Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Episode 1 | Tushar Srivastava on BPM, Process Mining and AI Automation

In this inaugural episode of the Tech Decisions Podcast, the hosts introduce the show and its purpose of making enterprise technology research accessible and insightful. The guest, Tushar Shrivastava, a BPM enthusiast and former Gartner analyst, provides an overview of BPM (Business Process Management) and the technologies it encompasses, including business process automation, process mining, and task mining. The importance of investing in BPM technologies is discussed, along with successful outcomes of BPM implementations.

Getting started with IT operations automation

Tech companies face a daunting challenge: a staggering 90% of their IT teams are stuck doing mundane, repetitive tasks, leaving only 10% to focus on strategic innovation. Companies know that automation is the solution to these repetitive, low-level incident response actions; however, many need support to begin automating.

How to Run Puppet in Docker

In early 2023 Betadots together with Vox Pupuli adopted the Puppet containers and so this article has been updated to contain the new locations. Details of their adoption can be found here. If you’ve ever wanted to get started with Puppet or Docker — or both — you’ve probably faced a bit of a conundrum. Should I use Puppet to deploy Docker on my nodes, and then use Puppet to define container images?

How Automation Can Support Threat Vulnerability Management + Reduce the Attack Surface

Threat vulnerability management, and managing your attack surface, are critical in the battle against cyberattacks. At some point before an successful attack, the internal process to manage threats and prevent access to sensitive data failed. How could they have done things differently? Were they just managing too much, too often, without the resources they needed?

CFEngine 3.23 released - Anniversary

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.23.0! This is a non-LTS (non-supported) release, where we introduce new features for users to test and give feedback on, allowing us to polish before the next LTS.(CFEngine 3.24 LTS is scheduled to release summer 2024). The codename for this release is anniversary, as this year is CFEngine’s 30th anniversary.

What is a Platform Engineer? Platform Engineer Job Description, Role + Responsibilities

The definition of a platform engineer can be slippery. Ask several IT professionals “What does a platform engineer do?” and you might get several different answers. One platform engineer might be at the intersection of DevOps, AppSec, architecture, and SRE, while another might broadly support infrastructure for all developers in their organization. (Sometimes, in less successful teams, they’re essentially a DevOps engineer with a fancy title.)

#5 Rundeck by Pagerduty Community Meetup: Automate Kubernetes w/ Rundeck (Part 3)

Session III: Automate Kubernetes with Rundeck Speaker: Justyn Robberts, Sr. Solutions Consultant @ PagerDuty Get together with the Rundeck by PagerDuty Process Automation crew in this 5th Community Meetup and learn how automation is leading La Sapienza University of Rome and Application Performance's way to innovation and fast tracking business for the future.