LightStep this week announced it has added a Service Health for Deployments module to its namesake observability platform designed from the ground up for microservices and serverless computing frameworks. Talia Moyal, senior product manager for LightStep, said Service Health for Deployments will make it possible for DevOps teams to monitor performance regressions both during and […]
An Inside Look at GitOps
At a time when variations on DevOps abound, get ready for the latest: GitOps. This new term promises to bring some order to what can be operational chaos and empower operational teams to leverage best practices learned from their developer counterparts. It’s early days yet for GitOps, but here’s what we think you need to […]
Using Spark and Jenkins to Deploy Code into Hadoop Clusters
This article illustrates how to deploy an application into a Hadoop cluster using GitLab/Jenkins/Spark application. In this article, we will cover the following: Auto-triggering Jenkins build when code is committed in Git. Pulling the latest code from the repository through Jenkins. Building, compiling and packaging the “.jar” using SBT tool. Uploading the .jar to the […]
The Importance of Instant Feedback in Analytics
A feedback loop is essential for every part of the modern DevOps environment. From continuous integration and deployment to application development to infrastructure monitoring to team dynamics, feedback is the most important piece of the DevOps puzzle. But feedback is of little to zero value if it is not timely. And in the modern development […]