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Platform Engineering Team Structure: DevOps Skills + New Roles to Hire for Your Platform Engineering Team
The assumption that platform engineering teams have “killed” DevOps just isn’t true based on our findings from the 2023 State of DevOps report. Our latest thought piece blog dives in based on research from the report.
Platform Engineering
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What is Platform Engineering? Platform Engineering Definition with Examples + Starting Points
Platform engineering isn’t brand-new, but it’s also not well-established. If you’re curious about what it is and how it works, read this blog for quick, simple definitions and answers.
Platform Engineering, Glossary
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Puppet Functions: An Overview + Key Updates
Puppet 6 introduced Deferred functions, a new feature that allows you to run code on the agent side during enforcement. And Puppet 7.17 included updated modules for deferred functions. Get an overview of both in this blog.
How to & Use Cases, Products & Services
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Why Patching is Important: The Risks of Not Patching + Reasons to Get Ahead of Patching Now
Let's face it: no one likes patching. For some IT ops teams, it's such a burden that it's easy to forget why patching is important. Lots of teams put off patching until it's absolutely necessary, like a vital app update or a piece of software going EOL.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," right? Wrong! We all know ignoring patches, or letting them pile up, is a bad practice. Read this blog to remind yourself why patching is important, what can happen if you don't, and how to stop putting it off.
Configuration Management, How to & Use Cases