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5 Ways Cloud Costs Can Spiral Out of Control

As CFO of Virtana, I face many of the same challenges as every CFO of a SaaS or enterprise software company today: cost containment, surprises, and an ever-escalating AWS bill. We all need help keeping these things in check. These challenges become even more difficult when your organization goes hybrid cloud. Fortunately, there are tools out there to help our teams help us manage these costs.

Top 6 Use Case Examples Driving Automation Adoption

All too often, the Kelverion team hear that businesses are trying to deliver more services with less resource, all whilst meeting tight Service Level Agreements. There are many automation use cases to relieve this pressure, and this article explores the six use case examples driving automation adoption within service management.

How We Automated One Of The World's Largest High-Performance Networks

Our Software Defined Interconnection® platform brings together 1.3 million lines of code with one of the world’s largest global networks. In a recent PacketPushers podcast, PCCW Global’s CTO Paul Gampe and VP of Development and Operations Jay Turner went under the hood of our orchestration engine and shared some exclusive insights into our automation journey so far…

KubeCon NA 2021: Operator Day Keynote with Mark Shuttleworth

Operators, Models, Kubernetes, Hybrid Clouds, massive scale and bootstrapping quickly - Kubernetes is taking the the world by storm. So what's next? Mark Shuttleworth (one time astronaut, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu) talks with David Booth (VP Cloud Native Applications at Canonical) about the past and lays down a vision for the future.

Smoke testing in CI/CD pipelines

Here’s a common situation that plagues many development teams. You run an application through your CI/CD pipeline and all of the tests pass, which is great. But when you deploy it to a live target environment the application just does not function as expected. You can’t always predict what will happen when your application is pushed live. The solution?

Introducing default values for custom pipeline variables

Support for including default values in custom pipelines has been a highly requested feature. We are happy to announce that this feature is now live. Providing a default value helps avoid errors when you manually trigger a custom pipeline. If you often rely on the same value for certain variables, it can be frustrating to get a failed build when you forget to specify the value or have a typo when providing the value.

The State of Robotics - September 2021

September news is charged with analysis and comment of what has been a month with important announcements for open source robotics. It has been a month to understand that, in a nascent and fragmented market, the actors have a deeper impact upon all the stakeholders. A flop won’t be just a flop, it could be the reason why someone won’t give a robot a chance. What? Ok, let’s start.