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Container Orchestration in 2022 and Beyond

Author:
Omer Mishania
Published On:
January 24, 2022
Estimated reading time:
11 minutes
Technology is evolving at an exponential rate. We see that services and technical ecosystems become more complex, and yet deploying new environments for either testing or production has become simpler than it used to be a decade or more ago. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the use of containers. They help enterprises […]
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Tutorial Video – A Deeper Dive into the C++ Compiler Optimization

Author:
Incredibuild Team
Published On:
January 19, 2022
After diving into the different loop unrolling scenarios in our previous video, Amir Kirsh walks us through another kind of loop optimization – Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) – and shows how in some cases a longer assembly is actually better, as well as shows some examples in Clang and GCC. Transcript: A Deeper Dive […]

DevOps Security – Best Practices and Tips

Author:
Dori Exterman
Published On:
January 17, 2022
Nobody wants to be caught off guard by an exposed security vulnerability. According to the 2020 Data Breach Investigation Report from Verizon, data breaches due to poor security practices affected approximately 41% of the almost 58% of companies who fell victim to cyber-attacks. Knowing this, the practice of DevOps Security is crucial in preventing loss […]
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A step-by-step crash course in C++ debugging without IDE – empowering the terminal by using GDB!

Author:
Adam Segoli Schubert
Published On:
January 10, 2022
Debugging is clearly an important skill for any programmer in any language, with C++ probably requiring better debugging skills than most popular languages, due to its relative complexity. What’s more, the actual problems we solve with C++ tend to be more complex, which may bring about unexpected results that require analysis and debugging. Programs tend […]
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Tutorial Video – The C++ Optimizer and Loop Unrolling

Author:
Incredibuild Team
Published On:
January 3, 2022
After examining the C++ optimizer and specifically reviewing loop unrolling, in this video, Amir Kirsh will dig deeper into loop unrolling scenarios, implications of undefined behavior in your code, and the effect of the optimization flag on the compiled code.  Let’s get started. Transcript: The C++ Optimizer and Loop Unrolling Hi everybody. My name is […]
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Tutorial Video – A Peek into the C++ Optimizer

Author:
Incredibuild Team
Published On:
December 27, 2021
Compiler optimization is the process of improving the compiled code to allow it to be more efficient, whether by improving its runtime performance or by minimizing the code size. In this video (the transcript is presented here below), Amir Kirsh, Incredibuild Dev Advocate, is focusing on some specific and interesting optimizations performed by the C++ […]
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SRE vs DevOps

Author:
Yohai West
Published On:
December 20, 2021
Hope is not a strategy (Site Reliability Engineering) Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a philosophy that has been steadily gaining followers in recent years, despite being conceptualized in 2003 by Ben Treynor Sloss at Google. With DevOps practices already firmly established in many organizations, is a conflict between the two imminent? Is SRE nothing more than […]
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How to Improve C++ Code Quality

Author:
Amir Kirsh
Published On:
December 13, 2021
High-quality code is code that’s nicely formatted, easy to read, simple to understand, properly tested, free of bugs, and well documented. There are plenty of advantages to having high-quality code, and it pays to make the effort. There are tips and tricks for writing and maintaining good code, along with myriad tools to assist with […]
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GitLab vs GitHub – A 2022 Comparison

Author:
Dori Exterman
Published On:
December 8, 2021
Version Control Systems (VCS) have been at the forefront of the Dev*Ops revolution and leading that charge has been Git. Since its creation in 2005, Git has enjoyed a meteoric rise to become one of the most widely adopted version control systems worldwide. Although many adoptions of Git are available today, two hosted solutions have […]
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How to Measure and Improve Developer Productivity

Author:
Amir Kirsh
Published On:
December 6, 2021
Introduction Developer productivity is a measure of a team’s ability to quickly and efficiently write high-quality software that performs well and is easy to maintain. By maximizing developer productivity, applications can be created and launched faster, shortening time to value and boosting return on investment. With ROI and business performance as driving factors, it is […]
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CMake Ninja Combo: The Gist

Author:
Dori Exterman
Published On:
December 2, 2021
The word Ninja invokes the imagery of stealth and speed in my mind. When developing a “yet another build system” – as the creator of Ninja, Evan Martin, referred to Ninja in its manual – speed was of paramount importance. Naming the build system Ninja is apt as I will show you its capabilities in […]