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Bringing Latin America Closer To The Cloud

Latin America’s cloud ecosystem stands on the brink of change. Traditionally, businesses in the region have relied on access to cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the US. But the acceleration of cloud adoption in Latin American markets, such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico, is attracting the attention of hyper-scale cloud providers and leading to new investment in data centres.

COVID-19: Lessons from the Trenches

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of life, uniting governments, the scientific community, and healthcare workers around the world in the struggle to get it under control. The pandemic has been a forceful catalyst for healthcare IT Ops change. Infrastructure health and performance optimization has never been more critical to serve the needs of life science research, drug discovery, and hospital care.

Strategically Managing Cloud Resources for Security, Fun, and Profit

The first time I created a cloud compute instance, then still called a “Cloud VM”, was an almost transcendent moment. It was like magic. I was at my first organization which had adopted the cloud, in my first DevOps position, and I immediately knew that the world had changed.

The Cloud Network Security Gap

Before we dive into the gap in cloud network security, let’s take a step back. If you’ve been in Operations for a while, you might remember how it used to be. “Network” was a team. When you needed to open a port on the network, you had to provide an exhaustive definition of the change, explaining what port you needed, what external addresses should be able to reach it, and where it should be routed to internally.

Hashicorp Waypoint vs Heroku: What is the best PaaS for your team?

This week, Hashicorp announced the launch of their new product - Waypoint - aiming to simplify the way developers build and run apps in the Cloud and on any platform (like Kubernetes). The project is open source and is well adopted by the dev community. As CEO and co-founder of Qovery, I am enthusiastic to see this product live. At Qovery, we believe in making the developer’s life easier, and seeing big Open Source companies moving in this direction is a good thing for all of us.

New Gartner Report: How to lead digital disruption with programmable infrastructure

A hybrid infrastructure strategy is integral in creating a successful digital transformation in your enterprise. Programmable infrastructure (PI), or Infrastructure as Code, makes these strategies work in the real world. This blog will cover some highlights from the Gartner Report on why I&O leaders must adopt programmable infrastructure to enhance customer-focused agility.

AWS And Azure Dedicated Hosts Monitoring With VirtualMetric

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure do not need any formal introduction. They are two major players in the cloud computing and virtualization industry. AWS leads with about 32% market share. On the other hand, Azure is the next closest with about 17% market share. Both the tech giants, AWS and Azure, have been on an onward growth trajectory with revenue boosts coming in every quarter.

Managing Datadog with Terraform

Terraform is an increasingly popular infrastructure-as-code tool for teams that manage cloud environments spanning many service providers. New users are often drawn to Terraform’s ability to quickly provision compute instances and similar resources from infrastructure providers, but Terraform can also manage platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service resources.

Looking back on Chaos Conf 2020

It’s already been a week since we closed our third annual Chaos Conf! While we were forced to take the conference online, this meant that more of you could join us. Over 3,500 people signed up to help make this the world’s largest Chaos Engineering conference. That’s 5x more than 2019, and nearly 10x more than 2018! This is a testament to the growth of Chaos Engineering as a practice across many different industries and around the world.