Datadog Fetches Bevy of Additional DevOps Services

Source:- devops.com At its Dash 2019 conference today, Datadog launched a series of DevOps initiatives that significantly expand the use cases for the agent software that drives the company’s monitoring services. Additions to the Datadog portfolio include Network Performance Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM) services as well as general availability of a previously announced service for monitoring serverless computing frameworks. In addition, Datadog announced it is adding Tracing without Limits to its application performance monitoring (APM) and distributed tracing service

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Three DevOps practices to avoid the Thursday Night of Dread

Source:- infoworld.com I’ve found three specific DevOps practices that go the farthest in boosting team morale: Fast feedback Developers feel most engaged when they know they’re building something that works and adds value. You achieve this by creating a tight feedback loop, using test-driven development. Before you write a line of code, you define the criteria for success and create an automated test suite to verify you’ve hit your goal. You have to commit—really commit—to automation and telemetry. People sometimes

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Improving DevOps automation with continuous delivery chain acceleration

Source – theserverside.com How do you improve your DevOps success and supercharge your continuous delivery chain? Your first thought may be to automate, automate, automate. In fact, however, DevOps automation is not enough. In order to make the very most of continuous delivery chains, DevOps teams should strive also to do continuous delivery chain acceleration, and accelerate the processes that comprise their software delivery pipeline. Continuous delivery chain acceleration and DevOps automation In many cases, organizations seeking to make software delivery faster and more efficient

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