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Webinar: Best Practices for Measuring and Growing Developer Productivity

Knowing how productive your development team is is essential to planning your software delivery timeline and releasing high-quality software to the end-user. However, there exist several misconceptions about what developer productivity is and how it can be increased. Developer productivity is not a single metric you can measure, like the number of pull requests each developer in the team is making in a given development time. Instead, it comprises a variety of interconnected aspects that can be measured by different metrics and improved over time.

Optimizing Workloads in Kubernetes: Understanding Requests and Limits

Kubernetes has emerged as a cornerstone of modern infrastructure orchestration in the ever-evolving landscape of containerized applications and dynamic workloads. One of the critical challenges Kubernetes addresses is efficient resource management – ensuring that applications receive the right amount of compute resources while preventing resource contention that can degrade performance and stability.

Why Unit Cost Must Be Your North Star Metric In The Cloud

You’re a savvy SaaS business leader, so you already know the importance of keeping costs low to maximize your margins. What you might not have considered, however, is how tracking unit cost in your cloud spend data can help you achieve optimizations far beyond what you’d get with traditional cost-cutting methods. Keep reading to learn how cloud spend unit costs can drive savings you never knew were possible.

Unlocking Microsoft SharePoint

Before you dive into SharePoint, you may wonder, “Why do I need a technical guide?” The simple answer? To unlock SharePoint’s full potential. Understanding its nuts and bolts will empower you to customize it to your needs, optimize its functionality, and elevate your overall user experience. This article goes beyond the surface-level features to explain the underlying architecture, data storage mechanisms, and much more. Ready to unlock the mysteries of SharePoint? Buckle up!

What Is an IP Address Management Service and Why Might You Need It?

If you're managing a network, chances are that the need for IP Address Management (IPAM) is something you've already become familiar with. The ability to effortlessly and effectively manage your IP allocations will make your life much easier no matter what size of organization you work for. It can help streamline efforts by reducing complexity, minimizing manual intervention when configuring new devices or services within an enterprise intranet, and proactively resolving problems related to limited resources like addresses.

Acing server performance: Don't overlook these crucial 11 monitoring metrics

A server, undeniably, is one of the most crucial components in a network. Every critical activity in a hybrid network architecture is somehow related to server operations. Servers don’t just serve as the spine of modern computing operations—they are also pivotal for network communications. From sending emails to accessing databases and hosting applications, a server’s reliability and performance have a direct impact on the organization’s growth.

What is CMDB?

A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) like ServiceNow CMDB serves as a centralized repository for comprehensive information about the various components of an information system. These components, known as Configuration Items (CIs), encompass hardware (such as servers and switches), software applications, network paths, and even individuals or documentation.

Bill Kennedy: The mistake boot, building ACs, Black boxes & AI in software - The Reliability Podcast

The Reliability podcast aims to speak with engineers who have worked on large, complex systems and glean through their learnings. What best practices should one imbibe? What are non-negotiable learnings to become better at a craft? What’s ‘engineering’ going to be like with the advent of AI? We answer these and more tracing personal journeys of engineers who have built stellar careers around decoding the innumerable intricacies of software engineering.