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In this article, we'll discuss what QA automation is, why it's so useful, and some tips and tools that can help you get started with it.

In this article we'll walk through the basics of runbook automation and discuss how to use automation to make your runbooks actionable, accessible, accurate, authoritative, and adaptable.

In this article, we'll introduce DevOps automation and walk through six important DevOps automation techniques that can massively scale up your professional or personal projects.

In this article we'll discuss six ways to leverage feature flags to boost productivity and walk through how to build a lightweight feature flag in under 5 minutes. What

In this article, we’ll first explore how to create a Django admin panel with basic functionality. Then, we’ll demonstrate some intermediate and advanced concepts — including how to customize your admin panels to manage product inventory and generate reports.

This article will cover twelve Python scripts that were selected for their general utility, ease of use, and positive impact on your workload. They range in complexity from easy to intermediate and focus on text processing and file management.

In this article, we'll walk through the high level of how to manage product releases across teams of different sizes. We'll cover product release lifecycles that are well-suited for small, medium, and even enterprise environments.

The most common of cron's issues (and the ones we'll cover in this article) include: system resource depletion, large dataset challenges, overlapping jobs, infrastructure changes, insufficient error handling, and scaling issues. We go into each of these in more detail in this article.

In this article we'll introduce cron and anacron, explore their similarities and differences, and walk through how to implement each.

This article walks through the most common reasons why your cron job isn't running: schedule errors, environmental changes, depleted resources, and overlapping jobs. We’ll also share some additional troubleshooting tips along with code samples to help get your cron jobs back up and running.

There are a couple of ways you can create scheduled tasks in Docker using cron. In this article we'll walk through using the host's crontab, using cron within your containers, and separating cron from your application’s services. We'll also discuss scheduling tasks with Kubernetes.

In this article, we'll walk through the basics of feature toggles, some best practices when using them, and show you an example of how to manage feature flags with ease using Airplane, a developer tool for building internal apps.

In this article we'll walk through how to schedule recurring tasks using cron jobs. We'll discuss crontab’s structure and syntax, real-life use cases, and some limitations. We'll also touch on alternatives to cron.

GitHub Actions are a way to automate tasks in your GitHub repository and are most commonly used to automate CI/CD workflows. In this article, we'll walk through how to leverage scheduled tasks in GitHub Actions and explore some of the limitations with the native functionality.

In this article, we'll walk through how to create cron jobs in Golang, set up a Golang project, and use the gocron and cron.v2 packages to schedule tasks.

In this article, we’ll walk through some troubleshooting steps including locating the cron job, validating the schedule, permissions, and more for determining the source of a cron job problem.

When you take a step back from the buzz of activities we generalize as work, you'll notice event patterns—repetitive processes. We can document most of these events and processes into easy-to-run steps in runbooks. Runbooks help make sure tasks are performed at the same level of accuracy and yield predictable and desired results. While runbooks tend to live in Google Docs or wiki pages, runbook automation is the process of using software to execute these more reliably, quickly, and autonomously

We often run into situations that require us to run a piece of code periodically—for example, renewing SSL certificates that may expire every year or two. Fortunately, most servers and operating systems provide some means to conduct repetitive tasks automatically. One popular solution is using cron.

One of the first things that a scaling startup builds as soon as they have a reasonable amount of customer volume is an admin panel, sometimes called an admin dashboard or control center. From here, people on support, customer success, ops, and other teams can read and write customer data to help resolve customer issues. Examples of the types of things you might need to do in an admin panel: * Read data: Lookup a user's metadata and transaction history; see a list of users on a team * Sim

Here at Airplane, we get asked often about the differences between Airplane and Rundeck. We thought we'd give our take. We're obviously biased towards our approach, but we started building Airplane in part due to some of the needs we had that existing tools, like Rundeck, didn't meet.

Replace brittle cron jobs with easy-to-use scheduled Airplane tasks.