As technology advances and business environments become increasingly competitive, your DevOps team has to continuously improve your product. The challenge is to free up their time so that they can release new product features and improve existing ones. Automating repetitive tasks is one way to accomplish this. Manual approaches also tend to generate or miss errors, slow time to market, and fail to test and monitor system health quickly enough.

SharePoint is a Microsoft-owned platform that provides an extensive range of solutions for content management and collaboration within and outside an organization. Built on a web-based technology stack, it integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office 365 and offers features like document libraries, team sites, intranets, extranets, and advanced search functionalities. It can be deployed both on-premises or in the cloud.

OpenTelemetry vs. OpenTracing - differences, evolution, and ways to migrate to OpenTelemetry.

Azure Database is a comprehensive cloud-based service Microsoft offers as part of its Azure cloud computing platform. It provides various database solutions to cater to different application needs, offering scalability, reliability, and performance. Here’s a quick look at Azure Database: Database Types: Azure Database supports various databases, including SQL databases, NoSQL databases, and data warehousing solutions.

Let’s take a deeper dive into Day 0 configuration for server provisioning — it’s the foundational step for making sure your goals are met and you are set up for future success on Day 1 and 2.

In a world characterized by complex software and fast-paced development cycles, Internal Developer Portals have become increasingly vital. Unlike Internal Developer Platforms, which are more focused on the code-to-cloud deployment pipeline, an Internal Developer Portal acts as a centralized hub for a multitude of resources, tools, and APIs that developers require throughout the software development lifecycle.

This post was written with valuable contributions from Michael Webster, Kira Muhlbauer, Tim Cheung, and Ryan Hamilton. Remember the advent of the internet in the 90s? Mobile in the 2010s? Both seemed overhyped at the start, yet in each case, fast-moving, smart teams were able to take these new technologies at their nascent stage and experiment to transform their businesses. This is the moment we’re in with artificial intelligence. The technology is here.

Heroku is a cloud-based platform that supports multiple programming languages. It functions as a Platform as a Service (PaaS), allowing developers to effortlessly create, deploy, and administer cloud-based applications. With its compatibility with languages like Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go, Heroku has become the preferred choice for developers who desire powerful and adaptable cloud capabilities.

In the world of software delivery, organizations are under constant pressure to improve their performance and deliver high-quality software to their customers. One effective way to measure and optimize software delivery performance is to use the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics. DORA metrics, developed by a renowned research team at DORA, provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of an organization's software delivery processes.

Containers are an amazing technology. They provide huge benefits and create useful constraints for distributing software. Golang-based software doesn’t need a container in the same way Ruby or Python would bundle the runtime and dependencies. For a statically compiled Go application, the container doesn’t need much beyond the binary.