DevOps Onramp
Understanding the Importance of Developer Experience
If you're creating a developer tool, you're bound to run into this dilemma—you know the inner workings of it really well, but others don't. And without solid documentation and samples to follow, ...
Free Dev Tools! But What’s the Catch?
Software companies, especially young startups, are always in a development race – by definition, they are trying to maximize achievements and minimize their burn rate. That means development teams naturally face an ...
Time-Series Database Basics
There's been a lot of buzz about time-series data for the past few years. No matter what you're monitoring—financial data, server performance, social media activity or something else entirely—time-series data can give ...
The Benefits of a Distributed Cloud
The way applications are created has changed dramatically in just a few short years. It’s now all about rapid assembly and integration; applications built using microservices and containerized. Containers and the cloud ...
MLOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
Machine learning operations, or MLOps for short, is a key aspect of machine learning (ML) engineering that focuses on simplifying and accelerating the process of delivering ML models to production and maintaining ...
Putting the Security Into DevSecOps
The non-Newtonian fluid that’s composed of cornstarch and water has been around a long time, but Dr. Seuss’ 1949 book was the impetus for what it’s often called today – Oobleck, from ...
What Are the Seven Layers of the OSI Model?
Working in the software field, it's not uncommon for engineers to refer to different "layers." Perhaps you're working with protocols at the "networking layer" or evaluating a solution that sits at "Layer ...
A Guide to Cloud Migration Trends and Strategies
For several years, we have witnessed widescale cloud adoption as a software infrastructure growth and maintenance strategy. Spending on cloud application services (SaaS) continues to grow as monolithic applications are replaced by ...
API Gateway Vs. Service Mesh: What’s the Difference?
In the average microservices architecture, app programs trade the stability and rigidity a call stack offers for the network’s flexibility. Consequently, latency, security and traceability issues that were previously absent become a ...
Majority of Open Source Devs Open to Change Jobs in 2022
Open source is the foundation of most modern software applications. Now more than ever, retaining developers with experience working on and with open source projects is critical to maintaining software development agility ...
What You’re Getting Wrong About DevOps (and How To Make it Right)
DevOps is now the top software deployment strategy by a mile — 77% of organizations say they use the approach to roll out new software. This is good news because a DevOps ...
Simplifying DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Let’s face it, tools for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configuration management may be vital, but they’re difficult to use. But what if it’s not so much the tools themselves as it is our understanding ...

