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Crossplane loves Kubernetes as much as we do... But, differently!

Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto orchestrator for deploying and managing containerized applications. Its versatility and robust ecosystem have paved the way for innovative tools that leverage its capabilities, extending its utility beyond mere container orchestration. Among these tools, Crossplane and Qovery stand out for their unique approaches to simplifying cloud resource management.

eBPF: Revolutionizing Observability for DevOps and SRE Teams

Whether you're a system administrator, a developer, or any other DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professional, you know that staying ahead in cloud-native computing is crucial. One way to keep your competitive edge in the technology game is to embrace the benefits of eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter). On top of advances in security and networking, eBPF-based tools are particularly impacting the observability landscape.

Best practices for creating a reliable on-call rotation

It's fair to say that effectively managing an on-call rota is crucial for ensuring the 'round-the-clock availability of your services. But it's more than that. Spending the time getting your rotas right also empowers and protects the folks who make it all possible: your team. Some best practices for doing this include using software to automate scheduling, setting up teams with clearly defined responsibilities, establishing escalation policies, and defining time limits for issue resolution.

Reducing cloud reliability risks with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Designing and deploying applications in the cloud can be a labyrinthian exercise. There are dozens of cloud providers, each offering dozens of services, and each of those services has any number of configurations. How are you supposed to architect your systems in a way that gives your customers the best possible experience? AWS recognized this, and in response, they created the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to guide customers.

[Demo] Intel TDX 1.0 technology preview available on Ubuntu 23.10

Securing data at run-time has long been an open security challenge. Whether it is malicious insiders exploiting elevated privileges or attackers exploiting vulnerabilities within the platform’s privileged system software, your data’s confidentiality and integrity was at risk.