Software Deployment Tools (SDTs) help make software systems available to the target endpoints in a network from a central location. They include installation, distribution, configuration, upgrade, and management tools. All software applications need to be upgraded regularly, require new features from time to time, need security reinforcements against new and coming threats, require updates to remove bugs, and so on.

This is the seventh chapter in a series of blog posts exploring the role that intelligent observability plays in the day-to-day life of smart teams. In this chapter, our DevOps Engineer, Sarah, experiments with low code and Moogsoft in her team’s DevOps toolchain to rush a new feature out the door to keep up with a competitor.

Kubernetes just turned 7 years old, and over the last couple of years, it has risen in popularity to be the key platform for microservices management consistently. The ecosystem around it is also growing rapidly.

BigPanda is a domain-agnostic AIOps platform that helps organizations detect and resolve incidents in their complex IT environments. By unifying and correlating data from monitoring, change, and topology tools, BigPanda enables teams to quickly pinpoint the root cause of issues and prevent costly outages.

We have an exciting announcement. Blameless is providing early access to our Microsoft Teams integration. SRE and engineering teams can now resolve incidents faster without leaving the comfort of their favorite messaging tool. With the Blameless incident resolution product, Microsoft Teams users can now reduce toil in routine incident response processes through automation, codify processes with checklists, and craft retrospectives with the ‘add to timeline’ command.

Amazon’s Elastic Map Reduce or EMR, makes it easy to set up, operate and scale big data environments. This enables data scientists and developers to rapidly analyze massive amounts of structured and unstructured data. Combined with Spot by NetApp’s Elastigroup, data scientists can reliably run EMR core and task nodes on highly affordable EC2 spot instances.

At Lowe’s, we’ve made significant progress in our multiyear technology transformation. To modernize our systems and build new capabilities for our customers and associates, we leverage Google’s SRE framework and Google Cloud, which helps us meet their needs faster and more effectively. With these efforts, we’ve been able to go from one release every two weeks to 20+ releases daily—about 20X more releases per month.

Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Updated June 7, 2021.

Software delivery on a team of 2 people is vastly different from software delivery on a team of 200. Over the growth of a startup, processes and tool choices will evolve naturally - but either optimizing too early or letting them evolve without a picture of where you’re headed can cost you in time and agility later. That’s why I want to talk to you about how to evolve your delivery process with purpose.

HAProxy with the HAProxy Data Plane API can integrate with Consul to enable service discovery for your load balancer configuration.