In this episode of Kongcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Viktor Farcic, developer advocate at Upbound, about why empowering developers to manage the full application lifecycle helps app development teams increase efficiency.
An event indicates a state change: that something has happened. This ‘something’ could be a hardware sensor reading that passes a threshold, or a software event from game logic, or user input such as a keystroke or mouse click. Events are used to signal to interested parties that a state change occurred.
When someone new joins the company, they're encouraged to do what is called a "Week of Testing" - taking k6 for a spin and presenting your findings to the rest of the team. This article will show you how you can make your test scripts more readable and maintainable. To do that, I'll test a demo application with a custom DSL. DSL is short for a Domain Specific Language, and in this case, it allowed me to write meaningful code specific to our business requirements.
In this three-part blog series, we examine the critical role Kubernetes plays in shaping the future of infrastructure, including the rise of containers and Kubernetes. The first in the series covers Next-Generation Application Development. The second covers the Next Frontier: Container Orchestration. And the third covers How Kubernetes Gets Work Done.
When power company executives were asked to list the most important issues facing their organizations, 45% overwhelmingly cited their top concern as “renewables, sustainability or the environment.” At the same time, global energy consumption continues to rise faster than the population. These two realities are reshaping the international energy sector. The push to produce more energy, in a greener manner, is propelling the industry to re-imagine the power grid of the future.
Organizations are more often running data and applications on multiple clouds, and that’s great. However, multi-cloud isn’t enough. To let loose the true power of data on your business, you must be cross-cloud. Cross-cloud means data moves easily between multiple public clouds without any additional work. It means never worrying about where your data and applications live or where your business and technical people are located.
The Kingdom of Quality is in disarray. Everyone works in silos – developers, testers, and other stakeholders. Communication between teams has faltered, making project collaboration nigh impossible. It’s as if goblinkin are at the helm. The damage is inevitable. Buggy releases, missed deadlines, and – worst of all – disappointed customers. It’s time for a quest. It's time for Zephyr Quest.
Organizations have gradually started automating their workflows. Although this began during the pandemic, it is now getting adopted widely since not only have productivity levels across teams drastically increased, but administrative errors have also decreased with the switch to automated tools. In fact, automating workflows comes with a ton of benefits. It helps cut costs while effectively presenting actionable data and decisively managing the tasks.
