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Top 10 How-To Guides To Improve Your Network

Tech providers often provide valuable resources to help you optimize your network. Here are ten of our recent favorites. Cloud, network, data center, and managed service providers often go beyond just offering their services. Explore any of your providers’ websites, and you’ll often find an abundance of resources with actionable guidance that can help improve and maintain an efficient enterprise network.

How to convince your boss you need a Test Data Management solution

If you’re a developer, you may well be familiar with the scenario. You’re writing code and you want to test your changes against a copy of the production database. One that’s representative of the size and distribution characteristics and retains referential integrity so that, when your changes are released, they won’t result in a failed deployment that will take hours to resolve. But there’s a problem. The database copy you’re working with isn’t up to the job.

Zero-Trust mTLS Automation with HAProxy and SPIFFE/SPIRE

Whether you’re running a service mesh composed of HAProxy instances or facilitating communication between multiple systems, ensuring the authentication of traffic between your services is critical. This zero-trust security model operates under the assumption that you should not extend trust without verification, even within your own systems. By verifying every interaction, you mitigate the risks that arise when third parties imitate your systems.

Introducing: incident.io for Microsoft Teams

There’s a major outage. Support tickets are mounting. Everybody from engineering to legal is scrambling for information. You have more Teams notifications clamouring for attention than you do minutes to address them, and it’s hard to know where to begin. What comes next is a balancing act—mitigating the impact, updating colleagues, managing action items, or updating a status page that will be seen by millions.

How CloudZero Gave Duolingo Engineers What They Really Wanted

Many SaaS companies struggle to get engineers to take charge of costs and lower cloud expenses. Confused business leaders often put the problem on the shoulders of the engineers: Surely, it’s just that the engineers don’t care enough to stay within budget, or maybe they just don’t want to participate in the culture of cost efficiency leadership is trying to build. But what if your engineers actually do want to optimize costs—they just don’t have the tools and data to do so?

11 Cloud Automation Tools Powering The Future Of SaaS

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2025, 80% of organizations will use cloud automation tools to orchestrate workloads. The firm also forecasts that spending on public cloud services will hit $679 billion by the end of 2024, with SaaS leading the cloud computing market. This surge in cloud spending will shape the future of SaaS, and cloud automation tools will play a key role in this transformation.

The Cyber Resilience Act: What it means for open source

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is nearly upon us. This wide-reaching piece of legislation will introduce new requirements, checks and balances on developers, retailers and device manufacturers; many of the looming demands haven’t gone down well in the open source community.

Developer experience doesn't start where you think it does

Steve Jobs once said that giving customers what they wanted wasn’t his approach. “Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do,” he said instead. “People don't know what they want until you show it to them. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.” By now, this wisdom has become canonical for companies targeting end-users, but we tend to ignore it when we’re building products and processes for professional users.
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Traffic-Driven Testing: All the Benefits of Shift-Right Testing with None of the Risk

The shift-right testing approach moves testing to later in your production cycle. Also known as "testing in production," with shift-right, you test software after it has been deployed. It gives you continuous feedback based on real-world user interactions. However, there are major drawbacks to the approach. For example, testing in production risks disrupting your user satisfaction and can mean you catch issues too late to respond to them effectively. It can also be difficult to test problems related to scale and traffic volume. Your tests are also difficult to repeat under the same conditions.

Isolating Bottlenecks: How to Determine If Your Slowdown Is Due to the Database or API

Every slowdown in your application can be traced to specific components like a database or an API, and quickly identifying the source aids the troubleshooting process. But when an API is underperforming, it may be difficult to tell whether the issue is with the API logic itself or an external service like a database that it interacts with before sending responses.