DevOps Toolbox
Backup and Recovery of MongoDB, Part 2
This blog is the second in a two-part series on backup and recovery for MongoDB. In one of my previous blogs, I covered why companies require both replication and backup for enterprise ...
Using MongoDB for a Product Catalog Application
In today’s era of data-driven business, enterprises are continuously adopting new technologies to gain a competitive advantage. Distributed and cloud databases is one such technology. These databases are fundamentally different from relational ...
Avoid the DevOps Temptation to Build It Yourself
Vincent Geffray | | build it yourself, developers, incident response, IT communication automation, out-of-the-boxAs tempting as building your own DevOps incident communication tool sounds, you should think twice. My colleagues and I recently were on the phone with a company seeking an IT incident communications ...
How to Fail at Test Automation
Mirco Hering | | data, devops, infrastructure, Quality Assurance, software development life cycle, test automation, testing, testing failureLet me start by admitting that I am not a test automation expert. I have done some work with test automation and have supervised teams who practiced it, but when it comes ...
What Does DevOps Mean to Test Teams?
It wasn't long ago that the Dev and test teams would work late hours, focused and rushed to meet a deadline: rapid fixing, reprioritizing and deferring bugs to close out the bug ...
What is JSON? How Do I Use It? Does It Beat BSON?
TL;DR: If you've ever wondered about JSON—what it is, how to use it or what it has to do with BSON—then you've come to the right place. In this article I'll explore ...
It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn
While many people want a universal "easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of infrastructures, tools, networks and operating systems. I call them snowflakes because their ...
Will MariaDB Soon Replace MySQL?
MariaDB is a database growing in popularity. Its lead developer is Michael "Monty" Widenius, who was part of the team that created MySQL. When MySQL was acquired by Oracle, Widenius and some ...
Development Tools Sprawl and the Impact of Open Source: The Herding Kittens Survey
DevOps.com and Automic partnered up to conduct a survey back in February and March of several hundred respondents regarding their use of development tools, their use of Open Source and their rate ...
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 2
In part one of my conversation with Stefan Thies, Sematext DevOps expert. we spoke about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Let’s continue ...
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 1
Stefan Thies is DevOps evangelist Sematext Group. I recently spoke with him about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Read on for part ...
Top 10 IT Management Tools
contributor | | application monitoring, automation, clustering, containerization, dashboards, IT management, IT operations, IT service management, network monitoring, toolsStaying up with the latest IT management tools is akin to keeping up on the latest Starbucks drink options. We simplify it here through a look at the most useful tools, from ...
