Welcome to the December 2022 edition of Open Source Matters. I’m your host, Ben Lloyd Pearson; let’s dive in!

We are happy to announce that we are rolling out a completely rebuilt Pull Request (PR) creation experience. Over the last few months we've been building and testing an improved experience when creating a pull request and are excited to finally share it with you.

There is no denying that incident management is one of the most crucial processes concerning the service and business aspects of software deployment. Not having a robust system in place to address and remedy unfortunate incidents can lead to user dissatisfaction, which can ultimately take a toll on your business metrics. A suboptimal management system can also have adverse impacts internally if it prioritizes efficiency and speed of recovery to the point of neglecting employee well-being.

Large enterprises usually have more than 1,000 systems running. Even smaller organisations may have hundreds of applications in their public cloud spaces or on their servers. In this world of IT systems, application migrations are common for the following reasons: In addition to these three general motivations, there is a growing repatriation trend. The public cloud provides the optimal environment for most systems but not for all. For some systems, private cloud hosting can be more cost-efficient.

If you are reading this article, your organization is considering a TeamViewer alternative. Your organization may already be using TeamViewer and want an MDM solution more tailored to your needs, or your IT team may be weighing it against other options as part of an initial procurement process. This search is often initiated by the fact that TeamViewer takes a one-size-fits-all approach to mobile device management, which is generally not what brands need.

CI pipelines have become an integral part of the development workflow, helping teams automate the continuous building and testing of new updates to application code. The growing importance of CI pipelines has naturally led to a need for increased visibility into their performance. In 2021, Datadog introduced CI Visibility to deliver granular performance metrics for each individual pipeline, allowing you to monitor build duration and related telemetry across all recent commits.

Orchestrate incident resolution with swimlane software that offers customizable frameworks, unifying your team's diagnostic efforts.

In this post, we’ll dig into the difference between a bug and an incident, why alignment on how they are defined matters, and how to ensure you’re still learning from the issue, even if it’s “just a bug.”

Many companies are rapidly adopting cloud-native computing services, like containers, microservices, and serverless computing. Unlike monolithic applications, these technologies rely on distributed architectures. Whether you are running them in the cloud, on-premises, or both, distributed systems consist of thousands or millions of processes and components. The challenge now is to make these complex systems' inner workings visible, controllable, and improvable.

Want to try out Mattermost, but don’t have sufficient infrastructure or the time? Here is a guide on how to deploy Mattermost using minikube in five minutes.