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technical debt

Technical debt -- or tech debt -- is the implied cost incurred when businesses do not fix problems that will affect them in the future.

By Ben Lutkevich • Feb. 1, 2023

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service for containers and container clusters running on Google Cloud infrastructure.

By Stephen Bigelow • Jan. 31, 2023

disruptive technology (disruptive innovation)

Disruptive technology, often referred to as disruptive innovation, is when a new business model attracts an underserviced market or revenue stream and grows until it supplants incumbent competitors.

By Gavin Wright • Jan. 31, 2023

3 key steps when creating a DevOps implementation plan

Shifting to the DevOps model can be complicated and challenging. Set your team up for success by learning which areas to prioritize at the early stages of DevOps adoption.

By Tom Nolle • Jan. 30, 2023

EDR tools for Windows Server compared

Windows Server 2022 comes with native security technologies to protect the enterprise. But endpoint detection and response tools can be worth the price of admission.

By Brien Posey • Jan. 27, 2023

Where IT operations management is headed in 2023

Between an economic downturn and increasing technical complexity, IT ops management faces a challenging year. An expert analyst shares his predictions for areas of focus in 2023.

By Jon Brown • Jan. 27, 2023

Lens Kubernetes developer portal expands with Shipa buy

The early stage startup, co-founded by Juniper and CloudBees vets, adds a "stupid easy" option for application auto-discovery and ongoing management, according to Mirantis.

By Beth Pariseau • Jan. 26, 2023

memory paging

Memory paging is a memory management technique used to control sharing of memory resources belonging to a computer or virtual machine (VM).

By Julia Anderson • Jan. 26, 2023

OpenSSF GM talks funding, legal software supply chain issues

The OpenSSF leader lays out plans fund open source software supply chain security in a slowing economy and to speak out against the EU's Cyber Resilience Act.

By Beth Pariseau • Jan. 25, 2023

Reduce Kubernetes spend with these 10 Kubecost alternatives

IT teams have several options other than Kubecost to monitor Kubernetes spending, from dedicated Kubernetes-specific tools to full-fledged cloud management platforms.

By Will Kelly • Jan. 25, 2023

IT budgets under pressure spur tool consolidation

As the tech industry suffers layoffs and slowing growth, IT organizations such as Boeing are handing some of their IT vendors pink slips of their own.

By Beth Pariseau • Jan. 24, 2023

Try out PowerShell grep equivalents with these examples

Though less well known than grep, PowerShell cmdlets such as Select-String have extensive search capabilities in their own right. Explore use cases for both in this tutorial.

By Anthony Howell • Jan. 23, 2023

The evolution of containers: Docker, Kubernetes and the future

Container technology is almost as old as VMs, although IT wasn't talking about the topic until Docker, Kubernetes and other tech made waves that caused a frenzy of activity.

By Emily Mell • Jan. 20, 2023

Will developers become archaic? Analyst predictions for 2023

Organizations must continue innovating and optimizing to keep up -- but these advances could set developers up for extinction. Explore an industry analyst's predictions for 2023.

By Paul Nashawaty • Jan. 19, 2023

Data pipelines feed IT’s observability beast

Amid data growth, cloud complexity and demand for advanced automation, the data pipelines developed to satisfy the appetites of AI apps also serve observability tools.

By Beth Pariseau • Jan. 19, 2023

LZW compression

LZW compression is a method to reduce the size of Tag Image File Format (TIFF) or Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) files.

By Rahul Awati • Jan. 19, 2023

Map physical GPUs to VMs with this GPU passthrough guide

Learn how to set up GPU passthrough -- a useful technique to support graphically intensive apps and machine learning models -- with a step-by-step tutorial for VMware environments.

By Brien Posey • Jan. 18, 2023

interrupt request (IRQ)

An interrupt request (IRQ) is a signal sent to a computer's processor to momentarily stop (interrupt) its operations.

By Rahul Awati • Jan. 18, 2023

CircleCI incident adds to SecOps toil

SaaS CI/CD vendor CircleCI urged customers to rotate all secrets data, the latest of several security breaches weighing on SecOps pros charged with responding.

By Beth Pariseau • Jan. 17, 2023

Startup’s eBPF APM tools turn up heat on Datadog

Lemonade plans to put tools from eBPF startup Groundcover in production this year in a bid to reduce instrumentation work and other overhead for its small DevOps team.

By Beth Pariseau • Jan. 12, 2023

8 tips for building a multi-cloud DevOps strategy

DevOps practices and tools have many benefits for application development, deployment and monitoring in complex IT environments that span multiple clouds.

By Will Kelly • Jan. 12, 2023

Testing infrastructure as code: A complete guide

IaC, when implemented correctly, can benefit enterprises' CD pipelines. But, when the code isn't tested before deployment, things can go awry. Follow these strategies for success.

By Stephen Bigelow • Jan. 12, 2023

Demystify the DevOps process, step by step

While varying definitions and vendor marketing spins can make the meaning of DevOps tough to nail down, there are concrete principles and processes that underpin the methodology.

By Will Kelly • Jan. 11, 2023

Microsoft resolves Windows zero-day on January Patch Tuesday

The company also issues five corrections, all with a rating of important, to address vulnerabilities on its on-premises Exchange Server email platform.

By Tom Walat • Jan. 11, 2023

rolling deployment

A rolling deployment is the installation of software updates on one server or server subset at a time, rather than updating all servers or server subsets at the same time.

By Stephen Bigelow • Jan. 10, 2023