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Network Operations Center. Relevant or Relic?

The short answer is: Absolutely! In a time when network health equals business health, Network Operations Centers (NOCs) stand as the foundation for operational excellence and innovation. The rapid pace of digital transformation is changing how organizations view network management, with NOCs at the heart of these discussions. Are NOCs relics of the past, or do they hold significant relevance in today’s business landscape?

Feature Friday #34: Self organizing groups with select_class

Did you know CFEngine can self-organize hosts into different groups? Say you have a few hosts that you want to reboot once a month. You don’t care when, but you want the hosts to self-organize and pick a date. The select_class attribute for classes type promises might be what you’re looking for. Let’s take a look.

Building a Scalable Infrastructure: Why DevOps Consulting is Essential for Growing Businesses

Discover how DevOps consulting empowers growing businesses to build scalable, resilient infrastructures. Learn key practices like automation, CI/CD, and collaboration to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and support rapid growth.
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Platform Engineering: A Deep Dive into Building the Foundation for Modern Software Delivery

In the ever-evolving software development landscape, platform engineering has risen to prominence as a pivotal practice, transforming how organizations build, maintain, and operate internal infrastructure. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, companies are under immense pressure to deliver software faster, more reliably, and at scale. Platform engineering provides the foundation for achieving this by creating and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that streamline the development process, enabling developers to focus on writing code rather than managing complex infrastructure.

Beyond Automation: Empowering Human Skills in an AI-First Workplace

In 2024, generative AI will no longer be an experiment. It sits in the inboxes of office workers and quietly reshapes the nine-to-five. A joint study from Microsoft and LinkedIn spotted 75% of knowledge professionals leaning on smart software every day-an appetite that nearly doubled in just half a year. Colleagues who spoke up said the tools trim minutes that once dragged on, set them free for the messy, high-stakes decisions, and sprinkle a bit of fresh creativity across the page. A glance at the numbers shows how fast the push is spreading.

The Complexity of Modern IT Operations: Navigating the Challenges and the Future of Automation

Remember when IT was mostly about managing a few on-premise servers and ensuring email worked? Those days are long gone. Today’s IT landscape is an intricate web of cloud services, legacy systems, automation, security protocols, and more. It’s a challenge to navigate, and as a result, IT operations have become increasingly complex. The more intricate your operation becomes, the more you realize that automation isn’t a luxury anymore—it’s a necessity.

Developer Self-Service: The Benefits for DevOps & How Platform Engineering Makes It Happen

Developer self-service can sound like a dream: A platform that developers can use to freely develop — unburdened by sprawling IT, tools they shouldn’t need to know how to use, and tickets that take forever to complete. But in DevOps, self-service is becoming a differentiator for organizations with growth goals, widening skill gaps, a need for visibility, or just an appetite for better DevOps efficiency.

Feature Friday #33: Why associative arrays when data containers exist?

What’s the difference between an associative array and a data container in CFEngine? CFEngine has two ways in which structured data can be used, associative arrays (sometimes called classic arrays) and data containers. Let’s take a look at a simple data structure. Here we have two data structures, a_email an associative array and d_email a data container. The policy emits the JSON representation of each.