DevOps & IT Operations

With progressive delivery, DevOps, scrum, and agile methodologies, the software delivery process has become faster and more collaborative than ever before. Scrum has emerged as a

Every now and then, issues occur that disrupt the very fabric of global software engineering. Chief amongst them is the recent mass outage of Github. Github

There’s an insidious disease increasingly afflicting DevOps teams. It begins innocuously. A team member suggests adding a new logging tool. The senior dev decides to upgrade

AIOps is a DevOps strategy that brings the power of machine learning to bear on observability and system management. It’s not surprising that an increasing number

Distributed systems such as microservices have defined software engineering over the last decade. The majority of advancements have been in increasing resilience, flexibility, and rapidity of

Grafana is a popular way of monitoring and analysing data. You can use it to build dashboards for visualizing, analyzing, querying, and alerting on data when

“What is GitOps?” – a question which has seen increasing popularity on Google searches and blog posts in the last three years. If you want to

The modern technology landscape is ever-changing, with an increasing focus on methodologies and practices. Recently we’re seeing a clash between two of the newer and most

A decade ago, DevOps teams were slow, lumbering behemoths with little automation and lots of manual review processes. As explained in the 2020 State of DevOps

This week, the world stopped for a few hours as Google users experienced an outage on a massive scale. The outage affected ALL services which require

Availability and quality are the biggest differentiators when people opt for a service or product today. You should be aware of the impact of your customers

In the previous article, we have created the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline for a simple Java application. It is now time to start working on the

Log maintenance has a hidden cost. Engineers optimize their instance types, storage, networking, dependencies, and much more. However, we rarely consider the engineers themselves. A DevOps

Log files are infamous for being “noisy”. Without the right management solution, trying to find a specific piece of information or using them to reproduce a

DevOps monitoring didn’t simply become part of the collective engineering consciousness. It was built, brick by brick, by practices that have continued to grow and flourish

Many of the available configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, and Saltstack provide automation for infrastructure, cloud, compliance and security management, and integration for deployment and continuous deployment (CI / CD). But what is the best tool to start automating your particular environment?

In this survey of over 200 CIOs in the US, the IDC analyses the critical role played by Log Analytics in any modern infrastructure. IDC Opinion

It was a cloudy winter morning when I had arrived at the office and found, to our horror, that a Kubernetes cluster was suffering from extremely high CPU and network usage and had become almost completely non-functional.

What are Beats Beats are lightweight, purpose-built agents that acquire data and then feed it to Elasticsearch. Beats use the libbeat framework that makes it easy to create

Kafka is an open source real-time streaming messaging system and protocol built around the publish-subscribe system. In this system, producers publish data to feeds for which

This post will explain about CDNs, one of the most important components of the modern web applications. It’s the technology that allows the world’s most popular

So much of our world has moved away from the slow and methodical, towards the agile and iterative. In transport, for example, everything is “on demand”,

In the past, applications would be deployed by installation on a host, using the operating system package manager. This was a heavy solution with tremendous reliance

Since Docker first came onto the scene in 2013 and really popularized containerization, many organizations have chosen to deploy cloud workloads using Docker containers. Containers come

Travis CI vs CircleCI The way we think about development started with Waterfall – sequential, solid, conservative – moved to Agile, whose origins can be traced

DevOps: 10 Explanations That Get It Perfectly Right Describing your profession to other people is never easy, especially if you work in the development field. Non-technical

Considering the countless benefits of incorporating DevOps into practices, the barriers that are often faced towards adoption can be considered comical. If you’re facing difficulties in

The free ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is not as free as it is cracked up to be. This post will focus on the costs of

By now DevOps are hopefully aware that among the multitude of modern analytics methods available to them, an advanced logging and monitoring tool provides the most

Though the widespread embrace of the DevOps approach is showing no signs of winding down, its efficacy now appears to be a bone of contention among