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DevOps automation, cloud-native platforms, Red Hat, and AI agents — from the Level Up team.
Part 1 of 3 on "Becoming Cloud Native: What to do when your public sector organization WASN'T born in the cloud". In the first of a 3-video overview which is specifically focused on addressing the unique cloud and automation goals and challenges of state/local agencies as well as higher education, R
Read more →With Red Hat co-sponsoring and TrueCar graciously hosting, we had another great turnout for the LA DevOps and Cloud meetup group at the TrueCar Santa Monica offices on Thursday, January 16! Keynote speaker Paul Schipitsch of TrueCar shared "TrueCar's Journey to Continuous Integration (CI)" and highl
Read more →A big way in which we typically measure success with DevOps has to do with integration. Your new solutions need to work with whatever products your organization has already made investments in. Because whether IT decision-makers were thinking in terms of infrastructure-as-code when they originally p
Read more →Coding style guides are becoming fairly common in larger organizations. (As examples at the deepest end of the pool, Google publishes guides for Python, Java, C++ and other languages.) Some coding style guides are more ambitious than others. Some are probably more reality-bound than others. We can d
Read more →As leaders, we are always striving to bring greater ownership/accountability to our organizations, and visibility to our internal customers. When it matters, the question of “Who did what and when?” matters more than ever. However, especially in larger microservices-based CI/CD environments, with an
Read more →Level Up was thrilled to be part of the Cloud Native Patterns meetup at the TrueCar Santa Monica offices on November 20th. There were over 50 RSVP’s, and we really enjoyed having a chance to connect with so many members of the new LA DevOps and Cloud meetup group. Meetup keynote speaker Regis Wilson
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