Adopting AWS as your cloud infrastructure seems to be a common choice for most growing companies, but it is not as easy as it looks. Choosing the right services, configuration, and management of these services needs skills and experience. At Qovery, we've heard hundreds of stories about the mistakes made by startups on AWS, and here are the biggest ones. Make sure you take care of these pitfalls when you start your journey on AWS, which will help you successfully migrate and set up on AWS.

When incidents inevitably occur in your software stack, managing them well could be the difference between losing customers and building trust with them. In this article, we’ll give you and your team some best practices on how to prepare for managing incidents. It’s crucial to define service ownership, a declaration process, and practice all of it. With a little planning now, you'll be able to cut your incident response time drastically.

Let’s imagine that you really need a car, and you head off to a car dealership to buy one for yourself. Let’s also assume this is your first car, and you don’t know much about cars. On getting to the dealership, you’ll need to choose which type of car you want. Now, you’re not very knowledgeable about the different drive mechanisms of a car, whether it’s a gasoline-powered or electric vehicle.

Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service platform used by enterprises that provides a centralized help desk(with the help of support tickets) across multiple channels, including email, phone, chat, and social media. Squadcast is an incident management platform that integrates with major monitoring, ChatOps and project management tools to provide a centralized place for reliability.

Heritage applications are critical to any business, and ensuring that they are running exceptional in the latest environment is a priority. Heritage applications nesting on Windows Server 2008 R2 do not get support from Microsoft directly, and that’s a major concern for enterprises who have their entire business running on such platforms.

A common problem faced by platform operators is data management; specifically, the detrimental side effects that can manifest due to running out of disk space. For example, if debug logging is left enabled on an app and /var/logs fill the disk, containerd/etcd would now be unable to write their states to disk, causing the cluster to fail. VMware Tanzu Mission Control makes it easy to avoid disk consumption issues by exposing the option to add data partitions to a cluster or nodepool.

As the GitOps paradigm continues to evolve, different interpretations and implementations will continue to appear. SUSE Rancher Fleet is a project creating a powerful, lightweight, and scalable GitOps engine. Recently, we showed the art of the possible between Shipa and SUSE Rancher Fleet. Make sure to check out our joint solution brief where the intersection of the SUSE Rancher and Shipa stacks come together.