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Cloudsmith Supports OpenSSF's Efforts to Secure OSS

As part of our mission to make it simple to secure software at scale through Continuous Packaging, Cloudsmith is excited to announce that we have become an Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) member. OpenSSF is a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve security in open source software (OSS). One software pipeline's output is another's dependency- we are all splashing around in each other's supply chains.

The Anatomy of a Rollback Deployment Workflow

Your new release tested fine on staging, but it’s not playing nicely with applications and services in the wild. Your monitoring application notices something going wrong and raises the alarm. But often raising the alarm isn’t enough – to solve complex issues, you might need to roll back to the last good deployment while you figure out the root cause and get multiple people working together on the solution.

Secure your hosts with CFEngine Build modules

Last year, we launched functionality for users to add policy for reporting data, compliance reports, promise types, and other code as modules. With CFEngine Build, users can manage and update their own policy, the default policy and any additional modules separately. This makes it very easy to utilize policy or other modules written by the CFEngine team, or other community members. In this post we will take a look at using some modules to improve the security of our infrastructure.

How Monday.com Accelerates Time to Triage with Code Observability

Monday.com was on a mission to better aggregate and manage server errors for their monolith backend. But, what started as a minor change turned into a “life-changing decision”—their words, not ours—to incorporate a whole new workflow for frontend, backend, and soon mobile. Join Software Engineer Roni Avidov as she explains how Monday.com started monitoring their client-side app alongside their backend to quickly uncover blindspots and accelerate time to resolution by nearly 20 minutes per issue.

How to Optimize Your WordPress Site With Pingdom Real User Monitoring

To keep their applications and websites available and accessible, today’s businesses put a lot of emphasis on infrastructure monitoring to ensure their servers are healthy and running. Amid the hustle, many companies overlook the need to monitor a different aspect of their application: user experience.

Network AF, Episode 11: The art of connecting with PacketFabric's Jezzibell Gilmore

In episode 11 of Network AF, Avi talks with Jezzibell Gilmore, co-founder and chief commercial officer (CCO) of PacketFabric. Jezzibell is a powerful woman in networking who is modernizing and paving the way for infrastructure in the digital universe. In the conversation, she shares how she’s weaving together technology, business drivers and cutting-edge innovation, while keeping her foot firmly on the ground.

Go 1.18 released on Upsun

As of yesterday, the team behind Go has released a new version 1.18 with some significant changes to the language. Those of you who want to start using these new features are in luck: you can do it right away on Upsun. If you’re already using Go on Upsun, you can upgrade by changing the number in the type key of your app configuration. In your.platform.app.yaml file: If you’re not yet using Go for your project, now’s a great time to give Go a try.

Configuring an External Conference Bridge - xMatters Support

The Conference Bridge page is used to configure externally hosted conference bridges for use in your workflows. An external conference bridge is hosted through a third-party provider rather than xMatters. You can use an external bridge to connect to Webex, InterCall, GoToMeeting, or other conference hosting solutions.