The Software Development Process is a long journey. Multiple software application components must be developed simultaneously within a short timeline. In this article, we'll look at DevOps and GitOps, compare their similarities and differences, and how they work together.Git as a Delivery Technique Git as a delivery mechanism enables…
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Building and Scaling High Performing teams using DORA Metrics
As software engineering teams scale, fundamental software development and delivery processes become complex, and it's challenging to collect events and track delivery performance on existing systems. Unfortunately, this prevents you from making sounder engineering decisions, identifying performance tests, and effectively measuring developer productivity. CTO.ai's Insights is an easy-to-use dashboard…
Extend the Kubernetes API and customize your Resources using CRD on a Developer Control Plane (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series, we deployed our EKS infrastructure using the Developer Control Plane and scaled the Kubernetes API by installing the Prometheus Grafana Kube stack. In the second part of this series, we will be configuring our Custom Resource Definition (CRD) and setting up Grafana and Prometheus…
How To Copy AWS S3 Files Between Buckets
When it comes to storage, the last thing you want to worry about is losing valuable data. AWS S3 makes sure this loss doesn’t happen by making copies of your objects on multiple devices across multiple facilities. Object storage capability also lets you preserve, retrieve and restore every version…
Health Checks, Readiness Probe and Pod State
When your application is in production mode, you want to configure health checks to know if something goes wrong. To know when there is a malfunction or an issue, you can make your deployments more robust by creating custom health checks.…
Building a Developer Control Plane on CTO.ai
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration tool designed to automate, deploy, scale, and operate application containers. Kubernetes lets you run distributed systems resiliently, with scaling and failover for your application. It acts as a container orchestrator that helps ensure each container is where it’s supposed to be and that…