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All things you should know to be a Meeting Master

While meetings are part of today's organizations, they can also bring some frustration preventing one from scratching its TODO list. It can be a good idea to try to promote asynchronous mediums such as Notion pages, Slack channels, etc. This page aims to bring some insights regarding WHEN / WHY holding or not a meeting.

Git Integration for Jira Data Center Release: Automation for Jira

Git Integration for Jira Data Center has seen some major updates in the last quarter, including new Automation for Jira support: giving you more control and power over repository trigger actions. Let’s dive into the new features and improvements for Git Integration for Jira Data Center.

Cloud-Hosted or Cloud-Native? Discover Why Cloudsmith Was Born in the Cloud

Today, almost every service now is offered in a “Cloud” variant. But what does that really mean? Are all clouds services equal? It’s easy to see why so many vendors rush to add a Cloud edition/variant of established software they sell. Undoubtedly, there has been a move to Cloud services across the industry, as more and more organizations seek to take advantage of the higher reliability and lower total cost of ownership that Cloud platforms promise.

Efforts to Secure OSS fired up after Log4Shell

Who would have thought software could rattle the White House? But a vulnerability in Log4J, a popular open source software project, exposed critical digital infrastructure to remote code execution attacks. This prompted the US Government to engage big tech, infosec professionals, and open source organizations to come together to help secure open source software.

DevOps Horror Stories: Repository of Horror

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... Is there anything more frightening than the unknown? Anything the mind can conjure up is frequently scarier than something realized. The shark in Jaws is terrifying because you don’t see it until it’s too late. It’s a silent, relentless death machine, hiding in the water. A software vulnerability is the unknown, hidden deep within an ocean of code, packages and container dependencies.

What Happens When a Physical Node Fails in VMware vSphere with Tanzu?

Picture this… You just got your second cup of coffee and you’re walking back to your desk. The phone in your pocket begins vibrating as a flurry of emails show services are bouncing. The notifications say services were down but are now back up. You hustle back to your desk, spill a little coffee on your notepad, and open the VMware vSphere client to see a host in a disconnected state.

Five reasons for the management to choose Serverless360

Serverless360 serves as an all-in-one add platform solution to manage and monitor Azure Serverless Applications. A massive set of product documentation enables a DevOps Engineer, Azure Developer, or Support Engineer to understand and appreciate how Serverless360 can improve their Azure experience. Even if the DevOps Engineer, Azure Developer, or Support Engineer understands the value of Serverless360, they must persuade management to purchase the product.

Run Synthetic tests in your CI/CD pipelines with the Datadog CircleCI orb

CircleCI is a CI/CD service that allows organizations to rapidly build, test, and deploy within their pipelines on a single platform. If you are using CircleCI for your CI/CD pipelines, you can now leverage the Datadog Synthetics CircleCI orb to implement Synthetic tests as part of shift-left testing. CI/CD testing is a widely adopted DevOps standard that helps teams mitigate any potential issues that could arise as a result of faulty code deployments.

How to Make Data Center Asset Audits Faster and More Accurate

Many organizations perform periodic data center asset audits to report accurate asset information by cabinet and U position. This information is needed to remotely plan moves, adds, and changes and to facilitate corporate reporting. Data center asset management is often a struggle due to the complex, distributed, and constantly changing environments of modern data centers. They are manual, time-consuming, and human error can result in inaccurate data.