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Four powerful Alerting workflows

Since its release last month, Alerting has quickly ingrained itself into the incident response workflow at some of the most technically advanced companies in the world. We’re here to empower your team to do the same. In this blog, we’ll run through four common alerts that you can implement today to ensure you’re maximizing the full potential of Alerting.

Datadog vs. Dynatrace vs. Scout

Application Performance Monitoring is undoubtedly the hottest tool to accelerate any product’s growth in the modern market. The term has grown from a simple performance tracking operation to full-fledged infrastructure, network, and application observability. This evolution has only helped bring more and more growth into products. It is essential to choose the best-suited monitoring solution for your apps since observability involves way too many moving pieces.

Monolithic (Legacy) vs. Microservices Application Development

Microservices are becoming increasingly popular and are considered to be the next flexible, scalable, and reliable approach. Without a doubt, many developers are rethinking their application development methods. However, while many have been quick to jump on the microservices bandwagon, it’s not a decision that you should make lightly.

Visualizing IoT security metrics with Grafana at Network to Code

As the number of connected gadgets in our homes, offices, and industrial networks continues to grow exponentially, keeping IoT devices secure has become a vital part of our everyday lives. However, our webcams, printers, and smart plugs often lack security features due to their fast time to market, making them particularly vulnerable to attack. And because security metrics themselves can be tricky to assess, tracking IoT device security is increasingly a challenge.

Building for Windows using the MSIX orb

The MSIX orb is the first “Windows-only” orb from CircleCI. When Microsoft approached us with the opportunity to build an orb that would help Windows developers build on our platform, we were enthusiastic. Most of our orbs, and general workload, revolve around Linux and utilize Bash. However, we recognized the deep need to provide good CI/CD solutions for building applications on Windows, and with use of PowerShell growing steadily within Linux, it was time to take the plunge.

Pocket article: How to implement and use `.noinit` RAM

Imagine there’s an embedded system that needs to persist some state when the processor restarts (either intentionally or due to a catastrophic error). This could be some external hardware information (what’s the position of a motor or actuator?) or a method to communicate the reset to the user (display some information on the device’s display). A simple way to store information through a reboot is to use what’s called“non-initialized” memory.

Turbocharging AKS networking with Calico eBPF

A single Kubernetes cluster expends a small percentage of its total available assigned resources on delivering in-cluster networking. We don’t have to be satisfied with this, though—achieving the lowest possible overhead can provide significant cost savings and performance improvements if you are running network-intensive workloads.