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Application Release Automation (ARA): Definition, Best Practices, and Tools

Application release automation is essential for DevOps teams to collaborate through versioning, code testing, and scheduling releases.

Things to Consider While Hiring DevOps Developers

To make the best of the DevOps approach for software development, you should hire the right team who understands key metrics

Actionable Black Box Testing Best Practices

Black Box Testing reveals crucial information about your application’s functionality and behavior.

What is a DevOps Artifact? & Best Practices

Learn more about the different types of artifacts, and how to manage them properly.

Top Monitoring Tools for DevOps for Every Need

There is no DevOps without continuous monitoring.

Key Differences Between SRE and DevOps

DevOps and SRE are related, but their problems, customers, goals, and approach to failure are different.

DevOps Lifecycle Phases: Definitions, Processes, & Tools for Each Phase

Seven distinct phases of the DevOps lifecycle feed into each other to produce the best software application possible.

Top DevOps Automation Tools to Improve Your Processes

Here’s a challenge: try finding a DevOps practice or principle that cannot be supported by automation.

Mean Time Between Failures: Comprehensive Guide

MTBF is an incident metric measuring the time between each failure incident.

Deployment Frequency: A Key Metric in DevOps

You can easily track this metric and should start tracking it today if you’re not

DevOps and Cloud - Why Are They Better Together

What it means to move DevOps into the cloud for modern businesses.

What is Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR)? | A Guide to Incident Metrics

Mean Time to Resolution or MTTR provides a great overall view of the reliability of your systems and how well your team is tackling outages.

Change Failure Rate Best Practices for Agile Teams

CFR is a metric for measuring how often deployments or software updates fail.

Testing Pyramid: The Blueprint to Grouping Software Tests

What is the right way to approach testing for your application?

DORA metrics & What They Reveal

How does your development team stack up against others? Is your team high-performing or low-performing?

Why your Business Should Invest in a Post Incident Review Process

Yikes, that outage affected 50,000 customers and cost the company $1 million dollars. That’s not something you want to experience again, but at least it’s over. What now?

Software Deployment in 2022 – Techniques, Process, and Tools

It’s important to understand the deployment process and have a plan in place to ensure success

The Ultimate Guide on How To Use Feature Flags in Your Projects

Start incorporating feature flags in your development so you don’t have to be so on edge

Reliability Engineer Explained: Role, Goals, & Techniques

If your SaaS software is plagued with service disruptions it may be time to address the issue head-on – consider taking your credibility to the next level by hiring a reliability engineer.

Roll Out Plan 101: Create the Perfect Plan for Your Business

Learn how to tailor your rollout plan to perfectly fit the objectives and expectations of your business.

In Demand DevOps Skills That Will Help Your Team Succeed

In order to achieve success with DevOps, your team needs to have certain skills..

Service Interruption Notice Samples to Use ASAP

Oops! When something goes wrong on your website, it’s vital to notify your customers about the issue. A service interruption notice is an industry standard for communicating that your website or product is down.

Easy IT outage communication plan to execute

Handling an outage can be a high-pressure situation for your company. Yet, there’s no need to panic. By having an incident communication plan in place, your team can provide top-notch service while putting out the fire.

DevOps Metrics & KPIs to Fuel Growth

DevOps is all about continuous delivery and deployment, tight integration of development and operations teams, automation across infrastructure and application layers—in short, it’s the future of software development.

DevOps Benefits to Scale Fast

If you're a developer, you're probably familiar with DevOps. However, you may not be familiar with all the ways that DevOps can help your business scale.

Outage Notification & Communication Templates to Use

Experiencing a site outage can wreak havoc on your brand reputation – but it doesn’t have to. You can minimize the negative consequences of an incident and even build rapport with your customers by following best practices for outage communication.

Website Maintenance Plans & Examples for Big and Small Businesses

We all drag our feet when it’s time for a routine check-up at the doctor or dentist. But when it comes to website maintenance, postponing regular updates and monitoring can impact your website’s health for the worse.

11 Incident Management Tools For Different Uses

Is your business prepared for incident management? If your answer is no, then you want to keep reading as we’re about to unfold the best incident response tools and everything you need to know about incident tracking software.

Planned & Unplanned Maintenance Guide, Examples & Template

Software services are expected to run non-stop: they require servers, networks, and even air conditioning units in reliable condition to meet your customers’ expectations. That’s why a maintenance system is key to saving time and money while increasing the quality of service of your business.

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How Online SaaS Tools Can Improve Your Business Growth?

The software-as-a-service or SaaS model is becoming increasingly popular in the business world. This is because it is an innovative service that reduces your IT expenditure by more than 15%. No installation, maintenance, or configuration of the software is required as well.

Ultimate Guide to DevOps: What is it, advantages & why you should invest in it

You might have heard about DevOps and its importance to company development. But what is DevOps, and why should you use it?

How To Protect Yourself From Domain Hijacking / Theft

As a key risk to the service and security of your website, domain hijacking - a.k.a. “domain name hijacking” and “domain theft” is not a new problem. However, it is one that we’re seeing pop up in the news increasingly, and that few registrars seem to be proactively addressing.

Understanding the Differences Between Active vs. Passive Monitoring

Healthy networking monitoring involves two types: active and passive monitoring. As you set up your business’ network, you will need both types in order to pinpoint issues and resolve them in a timely manner

Improve Your Website For Maximum Business Growth

How to make the most out of your business website by making it more user-friendly, SEO friendly, and integrated with your business

6 Status Page Services For Your Different Needs

When you’re looking for the best tool to create your status page, the options can be overwhelming. That's why we’ve put together this guide to the best status page services for your needs.

How to talk to customers during unplanned outages and notification templates

Need unplanned outage notification templates for critical situations outside scheduled maintenance? Your emergency response during these times needs to be consistent, scaled up and effective.

5 Best Open Source & Free Status Page Systems

If you want to create a new status page for your project or company, and you want it to be open-source and free to use, I’ve just chosen the best ones for you.

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