Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Redhat Ansible is one of the most popular automation platforms in the IT industry. Since its launch, it has earned its place among some of the best DevOps tools. Powered by an open source community of more than 3550 contributors, it occupies more than 50% of the market share in the configuration management segment. This article will explore Ansible and how IT professionals and engineers use it to power their workflows. Read on to learn more about one of the most powerful automation platforms.

There’s a call throughout the industry to shift security left in the software development lifecycle, expanding the DevOps methodologies that have been growing in adoption for more than a decade. DevSecOps is based on the idea that security is not an afterthought. Rather, it is a collaborative process that must be integrated from the start of the development process.

There are numerous types of services and processes in place to make software development more accessible and efficient for programmers. One ready-for-launch service developers can access remotely is Function as a Service, abbreviated as (FaaS).

Canonical is proud to welcome the.NET development platform, one of Microsoft’s earliest contributions to open source projects, as a native experience on Ubuntu hosts and container images, starting in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. .NET developers will be able to start their Linux journey with Ubuntu, benefiting from timely security patches and new releases. .NET 6 users and developers can now install the.NET 6 packages on Ubuntu with a simple apt install dotnet6 command.

Mattermost v7.2 is generally available today. The following new features are included (see changelog for more details).

The demands of a tight production schedule can make it difficult to produce consistent, readable, and concise code in the lead-up to a manual code review. This often makes the process stressful — if not outright dreaded. Standard tests are a critical part of development that verify that our code produces the expected outputs. But great tests don’t always lead to good code.

Field service management is a vital part of business operations. It equips employees with the resources needed to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Streamlining communication, making decisions, and predicting issues before they arise are just a few of the challenges facing field service management. At ServiceNow, we understand how crucial it is for businesses to keep work flowing across various business assets and stakeholders. Here are three ways to help do that.

We love exceptions. Not in the oh-no-my-website-crashed kind of way, but all of the possibilities provided by exceptions and a good exception handling strategy. In this post, I'll introduce you to three different NuGet packages that will help you when dealing with exceptions in C#. .NET comes with a set of exceptions as part of the C# language. You've probably tried creating your own exceptions too by extending System.ApplicationException or similar.

The Digital Finance Strategy is a European directive that aims to support and develop digital finance in Europe whilst maintaining financial stability and consumer protection. There are three main components to the package: In this blog post, we’ll attempt to summarise the 113-page DORA proposal, highlighting how it will apply to incident management at financial entities.