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It’s easy to get pulled into paying more and more at a major monitoring company, despite not getting the functionality that you’re looking for. Leaving your monitoring provider can be difficult because it means replacing expensive software or hardware, re-educating your team, and transferring huge amounts of data to a new system - data that may or may not be well suited to the new system. Despite these issues, there are many reasons that motivate users to move to open source.

As we continue to see rapid technological advancements, organizations must evolve and adapt to maintain a competitive edge. The principles of DevOps - collaboration, automation, continuous integration, and delivery - have emerged as critical success factors in this landscape, enabling organizations to navigate the ever-changing environment.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the current buzz word in IT with AI promoted as the magic ingredient for improving business performance across a wide range of areas. But how, specifically, does AI enhance Network Management? The idea that computers can manage themselves is nothing new.

In this comprehensive guide, a Cortex engineer shares the essential steps in building and implementing a developer homepage. Learn how this feature can streamline the developer’s workflow, funneling important and actionable information to your team members.

Every data center has a rhythm. When you think about a single application—SAP, for example—it has certain “beats.” First thing Monday morning, you see a steady and fast cadence, while over the weekend, it slows to a light tap. And there may be seasonality that rises to a crescendo.

CI/CD pipelines have become a cornerstone of agile development, streamlining the software development life cycle. They allow for frequent code integration, fast testing and deployment. Having these processes automated help development teams reduce manual errors, ensure faster time-to-market, and deliver enhancements to end-users. However, they also pose risks that could compromise stability of their development ecosystem.

This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes. This blog series covers the following topics.

Kubernetes has created a major impact on modern software development because it is a powerful open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to deploy and manage complex containerized applications at scale. In this blog, we will cover how Rancher Desktop can help developers run and manage Kubernetes locally.