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Status Pages: The Ultimate Guide

Status pages show real-time status of applications and services. See how these best practices make status pages succeed — and why that’s crucial for business.
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The Very Best Blockchain & Web3 Podcasts

In this blog post we review some of the most important - and informative - podcast series in the Web3 & Blockchain space.
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Production Environment Review: The Ultimate Checklist

Make releases smoother! Check this list for all the areas you want to review in production environments to improve release quality and cadence.
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When and Why To Adopt Feature Flags

Learn all about feature flags, a powerful way to fine-tune your control over which features are enabled within a software deployment.
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Best DevOps Books: The Definitive List

In this blog post we’ll look at the core, fundamental books that have played the largest role in creating the modern DevOps movement.
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Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) vs. Load Balancers: What’s The Difference?

CDNs and load balancers fulfill similar roles, but they are different tools. This article breaks down the differences so you can decide which is right for you.
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The Bulkhead and Sidecar Design Patterns for Microservices & Incident Resolution

This article looks at Bulkhead and Sidecar design patterns, including how they’re used in microservice designs — and how they help overall incident support.
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CVE Severity & How To Respond To CVEs in Builds

CVEs can be serious enough to reject a build. These approaches and best practices help you assess CVE severity and determine how to manage a build.
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Kubernetes 101: How To Set Up “Vanilla” Kubernetes

Kubernetes 101: Set up the most basic K8s cluster — also known as Vanilla Kubernetes — with this hands-on tutorial that gets you started quickly and easily.
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Network vs. Application Performance Monitoring: What's The Difference?

Monitoring networks and application performance are different practices. Understand the changes and see how, together, both can offer end-to-end observability.
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Common Anomaly Detection Challenges & How To Solve Them

Anomaly detection is a key use case for machine learning, but it comes with challenges. Learn how to address issues of data quality, imbalance and sample size.
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State of Kubernetes: Report Roundup

In this blog post, we’ll take a look at a variety of surveys and data that collectively describe the Kubernetes landscape.
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Monitoring Windows Infrastructure: Tools, Apps, Metrics & Best Practices

Learn how to monitor your Windows infrastructure, including the best tools and apps to use, the top metrics to monitor and how to analyze those metrics.
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NoOps Explained: How Does NoOps Compare with DevOps?

Take a look at NoOps, the concept of automating IT and development: how it works, pros and cons and whether it’s an evolution — or the end — of DevOps.
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Common DevOps Roles and Responsibilities

Understand the core principles of DevOps — collaboration, automation, transparency and accountability — to see how DevOps can help you drive business value.
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How To Prepare for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Interview

Prepare for your SRE interviews. These are common questions and answers to expect in any site reliability engineer interview.
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Using the Density Function to Create Adaptive Thresholding with Splunk

Past data supports adaptive thresholding with Splunk. Learn how — and when — to use the probability density function to create adaptive thresholding.
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Time Series Forecasting Use Cases and Anomaly Detection

Understand time series forecasting — a way to or predict behaviors based on historical, timestamped data — with anomaly detection to prevent IT problems.
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What Are Preload Resource Hints?

Explore preload resource hints, a powerful optimization method that can significantly improve web performance, user experience and related metrics.
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What Are Preconnect Resource Hints?

Improve time-to-interactive with preconnect resource hints. This article explores preconnects, why and how to use them, and best practices for scaling.
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What Is a DNS Prefetch?

Understand DNS prefetching, one type of resource hint, including what they are, why and how to use them, and best practices for auditing and scaling.