In a typical infrastructure build, developers and IT operation teams work coherently to plan, code, develop and deploy application infrastructure by creating multiple instances and environments to code, test and run their applications in. However, many complications can arise during the manual development and operations processes within such a build pipeline. Human fallibility is inevitable …
Distributed systems and microservice architectures can be complicated in terms of networks. When an end user clicks on a website, many web requests go from the client’s browser to the web server. On the backend, there are network requests flowing all over the place between microservices, databases, proxies, and more. With the end user clicking …
Introduction Working with microservices is the very definition of complicated. And such complexity only increases as the microservices architecture scales up. Predominantly, the main concern lies in the location of the services. Admittedly, there is a range of tools that can solve this problem, but every tool comes with its own level of complexity in …
Security Starts at the Developer Level Although dedicated security teams are an essential part of cloud operations, developers are the first line of defense in preventing vulnerabilities in code and dependencies. You can deliver more robust application security at scale if you can bring developers deeper into the security process. However, to do this successfully …
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Jenkins Plugins Table of Contents: What is Jenkins? Why Jenkins? Productivity Monitoring Performance Enhancers Scaling Jenkins Setup Tests Analysis Plugins Pipeline / Flow Source Control Management (SCM) How do I get a list of Jenkins Plugins? What Is Jenkins? Jenkins is a Java-written open source server that can help you streamline your software development processes. …
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Identity and access management is one of the key components of good cloud security, which is why Amazon Web Services’ seamless integration of its IAM tool with the rest of the Amazon ecosystem becomes one of its strong suits. Developers and administrators can manage user roles and access on a granular level across the entire …
According to Steve McConnell’s contemporary research and book, “Code Complete,” the industry average comprises 15-50 bugs per 1000 lines of delivered code. This statistic should reaffirm the likelihood of teams encountering modern-day IT incidents and how quickly they can lead to prominent systematic concerns. Instead of letting these concerns cause significant delays, it’s best to be …
Is your team struggling to keep up with project deadlines and business realities? Have you found yourself shipping code under time pressures with the promise that, “I’ll sort it properly later.” Do you know deep down that the quick-and-dirty fix you recently implemented on a new feature won’t hold up to user demand? The problem …
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The container ecosystem is growing and expanding faster than ever, and with so many Docker tools and services it can feel like a daunting task just understanding the available options. Whether you’re a beginner or expert, developer or DevOps engineer, SRE or platform architect, this list will be your companion guide to understanding the most …
Are you torn between the major container orchestration tools out there? We compare Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Amazon ECS to see which one comes out on top. Container Orchestration: A Quick Introduction Primitive container technology has been around since the late 1970s but didn’t become prominent until Docker debuted in 2013. From that point, containers …
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Since its debut in 2013, Docker has exploded in popularity, and the company has completely revolutionized the way we manage applications. Articles no longer discuss the reasons why you should be adopting containers, but speak more about dealing with the challenges involved with widespread container development. Containers add speed and boost performance within the development …
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Learn what modernizing applications on the cloud entails and the various approaches you can leverage to meet your application modernization goals
Learn how you can automate code deployment on AWS, through a step-by-step guide on CI/CD pipeline creation with AWS CodePipeline
In our experience, customers often focus on modernizing front-end and back-end compute systems and focus less on their back-end data stores. This is despite the
Learn what modernizing applications on the cloud entails and the various approaches you can leverage to meet your application modernization goals
Learn how you can automate code deployment on AWS, through a step-by-step guide on CI/CD pipeline creation with AWS CodePipeline
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