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When applications experience performance issues, API latency is often a primary factor. For DevOps engineers, a clear understanding of API latency is essential for both resolving current performance problems and establishing preventative measures. This guide examines API latency from a technical perspective, covering its definition, measurement methodologies, and practical optimization techniques.

Spring is unfolding, and your event calendar is about to be overflowing with new FinOps get-togethers. Plus, we’ve got some cloud cost announcements from a couple of the major providers that could affect your bill and your FinOps strategy. Here’s the top news from March 2025 and upcoming events you won’t want to miss.

At its core, FinOps is a cultural practice that brings together finance, technology, and business teams to manage and optimize cloud spending. For SaaS companies, where cloud infrastructure is integral to operations, FinOps practices directly impact the bottom line. But as with any emerging discipline, the big question is: Is a FinOps certification truly worth the time and financial investment?

SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts, pronounced ‘salsa’) is a progressive, industry-backed software security framework that safeguards software integrity throughout the development and delivery lifecycle. SLSA adoption is ramping up in industries where trust isn’t optional. As dependencies proliferate and threats multiply, SLSA provides a solid, structured path to prove that software is secure by design.

We recently started the Public Preview for a ground up rewrite of the GitKraken CLI. You might be wondering, “why?” We needed to rapidly iterate on a brand new idea, the “Work Item”. We also learned a lot from the previous iterations and realized a fresh start could help us optimize the user experience around the most precious resource, time.

Your containers are running, nd your clusters seem fine, but then you get that dreaded alert – memory pressure. Whether you're scaling up your infrastructure or just trying to keep things running smoothly, understanding pod memory usage isn't just nice to have – it's essential knowledge for any DevOps engineer worth their salt. Let's cut through the noise and get straight to what matters: practical ways to track, analyze, and fix memory issues in your Kubernetes pods.

Every day, your developers are pushing software. Some of that software will make it to production, but many of those incremental builds will not. While you shouldn’t remove those incremental builds and old release versions haphazardly, if left unchecked, they can clog up your software repositories as well as the workflows and systems they serve.