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Cycle Spotlight: Cycle's Head of Engineering Unveils New Community Resource, The Learning Center!

We caught up with Alexander Mattoni, Cycle's Head of Engineering and Co-Founder. He unveils plans for and awesome resource for all of those in the DevOps community and what to expect from the Cycle team in the coming weeks.

Why Scaling Your DevOps Capabilities is Crucial for Business Growth

In the race to outpace competitors and capture market share, businesses are discovering that scaling DevOps capabilities is no longer optional-it's a critical driver of growth. Imagine rapidly delivering innovative features, responding to customer demands in real-time, and maintaining rock-solid reliability, all while outpacing your competition. This is the power of a well-scaled DevOps strategy.

Mastering Local Preview Environments: A Beginner's Guide

Local preview environments are transforming how developers test and validate code changes before merging them into the main codebase. Acting as temporary cloud environments, they provide a production-like setting where new features and bug fixes can be tested in isolation, catching issues early and streamlining the development code review process. These environments are crucial for enhancing development velocity, especially in CI/CD workflows used by DevOps engineers and QA teams.

Azure Cost Assessment

FinOps-certified practitioner Michael Stephenson introduces the cost assessment survey. He walks through the survey, explaining its importance and the types of questions it includes. The survey covers topics such as the frequency of cloud cost reviews, who is responsible for cost monitoring, methods for tracking spending, and much more! He also emphasizes the need for proactive cost management and highlights common practices like shutting down unused resources and right-sizing. The goal is to help organizations manage and optimize their cloud costs more effectively.

The CIO Pocket Guide to Internal Developer Portals

As a CIO or IT leader, the need for speed and efficiency is always in tension with governance and compliance requirements. Sounds all too familiar – the frustration of slow incident resolution, outdated ownership records and resistance from engineering teams. You’ve sunk significant time and effort into implementing your ITSM platforms (such as ServiceNow), yet you struggle with buy-in and adoption from engineering teams. They can’t afford to be throttled any further.