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The term ROI (Return on Investment) often gets thrown around without a thorough understanding of its implications. Many see it merely as a financial metric, but in reality, ROI encompasses much more than monetary gains. In this comprehensive exploration, we delve into the true essence of ROI, its multifaceted nature, and how it impacts every aspect of your business strategy.

CPU usage is one of the most common metrics used in observability and cloud computing. It’s for a good reason: CPU usage represents the amount of work a system is performing, and if it’s near 100% capacity, adding more work could make the system unstable. The solution is to scale - add more hosts with more CPU capacity, migrate some of your workloads to the new host, and split the traffic between them using a load balancer.

In today’s digitally-driven world, organizations rely heavily on software applications to streamline services, provide operations, engage customers, and drive innovation through digital transformation. Software has also become the lynchpin for securing an entire business’ services and keeping them up and running. Yet, this omnipresent force comes with its own set of challenges.

I am thrilled to introduce to you our new billing analytics feature, now generally available to all our users. This feature is designed to empower you with insights into your Qovery usage, enabling you to monitor, control, and optimize your cloud expenses effectively.

DevOps has emerged as a crucial methodology for software development and deployment. DevOps bridges the gap between development and operations teams, fostering collaboration and enabling continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). At the heart of DevOps lies automation, which streamlines deployment pipelines, enhances productivity, and ensures rapid, reliable software delivery.

After many cups of coffee and takeaway pizzas, something changed in the world of SQL Prompt in November 2023. For the first time in SQL Prompt’s history, our engineering team at Redgate brought AI to its breadth of capabilities and called it Prompt+. Using generative AI-powered insights and context-based awareness, Prompt+ takes natural language queries and turns them into SQL coding suggestions.

Kubernetes revolutionised container orchestration, allowing faster and more reliable application deployment and management. But even though it transformed the world of DevOps, it introduced new challenges around security maintenance, networking and application lifecycle management.

Throughout the years, many users have asked us if it’s possible to only deploy to Upsun when a tag is pushed using a source code integration. The answer is: with our current source integrations, it's not—but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Upsun is based on Git and because of this, acts as a remote for your code repository.