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Using HTTP Caching: 2022 Guide

The fastest website is the website that is already loaded, and that’s exactly what we can do with HTTP caching. HTTP caching lets web browsers reuse of previously loaded resources, like pages, images, JavaScript, and CSS. It’s a powerful tool to improve your web performance, but misconfiguration can cause big performance problems. Here’s what you need to know to use HTTP caching without reading hundreds of pages of HTTP Caching Spec.

What Are On-Demand Instances And When Should You Use Them?

According to Amazon, On-Demand Instances are best reserved for short-term processes with uneven workloads that cannot be interrupted. This might partly explain why such EC2 instances are exceedingly popular with AWS users. On the flip side, however, it turns out that On-Demand Instances are also getting dumped for the sake of cloud cost optimization. Our recent Spot Instances guide, for instance, advises AWS users to consider making a switch and, consequently, enjoy up to 90% cost savings.

VMware Tanzu Compliance Updates Support US Federal Agencies

Kubernetes has become an ever-larger target for workloads across all industries. The public sector, in particular, experiences several hurdles in achieving effective utilization of this relatively new technology. Of particular concern for the public sector in the United States is the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).

Why Cloud First and Cloud Now is The Most Urgent Business Strategy for You?

Without a doubt, cloud technology has saved numerous organizations from disruption. According to a report published by Allied Market Research, In 2019, the global cloud services market was valued at $325,689 million and is expected to reach $1,620,597 million by 2030, registering a CAGR of 15.8%. The pandemic has amplified the growth of the cloud service market.

Monitor Confluent Cloud with Datadog

Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-hosted streaming data service. Enterprise customers use Confluent Cloud for real-time event streaming within cloud-scale applications. We’re excited to announce a new integration between Datadog and Confluent Cloud, which enables users to get deep visibility into their Confluent Cloud environment with just a few clicks. In this post, we’ll introduce how to set up the integration and start monitoring key metrics from your clusters.

DevOps Benefits & How to Maximize Them for Your Team

Curious about DevOps benefits? Whether you are just adopting DevOps or improving your current process, we explain the top benefits and how to maximize them. What are DevOps benefits? In DevOps, the operations and development work closely together during the entire software development lifecycle. The collaborative approach in DevOps leads to many benefits, including.

How to connect Puppet Enterprise to Okta using SAML

Nowadays, staff in organizations are required to access multiple applications in their infrastructure. This can lead to the user having to manage multiple login credentials and passwords. There are many solutions available that provide a single sign-on (SSO) capability — such as Okta, LDAP, and Active Directory — which is becoming common practice across businesses.

What is AIOps?

AIOps is an approach to managing the exponential growth of IT operations and the complexity of new technology through the application of artificial intelligence (AI). IT infrastructure increasingly relies on complicated deployments, multi-cloud architectures, and huge amounts of data. Traditionally, the tech industry responds to complexity by applying extra brainpower to the problem, bringing in more engineers, developers, and management.

Deploying to production in <5m with our hosted container builder

Fast build times are great, which is why we aim for less than 5m between merging a PR and getting it into production. Not only is waiting on builds a waste of developer time — and an annoying concentration breaker — the speed at which you can deploy new changes has an impact on your shipping velocity. Put simply, you can ship faster and with more confidence when deploying a follow-up fix is a simple, quick change.

Embrace your Updates

As developers, we’re passionate about creating and delivering high-quality software to our end-users and customers. Simply knowing that our software was shipped, deployed, and is being used is a great achievement. And it looks like we did a good job. Everything around us in our lives depends on high-quality software. Software needs to run for us to get water, energy, electricity, transportation, food, etc. Developers have a huge responsibility to keep this software updated and running efficiently.