation workflows in Grafana Cloud

When incidents occur, engineers must jump into action to get systems back to running at peak performance. However, there are a myriad of challenges that can prevent them from resolving the issues swiftly. Imagine a scenario where a team of DevOps engineers manages a cloud-based e-commerce platform that experiences occasional spikes in traffic during peak shopping seasons. During one of those major sales events, the team notices a sharp spike in CPU usage across several critical application servers.

What is GovCloud - Compete Guide to GovCloud in 2024

If you’re a U.S. federal, state, or local government agency trying to deliver services to the public faster without sacrificing a single inch of security, GovCloud is the PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution. But what exactly is GovCloud, and how can it ensure you deliver services more efficiently and effectively? We’ll tell you all you need to know so you can decide if you’re ready to upgrade your tech stack with this tool.