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Decoding SaaS Customer Cost: A Guide to Calculating Cost per Customer in Azure

In the SaaS era, especially in the B2B segment, the business’s profitability will vary from customer to customer. It is usual to observe that there would be a few “expensive customers” who use the platform heavily, which could also mean they are profitable customers. But we cannot take plain guesses! As a business, ensuring that the revenue we receive from each customer is appropriate for what it costs us to deliver the value is significant.

Getting Started with Azure IoT Edge on Ubuntu Core

Earlier this month/week, we announced that you can now benefit from the combined power of Ubuntu Core and Azure IoT Edge to bring the computation, storage, and AI capabilities of the cloud closer to the edge of the network. Azure IoT Edge is a device-focused runtime that enables you to deploy, run, and monitor containerised Linux workloads. Ubuntu Core is a version of Ubuntu that has been specially optimised for IoT and embedded systems.

Where's the money? The ROI of test data management

You may have heard of test data management (TDM). It’s part of the software delivery process – some would say a crucial part, involving the creation, management, and maintenance of environments for software development and testing. By provisioning fresh, production-like data, it allows developers to test their proposed changes early, thoroughly, and repeatedly with the right test data, when they need it and where they need it.

Secure your AI workloads with confidential VMs

AI models run on large amounts of good quality data, and when it comes to sensitive tasks like medical diagnosis or financial risk assessments, you need access to private data during both training and inference. When performing machine learning tasks in the cloud, enterprises are understandably concerned about data privacy as well as their model’s intellectual property. Additionally, stringent industry regulations often prohibit the sharing of such data.

What do quality engineers do?

Quality engineering (QE), or software quality engineering (SQE), is a discipline within software development focused on ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of software products. With an increase in development environment complexity in recent years, the focus has shifted back from detecting defects in later stages, as QA has typically done, to proactively ensuring quality throughout the entire development lifecycle.