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Business Continuity Planning for Your Small and Medium-Sized Company

Creating a business plan is hard in itself, but keeping it during a crisis requires a high level of expertise. Luckily, you can prepare your company for disruptive situations beforehand with the help of business continuity planning. Since the pandemic, we’re even more aware of how disasters and disruptions can hit anyone, any industry, in any way or form. It disrupted supply chains, made a majority of the workforce work from home, and introduced a rapid lifestyle shift all over the world.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) explained

Google has introduced so many innovations that it’d be impossible to list them all. And we’re not just talking about the obvious things like search engine algorithms or nearly-ubiquitous programs and apps (Google Maps, Docs, Gmail) — not even self-driving cars. Today, we’re going to talk about one such innovation: Site Reliability Engineering. In a nutshell, SRE it’s a practical framework for software development that improves on even giants like DevOps. Wait, what?

Multipass 1.10 brings new instance modification capabilities

Developers rejoice! The Multipass team has been listening to your feedback, and we are excited to announce that the latest update to Multipass contains one of our most requested features – instance modification. For those who are just discovering Multipass, it’s software designed to make working with virtual machines as painless as possible. It has an intuitive command line interface, and abstracts away the hard work of configuring, launching, modifying and destroying VMs.

Managing the Looker ecosystem at scale with SRE and DevOps practices

Many organizations struggle to create data-driven cultures where each employee is empowered to make decisions based on data. This is especially true for enterprises with a variety of systems and tools in use across different teams. If you are a leader, manager, or executive focused on how your team can leverage Google's SRE practices or wider DevOps practices, definitely you are in the right place!

3 reasons why reporting SLOs at scale is hard

I figure you’re doing okay with SquaredUp. It still works for you. Maybe you feel there are a couple of things that could be improved, but it’s not a big deal. So you’ve not upgraded yet. And frankly, because it all works fine and is still doing its job, you haven’t kept up to date on all the latest features rolled out in the SquaredUp updates. But…you’re missing out – on a lot.

How to Change the Puppetdb Port in Puppet Enterprise

Occasionally in Puppet Enterprise, you may need to change the port PuppetDB consumes, for instance, if another service requires port 8081. While we in Puppet Support recommend that you change the port for the other service. If you can’t do that, Follow this Video and the attached Knowledge base article for a guide on changing the port.

Basic Docker Commands | Tutorial for Beginners | Useful List with Examples -Sematext

Get started with Docker using these basic Docker commands. Whether you are in DevOps or development, you will probably end up using Docker containers. In this Docker commands tutorial for beginners, we will offer examples of how to pull a Docker container, start and stop the containers, list your Docker network, and delete unused containers. While there are many more features to uncover, these are the most useful and common Docker commands you should learn as you’ll use them on a daily basis.

Setting up Runbooks in Squadcast | SRE Best Practices | Squadcast

A Runbook is a compilation of routine procedures and operations that are documented for reference while working on a critical incident. Sometimes, it can also be referred to as a Playbook. From this video, learn to create, attach, reference and mark progress for incident resolution using Runbooks.