Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Does technology fascinate you? Are you curious about and interested in learning about different software, hardware and devices? If you answered yes to these questions, you should become a system administrator aka sysadmin. A sysadmin is responsible for monitoring and maintaining computer systems in a network or environment that has multiple users. It’s a great time to become a sysadmin now because the technology sector is booming and yet it’s facing a major Skills shortage.

Multi-cloud strategy – the use of multiple private or public clouds – is increasingly becoming the main method companies use to deploy their IT infrastructure. In the next three years, an estimate 64% of companies will rely on multi-cloud as their main deployment model source. Despite the complexities that come from operationalizing it, as we disccussed in The Challenges of Building Multi Cloud, the multiple benefits that come from this deployment model can often make it worth the effort.

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Cycle’s new pricing model! With this new model, we aim to make our pricing far more straightforward and better suited for larger deployments and customers. While our current pricing model solved the needs of our customers for the last few years, we’ve learned enough that it’s now time to make a change. Before talking about the new model, let’s dive into how we got here.

Two years ago today, we shared some insights of 200 CTOs from growing US and EU startups on the topics of the Cloud and their working methodologies (to find out here). Welcome to the second series: “Heroku Dilemma: The Growing Startups' Journey.”

A few weeks ago we had a major incident. We were releasing our Practical Guide to Incident Management, and after posting about it online an incident.io employee noticed that the page wasn’t loading. Just to set the scene, I’ve been at incident.io for 3 months and don’t have any experience of incidents in my previous role. When the team got paged I expected this to be one of those “follow along and learn how the wizards work their magic” exercises.

We have a term we like to use when we meet CFOs who have just gotten their biggest AWS bill ever: bill shock. Bill shock is when finance suddenly rings the alarm that the bill is “too high” and gets everyone scrambling to explain what they’re spending money on. It often happens when the bill reaches a new milestone (the first million, ten million, or hundred million) or growth trajectory (it doubled in a quarter!?). The problem with bill shock is that it can be highly disruptive.

In June, we hosted our online meetup with ContainIQ surrounding k8s monitoring and observability. You can catch up on the discussion between Matthew Lenhard (Co-founder & CTO of ContainIQ) and Kai Hoffman (Developer Advocate at Civo) here if you missed it. Meanwhile, Kamesh Sampath from our Developer Advocate demo program explains how Civo’s speed and developer experience is great to work with in our latest Civo Shorts.

We are happy to announce that one of the top voted features for Bitbucket Pipelines, Docker BuildKit will be available next week. You can now build Docker images with the BuildKit utility. With BuildKit you can take advantage of the various features it provides like.