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A comparison of popular container orchestration tools: Kubernetes vs Amazon ECS vs Azure Container Apps
As a DevOps

A comparison of popular container orchestration tools

With the increasing adoption of new technologies and the shift to cloud-native environments, container orchestration has become an indispensable tool for deploying, scaling and managing

XALT News

TeamXALT Summer Event 2023

In a fast-paced business world, strengthening interpersonal relationships within the company is critical to a positive and productive work environment. For this reason, TeamXALT recently came

Necessary vs. unnecessary meetings
Atlassian

Necessary and unnecessary meetings

Have you ever been caught in a meeting that seems to drag on forever, with no clear goal or end? We've probably all been there

TeamXALT in Las Vegas at Team23 by Atlassian
XALT News

Team XALT in Vegas at Team23 by Atlassian

April 2023 and for TeamXALT, it's off to Las Vegas for Atlassian's Team23. This special event and conference is all about the latest developments in

Atlassian product news Team23
Atlassian

Atlassian product news Team23

Atlassians' recent Team23 event in Las Vegas was an impressive showcase of innovative products, integrations and powerful updates that aim to reshape the future of work

XALT Girls Day 2023
XALT News

Girls'Day 2023 program at XALT

It's exactly 4 weeks away and we're looking forward to Girls' Day 2023! At XALT, we are fully committed to diversity,

DevSecOps in the manufacturing industry
As a DevOps

DevSecOps in the manufacturing industry

Industrial companies today are under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality products faster and more efficiently while ensuring operational security. DevSecOps, a set of

Advantages of a corporate intranet
Atlassian

Important advantages of a corporate intranet

In today's business world, an effective intranet is essential for any company if it wants to stay ahead of the competition. An intranet is an internal communication

Customer orientation at XALT
XALT News

Customer focus: XALT as part of the team

Last year, we were able to carry out the most extensive cloud migration in the DACH region for our customer Fath. At this point we are pleased to present

Glossary for DevSecOps
As a DevOps

Glossary for DevSecOps

In recent years, DevSecOps has emerged as an important approach to software development that focuses on security throughout the software development lifecycle.

Creative examples for Jira announcement banners
Atlassian

11 creative Jira announcement banner examples

As a Jira user, you know how important clear communication and collaboration between team members is to ensure successful project delivery. Here come the Jira

Pledge 1 percent - xalt helps out at the Christmas market for a good cause
XALT News

Pledge 1% at XALT

Worldwide, Pledge-1% moves companies to give back to society. One percent of their time, capital, products or profits are donated to a nonprofit organization of their

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
As a DevOps

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Infrastructure as Code describes the management and deployment of computer data centers through machine-readable definition files. Rather than using physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. The

11 Steps for better code
XALT News

The 11 XALT steps to Better Code

Wondering how we code and develop software at XALT? In this blog post, we share some of our guiding principles when it comes to software development of any kind.

Home office equipment
XALT News

The best equipment for your home office

Remote work is on everyone's lips and has become an integral part of the modern working world. However, in addition to "simply working from home" and

Working remotely with the right equipment
XALT News

Console.log podcast interview with Fabienne

Our colleague Fabienne Gerhard was a guest on the console.log podcast ("hello heroes"); your former university; Munich University of Applied Sciences. The first episode of the podcast is dedicated to

Team Event Munich 2022
XALT News

Team Event Munich - June 2022

The last team event in October 2021 was a great success. The event was urgently needed due to Covid-19. The team liked it so much that

Girls'Day 2022 XALT
XALT News

The first Girls' Day at XALT 2022

Girls' Day is a nationwide campaign in which schoolgirls from the 5th grade onwards spend a day in a company of their choice to gain an insight into a

How to get started with DevOps
As a DevOps

How to get started with DevOps

If you're new to DevOps, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. But fear not! In this post, we'll give you

Social Intranet Corporate Intranet Solution Comparison
Atlassian

The 4 best social intranet solutions in comparison

In the past, often only large companies had an intranet. Nowadays, in the era of hybrid and remote work models, however, more and more small and medium-sized companies are using

Meaningful Confluence pages
Atlassian

How to create engaging Confluence pages

Creating meaningful Confluence pages can be a bit daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Confluence is a great tool for teams of all sizes, and there are

Advantages of digital business processes
Agile

Advantages of digital business processes

Digital transformation, cloud technologies and business process automation are key topics in companies around the world. Therefore, it is also not surprising that companies are

XALT News

Atlassian Community - Virtual XMAS Party

Christmas is the time of joy, happiness and love. It brings people together and offers the perfect opportunity to review the past year.

2021 Throwback
XALT News

2021 Throwback and what's to come

The year is nearing its end and the time has come to celebrate Christmas and New Year with your friends, family and loved ones. Earlier

CALMS framework
Container8

CALMS framework

CALMS is a framework that allows you to assess your company's ability to adopt DevOps processes, as well as enables you to measure success during a DevOps transformation.
CALMS stands for Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement and Sharing.

AWS Consulting Partner
XALT News

XALT becomes AWS Consulting Partner

Since 2016, we have been helping and accompanying IT teams on their way to implementing DevOps methods, cloud concepts and agile workflows. At the beginning of the year, XALT received the

Best Practices Cloud Migration - Jira and Confluence
Atlassian

Best Practices Cloud Migration Jira and Confluence

Atlassian cloud migration of Confluence or JIRA environments is not to be underestimated. Over the years, you've accumulated a myriad of pages and sections that you'll need to

XALT Team Event 2021
XALT News

XALT Team Event 2021

It's been two long years since we last organized a team event and met most of us in one place. For

Faster time to market with DevOps
Container8

Faster time to market with DevOps

Life punishes those who are late. A proverb that everyone knows. And yet it hits the nail on the head in software development today. The faster you develop apps, plugins or software in this day and age...

Creating a Confluence Product Help Center with Scroll Viewport
Atlassian

How to create a (product) help center in Confluence

For businesses, providing quality customer support takes a tremendous amount of effort. To avoid getting bogged down in support tickets, many companies today use other solutions from the

Typical DevOps Problems
Container8

Typical IT problems that can be solved with DevOps

DevOps - a buzzword that is becoming a mouthpiece in many companies lately. From "corporate disruption" and "agile everything", the spotlight of the IT industry had passed to DevOps in recent years...

Human Resource Management with Jira
Atlassian

How to manage human resources with Jira

There are countless tools for managing human resources. The most important thing is that they are easy to implement and can be used as quickly as possible by all employees in the company.

Quality Assurance Testing with XRAY for Jira
Atlassian

Quality Assurance Testing with Xray and Jira

For an IT company it is especially important to deliver a software product with a high quality. The improvement of software development processes and their automation represents a considerable

Technical debt
Agile

Technical debt in agile software development

Imagine you're driving a car and you notice that your brakes aren't working properly anymore. But instead of having them repaired straight away, you decide to

Atlassian Hosting
Atlassian

Atlassian Hosting: Technical Approach

There are several options for Atlassian hosting. Server, Data Center or even directly in the Atlassian Cloud. One of these options is to host Atlassian software directly in the cloud.

Working student at XALT
XALT News

How working at XALT shapes my university life

Hello Alex, are you a working student at XALT? Please start by telling us a bit about yourself, your studies and your role at the company. Hi, that's right, I'm

Company wiki with Confluence
Atlassian

Why a company wiki makes sense for your company

Every day we face new challenges in our job, we have to learn new skills and tools, and we have to gather the necessary information about projects or customers.

Remote Work with Confluence and Jira
Atlassian

How to manage remote teams with Jira and Confluence

The world of work is in a state of flux in 2021. New technologies such as Jira and Confluence enable teams to work together remotely and handle projects across large distances.

Data security in the Atlassian Cloud
Atlassian

Data security in the Atlassian Cloud

An essential advantage of having your own environment and using servers is that you are always aware of what is happening with your data, and

Cloud Migration
Cloud

5 reasons why you should move to the cloud

The shift to the cloud is unstoppable. By the end of 2020, it is estimated that 83% of all global enterprise workloads will take place in the cloud. And

Atlassian Gold Partner
XALT News

XALT goes gold - Atlassian Gold Partner

Having worked with Atlassian since XALT's inception, we achieved Gold Partner status with Atlassian earlier this year, and that's only the

Necessary vs. unnecessary meetings
Atlassian

Necessary and unnecessary meetings

Have you ever been caught in a meeting that seems to drag on forever, with no clear goal or end? We've probably all been there

Atlassian product news Team23
Atlassian

Atlassian product news Team23

Atlassians' recent Team23 event in Las Vegas was an impressive showcase of innovative products, integrations and powerful updates that aim to reshape the future of work

Advantages of a corporate intranet
Atlassian

Important advantages of a corporate intranet

In today's business world, an effective intranet is essential for any company if it wants to stay ahead of the competition. An intranet is an internal communication

Creative examples for Jira announcement banners
Atlassian

11 creative Jira announcement banner examples

As a Jira user, you know how important clear communication and collaboration between team members is to ensure successful project delivery. Here come the Jira

Social Intranet Corporate Intranet Solution Comparison
Atlassian

The 4 best social intranet solutions in comparison

In the past, often only large companies had an intranet. Nowadays, in the era of hybrid and remote work models, however, more and more small and medium-sized companies are using

Meaningful Confluence pages
Atlassian

How to create engaging Confluence pages

Creating meaningful Confluence pages can be a bit daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Confluence is a great tool for teams of all sizes, and there are

Best Practices Cloud Migration - Jira and Confluence
Atlassian

Best Practices Cloud Migration Jira and Confluence

Atlassian cloud migration of Confluence or JIRA environments is not to be underestimated. Over the years, you've accumulated a myriad of pages and sections that you'll need to

Creating a Confluence Product Help Center with Scroll Viewport
Atlassian

How to create a (product) help center in Confluence

For businesses, providing quality customer support takes a tremendous amount of effort. To avoid getting bogged down in support tickets, many companies today use other solutions from the

Human Resource Management with Jira
Atlassian

How to manage human resources with Jira

There are countless tools for managing human resources. The most important thing is that they are easy to implement and can be used as quickly as possible by all employees in the company.

Quality Assurance Testing with XRAY for Jira
Atlassian

Quality Assurance Testing with Xray and Jira

For an IT company it is especially important to deliver a software product with a high quality. The improvement of software development processes and their automation represents a considerable

Atlassian Hosting
Atlassian

Atlassian Hosting: Technical Approach

There are several options for Atlassian hosting. Server, Data Center or even directly in the Atlassian Cloud. One of these options is to host Atlassian software directly in the cloud.

Company wiki with Confluence
Atlassian

Why a company wiki makes sense for your company

Every day we face new challenges in our job, we have to learn new skills and tools, and we have to gather the necessary information about projects or customers.

Remote Work with Confluence and Jira
Atlassian

How to manage remote teams with Jira and Confluence

The world of work is in a state of flux in 2021. New technologies such as Jira and Confluence enable teams to work together remotely and handle projects across large distances.

Data security in the Atlassian Cloud
Atlassian

Data security in the Atlassian Cloud

An essential advantage of having your own environment and using servers is that you are always aware of what is happening with your data, and

Release more often

Safe valuable time at your next release by using a fully automated and customized product pipeline to your advantage.

Fast MTTR and low complexity small releases reduce the risk in your product pipeline.

Keep a complex microservice environment secure

Reduce costs of your managed toolchains with the included, proactive tool maintenance and on-demand support.

Bring different departments together

Easily bring teams of different departments together and collaborate on software releases by automating recurring tasks and workflows.

Enable real agility, delivering constant results in large complex environments.

A comparison of popular container orchestration tools: Kubernetes vs Amazon ECS vs Azure Container Apps
As a DevOps

A comparison of popular container orchestration tools

With the increasing adoption of new technologies and the shift to cloud-native environments, container orchestration has become an indispensable tool for deploying, scaling and managing

DevSecOps in the manufacturing industry
As a DevOps

DevSecOps in the manufacturing industry

Industrial companies today are under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality products faster and more efficiently while ensuring operational security. DevSecOps, a set of

Glossary for DevSecOps
As a DevOps

Glossary for DevSecOps

In recent years, DevSecOps has emerged as an important approach to software development that focuses on security throughout the software development lifecycle.

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
As a DevOps

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Infrastructure as Code describes the management and deployment of computer data centers through machine-readable definition files. Rather than using physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. The

How to get started with DevOps
As a DevOps

How to get started with DevOps

If you're new to DevOps, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. But fear not! In this post, we'll give you

CALMS framework
Container8

CALMS framework

CALMS is a framework that allows you to assess your company's ability to adopt DevOps processes, as well as enables you to measure success during a DevOps transformation.
CALMS stands for Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement and Sharing.

Faster time to market with DevOps
Container8

Faster time to market with DevOps

Life punishes those who are late. A proverb that everyone knows. And yet it hits the nail on the head in software development today. The faster you develop apps, plugins or software in this day and age...

Typical DevOps Problems
Container8

Typical IT problems that can be solved with DevOps

DevOps - a buzzword that is becoming a mouthpiece in many companies lately. From "corporate disruption" and "agile everything", the spotlight of the IT industry had passed to DevOps in recent years...

Atlassian Hosting
Atlassian

Atlassian Hosting: Technical Approach

There are several options for Atlassian hosting. Server, Data Center or even directly in the Atlassian Cloud. One of these options is to host Atlassian software

Data security in the Atlassian Cloud
Atlassian

Data security in the Atlassian Cloud

An essential advantage of having your own environment and using servers is that you always know what is happening with your data.

XALT News

TeamXALT Summer Event 2023

In a fast-paced business world, strengthening interpersonal relationships within the company is critical to a positive and productive work environment. For this reason, TeamXALT recently came

TeamXALT in Las Vegas at Team23 by Atlassian
XALT News

Team XALT in Vegas at Team23 by Atlassian

April 2023 and for TeamXALT, it's off to Las Vegas for Atlassian's Team23. This special event and conference is all about the latest developments in

XALT Girls Day 2023
XALT News

Girls'Day 2023 program at XALT

It's exactly 4 weeks away and we're looking forward to Girls' Day 2023! At XALT, we are fully committed to diversity,

Customer orientation at XALT
XALT News

Customer focus: XALT as part of the team

Last year, we were able to carry out the most extensive cloud migration in the DACH region for our customer Fath. At this point we are pleased to present

Pledge 1 percent - xalt helps out at the Christmas market for a good cause
XALT News

Pledge 1% at XALT

Worldwide, Pledge-1% moves companies to give back to society. One percent of their time, capital, products or profits are donated to a nonprofit organization of their

11 Steps for better code
XALT News

The 11 XALT steps to Better Code

Wondering how we code and develop software at XALT? In this blog post, we share some of our guiding principles when it comes to software development of any kind.

Home office equipment
XALT News

The best equipment for your home office

Remote work is on everyone's lips and has become an integral part of the modern working world. However, in addition to "simply working from home" and

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