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Monitor RethinkDB with Datadog

RethinkDB is a document-oriented database that enables clients to listen for updates in real time using streams called changefeeds. RethinkDB was built for easy sharding and replication, and its query language integrates with popular programming languages, with no need for clients to parse commands from strings. The open source project began in 2012, and joined the Linux Foundation in 2017.

Test file uploads and downloads with Datadog Browser Tests

Understanding how your users experience your application is critical—downtime, broken features, and slow page loads can lead to customer churn and lost revenue. Last year, we introduced Datadog Browser Tests, which enable you to simulate key user journeys and validate that users are able to complete business-critical transactions.

15 Essential DevOps Apps for Microsoft Teams

DevOps engineers always need to check processes, increase work efficiency, and optimize operations. The main part of the work is to improve the quality of the product and set up smooth workflows. That’s why you need to control systems and react to downtime as quickly as possible. One of the best ways to do so is to get timely notifications is Teams DevOps Applications. MS Teams is widely used in many companies, so you probably already have it.

Automating Sentry Releases with our Netlify Build Plugin

Netlify allows developers and businesses to publish modern web projects right from your git repos. There’s nothing to set up & no servers to maintain. This past month, Netlify launched Build Plugins, which allows Netlify users to automate and customize their build processes. We loved what the Netlify team was building and how they were automating tedious tasks for developers. So we built the Sentry Netlify Build Plugin!

Bringing Cloud Load Balancer On-Prem with Rancher

The public cloud offers great scalability and flexibility for customers and is a model where service providers make many decisions on their behalf. For example, in cloud service providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, a cloud load balancer is spun up on demand. The load balancer gets an IP address automatically and your application is ready to be served.

Announcing record of remediation & audit logs in Puppet Remediate 1.3

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Puppet Remediate 1.3.0. This release includes new features requested by our customers, including even more capabilities to help you track and trace network activity, and give you more control of the data in your dashboard. Read on for background and a look at the new capabilities.

Optimize Ghost Blog Performance Including Rewriting Image Domains to a CDN

The Ghost blogging platform offers a lean and minimalist experience. And that's why we love it. But unfortunately sometimes, it can be too lean for our requirements. Web performance has become more important and relevant than ever, especially since Google started including it as a parameter in its SEO rankings. We make sure to optimize our websites as much as possible, offering the best possible user experience.

Stateful Apps and Support of Persistent Storage

With enterprises and ISVs adopting containers and Kubernetes (k8s) to increase the agility and scalability of their applications, they would want more applications to be deployed on k8s. Applications can be a mix of stateful and stateless. Until recently, only stateless applications were supported by k8s. However, with the advent of persistent storage on k8s, stateful applications will be supported. In the pet Vs cattle analogy of service, you would want to treat the storage as cattle.

Disaster recovery in AWS, GCP and Azure - thoughts on capacity planning and risks

One of the most popular cloud disaster recovery models in the industry today is the “pilot light” model where critical applications and data are in already place so that it can be quickly retrieved if needed. A simple question one must ask before adopting this model is what thought has been given to whether the AWS/GCP/Azure APIs will work and if the requisite capacity will be available in the alternate region.

Continuous Integration & Delivery @ Moogsoft: GitLab and Jenkins Integration

Introduction One of the SRE team’s goals at Moogsoft is to make sure our feature teams have an easy path from local code changes to production. Changes rolling out to production mean new features, bug fixes, optimizations, and more, which translates into value added for our customers. In short, at Moogsoft we are all about making sure our product is continually evolving, and one way the SRE group helps is by building shared Jenkins functionality our engineers understand and can use quickly.