We're happy to announce that we've just launched our newly designed dashboard for our logs & metrics platform, allowing DevOps & security professionals to see their vital metrics quicker than ever before. Our team has been keen to respond to the needs of our users through undertaking dedicated research which informed the creation of this latest update to the platform's design. This new design provides improved real-time feedback to users managing & creating new ELK stacks.

Software development teams are much larger than the engineers that write code. Writing and deploying code are often only the tip of the iceberg. A well oiled software team will often consist of: All of these people need to know something about what the software development lifecycle is producing and shipping, but the level of information can vary dramatically based on a team member's position. Sleuth was built to automatically generate information to satisfy each team member's needs.

There are two types of queuing mechanisms supported by Azure. Storage Queues are part of the Azure Storage infrastructure, feature a simple REST-based GET/PUT/PEEK interface, providing reliable, persistent messaging within and between services. Service Bus Queues are part of a broader Azure messaging infrastructure that supports queuing as well as publish/subscribe mechanism, and more advanced integration patterns.

Whether you help architect serverless applications at work or you’re just getting started in the community, chances are you’ve caught wind of a ServerlessDays event. Each one gathers members of a local community to talk about where serverless technology currently stands and where it’s going. The best part is that they are a true community event, built by and for serverless users.

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes (like yum, apt and home brew ) that allows easily package, configure, and deploy applications onto Kubernetes clusters. Helm charts are packages (like debs and rpms) It contains pre-configured kubernetes resources such as ConfigMaps, Deployments ,StatefulSet manifests, PersistentVolumes and editable settings for them.

In the first article in this series, we talked about making Kubernetes essential to your DevOps pipeline. We reviewed CI/CD and DevOps and why their relationship with Kubernetes is so powerful. In this article, I’m going to dive into another term in the application development and management mix: GitOps. We’ll cover what GitOps is, how it affects an organization and how it aligns with Kubernetes.

Kubernetes, the de facto container orchestrator, is great and should be part of any DevOps toolkit. But, just as any other open source technology, it’s not a full-fletched ready-to-use platform. To run in prod, you’ll need multiple addtional components such as logging and monitoring or RBAC integration. Check out our interactive Kubernetes architecture presetation to learn about key Kubernetes components and those added by Kublr.

I never used to care about the cost of the systems I built. As an engineer, why would I? Especially in the days before the cloud, infrastructure resources were purchased and procured by somebody who worked many levels above me. Even when I first started building on the cloud, I had to submit requests (again, to somebody many levels above me) for my resources.

To ensure that Cloudsmith is and remains a ‘universal’ package management solution, we continue to add formats and extend the scope of the platform. Hence the launch today of our support for CocoaPods.

Team Stackery has been hosting the PDX Serverless Architecture meetup at our Portland office since June of 2018, although the meetup began the year before. It’s always great to see repeat visitors and new faces, and especially to see our community change over the months. In February, we had an entertaining, dynamic, and knowledgeable speaker in Yves Gurcan.