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The Democratization of Data: The Pros & Cons of All That Data

Data democratization means that more people have access to data than ever before. Is this good, bad or complicated? Explore the pros and cons of all this data.
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Trunk-Based Development vs. GitFlow: Which Source Code Control is Right for You?

Understand trunk-based development and GitFlow, two source code management approaches, so you can decide which is right for your developer environment.
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What Is TBD? Trunk-Based Development & Its Role in CI/CD

Trunk-based development is a popular way to control source code when developing apps. Learn how TBD works, how it supports CI/CD, and when to avoid it.
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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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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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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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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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Adaptive Thresholding with Splunk's Density Function

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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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.
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Synthetic Monitoring vs Real User Monitoring: What’s The Difference?

Both RUM and synthetic monitoring are useful for managing the performance of websites and applications, and the two methodologies work well when paired together.
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Continuous Performance Management Basics

In this blog post, we will walk you through how to develop a continuous performance management playbook for your business.