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Bringing a Product Mindset into DevOps
To be successful, organisations need two things: products and services their customers find valuable, and the ability to deliver these products and services well. This article shows why we must design, implement and operate our delivery pipelines (the means of turning ideas into products in the hands of users) as we would any other product or service: by adding a “product mindset".
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CloudFormation or Terraform: Which Iac Platform is the Best Fit for You?
CloudFormation and Terraform are two of the most popular IaC frameworks available. In this article learn which framework will work best for your use cases.
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Build, Test, and Deploy Scalable REST APIs in Go
In this article, we'll look at how to use the gin framework to create a simple Go application. We will also learn how to use CircleCI, a continuous deployment tool, to automate testing and deployment.
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Why Observability Is the Key to Unlocking GitOps
In a GitOps work process, Git is the single source of truth for the system’s intended state. Observability can provide the missing piece: the single source of truth for the system’s actual state.
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Successfully Integrating Dynamic Security Testing into Your CI/CD Pipeline
Dynamic security testing tools don’t require advanced cybersecurity knowledge to operate. Integrating DAST into your CI/CD pipeline should be done in stages by focusing on the riskiest areas first.
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Polyglot Microservices Communication Using Dapr on AKS
Dapr is a useful tool for solving several challenges engineers might face. It allows engineering organizations to gain productivity by training developers on a common set of tools and techniques. It also helps adopt standardization in development, deployment, and debugging.
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Why is Everything So Slow? Measuring and Optimising How Engineering Teams Deliver
As teams grow, they will slow down, but it should not mean that teams stop delivering value that can power future business growth. Avoiding excessive technical debt and ensuring systems are secure and performant becomes increasingly important. As an engineering leader, you can do things to be confident that your team is moving at the fastest and most sustainable pace.
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Building an Effective Incident Management Process
A good incident management framework can help organizations manage the chaos of an outage more effectively leading to shorter incident durations and tighter feedback loops. This article introduces the components necessary for a healthy incident management process.
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Moving Kafka and Debezium to Kubernetes Using Strimzi - the GitOps Way
Deploying an Apache Kafka cluster to a Kubernetes is not an easy task. There are a lot of pieces to configure like the zookeeper, the Kafka cluster, topics, and users. Strimzi is a Kubernetes controller making the deployment process of Kafka a child game. Moreover, Strimzi lets you manage Kafka using GitOps methodology as everything is executed using a Kubernetes YAML file.
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DevOps at Schneider: a Meaningful Journey of Engaging People into Change
Adopting DevOps at Schneider started with building a case for change. Tech people were engaged into change by organizing learning and collaboration sessions and getting feedback from the front lines. Change is hard and without leadership support, dedicated time for developers to really digest it and continual reinforcement and conversation, it will be challenging to be successful.
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How to Migrate an Oracle Database to MySQL Using AWS Database Migration Service
Data migration efforts are typically taken up for database consolidation, cost considerations, or migrating on-prem databases to a cloud platform. In this article, author Deepak Vohra discusses the details of migrating a local database to MySQL database on the cloud, using AWS Database Migration Service.
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Choosing the Right Cloud Infrastructure for Your SaaS Start-up
As a solutions architect, I have been designing SaaS applications for years and I have seen start-ups struggle to find the right cloud infrastructure and improve their product offering. These experiences prompted me to write this article as a tool to help companies make a pragmatic fact and data-driven decision.