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• Loggly

  Loggly is a cloud-based enterprise log management and analytics tool. The Software as a Service product makes log data accessible and useful to more groups within an enterprise. Continue Reading

• Perforce Software

  Perforce is a software company that specializes in software configuration management, version control and collaboration products. The company is the recognized market leader in version control within the gaming sector. Continue Reading

• Elastic Stack

  Elastic Stack is a group of open source products from Elastic designed to help users take data from any type of source and in any format and search, analyze, and visualize that data in real time. Continue Reading

• Kibana

  Kibana is an open source data visualization and exploration platform from Elastic that is specialized for large volumes of streaming and real-time data. Continue Reading

• Elastic

  Elastic is a software company that provides products and services related to Elasticsearch, its distributed enterprise search engine. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • container repository
  • application containerization (app containerization)
  • IT operations
  • Kubernetes

  • IT automation
  • configuration management (CM)
  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
  • MIS (management information systems)

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• What do IT administrator skills mean now?

  In a world full of data-aware this and internet-connected that, deep IT administrator skills should be more in-demand than ever.Continue Reading

• Immutable infrastructure takes build automation to the systems level

  Despite the shiny new term, immutable infrastructure is simply a new approach to a familiar concept. And like all great concepts, it's best explained with pizza.Continue Reading

• application monitoring and management (AMM)

  Application monitoring and management is the administrative area and associated tools involved with overseeing the operation of business software and ensuring that it functions and performs as expected.Continue Reading

• shift left testing

  Shift left testing is an approach used to speed software testing and facilitate development by moving the testing process to an earlier point in the development cycle.Continue Reading

• incremental shift left testing

  Incremental shift left testing is a widely adopted method that starts testing earlier in the development cycle – shifting it to the left on the timeline -- and breaks complex development down into smaller pieces that build upon each other.Continue Reading

• Git

  Git is a free and open source distributed code management and version control system that is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.Continue Reading

• branching

  Branching is the practice of creating copies of programs or objects in development to work in parallel versions, retaining the original and working on the branch or making different changes to each.Continue Reading

• DevOps certification

  DevOps certification is a formalized testing program intended to ensure that applicants have achieved an appropriate level of skills and knowledge for working in the converged areas of software development and IT operations.Continue Reading

• Can switching to all event-driven applications cut IT infrastructure?

  Event-driven computing means no IaaS provisioning and no data center to run. Can I migrate all enterprise apps to be event-driven?Continue Reading

• ChatOps

  ChatOps is the use of chat clients, chatbots and real-time communication tools to facilitate how software development and operation tasks are communicated and executed.Continue Reading