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Using the PostgreSQL Pager With MariaDB Xpand

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I’m not an anti-GUI person. In fact, I wrote three books about web GUI development with Java. However, I also like the command-line interface (CLI), especially text-based UIs. After a year of exploring MariaDB and the DevOps world, I got to discover and play with many text-based CLI tools that I didn’t know even existed. These tools are especially useful when connecting to remote servers that don’t have a GUI.

One special CLI tool that I frequently use is the mariadb SQL client (or mysql in the MySQL world)—a CLI program used to connect to MariaDB-compatible databases. With it, you can send SQL queries and other commands to the database server.

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Secrets Management

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Today’s digital businesses are expected to innovate, execute, and release products at a lightning-fast pace. The widespread adoption of automation tools, when coupled with DevOps and DevSecOps tools, is instrumental to these businesses achieving increased developer velocity and faster feedback loops. This eventually helps in shortening release cycles and improving the product quality in an iterative manner.

Though the shift to microservices and containerized applications and the adoption of open source are helping developers ship faster, they also pose challenges related to compliance and security. As per the Hidden In Plain Sight report from 1Password, DevOps and IT teams in enterprises continually face challenges posed by leakage of secrets, insecure sharing of secrets, and manual secrets management, amongst others.

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Continuous Integration Patterns and Anti-Patterns

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Reap the full benefits of enhanced code quality, better testing practices, and early error detection with proper implementation of continuous integration processes. This Refcard explains detailed patterns and anti-patterns for core areas of CI, including version control, the build stage, pipeline monitoring, documentation, as well as communication and collaboration across teams and within the organization.
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How Does Continuous Testing Improve DevOps?

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Today with new technologies emerging to serve customers, efficient delivery of the software and the ability to quickly resolve the issues that may occur are among the keys to a successful product launch. The users demand quality and seamlessly working products, and businesses want to deliver the software faster. 

Testing is one of the necessary procedures to ensure that the software is performing as entitled and, thus, doesn’t contain bugs. There are various approaches to executing the testing, which may depend on many factors. But as practice shows, the more often you test your product, the less time it takes to release and less budget to fix the mistakes.

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Ending the DevOps vs. Software Engineer Cold War

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If we were that metaphorical fly on the wall, following an all too common Slack conversation between a software engineer and DevOps engineers, it might go something like this:

Software Engineer: This is gonna take forever. “I need a new environment for my app.”

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Value Stream Management Meets Engineering Analytics

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Value Stream Management (VSM) is about empowering delivery organizations to measure, mitigate, and monitor complexity. Simply put, it aims at improving the flow of value in your organization. The VSM Consortium recently released their highly anticipated report on The State of Value Stream Management Report 2022.  

In this article, we recap some of the findings and look at it specifically from a software engineering and DevOps point of view. Can we capture some key lessons that lead to healthier and more productive engineering teams? What has worked and what has not? Can we simplify and adapt ideas of organizational change to create a thriving engineering organization?

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Top 5 Datadog Integrations To Improve the Efficiency of Tech Teams

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Datadog is an exceptional tool for DevOps teams, developers, and SREs. It’s suitable for a broad range of cloud applications of every size. However, despite its powerful capabilities, most businesses aren’t making the most of Datadog. Are you?

  • Can you see how newly launched features are affecting user experience?
  • Can you immediately see the root cause of an issue on your dashboard – without digging around? 
  • Are you managing Jira tickets directly in Datadog?

Datadog’s integrations help make the platform stand out, but using them to make Datadog more powerful can be confusing, as there are over 500 interesting tools to consider.

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Introduction to AWS Config: Simplified Cloud Auditing

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Modern cloud environments are ever-changing, and so is the nature of cloud computing. The growing cloud assets accompany the attack surface expansion problem for organizations, which unveils the need for visibility of cloud resources. AWS Config addresses that exact demand. It can be challenging to understand resources within your infrastructure like:

  • Seeing what resources you have
  • Understanding your current configurations
  • Knowledge of configuration changes and change histories
  • Assessing if your resources are compliant with specific governances controls 
  • Having accurate and up-to-date audit information

Depending on the size of your AWS resources or deployment, overcoming these challenges and obtaining this information can become time-consuming and budget-intensive unless you use resource visibility and auditing tool like AWS Config. 

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What I Have Understood About DevOps

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When I first heard the term DevOps, What I understood from my peers is that,

“The process of deploying the application in any environment (dev/QA/prod) is called DevOps. It’s just another synonym for operations.”

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How to Translate Value to Executives Using an Outcome-Driven Mindset

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An IT project is never an end in itself, but a means to attain a business objective. In this day and age, when leaders and decision-makers are exposed to buzzwords, frameworks, and tech trends constantly, it is more important than ever to take a step back and reflect on the business goal before deciding on the technological way to get there.

Decades after the advent of information technology, the challenge remains the same: to successfully apply IT practices that improve revenue streams and unlock new DevOps opportunities. Organizations urgently need to establish frameworks to manage information systems and apply them to daily operations, contributing to delivering business value and improving economic performance.

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