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What is Azure Files and what are they used for?

Azure Files is a fully managed, cloud-based file storage service provided by Microsoft Azure that allows you to share files across multiple servers and platforms. One of the key features of Azure Files is the ability to create and organize files in folders, similar to how you would on a traditional file server. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at how folders work in Azure Files and how you can use them to share files with others.

NOAH 2022 Zurich: You Don't Need Another Server

NOAH 2022 Zurich: Keynote by Leah Goldfarb, Environmental Impact Officer at Platform.sh. Climate change and IT, scaling sustainably. Get an overview of climate change, explore how to quantitatively reduce your carbon footprint in the cloud, and explore what actionable information is needed by the client. The ICT sector contributes ~4% of global greenhouse gas emissions – this is more than global aviation.

Introducing Levitate: 'uplifting' your metrics woes because self-management sucks like gravity

Managing your own time series database is painful. We’ve moved from servers to services, and yet, monitoring metrics data is primitive. Our managed time series database powers mission-critical workloads for monitoring, at a fraction of the cost.

Git vs GitHub

Sophia Diachenko is a PR Manager at Syndicode,a leading digital transformation and products delivery company focused on marketplace creation, SaaS development, and web application development. In her free time, Sophia enjoys broadening her knowledge in the IT sphere. Git and GitHub are two powerful tools widely used in software development. Both can help manage code, but they have different purposes and capabilities.

Maximizing cloud savings: Strategies to optimize your cloud costs

Public cloud users continue to get stung by unexpected costs due to the challenges faced when working with or moving workloads into the cloud. When organizations see this surge in their costs, it typically requires the process of cloud cost optimization to tackle the problem. Cloud cost optimization is the task of minimizing cloud spending by enforcing best practices and appropriate cost-efficient resources.

The Role of Traffic Replay in Production Traffic Replication

Testing in production is one of the most effective—and risky—ways of testing. The ability to use real-world conditions ensures reliability of tests, as no bugs can appear as a result of misconfigurations of the environment. However, using the same environment as your users also has an obvious downside: any bugs discovered by testing will immediately affect users.