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How to deal with alert fatigue head-on

Everyone experiences stress at work—thankfully, it’s a topic folks aren’t shying away from anymore. But for on-call engineers, alert fatigue is a phenomenon closer to home. Unfortunately, like stress, it can be just as insidious and drastically impact those it affects. First discussed in the context of hospital settings, this phrase later entered engineering circles.

How AIOps improves IT service assurance and optimization

ITOps and DevOps teams face many challenges. Their responsibilities are extensive, from navigating complex IT environments at scale to quickly addressing performance issues and minimizing downtime and outages. Enhancing your organization’s IT service assurance requires you to ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of IT services.

Mattermost AI Copilot: Accelerating the conversation with LLMs

Hello, Mattermost community! We’re thrilled to announce the release of the Mattermost AI Copilot beta, a groundbreaking addition to the Mattermost platform. This plugin is not just a tool. It’s a way for organizations to deploy artificial intelligence in mission-critical environments — a true game-changer. With that in mind, let’s explore how this plugin will establish new standards in workplace collaboration for Mattermost Enterprise customers.

How Squadcast's Snooze Incidents Promotes Focussed On Call Shifts

Dealing with a flood of incidents, each with varying degrees of urgency, can be a daily struggle for Incident Response teams. Suppose a low-priority alert pings while you're tackling a critical incident. This pulls your focus away from the urgent issue. This constant alert bombardment can: How do engineers ensure that high-severity issues take precedence? Don't they want to avoid being bothered or bombarded with notifications while addressing critical matters? They sure do.

Azure Cost Management and FinOps: Lessons from the Frontlines

Azure Cost Management and FinOps: Lessons from the Frontlines This episode of "FinOps on Azure" dives into the crucial issue of managing Azure costs effectively. It addresses the common challenges faced by organizations in controlling their Azure spending and offers insights and strategies to prevent unexpected overspending. Through real-world experiences shared by Saravana Kumar, CEO of Kovai.co, viewers can gain valuable lessons on optimizing Azure consumption and establishing robust cost governance practices.

Advice for building an incident management program

On this weeks' episode of The Debrief, we chatted with Jeff Forde, an Architect on the Platform Engineering team at Collectors. With a background spanning finance, healthcare, and various product-led startups, Forde has honed his expertise in DevOps, site reliability, and platform engineering. Beyond his professional life, he's also a dedicated volunteer first responder and certified fire instructor in Connecticut, offering him a unique perspective on managing incidents of all typesz.

Ubuntu AI | S2E3 | GPU utilisation optimisation at KubeconEU 2024

Maciej is not only the host of our podcast, but also an experienced keynote speaker. After a joint keynote at KubeconEU 2023 about highly sensitive data, in 2024, Maciej goes to Paris to talk about the GPU utilisation. During our podcast, we cover a lot of aspects of GPU utilisation. From best practices to existing tooling, there are different angles that Maciej talk about, giving a sneak-peak into his keynote. Are you curious how open source tooling plays a role in optimising the GPU utilisation? Listen to our podcast!

Changelog Breakdown: Focus Tab, GitKraken.dev, & more

Dive into the latest GitKraken Client updates – starting with Focus View, helping you prioritize all PRs, Issues, and WIPs so you waste less time wondering, "What's next?" and more time coding. Worried about security? We've got new customizable protections to ensure that your work (and your mind) stays safe and at ease. Whether you're managing your Workspaces or sharing code with Cloud Patches, GitKraken brings everything you care about into one accessible, secure, and efficient place.