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In today's fast-paced technology landscape, companies are in a constant race to innovate and deploy applications quickly. Ensuring that development and operations teams can collaborate efficiently is critical to achieving this goal. Self-service infrastructure platforms have emerged as a vital solution to this challenge. In this article, we will explore the concept of self-service infrastructure platforms, the problems they address, and their benefits for engineering and DevOps teams.

Kubernetes is the container orchestration platform of choice for many teams. In our ongoing efforts to bring the magic experience of Lumigo’s serverless capabilities to the world of containerized applications, we are delighted to share with you the Lumigo Kubernetes operator, a best-in-class operator to automatically trace your applications running on Kubernetes.

Nowadays many organizations still rely on classic Windows servers and virtual machines (VMs) for their business applications. Although Kubernetes is a trending topic, not everything running in the cloud is a container-based application. When it comes to monitoring Windows applications and infrastructure, many businesses leverage OSS Prometheus to get Windows metrics via its Prometheus Windows Exporter.

Ever since UK regulator Ofcom announced its market study into the cloud industry in 2022, there has been cautious optimism about whether this could be a genuine moment of truth for the hyperscalers. On 5 April 2023, we got our answer. In its interim report, Ofcom did not hold back in its criticism of the dominance that the hyperscalers, especially AWS and Microsoft, hold over the industry and the limits and even “harm” this creates for customers.

The AWS Summit Paris 2023 brought together some of the world's top companies and tech experts to showcase the latest innovations and products in the tech industry. With so many impressive companies in attendance, it can be difficult to narrow down the top products on display but after careful consideration, we've compiled a list of the top 10 products from the event.

In recent discussions about cloud-based GPU workloads, I was struck by these two recurring challenges: As the Head of Customer Success for a platform that confronts both of these problems, I wanted to take a moment to talk about their origin, what teams can do to mitigate, and finish up with a brief look at how Cycle might help.

Komodor is the only unified, dev-first Kubernetes Platform, designed to enable Kubernetes across on-prem and cloud-native environments through a single pane of glass. Komodor’s platform empowers developers to confidently operate and troubleshoot their K8s applications while allowing infrastructure teams to maintain governance and optimize resources.

Following the release of upstream Kubernetes on 11th of April, Canonical Kubernetes 1.27 is generally available in the form of MicroK8s, with Charmed Kubernetes expected to follow shortly. We consistently follow the upstream release cadence to provide our users and customers with the latest improvements and fixes, together with security maintenance and enterprise support for Kubernetes on Ubuntu.

Canonical is proud to announce that Charmed Kubeflow is now available as a software appliance on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace. With the appliance, users can now launch and manage their machine learning workloads hassle-free using Charmed Kubeflow on AWS. This reduces deployment time and eases operations, providing an easy-to-install MLOps toolkit on the public cloud.

Like most Taylor Swift fans, I was disappointed in the Ticketmaster crash during the presale for her current tour. The preorder fiasco reminds me of bottlenecks that all enterprises and organizations encounter on their digital transformation journey while they strive to balance the delivery of stable products with rapid application development to drive innovation and meet evolving customer needs. At some point, their infrastructure will be calling out, “It’s me! Hey! I’m the problem!