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Real-time Linux: a comprehensive guide

In the mission-critical workloads of modern enterprises, where time boundaries and determinism can make a major difference, the demand for real-time systems has never been more urgent. In our latest whitepaper, we delve into the realm of real-time Linux. The whitepaper is a comprehensive guide to understanding and unlocking the potential of real-time Linux to meet the stringent demands of industrial workloads.

Digital Disruption in Financial Services: Getting Ahead with Automation

The state of financial services today spotlights core banking digitization and the bigger-than-life disruption it’s causing in the industry. It makes sense that going to the bank sounds like an errand people no longer need to run. Even though 77 percent of banking consumers still use traditional banks in some capacity, 43 percent keep their funds elsewhere, and 61 percent will likely switch to a digital-only provider, Galileo Financial Technologies found.

Govern your infrastructure resources with the Datadog Resource Catalog

As an administrator of an expanding, highly distributed infrastructure, you may be responsible for overseeing thousands of on-premise and cloud resources from multiple providers—governed under dozens of accounts by a complex nest of RBAC rules. To query all these resources for purposes such as compliance audits and access management, you may be required to write custom scripts and painstakingly sift through data across disparate tools.

Ensuring Robust Security in Office 365

In an era where digital threats are evolving rapidly, securing your Office 365 environment has never been more crucial. Office 365, a suite known for its robust productivity tools, also demands a proactive approach to security. This blog post delves into essential practices and strategies to fortify your Office 365 setup against various cyber threats.

Introducing Cortex Eng Intelligence

Engineering teams rely on certain metrics to assess their ability to deliver quality products, on time. This is a useful exercise, but execution has been lacking—with metric collation often handled via spreadsheet, or stand-alone tool. Neither approach is ideal for two reasons: 1) How—or more specifically where—metrics are collected silos them away from business context.

Build Operational Resilience with Generative AI and Automation

For modern enterprises aiming to innovate faster, gain efficiency, and mitigate the risk of failure, operational resilience has become a key competitive differentiator. But growing complexity, noisy systems, and siloed infrastructure have created fragility in today’s IT operations, making the task of building resilient operations increasingly challenging.

Engineering nits: Building a Storybook for Slack Block Kit

We care a lot about the pace of shipping at incident.io: moving fast is a fundamental part of our company culture, and out-pacing your competition is one of the best ways we know to win. In engineering teams, one way to ship fast is to invest in tools that make your team more productive. We've become good at identifying small pains and frustrations that slow us down over time and – after surfacing them to the rest of the team – find solutions for them.

How to Implement FinOps Successfully

This is the fifth and final part of this FinOps series, The Operate Phase. If you have missed any of my previous blogs, here is a list of posts in the series: Note: I am ex-AWS, so you will notice a lot more focus on AWS tools and services as examples here, however we are cloud agnostic and all cloud providers have similar services and tools.

Kubernetes vs Docker. What you need to know

There are some discussions about what is better to choose Kubernetes or Docker, and it may be really challenging to get one specific reply. These are fundamentally different technologies and it is better to have an understating of their functioning and benefits prior to choosing something. The thing that doesn't need any additional explanation is that VPS is definitely important despite the technology you select. A virtual private server is used to get additional layers of isolation from other clients.