Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Here's why you need to double down on your DataOps before your vacation. In the past few months, everything has changed at work (or at home). Q1 plans were scrapped. Reset buttons were smashed. It was all about cost-cutting and keeping lights on. Many app and data teams sought quick solutions and developed workarounds to data challenges and operational problems as people prepared to work from home for the foreseeable future. And now, it’s time for a holiday.

Our CTO, Andrew Stevenson was interviewed by Alan Shimel for TechStrong TV. The discussion was all about hot data topics such as DataOps, DevOps and practices to successfully enable Kafka. Andrew narrates his journey from civil engineering to starting Lenses.io with Antonios, our CEO, to help organizations succeed with real-time data.

Colin Hemmings, Product Manager at Bitrise introduces Trace, the new application performance monitoring (APM) solution we are building here at Bitrise Trace is monitoring made specifically for mobile, helping you catch bugs before they reach your users. With Trace, you’ll be able to have a complete view of these issues with full context, so that you can assess, reproduce, and fix them as quickly as possible.

If you work in QA, you're probably accustomed to thinking of software monitoring as someone else's job. Traditionally, responsibility for monitoring applications fell to IT teams; QA's role ended with pre-deployment testing, and QA engineers did not usually touch monitoring tools. But the reality is that monitoring tools—meaning tools designed to help track application availability and performance, and also alert teams to problems—aren't just for IT teams.