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Various economic pressures on businesses have created a focus on new and innovative ways to manage operational costs. At the same time, businesses are looking at using IT to help manage overall business costs and increase income—for example, by supporting remote working, and in many cases, enabling e-commerce to replace closed retail outlets. Management of infrastructure to minimize downtime has two major benefits: reductions in support and maintenance costs and improvements in service levels.

Complex and lengthy infrastructure setup processes no longer a blocker for Application Developers.

Grafana is an open-source web application for visualizing data. You can query your data, create visuals, and receive alerts to better understand what you have. Some people think of Grafana as a Kubernetes-only tool, but in reality, it’s simply a data visualization tool that became popular within the Kubernetes ecosystem, especially when combined with Prometheus. In this post, I’ll focus on a very specific part of Grafana: the dashboards.

Upcoming specific new AWS regulations will significantly impact how businesses handle their AWS operations. Starting from January 15, 2024, AWS will no longer permit the resale of discounted Reserved Instances (RIs) bought from the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. This update aligns with AWS’s service terms, particularly Section 5.5, which explicitly prohibits the resale of discounted RIs.

Integration of EverSQL’s AI-powered engine into the Aiven open source data platform will deliver new performance and cost optimization capabilities to customers.

When it comes to observability, we’ve found that most organizations have ~20 tools installed in their IT environments. With so many tools, it’s difficult for IT leaders to gain insight into how their tools are performing and determine how much value ITOps is bringing to the organization.