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Difference between Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery

Continuous integration is a DevOps practice, where developers continuously integrate the code changes into a central repository. It most often refers to the build or the integration stage of the software release process.A continuous integration service helps to automatically build and run unit tests on the new code changes to find any errors instantly.

Spark Performance Monitoring using Graphite and Grafana

In this article, we will explore what Apache Spark is, what key metrics you need to track to keep it running, and how to set up a metrics tracking process. We will also cover monitoring tools such as Graphite and Grafana, which make the process of monitoring metrics very easy, as well as how using MetricFire can make running your monitoring exponentially easier. Check out MetricFire for free or book a demo with our team and learn more about all the benefits of using MetricFire solutions.

New world of work: The great re-evaluation

The “Great Resignation” put employees in the driver’s seat. A new ServiceNow-commissioned survey suggests that Canadian workers are re-evaluating their workplace priorities. This has led to a shift in what Canadian workers demand from potential workplaces, forcing employers to reconsider their overall experience offerings. Canadian office workers now expect something more fulfilling and meaningful than a paycheck.

The 9 Best AWS Management Tools You Can Use Right Now

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides over 200 fully-featured services, that aim to make the cloud affordable and cost-efficient for the companies that use the popular cloud provider. Yet, the average AWS customer wastes 30% to 35% of their cloud budget on unnecessary costs. But why? Many organizations running on AWS report challenges managing their infrastructure — and some engineers feel their native tools simply do not cut it for managing their enterprise applications.

4 Big Risks to Your MSP Business: And Candid Tips to Mitigate Them

Owning an IT business isn't for the faint of heart. Risk naturally comes with the territory, but according to successful MSP veterans, owners can do several key things to mitigate their risk and give themselves a foot up over the competition. Instead of preparation and proactivity, many businesses find themselves where quick reactions to risks that arise are the only way forward—business whack-a-mole, for lack of a better term.

Announcing Grafana Mimir, the most scalable open source TSDB in the world

Today we’re introducing you to Grafana Mimir, the most scalable, most performant open source time series database in the world. Mimir allows you to scale to 1 billion metrics and beyond, with simplified deployment, high availability, multi-tenancy, durable storage, and blazing fast query performance that is up to 40x faster than Cortex. There’s supposed to be a video here, but for some reason there isn’t. Either we entered the id wrong (oops!), or Vimeo is down.

What's New: Updates to On-Call Management, Incident Response, Event Intelligence, Process Automation, and More!

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to PagerDuty’s Digital Operations Platform. Recent updates from the product team include On-Call Management and Incident Response, Process Automation, to PagerDuty Community & Advocacy Events. New capabilities enable users and customers to resolve incidents faster, do the following, and more.

Elastic on Elastic - Using Elastic Observability to optimize the performance of detection rules in Elastic Security

Elastic Security’s developer support team has recently seen a surge in reports from customers about sluggish performance in our UI. Our initial inspection of logs for troubleshooting provided some insights, but not enough for a true fix. Luckily, we have Elastic Observability and its APM capabilities to dive in deeper and look under the hood at what was really happening within Elastic Security. And, more importantly, how we could improve its performance for customers.