DevOps Toolbox
InfluxData Video Series: Dealing with Large Amounts of Data
The data deluge is becoming a daily issue, as companies collect ever more data from ever more devices and endpoints. But collecting data is one thing; deriving value from it is another ...
5 Tips for Creating Blockchain IOS and Android Apps
Blockchain development and blockchain technology are playing a major role in the creation of various iOS and Android apps. Blockchain technology has seized the attention of many and when it is utilized ...
Leveraging Automation for Your Business
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capability to change the way we work, the way we manage, and the way we conduct research. As automation processes improve, businesses increasingly are looking for ways ...
Differentiating Between CI Pipelines and DevOps Assembly Lines
"What's in a name?" wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous ...
Splunk and the ELK Stack: A Side-by-Side Comparison
This article’s purpose is to compare the “big two” in the log analytics world—Splunk and the ELK Stack. But before we go into details, a short introduction to the competitors is required ...
Feature Branching vs. Feature Flags: What’s the Right Tool for the Job?
A dev team’s branch management strategy can have a significant impact on the rate at which it can release high-quality software. In this article we’ll explore the pros and cons of several ...
SRE vs. DevOps — a False Distinction?
Just a few days before he died at the beginning of the 1990s, a wise man taught us that “the show must go on.” Freddie Mercury’s parting words have long provided the ...
Relevant Continuous Testing: The Primary Key to DevOps
My recent blog, "7 Pillars of DevOps," identified seven essential best practices areas that make up successful DevOps and explained that the pillars are not silos, but rather foundations that need to ...
Automation: Achieving Faster Rollouts with Better Accuracy
A changing landscape requires new processes At the recent Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner shared a list of technologies and trends that will be important for organizations to embrace and prepare for in 2017. These ...
Chef Boards the DevOps Express with CloudBees, Others
You often may have more questions than answers as you progress along your DevOps journey. Which tools should I choose? Do these tools work well together? What have other people done in ...
Things to Know When Planning for Cassandra Backup
NoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure DocumentDB and others are being adopted by enterprises to meet the data requirements of next-generation applications. Specifically, Apache Cassandra database provides linear ...
APM on-premises or SaaS: What’s the best fit?
Today's DevOps teams need in-depth monitoring that offers insights into every aspect of the application-delivery chain. When you decide for an application performance monitoring (APM) solution, you can choose between an on-premises approach ...

