At FireHydrant, we envision a world where all software is reliable, and we’re on a mission to help every company that builds or operates software get closer to 100% reliability. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $23 million to help us further our goal.

For years, enterprises have been employing monolithic applications with complex functional frameworks. But today, with advanced solutions built ith API’s and Microservice architecture are putting an end to their realm. With ever-changing requirements in the IT world, enterprises are required to adopt advanced applications with sophisticated features and functions that can accommodate changes throughout.

Peering plays an essential role in the structure of the global internet. In this blog, we take a look at the different peering models available to organisations and explore some of the new ways they can access Internet Exchanges.

Can you run HAProxy as a Docker container? Yes! Did you even need to ask? Docker is ubiquitous these days and you’ll find that many applications have been Docker-ized; the HAProxy load balancer is no exception. Pardon the cliché, but HAProxy was born for this. As a standalone service that runs on Linux, porting it to Docker certainly seemed natural. Why would you want to run your load balancer inside of a Docker container? Are their performance penalties when doing so?

You've always been able to execute CI/CD workflows via Bitbucket Pipelines using Atlassian's infrastructure. This is the easiest way to use Bitbucket Pipelines because you don't need to host or manage any servers. We host it and manage it for you. But sometimes you need more control of your hardware, software, and the environment your builds are executed into.

As developers, we spend most of our time thinking about code: how to design it, write it, debug it, integrate it. Our thoughts are of our source files, our attention is on the repositories and branches that populate our version control system. That’s our job, that’s our world. But to become DevOps professionals, we must think about what happens to take our code to the clusters where it runs. DevOps means taking our applications from development to delivery.

If you're in FP&A, it can sometimes feel like outsiders think your job is all about routine tasks, like tracking budgets and reporting on cost — which couldn’t be further from the truth. A great FP&A professional deeply understands the business, has a strong command of its metrics, and uses that data to serve as a trusted advisor and partner to stakeholders. You’re not just a “counter” and “tracker” — you’re a driver of strategic outcomes.

New regulations like virtual banking licensing frameworks, advances in open banking and big techs rapidly gaining ground in financial services, are dramatically changing the banking landscape, forcing incumbents to reinvent themselves. To be successful, the bank of the future will need to embrace emerging technologies, focus on providing exceptional customer experiences and take a more holistic approach to ‘change’.

When Squadcast was founded back in 2018, we had a concise yet clear goal—we wanted to make it as easy as possible for companies to manage their IT incident and reliability needs. In the spirit of continuing that mission, today I’m excited to announce our $6M fundraise led by DNX Ventures and backed by Wipro Ventures, Nexus Ventures, and Chiratae Ventures. We’re also pleased to announce the addition of DNX and Q Motiwala to our Board of Directors.

Together with the release of Spot by NetApp’s Elastigroup support for multiple metrics, we are pleased to share that Elastigroup now also support step scaling, a new functionality that allows Elastigroup customers to configure multiple actions under a single, simple scaling policy. In Elastigroup, each simple scaling policy contains two parts. The first is the AWS metric, which is the metric the data is collected from.