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January 2025

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Python Observability : A Complete Guide

Observability is a critical element of modern software development, unlocking awareness across complex and distributed systems with ease. This has allowed developers to monitor, understand, and debug their applications effectively, leveraging existing resources for more efficient lifecycle management and iteration. In the context of Python, observability is an engine for boosting and maintaining the performance, reliability, and stability of the implementation. In this guide, we're going to look at the key aspects of building and deploying Python observability, the importance of this process, and the tools available to implement it.

Why Are More Companies Repatriating Workloads from the Cloud?

Over the past decade, many businesses of all sizes have embraced the cloud for its scalability and promise of cost savings. The cloud has been credited for helping companies innovate faster, expand globally, and offload infrastructure management to providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. However, as cloud adoption matures, a noticeable shift is occurring.

Concept Demo: Process Modernization with Playbooks on Mobile

In this video, we’re showcasing an initial prototype of how Mattermost Playbooks will work on mobile—putting the power of streamlined workflows and incident response right at your fingertips. With these new enhancements, users will be able to: By bringing these core Playbooks capabilities to your phone and tablet, we’re making it easier than ever to maintain process continuity and respond to incidents—even when you’re away from your desk.

Cloud Repatriation: Examples, Unpacking 2025 Trends & Tips for Reverse Migration

If you moved to the cloud hoping for cost savings and scalability only to find that your cloud costs are ballooning, your cloud performance isn’t up to snuff, or you’re always struggling to align compliance regulations with your cloud deployment, it might be time to look into cloud repatriation as an alternative to public cloud infrastructure. Moving anything from public cloud to private cloud or on-prem infrastructure this year?

How is Civo making AI more accessible through affordable GPUs?

To read the full findings from this research, visit the AI for All white paper by clicking here. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are reshaping industries and unlocking unprecedented opportunities. However, the widespread adoption of these technologies hinges on addressing a critical issue: the accessibility of GPUs.

AI in IT Operations: A Practical Guide for 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic buzzword. It’s here, it’s growing, and it’s reshaping industries across the board. While AI often evokes images of humanoid robots and sci-fi scenarios, its practical applications, especially in IT, are far more grounded and transformative. This blog explores how AI has evolved, the types of AI in use today, and how it can bring tangible benefits to IT teams.

10 Benefits of Dedicated Servers for Uninterrupted Business Operations

If you operate digitally, whether hosting an e-commerce site or handling large quantities of data, then getting the right server hosting should be high on your list of priorities. But with a multitude of options out there, it can be hard to know which will be the best fit for you. If you're looking to crunch the numbers, you might be tempted to go for shared hosting as a cost-effective option. If scalability is important to you, then the flexibility of cloud hosting might appeal.

Cloudsmith 2024: By the Numbers

2024 was a year of incredible stories. At Cloudsmith, we had the privilege of being part of our customers' journeys as they reached significant milestones, driving growth, innovation, and strengthened trust across the globe. Our customers led the way, leveraging Cloudsmith’s capabilities to enhance their workflows, scale their operations, and secure their software supply chains. Let’s explore the amazing progress our community made together and the stories behind these achievements.

Building Intelligent Apps in 2025 and beyond: Get Yourself a Platform That's as Smart as Your Ideas

The way we build and scale AI-powered applications is changing faster than anyone could have imagined. Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen dramatic shifts in how developers design experiences and solve challenges with large language models (LLMs). But as trends continue to evolve—often faster than we can adopt them—the big question becomes: How do you find an application platform that doesn’t just keep up but is truly future-proof?

Why Your Business Needs to Invest in an IP Address

Creating a successful online presence is essential for businesses in today's highly competitive digital landscape. A vital component of this digital identity lies in the significance of having a unique IP address. Investing in an exclusive IP address can open doors to numerous advantages in performance, security, and branding. As companies evolve, understanding the value of a dedicated IP address will play a crucial role in ensuring that their online initiatives not only succeed but also thrive.

Mastering Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and AWS DevOps Consulting

Modern DevOps depends heavily on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which lets companies control and provide their IT infrastructure using code instead of hand-written procedures. Because of its adaptability and fit with many cloud providers, including AWS, Terraform, an open-source IaC tool developed by HashiCorp, has become a favorite alternative for many. The basis of Terraform, how it interacts with AWS, and how AWS DevOps consultancy might enhance your IaC procedures are investigated in this article.

Best 7 DBVisualizer Alternatives

Due to its wide compatibility, user interface, and broad range of functions, DBVisualizer is frequently chosen by database developers, administrators, analysts, and other specialists who work with databases. However, it’s not the only option for database management. This article will explore seven other IDEs and compare them by features.

Transformative Assessments in Tidal Accelerator

Cloud migrations can be complex, but they don’t have to be overwhelming. With the Tidal Accelerator platform, we’ve simplified the process, enabling organizations to not only migrate to the cloud efficiently by embracing the full spectrum of cloud migration methods, but also plan for a modernized infrastructure that supports long-term success. Here’s how Tidal Accelerator makes it possible.

NIST 800-53: Understanding the Rosetta Stone of security frameworks

Across various industries including the Department of Defense (DoD), federal service agencies, financial institutions, healthcare and other highly regulated organizations, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) 800 53 security framework, is used to describe the security compliance. It is a standard catalog of security controls for protecting organizations’ operations, assets, and users from cyber threats. To be sure that is a broad definition that requires more nuance.

How to Fix Poor AWS Latency

Find out how to reduce your latency and get better network performance from the leading cloud service provider. In the modern business world, AWS is everywhere. According to HG Insights, the leading hyperscaler has over 50% market share, with 2.38 million businesses worldwide using AWS cloud services in 2024. One of the top questions we hear AWS users ask is how they can make their AWS connection faster.

Best Monitoring Solutions for Nonprofits in 2025

In 2025, nonprofits will rely heavily on technology to achieve their missions. They need reliable infrastructure to manage databases, run online campaigns, deliver critical services, and more. Limited resources make it difficult to maintain their systems efficiently. Monitoring solutions provide visibility into system uptime, performance, security, etc. With monitoring, nonprofits can focus on their missions without worrying about infrastructure failures or other errors.

What is the curl command?

curl is one of those programs that feels like its always been there for you in a pinch, like when you're trying to debug what your API is doing, and yet we never take the time to actually learn how to use it (I only ever used it via "copy as curl" from my browser's devtools). It's insanely powerful too, run curl --help all to see what I mean. In this article, we're going to take the time to learn what we can do with a tiny subset of curl's options, so we don't have to look them up every time.

How to Configure Devices Faster and More Accurately With MDM Profiles

Configuring a multitude of devices manually can be a tedious and error-prone process. In today's hyper-connected world, where time is money and efficiency is key, mobile device management (MDM) solutions enable IT professionals to configure each device accurately, swiftly and with minimal effort. Whether you're deploying smartphones, tablets or laptops, Pulseway MDM gives your team the tools they need to hit the ground running. IT professionals have to manage an increasing number and variety of endpoints.

Supercharge your pipeline with 16x step sizes

Earlier this year, we took a significant step forward by announcing our new CI/CD runtime, complete with 4x and 8x build sizes as part of our commitment to improve performance. As our users continue to work on increasingly complex projects, the demand for greater computational power has become evident. In response, we are excited to introduce the 16x build size.

Introducing Alert Grouping: Less Noise, More Signal

Imagine this familiar scenario: it’s 2 a.m., and a critical service goes down. Your phone starts buzzing nonstop with alerts — all essentially saying the same thing. It’s overwhelming, distracting, and makes it that much harder to focus on fixing the problem. Enter Alert Grouping — it’s our smarter way to manage alerts, designed to help you cut through the clutter and focus on what matters.

Four stand-out data movement trends shaping 2025

As we step into a new year, Neil Templeton, SVP of Marketing, highlights four transformative trends that are reshaping network infrastructure and revolutionising how data moves across diverse ecosystems. In this blog, we explore these pivotal themes and offer key insights for organisations seeking to optimise and secure the movement of their data across clouds, data centres, devices and more.

Looking beyond the M25 to drive regional data centre growth

The Foundations of the Future report commissioned by techUK, and developed by Henham Strategy, makes for incredible reading. As a sector, the UK data centre industry is worth £4.7 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA) annually, supporting 43,500 jobs and contributing £640 million in revenue to the exchequer. When you consider that this has happened in less than 35 years, this is remarkable.

Azure Budget Monitoring Tools to Empower Cost Efficiency

Cloud adoption brings agility and scalability, but without effective cost monitoring, cloud expenses can spiral out of control. Microsoft Azure offers robust budget monitoring tools to help businesses manage and optimize cloud spending. These tools enable real-time tracking, forecasting, and alerting for Azure budgets, ensuring efficient cost management and avoiding unexpected expenses.

Product Release Notes December 2024

As we step into 2025, we’re thrilled to reflect on the strides we’ve made in December and all throughout the last year to empower the FinOps and cloud cost management practices of our customers. These updates mark another milestone in our journey to continuously improve your experience, providing the insights and control you need to manage cloud costs efficiently.

Difference Between Blocking and Deadlocks in SQL Server

When it comes to database performance optimization, database administrators or developers must understand the differences between blocking and deadlocks in SQL Server because these concepts often need clarification. Blocking and deadlocks help handle access to shared resources when working with concurrent transactions. However, improper management or a lack of awareness about their behavior may lead to performance issues, such as failures and delays in processing transactions.

It's OK to ask why AI prototypes are not getting to production

Enterprise GenAI prototypes are everywhere. GenAI in production are far fewer. Why? Management consultancies have different success numbers – we’ve heard 3% or 5% going to prod across tens of thousands of AI proof of concepts. For obvious reasons, it’s not a number LLM enthusiasts want to talk about. But we probably should.

Manage your reliability work more easily with Gremlin's newest features

Reliability testing is ongoing work, and tracking that work can be difficult in large organizations. Engineers run one-off experiments, scheduled Scenarios run in the background, and, for more mature teams, CI/CD workflows fire off automated tests on demand. According to our own product metrics, teams run an average of 200 to 500 tests each day! With so much happening, it’s hard to keep track of everything going on in Gremlin—until now.

Understanding Docker Networking Part II

Docker is a helpful tool for application management. You can use Docker in various ways: in the standalone mode, using Docker Compose on a single host, or by deploying containers and connecting Docker engines across multiple hosts. The user can use Docker containers with the default network, the host network, or other more advanced networks like overlays. This depends on the use case and/or the adopted technologies.

Top Cloud Cost News From December 2024

It might not be anywhere near springtime yet, but it’s still the perfect time to plant seeds for your brand new (or redesigned, or fine-tuned …) cost management strategy for 2025. To make sure your foundation is solid as you move forward, take advantage of these helpful resources for building and refining your FinOps practice: Think of brushing up on all this knowledge as the business version of hitting the gym for the new year.

How Cloud Servers Boost Speed, Reliability, and Profitability for Traders

Forex trading moves fast, and every millisecond can make or break a deal. I've seen how technology has revolutionized this space, and one game-changer that stands out is the use of cloud servers. They've become a vital tool for traders looking to stay ahead in this highly competitive market.

How to Accelerate Incident Response with Freshdesk + Zenduty Integration

When something breaks, customers don’t wait. They expect fast solutions. In fact, 90% of customers expect a quick response when they reach out. If your team can’t handle high-severity tickets quickly, it’s trust lost, revenue impacted, and customers looking elsewhere. The good news? There’s a better way to stay ahead of critical issues. Before we jump to the solution, let’s deep dive into the major problems businesses face when incident response gets delayed.

The Future of Cloud Native: Beyond the Kubernetes Hype Cycle with Michael Levan

Discover the future of cloud native technologies in this episode of Cloud Control! Host Shon Harris sits down with Michael Levan to dive into the Kubernetes ecosystem, open source communities, and what lies ahead for cloud native tech. Learn about Michael’s journey from systems administration to becoming part of the Kubernetes release team, and get an inside look at the Kubernetes release process. We’ll also explore how geopolitical factors influence open source and hear predictions on the next big trends in cloud native technology.

60 SaaS Tools Dominating The Market In 2025

SaaS tools enable companies of all sizes to get to market quickly, enhance their service delivery, and improve efficiency. By leveraging “ready-to-go” and “proven” platforms, SaaS companies can also avoid building systems from scratch, which is time-consuming and costly. Yet, 61% of companies have over 100 SaaS applications, which can be overwhelming to manage. Orphaned subscriptions are also common. Most companies regularly use only about half of their SaaS stack.

Renting a Dedicated Physical Server, a comprehensive Guide for you

In today's digital landscape, the demand for powerful and reliable hosting solutions is higher than ever. For businesses requiring enhanced performance, security, and scalability, renting a dedicated physical server often becomes the preferred option. But how do you go about choosing the right server for your needs? Let's explore this step-by-step, addressing the nuances and considerations involved in renting a dedicated physical server.

Mock vs Stub: Essential Differences

When discussing the process of testing an API, one of the most common sets of terms you might encounter are “mocks” and “stubs.” These terms are quite ubiquitous, but understanding exactly how they differ from one another – and when each is the correct method for software testing – is critical to building an appropriate test and validation framework. In this blog, we’re going to talk about the differences and similarities between mocks and stubs.

7 Best Azure Service Bus Monitoring Tools in 2025

Azure Service Bus is a cloud messaging service that transfers information between services running in both the cloud and on-premises. So, it becomes essential to ensure the performance and availability of Service Bus as it might be used in applications and integrations for transferring business-critical messages. To help you with that, we have listed and compared the top Azure Service Bus monitoring tools with their features.

6 Best Azure FinOps Tools for Cost Optimization (2025)

FinOps is an evolving concept increasingly practiced in cloud computing organizations to manage and optimize their infrastructure cost. It requires team collaboration among Finance, Engineering and IT Operations to gain a deep understanding of the expenditure, take financial accountability, and make informed decisions to maximize the business performance.

The Year of GPUs: Reflections and Predictions for 2025

Last year, we reflected on the progress that AI made in 2023 with tools like ChatGPT lowering barriers to entry and driving broader adoption across industries. Looking ahead, we anticipated even greater advancements in AI's accessibility and governance, including the democratization of technology, enhanced large language models for specific applications, and growing concerns around the ethical implications of synthetic content and intellectual property rights.

Solving E-Commerce's Cold Start Problem with Azure ML

Imagine visiting an e-commerce site that instantly understands your preferences, offering tailored product recommendations from the first click. For our client, this vision was about creating a seamless, engaging experience for new users by providing immediate, personalized suggestions. Using Azure ML Studio, we turned this vision into reality by solving key challenges like the “cold start problem” and building a robust recommendation system. Here’s how we made it happen.

A DevEx Framework to Boost Team Productivity: GitKon 2024

In this GitKon 2024 session, Shashi Lo, Senior UX Engineer at Microsoft, dives into a DevEx framework designed to boost team productivity. Discover how essential tools like GitKraken, GitLens, Ditto, and Microsoft's Copilot can improve dev team efficiency efficiency and enhance development workflows.

Kubernetes at the Cutting-Edge of Innovation

Edge computing is a decentralized computing approach that processes data and performs computations near the source of the data—local servers, smart devices, or edge nodes—rather than depending on a centralized data center. This reduces latency, which is often a result of data having to travel long distances and improves bandwidth efficiency. Discover how edge computing and Kubernetes revolutionize data processing and deployment.

2024: The Year That Wasn't: A Comedy of Errors in an Automation-Free World

Ah, 2024. The year we promised ourselves we’d finally “work smarter, not harder.” And yet, here we are, looking back at a year filled with reworked errors, late-night firefighting, and a lot of “this could have been avoided.” Let’s relive the chaotic glory of the year that wasn’t and figure out how 2025 can be the year that is.

Tips on troubleshooting your network like a pro

Sometimes life can be pointless, and other times, it might just be that your network has stopped working, and now you have too much time to ponder the true purpose of life. If you are in that second situation, let’s get that network fixed before you start regretting your life choices. Troubleshooting is a repetitive yet rigorous process where you analyze and test individual network components like a chef checking every ingredient before cooking up a delicious dish.

What does OOMKilled mean and how do I prevent it?

When creating production-level applications, enterprises want to ensure the high availability of services. This often results in a lengthy development process that requires extensive testing for the applications or a new release. This involves testing the behavior of the application under load, measuring the performance metrics, and accounting for the resource consumption. All this is done to ensure that the application does not behave unexpectedly when being used by clients.

Top 5 Azure Monitoring tools to maximize application and service performance

Many organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud or begin leveraging what the cloud offers. However, to keep their businesses up and running during this process, organizations still require integrating their systems in the cloud, like Dynamics365, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, with Azure Integration Services (AIS) and potentially on-premises. One crucial aspect of such integrations is keeping them healthy and available, which requires monitoring and diagnostics.