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News Roundup, July 30, 2021: What's Happening in AIOps, ITOps, and IT Monitoring

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! This special day was created in the 1990s to acknowledge and celebrate the tech gurus who assure that our computers, printers, and servers are working and in good condition. So, after thanking your hard-working system admin team, check out the latest in AIOps, ITOps, and IT infrastructure monitoring.

Remote Debugging & Device Observability: How Memfault & Diamond Kinetics fix firmware bugs together

With their original products in the market, Diamond Kinetics relied on customer reports with little detail to fix issues in the field. They soon realized that this process of “psychic debugging” sensors in the wild was not enough and even delayed release dates as they tried perfecting each device before shipment. When they decided to launch a new generation of their product in 2020, they knew they needed a more efficient process.

Bring Xray Out of the Box with Dependency and Binary Scanning

Shifting left security means you, the developer, catching and fixing vulnerabilities and license violations early in the SDLC. That’s why Xray scans binaries pushed to Artifactory by your builds, and alerts you when there are issues with your dependencies. But catching them earlier, even before checking in code, can be important for developers shifting left.

How To Create A Cloud Center Of Excellence (CCOE)

Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) is an important milestone in every company’s cloud computing journey. While it is usually not the first milestone — which is focused on delivering value to customers — this milestone is reached as the company grows and scales. Turning ad-hoc cloud initiatives into a company-wide strategy, the CCOE helps the business to manage the cloud process and adopt best practices.

Chapter Nine: In Which Dinesh Experiments with Chaos Engineering

Another day, another drama! This one, though, is very much of my own making. I have been wanting to try my hand at a bit of chaos engineering for some time now but C&Js just hasn’t been ready. Sarah’s been up for it too, though, at Animapanions. And now that our CIO, Charlie has seen MTTR drop across every single technology team, thanks to the rollout of Moogsoft and the new incident management system (kudos to James), it’s pilot day.