DevOps

DevOps

As businesses contend with ever-increasing data volumes and performance-intensive applications such as AI model training, AI inferencing and high-performance computing, they need infrastructure that delivers speed, scalability and efficiency without added complexity.

In the ME-CENTRAL-1 (UAE) Region, two of our three Availability Zones (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3) remain significantly impaired. The third Availability Zone (mec1-az1) continues to operate normally, though some services have experienced indirect impact due to dependencies on the affected zones. In the ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) Region, one facility has been impacted.

Azure Governance is the set of policies, processes, and technical controls that ensure your Azure environment is secure, compliant, and well-managed. It provides a structured approach to organizing subscriptions, resources, and management groups, while defining standards for naming, tagging, security, and operational practices.

Migrating RabbitMQ version 3.9 to 4.2 on Kubernetes is a high-stakes task. Between breaking version gaps and the shift toward Quorum queues, you can't just "hit update." This guide details a strategy using the RabbitMQ Shovel plugin to move data without dropping a single message.

The Kubernetes Dashboard served its purpose well in the early days of Kubernetes adoption. It provided a simple, browser-based interface for viewing cluster resources without needing to master kubectl commands. But as Kubernetes...

The modern battlefield is increasingly defined by software. To maintain our advantage, we must be able to acquire and deploy software capabilities with speed and efficiency. Enterprise contracts are a key part of our modernization strategy, allowing us to consolidate software agreements, eliminate redundancies, and accelerate the delivery of critical tools.

An observability control plane isn't just a dashboard. It's the operational authority system. It defines alert rules, routing, ownership, escalation policy, and notification endpoints. When that layer is wrong, the impact is immediate. The wrong team gets paged. The right team never hears about the incident. Your service level indicators look clean while production burns.

Our AI journey began with SoftPro because we are currently assisting a significant number of clients of all sizes in transitioning from legacy TPS platforms to SoftPro. These clients have already benefited from our RezeCore TPS data migration suite to search, migrate and retain their historical TPS data. Building on that success, it was a natural next step to continue supporting them by providing this advanced and intelligent AI solution.

To dislodge that, OpenAI would need to deliver a platform that is meaningfully AI native rather than AI augmented. That means the repository itself becomes a living system that continuously understands the codebase, its intent, and its risks, rather than a passive store of files.

The Harness Resilience Testing platform extends the scope of the tests provided to include application load and disaster recovery (DR) testing tools that will enable DevOps teams to further streamline workflows.

I've had several incarnations of the self-hosted home lab for decades. At one point, I had a small server farm of various machines that were either too old to serve as desktops or that people simply no longer wanted. I'd grab those machines, install Linux on them, and use them for various server purposes. Here are two questions you should ask yourself:

Also note that I often alias ip to ip -br -c as it provides a much prettier output. Compare, before: anarcat@angela:~> ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default

Steve Yegge thinks he has the answer. The veteran engineer - 40+ years at Amazon, Google and Sourcegraph - spent the second half of 2025 building Gas Town, an open-source orchestration system that coordinates 20 to 30 Claude Code instances working in parallel on the same codebase. He describes it as "Kubernetes for AI coding agents." The comparison isn't just marketing. It's architecturally accurate.

The updates are installed onto a different (and isolated) system image or subvolume. Once the update finishes successfully, you can switch to the new system by rebooting. Again, if the update isn't 100% successful, it will not happen. And because this all occurs on a separate partition (or image), you don't have to worry about it affecting your system's current state.

Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) have long been a go-to pattern for shipping zero-downtime deployments. Historically, the recommended approach in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) was to wire ECS to AWS CodeDeploy for traffic shifting, lifecycle hooks, and tight integration with AWS CodePipeline. In July 2025, Amazon ECS launched built-in blue/green deployments. This allows you to operate directly within the ECS service, without requiring the use of Amazon CodeDeploy.

Support for distributed systems. Check how well the tool handles microservices, serverless, and Kubernetes. Can you follow a request across services, queues, and third-party APIs? Does it understand pods, nodes, clusters, and autoscaling events, or does it treat everything like a static host? Correlation across metrics, logs, and traces. In an incident, you shouldn't be copying IDs between tools. Look for the ability to pivot directly from a slow trace to relevant logs,

Because of that, you need to be very familiar and comfortable with the command line. Or you can install a desktop environment. In my opinion, this is the single easiest way to make Ubuntu Server easier, especially if you're relatively new to Linux. Having a GUI desktop will strip away the fear of having to use the command line, because you'll have plenty of apps to use (such as the file manager, user manager, GUI app store, and much more).