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Software Deployment Process Guide for 2024

IT software deployment is a necessity in any organization’s IT environment. Software deployment can either make or break the transitions between software, which significantly affect business operations. That is why it’s essential to have a solid software deployment process in place. With NinjaOne, you can be confident that essential software for your endpoints is deployed efficiently. Learn more.

.NET 9 Preview Rolls Out: What's New?

.NET 9 will be released this November, featuring versatile performance and security upgrades, C# syntax enhancements, and new LINQ methods along with the.NET Aspite stack for cloud-native development, ML.NET for extended AI capabilities, and an array of other handy updates. However, while we are still one month away from the official.NET 9 launch, its Preview version is already here, giving developers an early look at the latest advancements. Keep reading to explore the upcoming improvements in detail.

Simulating Database Performance Under Load with Speedscale

Big data storage tools like BigQuery, Hadoop, and Cassandra are used to manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data generated by modern applications. Unlike traditional databases, these tools provide scalable and distributed infrastructure that efficiently stores, processes, and analyzes petabytes of data across clusters.

PostgreSQL Tutorial: Fundamentals and Resources

With an expanding community of users and an array of data management features under the hood, PostgreSQL has outperformed less popular databases in 2024 and is expected to become a huge trend in the upcoming year. For those who know their way around other RDBMSs, this database management system is quite easy to master, even though it has a more complex architecture.

HIPAA Compliance 101: Securing Patient Data with DevOps

In healthcare, protecting patient data isn’t just a requirement—it’s essential. As a tech lead or DevOps professional, understanding HIPAA compliance is crucial. This guide breaks down the essentials and shows how DevOps practices can streamline the process.

BizTalk to Azure migration - Everything you need to know!

In this episode of the "Integrate experts - unplugged" series from the Azure on Air podcast, two integration experts, Sandro Pereira and the host, Lex Hegt, talk about the evolution of integration solutions, focusing on BizTalk Server and Azure Integration Services. They delve into the process of migrating from BizTalk to Azure Integration Services, sharing their experiences and best practices. The speakers also address challenges and considerations, such as cost, sizing, and performance, to help viewers better understand the migration process.

Announcing the Release of Cloudsmith CLI GitHub Action

We just released the Cloudsmith CLI GitHub Action. This new GitHub Action simplifies the process of installing and pre-authenticating the Cloudsmith CLI using OpenID Connect (OIDC) or an API Key. Whether managing packages, pushing artifacts, or automating your CI/CD workflows, this action is designed to streamline your experience and enhance your productivity.

Rancher Live: The nuts and bolts of platform engineering

Is platform engineering just another fancy word for DevOps? If you've ever wondered this, you're not alone! In this Rancher Live episode, Divya Mohan will host Colin Griffin, co-chair of the CNCF Platforms Working Group, to deconstruct the newest buzzword in town. Together, they will also be delving into some of the artefacts from the Working Group - namely, the Platform Engineering Maturity Model and the Platforms Whitepaper - to understand how to measure the value of the practice effectively.

13 Snowflake Cost Optimization Strategies And Best Practices To Implement Now

Snowflake has gained significant traction in the data warehousing space due to its unique architecture, flexibility, and ease of use. Heck, after using a legacy approach for some time, we at CloudZero went with Snowflake. While at it, we noticed Snowflake customers express concerns about costs more often than they would like. So, in this guide, we’ll share our best tips for getting the most out of Snowflake without overspending.

Top tools for platform engineers in 2024

Platform engineers have become a critical role in modern software development, creating and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that supports software development and deployment. Unsurprisingly, platform engineers face a wide range of challenges, from creating robust continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to keeping complex cloud infrastructure up and running. To effectively address these challenges, a platform engineer needs the right set of tools.

Turbo360 for Frends - Part 1 Business Activity Monitoring

If you are a Frends user, then you have chosen to use the Frends Platform to implement an iPaaS solution. You may have come from a BizTalk background where you chose to migrate to Frends as an alternative to Azure, or you may be a new greenfield Frends implementation. Frends customers have been successful implementing their integration solutions with Frends and when we visited the Autom8 conference we spoke to a lot of Frends customers about how they are using the product.

Beyond the Blue Screen: Insights from the Microsoft-CrowdStrike Incident

In the wake of the Microsoft-CrowdStrike incident on July 19, 2024, Squadcast community has been actively reflecting on the lessons learned from this disruptive event. This global outage, affecting 8.5 million Windows machines, has served as a critical case study for incident management and operational resilience.

From the Vault: Gui Soubihe, CEO of Latitude.sh, on Cloud AI Infrastructure | Uplink | Episode 5

From the Vault: The conversation that sparked Uplink. Before we had a name or a theme song, this was the conversation that set the tone for what would become the Uplink Podcast. In this episode, Megaport CEO Michael Reid interviews Gui Soubihe, CEO and founder of Latitude.sh, a company delivering Bare Metal and GPU as a Service designed for the modern AI era.

Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 Operations: What Are the Differences?

Operations are the backbone of successful software delivery, but the specifics of each phase—Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2—often get overlooked. Understanding these phases can help you streamline deployments, reduce risks, and maintain robust, scalable systems. Let’s break down what each phase entails and explore their distinct activities, tools, and best practices.

How to verify, document, and prove compliance with Gremlin

Resilient and reliable IT systems have become a minimum requirement for modern businesses—a fact driven home by any number of high-profile outages over the past few years. Unfortunately, when those outages are in the financial sector, it can have far-reaching and incredibly damaging results.

Debugging your Rancher Kubernetes Cluster the GenAI Way with k8sgpt, Ollama & Rancher Desktop

The advancements in GenAI technology are creating a significant impact across domains/sectors, and the Kubernetes ecosystem is no exception. Numerous interesting GenAI projects and products have emerged aimed at enhancing the efficiency of Kubernetes cluster creation and management. From simplifying application containerization for engineers to addressing complex Kubernetes-related queries or troubleshooting issues within a cluster, GenAI demonstrates immense potential.

Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS is now available

Whether you’re a first time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux ecosystem — just in time for Ubuntu’s 20 year mark. The release of Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

STIG hardening on Ubuntu 22.04 with Ubuntu Security Guide

In this webinar, Henry Coggill will showcase USG (the Ubuntu Security Guide) and demonstrate how it can automate compliance requirements. We will discuss the hardening profiles that are available, including DISA-STIG and CIS benchmarks, then cover setting up and configuring the tool and demonstrate the configuration options that you can make for maximum security and coverage of the STIG rules.

Implementing SLOs in Microservices: A Comprehensive Guide to Reliability and Performance

Microservices are revolutionizing modern enterprise architectures. They allow businesses to scale quickly and innovate without the constraints of monolithic systems. However, this transformation isn't without its challenges. Maintaining reliability across a web of interconnected services can be complex. Each microservice is a vital component, and a single failure can disrupt the entire system.

Fetch Zoho Books Data in a .NET Application

Zoho Books is an online accounting software that helps you manage finance, automate business workflows, and streamline collaboration across departments. Integration of Zoho Books data into a.NET application can be extremely beneficial when handling large amounts of data. This approach provides a simplified reporting method, saving your team’s time Fetching data from Zoho Books to an external application can enhance data analysis, reporting, and integration with other business processes.

Connecting to Shopify With Devart ODBC: A Guide to Data Analysis Using Power BI

Choosing the Devart ODBC Driver for Shopify enhances your ability to conduct in-depth data analysis and improves the integration process, offering a dependable and efficient connection to your Shopify data. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how to use the Devart ODBC Driver to connect to your Shopify database, followed by utilizing Power BI for data analysis.

How to Connect to a Remote Oracle Database With the Devart ODBC Driver Using HTTP/HTTPS Tunnel

When there is no Oracle DBA on the development team, connecting to a new remotely hosted Oracle database can present several challenges. These include dependency on the Oracle database version, limitations specific to Oracle databases, and certain customization restrictions. However, despite these obstacles, it is still possible to manage the task without any prior experience by using the ODBC Driver for Oracle from Devart.

Top 14 Postman Alternatives

Postman has long been a go-to tool for API developers and QA engineers in providing a streamlined environment for testing and documenting APIs. Its user-friendly interface and robust features made it an industry standard. However, Postman isn’t suitable for everyone. Its complexity has increased over the years, leading to a UI that can be overwhelming, and a steep learning curve – especially for beginners.

Container Monitoring Demo

Datadog Container Monitoring gives you real-time, end-to-end visibility into the health, security, and resource usage of your containerized environments. In this demo, we’ll show you how Datadog measures container health alongside security posture and resource utilization, offering end-to-end monitoring and optimization for your container ecosystem.

How to Import Existing ilert Resources into Terraform

Welcome to our detailed guide, which will help you incorporate your current ilert configurations for incident management into Terraform. Here, you will find a step-by-step tutorial to import your existing ilert resources to the Infrastructure as Code project and recommendations from our engineering team on best practices to maintain consistency across your infrastructure and incident management processes.

AI at the Peak of Inflated Expectations? A Reality Check

The AI hype is undeniable. Buzzwords like ‘machine learning’, ‘deep learning’, and ‘artificial intelligence’ have permeated boardrooms, media, and tech conferences. However, recent market movements suggest that AI might be at the ‘peak of inflated expectations’. Nvidia, a leading player in AI hardware, has seen its stock plummet by about 20% over the last month (8th July to 8th August 2024).

Achieving SLO Success with Golden Signals and Reliability Testing

The four Golden Signals are an easy and effective way to measure the most important aspects of a system, and when paired with a reliability management platform like Gremlin, they help you proactively meet your SLOs so you can meet your legal obligations and deliver the perfect customer experience.

Just the facts" Introducing Software Delivery Evidence Management (SDEM)

Picture a gruff-voiced sergeant from the classic TV series “Dragnet,” but instead of solving crimes, they are navigating the complex world of software delivery. Their catchphrase, “Just the facts” isn’t just a catch phrase – it’s the mantra we need in today’s high-stakes world of DevOps, AppSec and Compliance.

From lean manufacturing to DevOps: The software factory revolution

In our journey through the evolution of compliance in the DevOps era, we’ve seen the limitations of traditional compliance methods and the high stakes of compliance failures. Manual processes, siloed teams, and a lack of automation have turned compliance into a bottleneck, hindering the agility promised by DevOps.

Kubernetes Cost Optimization: 9+ Ways To Lower Costs in 2024

If cost optimization is your only reason for adopting Kubernetes and containers, you might be in for a rude surprise — many companies find that costs increase after moving to Kubernetes. Even companies who adopt Kubernetes for other reasons, like time-to-market advantages, should follow basic cost control best practices to stay within the budget. Optimizing cloud costs related to running Kubernetes doesn’t have to involve trade-offs for performance or availability.

The Essential Guide to Cloud Migration Planning

Cloud migration is the process of moving your infrastructure, applications, and data to the cloud. While the potential benefits—like cost savings, scalability, and modernization—are significant, the risks are just as high if you don’t have a solid plan in place. Without clear strategies, you could face unexpected costs, technical challenges, and security issues.

The high stakes of SDLC compliance: Lessons from EVE Online's battle of B-R5RB and Equifax

n our previous exploration of The Punchcard Paradigm, we traced the roots of modern compliance practices back to the early days of computing. We saw how the physical constraints of punchcards shaped programming practices and how those practices lingered long after the technology had evolved. Now, let’s dive deeper into why modern compliance is more critical than ever in today’s digital landscape.

5 Key Challenges in Data Center Modernization and How to Overcome Them

Data centers are essential components of your business operations. Therefore, you need to ensure that your business keeps up with its rapidly evolving technological landscape. So you may need to completely transition--from old on-premise physical servers to new infrastructure that supports workloads/applications across several cloud environments!! This entire process of data center modernization is not easy-as it comes with its own set of challenges. So, what are these data center modernization challenges? And can you overcome them? Let's find out.

Understanding SQL Server Triggers

In SQL, triggers allow developers to automate actions based on events within the database, such as INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE operations. They can also be useful for maintaining database integrity and maintaining code accuracy. Still, you should be careful when using them since they may impact database performance. In this article, we’ll make a brief overview of SQL triggers and events that can initiate them.
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9 Critical Challenges in Enterprise Incident Management (And How to Overcome Them)

In an era where businesses are deeply intertwined with complex digital ecosystems, robust enterprise incident management has attained utmost importance. With businesses relying heavily on complex, interconnected systems, the stakes are high when things go wrong. According to PagerDuty's State of Digital Operations 2024 report, 65% of organizations experienced an increase in total incidents over the past year, with an average cost of $3,936 per minute of downtime for enterprise companies.

Boost Your Workflow with the Ultimate Local Development Mock

The benefits of API mocking extend beyond just speeding up development. It enables developers to work independently of external APIs, eliminating delays caused by dependencies that may be out of their control. This independence is crucial for maintaining workflow efficiency, especially in complex projects involving multiple APIs. API mocking is invaluable for testing edge cases and error scenarios that might be difficult to reproduce with a live API.

How gen AI is driving the next wave of network and cloud innovation

In a recent panel discussion, “Navigating the Convergence of Networks, Clouds, and Generative AI,” hosted by Digital Realty and Console Connect, industry experts shared their views on the challenges associated with AI adoption and its future impact on business operations. The panel featured industry experts from both Digital Realty and Console Connect, alongside Jacky Chan from Votee AI, a multi-stacked AI start-up based in Hong Kong.

AWS EKS 101: When To Use And Tips To Optimize

According to Gartner, 90% of global organizations will run containerized applications in production by 2027. The need for continuous innovation, performance, and availability is driving this shift to meet customer expectations. Kubernetes plays a crucial role in this transformation. It offers a robust open-source platform for managing containerized applications. Yet, ensuring optimal application performance is only possible with observability.

From Headaches to Hassle-Free: The Modern Fix for Network Troubleshooting

In today’s fast-paced business world, where the network is the lifeblood of everything from remote work to cloud apps, keeping things running smoothly isn’t just important—it’s fundamental. A single hiccup in connectivity can bring productivity to a screeching halt, and nobody wants that. So, what used to be a mundane task—network troubleshooting—has now become one of the most vital jobs for any Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) team.

Catch The Highlights Of This 2024 Live CloudZero Demo

It’s all well and good to say that “every engineering decision is a buying decision.” It’s one of our favorite phrases here at CloudZero! However, it’s one thing to say it and quite another to LIVE IT. That’s pretty much the driving force behind CloudZero: We want your team to be able to access your company’s cloud spend data, analyze it from every angle that might be helpful, and use that information to grow the business.

Hyperview Joins Forces With Novem Digital to Transform Property Risk Management and Asset Sustainability

Vancouver, British Columbia, August 27, 2024 – Hyperview, the leading cloud-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Novem Digital, an innovative digital risk management and IoT company.

What is network uptime? Know how to measure and increase it.

Organizations that rely on traditional networks struggle to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies and accelerate innovation. As AI, cloud, and decentralization create new challenges, the key to moving forward at a faster pace is to make sure the network is always available and working without any interruptions. This measure, known as network uptime, is crucial for assessing the reliability and performance of an organization's IT infrastructure.

How to Send Rightsizing Recommendations to Azure DevOps - Expert insights

In this video, Michael Stephenson ( A FinOps certified practitioner & Azure MVP) will demonstrate on how you can identify Azure rightsizing recommendations using Turbo360 and then send them to Azure DevOps as a work item so that your team can implement the same in the next sprint. By integrating Turbo360 with Azure DevOps, you can streamline the rightsizing process, reduce manual effort, and ensure that your Azure resources are optimized for performance and cost.

Top 5 Tools for System Administrators - SysOps Automation

No doubt, as a system administrator, your job can be pretty demanding. You're expected to keep servers running, manage networks, and ensure everything in your IT infrastructure is secure and efficient. Your everyday duties might be difficult and time-consuming, including installing new systems and fixing existing ones. However, Having the right tools can make your job much easier. Let's get into the top five system administration tools that can help simplify your work and keep your systems running smoothly.

Creating Effective SLO Dashboards: A Comprehensive Guide

In modern software engineering, the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) has become a cornerstone of reliable service delivery. SLOs define the acceptable level of service that a system must deliver, serving as a benchmark for both internal teams and external users. However, setting SLOs is only half the battle; effectively tracking and managing these objectives is crucial to ensure that services remain within the desired thresholds. This is where SLO dashboards come into play.

Crafting the Best Golang Developer Environments

Go is an open-source programming language and developer environment from Google that allows for incredibly efficient and powerful applications. Go’s expressive syntax enables developers to write clean, efficient, concise code, allowing faster development cycles and easier maintenance. Whether you’re developing complex distributed systems or lightweight microservices, Go and its powerful libraries provide the tools necessary to create robust and scalable solutions.

AWS Vs. Azure Vs. Google Cloud: Which Is Right For Your Organization?

Here is the thing. You don’t need more than one cloud service provider unless you are considering a multi-cloud strategy. And even if you plan to work with all three cloud vendors, you’ll want to know which one is right for specific services. To help you decide, we’ll share the strengths, pricing, and other differences between Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) below. Let’s start from the very beginning.

Effective Release Management in DevOps: Best Practices & Tools

Release management is critical in software development, guiding how new features, updates, and bug fixes move from development teams through various stages of testing and deployment into production. In a DevOps framework, release management isn’t just about deploying code—it’s about ensuring reliable, timely, and stable software releases that meet business goals and satisfy end-users.

Azure SQL Managed Instance cost optimization

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed Platform as a Service offering. It closely resembles the on-premises SQL database server, making it an excellent choice for users who want to set up a hybrid environment. SQL Managed Instance has good feature compatibility with the on-premises SQL Server. There are three main factors that directly contribute to or affect the pricing. Here’s a quick breakdown to help you understand how the costs add up.

Understanding Kubernetes namespaces and how to monitor them with Site24x7

Kubernetes namespaces are a fundamental way of organizing your Kubernetes cluster resources to isolate groups of resources for specific needs. With better resource management, easy organization, robust security, and high scalability, Kubernetes namespaces help immensely in development, team handling, and application life cycle management. Site24x7 offers a strong platform for monitoring your Kubernetes namespaces so you can gain granular visibility into the performance and health of your deployment.

The Ultimate SOC 2 Compliance Checklist for 2024

Achieving SOC 2 compliance is not just an option—it’s a necessity. SOC 2 compliance demonstrates your organization’s commitment to data security, making it a critical component for businesses that manage sensitive customer information. Achieving this standard can be complex, but with the right guidance and tools, it becomes manageable. This guide will walk you through the key steps to achieving SOC 2 compliance.

Cyber resilience: What it is & why it's important

In today’s age of high-profile data breaches, supply chain attacks, and aging legacy software, smart organizations understand it’s no longer a matter of whether their systems will be compromised but when it will happen next. In fact, one recent study found that 68% of organizations experienced a cyberattack within the last 12 months (experiencing an attack doesn’t necessarily mean it was successful).

Realistic Strategies for FinOps Driven K8s Optimization

Reduce node counts to drive down infrastructure costs (on-prem and in the cloud). Get an overview of common issues that drive excess cost and understanding the 3 core strategies for tackling them. Done right, you can reduce node counts, which in turn impacts infrastructure cost and potentially reduces expensive software licenses such as OpenShift. In this 20-min session we cover the 3 core strategies.

5 Strategies for Decreasing API Latency and Improving App Performance

Application performance can make the difference between retaining or losing customers, with delays beyond a few seconds leading to dropped conversions. Performance testing and monitoring are vital for improving the overall user experience, achieving a competitive advantage, enhancing resource efficiency, enabling scalability, and reducing costs.

Enhancing Marketing Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide to Connecting HubSpot and Power BI

Understanding the nuances of marketing data is no longer a luxury but a strategic necessity; and this is where the fusion of two powerful tools, HubSpot and Power BI, takes center stage, offering an integration that transforms raw data into meaningful intelligence.

Simple Talks Podcast | Episode 5 - SQL Server and Postgres

Steve, Grant and Ryan return to Simple Talks to discuss SQL Server and Postgres. The advocates share their experiences with both systems, highlighting what works and what doesn’t. From time series and Query Store to extended events, tooling and log shipping - this is a quick-fire deep dive into the pros, cons and differences between the two. There’s also conversation around making the transition from one system to the other, and Ryan reflects on his challenging introduction to Postgres…on the first day of a new job.

Tips for Monitoring Kubernetes Applications

Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help optimize infrastructure usage, improve planning, and resolve incidents quickly. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to the extent that monitoring also has to evolve.

Monitoring Kubernetes with Hosted Graphite by MetricFire

In this article, we will be looking into Kubernetes monitoring with Graphite and Grafana. Specifically, we will look at how your whole Kubernetes set-up can be centrally monitored through Hosted Graphite and Hosted Grafana dashboards. This will allow Kubernetes Administrators to centrally manage all of their Kubernetes clusters without setting up any additional infrastructure for monitoring.

Top ten Git tips & tricks

Git is one of the most widely used collaboration tools in Software development. Even software developers working without teams often use Git as a version control system. Most people interact with Git through the command line, but many code editors and IDEs have Git integrations with built-in tools to make your workflow easier. Though Git is widely used, many developers only have a surface-level appreciation of all that Git has to offer.

Monitoring a K8s Cluster with MetricFire

Kubernetes (K8s) is a popular container orchestration solution, but monitoring its performance can be quite challenging. Luckily, there's a solution that makes it easier - MetricFire. It's a cloud-based monitoring and visualization platform that provides comprehensive metrics, alerts, and dashboards for K8s clusters. The platform offers amazing cloud-based monitoring and visualization services that can make the K8s monitoring seamless.

Tips for Monitoring Kubernetes Applications Test

Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help optimize infrastructure usage, improve planning, and resolve incidents easily. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to the extent that monitoring has to evolve as well.

Introduction to Monitoring Kubernetes

The growing adoption of microservices architecture also drives the adoption of containers to package, distribute and run the microservices. This requires orchestrators to handle the availability, performance, and deployments of those containers on the server. However, the entire setup around microservices, containerization, and orchestrators complicates logging and monitoring since various distributed and diversified applications interact with each other.

16 Best MySQL GUI Clients for macOS

Well, we can’t argue that Windows is the key platform for database development and management software—but what if you are a Mac user? Who said you can’t have equal opportunities to set up easy daily work with, for instance, MySQL databases? Simply take a closer look and you’ll see an abundance of top-tier MySQL tools for your Mac just around the corner.

Enterprise-Grade ITSM: Scaling Incident Response with ServiceNow & Squadcast

Integrating ServiceNow with Squadcast creates a powerful solution for IT Service Management (ITSM) teams, especially in environments where downtime isn’t an option and efficiency is critical. To state the obvious, IT incidents aren't just a nuisance - they're a threat. Downtime translates to lost revenue, frustrated customers, and a hit to your company's reputation. That's why a solid ITSM setup is essential.

Copied Press Release: FireHydrant Acquires Blameless to Further Solidify Enterprise Market Leadership

The addition of Blameless' enterprise capabilities combined with FireHydrant's platform creates the most comprehensive enterprise incident management solution in the market.

Elevating Developer Productivity with Speedscale Ephemeral Environments

Speedscale leveraged Ephemeral / Preview Environments to help balance developer productivity and high-quality code by dynamically spinning mini-staging environments up and down on command for experimentation and deployment safety. The primary goals of the project were to reduce cloud infrastructure operating costs and increase deployment frequency. Benefits included speed, resource efficiency, and improved collaboration.

Developer Self-Service: Overview & Best Practices

According to the 2024 State of Production Readiness report, 54% of engineering leaders said poor production readiness standards contributed to a decrease in developer productivity. But how? If software falls out of alignment with best practice—including those designed to maintain the health, observability, and security of software—developers wind up spending more time finding information and fixing issues than building new value.

How Cloud-Native Artifact Management Can Facilitate the Move to Platform Engineering

In this session we will explore why prioritizing artifact management is essential in advancing to self-service IDPs and how adoption of Cloudsmith offers solutions to common challenges such as high infrastructure costs, managing security vulnerabilities, and maintaining productivity. Attendees will gain insights into best practices of implementing an artifact repository at the center of their CI/CD pipeline.

How does Git work?

If you're like me and have less than twenty years of software engineering experience, the thought of a world without Git doesn't seem possible. When I started to research for this post, I almost fell out of my chair when I read that Git was created in 2005. It doesn't seem that long ago... either that, or I'm simply getting old. When I started programming, I asked myself a question I sometimes still ask myself today - How does git work? I often find myself being scared of certain Git commands.

Using K8S But Not Overhauling Your Devops Processes

Kubernetes is now the industry standard for cloud-based organizations. Slowly, many enterprises and mid-level companies are adopting it as the default platform for managing their applications. But we all know Kubernetes adoption has its challenges, as well as its associated costs. How do we decide when and what to migrate to Kubernetes? Does migrating to Kubernetes mean overhauling all DevOps processes? Adopting K8S should not lead to an overhaul of your DevOps process - it should complement it.

How to monitor your Kubernetes metrics server

In this article, we will examine a Kubernetes metrics server and its uses. We will also learn how to set one up and use it to monitor Kubernetes metrics. Finally, we will explore using Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to monitor Kubernetes metrics. To easily get started with monitoring Kubernetes clusters, check out our tutorial on using the Telegraf agent as a Daemonset to forward node/pod metrics to a data source and use that data to create custom dashboards and alerts.

Building On-call: Our observability strategy

At incident.io, we run an on-call product. Our customers need to be sure that when their systems go wrong, we’ll tell them about it—high availability is a core requirement for us. To achieve the level of reliability that’s essential to our customers, excellent observability (o11y) is one of the most important tools in our belt. When done right, observability improves your product experience from two angles.

Network Management: Definition, Best Practices, and Tools

The efficiency of your IT infrastructure can make or break your business, specially in the IT world. At the core of this infrastructure lies Network Management (NM)—a critical process that ensures your network operates smoothly, securely, and efficiently. Whether you're managing a small office network or a sprawling enterprise system, understanding NM is key to maintaining optimal performance and security. But what exactly does Network Management involve? And why is it so important?

3 Key Strategies for End-to-End DevOps Automation

DevOps automation is essential for speeding up delivery, minimizing errors, and boosting team collaboration. But selecting the right approach can make or break your organization’s agility and scalability. Let's break down three key approaches—DIY with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and DevOps Automation Platforms—so you can identify the best strategy for your needs.

A data lake on your cloud with Spark, Kubernetes and OpenStack

Data lake is a very large scale data processing paradigm that disrupts the conventional data warehousing model. Data lakes can offer greater flexibility whilst retaining the benefits and efficiency of centralised data governance. With Canonical OpenStack private cloud platform, Kubernetes and Charmed Spark solutions, your data lake architecture can also benefit from extended flexibility and scalability whilst remaining cost effective to operate.

Choosing the Best SRE Tools for Your Business: A Buyer's Guide

If you're a member of a Site Reliability Engineer(SRE), DevOps, or IT operations team, you're likely familiar with the challenges of maintaining system uptime and reliability. That's where SRE tools come in. They are the unsung heroes that help maintain reliability and performance. In today's tech-driven world, these tools are more important than ever. This guide is here to help you choose the best SRE tools for your enterprise team.

Optimizing DevOps with Kubernetes Ephemeral Environments: Efficient Testing and Deployment

Ephemeral environments transform software development by providing temporary, isolated spaces for testing and deploying microservices without affecting production. Given its robust orchestration capabilities, Kubernetes excels at creating these temporary environments, allowing teams to efficiently manage and scale containerized applications. By integrating tools like Helm and Kustomize, developers can maintain a codified version of their app and its dependencies.

DevFinOps: What it is and why it matters

DevFinOps presents a paradigm where cost responsibility is linked with development and operations. This system is particularly good if you work in Cloud environments. Introducing of FinOps or the Finance + DevOps practices into the development cycle could supply your business with hidden cost-saving possibilities.

SD-WAN: Dead or Different?

The rapid evolution of work models and security requirements has prompted questions about the relevance of Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology. In their insightful report, ‘Is SD-WAN Dead?’ Jonathan Forest and Andrew Lerner of Gartner explore these dynamics, concluding that while SD-WAN is far from obsolete, its role is shifting.

Four key benefits of configuration templates in network automation

Configuration templates consist of small pieces of code that allow administrators to implement changes across numerous devices as many times as necessary. These templates, often referred to as configlets, expedite system setup and make it more resistant to errors.

Platform Engineering - Empowering Developers with Self-Service Tools

In the world of DevOps and cloud engineering, a new buzzword has emerged: Platform Engineering. This concept has sparked discussions across the industry, with professionals debating whether it replaces traditional DevOps or adds value to it. In reality, Platform engineering transforms how software teams work. It builds on DevOps principles to create self-service tools that boost developer productivity. This approach streamlines workflows, enhances security, and cuts operational costs.

Deploying Llama 3 and vLLM with Civo Cloud GPU: A Live Demo with @getpieces

Join us for an exciting live demo as we explore how AI can transform your DevOps workflow using Pieces and Civo. In this comprehensive walkthrough, we'll dive into deploying an open-source large language model on Kubernetes, setting up GPU clusters, and leveraging AI to streamline development tasks.

How To Build A Successful Cloud Strategy in 2024

Businesses move to the cloud for several reasons. For some, moving to the cloud means gaining access to the best enterprise-level technology without the associated costs of handling, maintaining, and managing the underlying infrastructure. For others (like startups), the ability to scale quickly and respond faster to market demands is at the top of the list.

How Ubuntu keeps you secure with KEV prioritisation

The Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (KEV) is a database published by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) that serves as a reference to help organisations better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity. Since its first publication in 2021, it has gone beyond its US federal agency scope and has been adopted by various organisations across the globe as guidance for their vulnerability management prioritisation frameworks.

How To Identify Requests as Part of an End-To-End Tracing Strategy

Tracing follows requests as they move through an entire network, from the initial client request to the final response. In financial services, end-to-end tracing is essential for maintaining robust security, ensuring comprehensive observability of system operations, and understanding chains of events in case of issues or anomalies.

Software Deployment Best Practices for Modern Engineering Teams

Adopting best practices for software deployment is essential to maintaining a high standard of quality, minimizing downtime, and ensuring that your applications meet user expectations. Here are five best practices to help you deploy your software more securely and reliably.

How to Create Indexes in PostgreSQL for Optimal Database Performance

An index in a database is a special data structure that speeds up the search and retrieval of records from a table. It works similarly to an index in a book, where you can quickly find the needed page by topic or word without having to flip through the entire thing. In this article, we are going to talk about different types of indexes and how to create and use them in both command-line and GUI tools like dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL.

What is the impact of AI on data centers? #AI #datacenter #datacentersolutions

AI is the buzzword of the year for good reason—it's transforming industries, including data centers. Hyperview CEO, Jad Jebara explains how AI is tripling data center capacity, solving industry challenges, and why this is just the beginning.

The Iron Triangle in Project Management: Balancing Scope, Time, and Cost-And Why Automation Often Misses the Mark

In project management, the Iron Triangle is a classic concept that represents the interplay between three critical factors: scope, time, and cost. Imagine it as a triangle where each side symbolizes one of these factors. Modifying one side effects the other two, creating a delicate balance that project managers must navigate. But here’s the twist: When it comes to automation, we often tip the scales in ways that lead to inefficiencies and increased costs.

Use the Catchpoint Terraform Provider in your CI/CD workflows

We recently made the Catchpoint Terraform provider available in the Terraform Registry, allowing our customers to manage their Catchpoint IPM tests with minimal configuration, enabling developers, SREs and DevOps teams to seamlessly integrate their Catchpoint data with Terraform.

100G VXC Expansion: Now Available From 597 Data Centers Worldwide

Our 100G connectivity is now one of the most widely available in the NaaS market with new locations across America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Due to a combination of technological advancements and the forced innovation brought on by COVID-19, businesses are now processing more data than ever. Analytics engines and big compute are being introduced and leveraged across diverse infrastructures. Generative AI is being incorporated wherever businesses can fit it, taking processing capacities to their limits.

SNMP Traps as Logs | LogicMonitor

In this short demo video, Michael Rodrigues, Senior Product Manager, will give you a tour of SNMP Traps as Logs, a new way to monitor SNMP traps with LogicMonitor. SNMP Traps as Logs enables real-time, event-driven notifications for critical networking issues within a user-friendly interface, unlocking instant insights. By ingesting SNMP traps as logs instead of EventSources, you can consolidate network troubleshooting efforts within a single pane of glass for a holistic Network Monitoring approach, eliminate monitoring gaps, improve reliability, and facilitate resource planning.

How can you create a schedule for your UAT environment?

This video demonstrates the workload optimization feature within a Turbo360. This feature allows users to schedule automatic resizing or turning off resources in Azure to minimize costs. The video shows how to set up a schedule to manage resources, such as App service plans, Cosmos DB, Data Factory Pipelines, Logic Apps, SQL databases, and VMs, and how to configure notifications and cost savings.

How Can AI Revolutionize Your Development Workflow? An Introduction to Pieces and Civo

Join us as we dive into the world of AI integration with a live demo of Pieces and Civo. In this walkthrough, we explore how Pieces can revolutionize your development workflow, from automating manual tasks to enhancing code snippets with AI. Learn about on-device and cloud capabilities, and discover how AI can deeply enrich your coding experience.

What is Tiered Pricing? Definition, Examples, Best Practices

Pricing matters. Charge too little and you won’t earn enough revenue to stay afloat. Charge too much and you could lose thousands in potential business. You don’t want to price out some customers. So what can you do? This is where tiered pricing comes into play. The SaaS pricing approach can be helpful for companies looking to meet the needs and budgets of their different customer personas.

Mastering Node Affinity in Kubernetes

In the world of container orchestration, Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to platform for managing and scaling applications. One of the key features that make Kubernetes so powerful is its ability to intelligently schedule pods across nodes in a cluster. Node affinity is a crucial concept in this scheduling process, allowing developers to influence where pods are placed based on node characteristics.

MSP device templates at the admin level for tracking your customer's endpoints

Managed service providers (MSPs) are currently facing a critical challenge: efficiently managing and monitoring a diverse array of endpoints for multiple clients. At the core of effective network management is the seamless tracking of customer endpoints. The availability of device templates at the administrative level within Site24x7 is an advantage for many MSPs.

What are networks? Part 2: Network devices and why we need to monitor them

In an era dominated by GenAI technologies, the critical role of robust network infrastructure—the backbone of AI's expansive capabilities—often remains in the shadows. At the heart of this infrastructure lies an intricate array of network devices, including routers, switches, modems, firewalls, wireless access points, etc. These devices, each serving a distinct yet interconnected role, collectively ensure the seamless transmission of data across the network.

The rising need for database monitoring in Financial Services

Every IT and data team in Financial Services is already faced with many challenges. They manage large database estates with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that is particularly sensitive, requiring governance and process protection. They have to constantly adapt to changing customer expectations with better products, more seamless experiences, and five-nines availability. They’re expected to deliver new features and services quickly, while keeping data safe.

Gain Efficiency with a GitOps Workflow

This blog will be the second in a three-part blog series where we explore the benefits of the GitOps practice, how to get the most from GitOps, and how to measure and maintain success. Here is what you can expect from the series: We’ll dive into the practice of GitOps in this blog, defining and understanding what an efficient workflow can produce. Here you’ll put the principles of GitOps into practice, exploring how infrastructure as code (IaC) can help you get more done with fewer resources.

Amazon EBS Optimization: A Guide To Maximizing EBS Efficiency

The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) service should provide high-performance block storage for Amazon EC2 instances. Yet, without careful management, Amazon EBS can become inefficient, leading to performance bottlenecks and cost overruns. For example, EBS volumes persist even after an EC2 instance has been terminated. The unused EBS volumes continue to incur costs.

What is Developer Experience (DevEx)?

We asked developers across the globe, each with their own take on what makes for a great developer experience. And while every developer’s journey is unique, the need for smooth, efficient workflows is universal. That’s why we’re excited to kick start DevExDays – a celebration of the tools, practices, and innovations that make development easier and more intuitive. To make it even better, we’re offering up to 80% off your first GitKraken Pro seat with the code DEVEXDAYS24 for a limited time!

Mastering Community Building with Jono Bacon Insights from a 26 Year Expert!

Join Jono Bacon, CEO and Founder of The Community Leadership Core, as he shares his journey from the early days of open source to leading large-scale communities at companies like Canonical, XPRIZE, and GitHub. Discover key insights on building and sustaining thriving communities, the challenges of maintaining open-source projects, and the evolution of community platforms like Slack and Discord. Find out more about Jono Bacon and The Community Leadership Core.

Understanding the Essentials of Software Testing: A Comprehensive Guide

Software testing plays a crucial role in ensuring that applications function correctly and meet user expectations. In this blog, we will explore the fundamental aspects of software testing, including its importance, types, and the lifecycle phases involved.

Optimise your ML workloads on Kubernetes

Kubernetes has proven to be a vital tool for developing and running ML models. It enhances experimentation, workflow management, and ensures high availability while handling the resource-intensive nature of AI workloads. With optimizations, Kubernetes can further improve resource utilization, making AI/ML projects more efficient.

The Impact of MTTR on Customer Satisfaction and Business Success

Today, businesses are increasingly reliant on their ability to provide uninterrupted service and respond swiftly to any disruptions. Whether it's a website outage, a malfunctioning application, or hardware failure, downtime can significantly affect a company's operations. Customers expect quick resolutions, and delays can result in dissatisfaction, loss of trust, and ultimately, business failure.

Join Ken on SMC Journal - Scaling Kubernetes, Microservices, and Ephemeral Environments

Check out Ken Ahrens and Scott Moore as they discuss some blockers of developer productivity when building in Kubernetes, and how removing environment and data challenges can reduce toil and frustration! You can catch the full podcast on Scott’s page here: Scott Moore: Hey everybody out there in internet meme land. It’s time to hide your kids and hide your wife because it’s time for the SMC Journal podcast. Some of you will get that joke. Others will not.

Orchestration as a Data Management Challenge-Part 3

In blog one of this series, we discussed how orchestration is about data. In blog two, we talked about how effective orchestration with advanced data management techniques can be used to develop a digital twin. In this blog, we will discuss what we can do with all that data. More specifically, we’ll take a look at using data-empowered RAG AI to deliver stateful orchestration.

Installing Karpenter: Lessons Learned From Our Experience

This article shares our experience migrating from the AWS Cluster Auto Scaler to Karpenter. We provide an overview of the steps we took to install Karpenter. This article is the first in a series dedicated to Karpenter. In future posts, we will cover other aspects of using Karpenter.

How to Make Better Data Center Energy Management Decisions

Data centers are among the largest consumers of energy worldwide, accounting for up to 3% of global electricity consumption, a figure expected to rise with increasing demand for computing power and services. Energy consumption is a main concern in the data center industry as managers struggle to find ways to improve overall efficiency and environmental sustainability amidst the green wave of new reporting and operating regulations.

How Does PUE Relate to Data Center Sustainability?

In a time where sustainability is a critical concern, data centers play a pivotal role in shaping the future of environmental responsibility. Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a core metric in assessing the energy efficiency of data centers. But how exactly does PUE relate to sustainability, and what role does it play in the broader context of ecological responsibility?

Top 11 Cloud Observability Tools To Use In 2024

Cloud observability tools offer visibility into your cloud infrastructure. They collect data from various sources to help you understand your applications’ performance. The tools enable you to monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot your cloud environment. In this guide, we’ll share why cloud observability is important and the best tools to consider.

From Basic Monitoring to Modern Observability: Shifting Right and Observability as Code

I've been in the observability market long before it even had that name. Over the years, observability has undergone a significant transformation. As someone who has witnessed these changes firsthand, I can attest to the dynamic nature of this field. In the early days, it was largely about basic monitoring: tracking system metrics, lots of logs, and simple alerts.

Making the Switch to Hosted Monitoring

Implementing a monitoring solution is no small task; with your company's data growing, it can feel impossible. Often, small teams develop their own monitoring infrastructure because it is more cost-effective than a platform. But when your business grows, your data does, too. Monitoring can quickly become a bigger challenge than a small team can handle, and some companies need more resources to hire a developer dedicated to their monitoring.

Benefits as Well as Drawbacks of AI in the Industry - Kellyn Gorman | Redgate

Kelly Gorman, Director of Data and AI at Silk, shares the biggest benefits as well as drawbacks of AI in the Industry. Test Data Management is the process of providing DevOps teams with test data to evaluate the performance and functionality of applications.

Exploring Ubuntu Confidential VMs with Intel TDX on Google Cloud

Confidential computing is a revolutionary technology that disrupts the conventional threat model of public clouds. In the past, vulnerabilities within the extensive codebase of the cloud’s privileged system software, including the operating system and hypervisor, posed a constant risk to the confidentiality and integrity of code and data in operation. Likewise, unauthorized access by a cloud administrator could compromise the security of your virtual machine (VM).

Rightsizing & Handling Resource Allocation in Kubernetes

Handling resource allocation within Kubernetes clusters is of paramount importance. Proper resource allocation in Kubernetes ensures optimal performance and efficient utilization of the underlying infrastructure, safeguarding against capacity issues and application downtime. In contrast, improper resource allocation can lead to a plethora of challenges, from wasted resources to compromised application performance.

Windows Automation: Comparing Methods & Tools for Automating Windows Infrastructure

Finding the right automation tool for Windows environments can be frustrating. Legacy systems, a GUI-centric design, and proprietary tooling are a few of the reasons automating Windows infrastructure can be challenging – especially in environments where Windows isn’t the only OS. Many organizations struggle to choose tools that will let them automate Windows infrastructure without contributing to tool sprawl.

Simple Talks Podcast | Episode 4 - Coffee chat with Jason Romans

Host Louis Davidson is joined by regular Simple Talk contributor and community speaker Jason Romans for coffee and a chat. From his early days owning a Commodore 64, juggling retail work with his studies and becoming an ‘accidental DBA’, all the way up to his current position as a Business Intelligence engineer, Jason has quite a few stories to tell. Other topics discussed include a shared love of theme parks, the travel benefits of attending conferences, and the challenges of sharing a name with ‘JSON’…

Everything you need to know about Large AI Model Training

When looking back at the role artificial intelligence (AI) has played in revolutionizing different industries that would typically require human intelligence, it is important to consider the next steps in this journey and how it is starting to evolve. With the growth of the industry, the volume and complexity of data are becoming unmanageable for pre-existing AI models.

Residential Proxies for Competitor Analysis in 2025

As you navigate the competitive landscape in 2025, having the best tools at your disposal is essential. Leveraging competitor analysis' residential proxies can provide vital insights to give your business an edge. Your competitor's strategies and tactics hold valuable lessons. Utilizing residential proxies properly allows you to gain a deeply granular view into their activities without compromising your anonymity or getting blocked.

Integrating dbForge Studio With Azure for Advanced Java Web UI Development

Developing web-based applications often requires a robust, scalable, and efficient database solution that can handle dynamic data needs. Azure SQL Server provides developers with a cloud-based platform that fulfills these requirements. By combining Azure SQL Server with modern web development technologies, developers can build powerful, data-driven web applications that offer distinctive user experiences.

Puppet 8: The Biggest Changes & How to Get It Now [with Video]

Puppet 8 is here, and it’s included in the latest release of Puppet Enterprise. It’s the biggest update to Puppet since Puppet 7’s first release in November 2020, and it carries a host of enhancements and improvements to make managing and scaling your infrastructure easier than ever. Read on for a list of the major changes included in Puppet 8, how they benefit you, and how to get going with Puppet 8 fast.

What is SharePoint REST API? Explained for Beginners

The SharePoint REST API is a powerful tool that allows developers to interact with SharePoint data and resources remotely. Whether you’re managing documents, configuring sites, or building custom applications, the REST API provides a flexible, efficient way to programmatically access and manipulate data within a SharePoint environment.

OpenAI Cost Optimization: 11+ Best Practices To Optimize Your OpenAI Spend

It’s a fast-paced business world out there. This means artificial intelligence (AI) models that help modern businesses win are more than welcome. The right model can drive innovation, streamline workflows, and save you money. But OpenAI’s powerful models can have a catch: High-frequency API usage, complex queries, and data processing can lead to unexpectedly high costs. Surprise costs eat up budgets and threaten other critical investments. Not good.

Deploying OpenSearch Effortlessly with Terraform

Creating OpenSearch clusters is crucial for organizations aiming to harness the power of distributed search and analytics. These clusters allow businesses to efficiently store, index, and examine extensive amounts of data in real time, offering valuable insights for decision-making and operational efficiency. A significant advantage of creating OpenSearch clusters is that they support replication and shard allocation, which ensures high availability and fault tolerance.

Accelerate Your Migration to JFrog SaaS with the AWS ISV Workload Migration Program

In the fast-paced, ever-evolving world of software development, the ability to seamlessly migrate and manage workloads on the cloud is a game changer. At JFrog, we’re committed to empowering organizations to achieve their DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps goals with speed, security, and efficiency. Migrating these workloads to the cloud offers numerous advantages, including increased scalability, cost efficiency, and improved agility.

The Cost of Cloud 2024: Rising Prices, Challenges, and Sustainable Solutions

In 2024, the cloud computing landscape faces significant challenges as costs and complexities rise. Our latest report, The Cost of Cloud 2024, explores these issues, focusing on the dominance of Azure, AWS, and GCP, and offers strategies for navigating this evolving landscape.

What's New in Kubernetes 1.31: Elli

Kubernetes 1.31, also refered to as 'Elli', is the latest release from the Kubernetes project, introduces several significant updates that enhance the orchestration capabilities of the platform. This release continues the trend of evolving Kubernetes into a more robust, scalable, and secure system for managing containerized applications across diverse environments. Below, we delve into the key updates in Kubernetes 1.31. Kubernetes v1.31 will be available through on Civo shortly.

7 trends to watch when considering gen AI adoption

AI is the current “big thing” in tech and its development marks a pivotal chapter in computing history, where it is redefining how industries operate globally. As IT leaders and CTOs navigate their organisations through this transformative landscape, understanding the direction generative AI is heading and knowing how to manage this technology effectively is crucial.

Strengthening cyber resilience with data sovereignty

Cyber threats are increasing in severity and frequency, and organizations across a wide range of industries and sizes must stay prepared for outages and other incidents. To protect against these risks, smart enterprises are increasingly embracing cyber resilience, which goes above and beyond cybersecurity practices and helps teams better anticipate, react to, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. This, in turn, ensures the long-term health and success of the business.

Top 3 Challenges of Securing Hybrid Cloud Environments

The hybrid approach to cloud implementation is by far the most widely adopted of the possible configurations available to modern businesses. In spite of this, it is not without its drawbacks. To understand the downsides, you first need to know what they are, so let's go over the main examples and focus on how to overcome them.

Developer experience doesn't start where you think it does

Steve Jobs once said that giving customers what they wanted wasn’t his approach. “Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do,” he said instead. “People don't know what they want until you show it to them. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.” By now, this wisdom has become canonical for companies targeting end-users, but we tend to ignore it when we’re building products and processes for professional users.

The Cyber Resilience Act: What it means for open source

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is nearly upon us. This wide-reaching piece of legislation will introduce new requirements, checks and balances on developers, retailers and device manufacturers; many of the looming demands haven’t gone down well in the open source community.

11 Cloud Automation Tools Powering The Future Of SaaS

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2025, 80% of organizations will use cloud automation tools to orchestrate workloads. The firm also forecasts that spending on public cloud services will hit $679 billion by the end of 2024, with SaaS leading the cloud computing market. This surge in cloud spending will shape the future of SaaS, and cloud automation tools will play a key role in this transformation.

How CloudZero Gave Duolingo Engineers What They Really Wanted

Many SaaS companies struggle to get engineers to take charge of costs and lower cloud expenses. Confused business leaders often put the problem on the shoulders of the engineers: Surely, it’s just that the engineers don’t care enough to stay within budget, or maybe they just don’t want to participate in the culture of cost efficiency leadership is trying to build. But what if your engineers actually do want to optimize costs—they just don’t have the tools and data to do so?

Introducing: incident.io for Microsoft Teams

There’s a major outage. Support tickets are mounting. Everybody from engineering to legal is scrambling for information. You have more Teams notifications clamouring for attention than you do minutes to address them, and it’s hard to know where to begin. What comes next is a balancing act—mitigating the impact, updating colleagues, managing action items, or updating a status page that will be seen by millions.

Zero-Trust mTLS Automation with HAProxy and SPIFFE/SPIRE

Whether you’re running a service mesh composed of HAProxy instances or facilitating communication between multiple systems, ensuring the authentication of traffic between your services is critical. This zero-trust security model operates under the assumption that you should not extend trust without verification, even within your own systems. By verifying every interaction, you mitigate the risks that arise when third parties imitate your systems.

How to convince your boss you need a Test Data Management solution

If you’re a developer, you may well be familiar with the scenario. You’re writing code and you want to test your changes against a copy of the production database. One that’s representative of the size and distribution characteristics and retains referential integrity so that, when your changes are released, they won’t result in a failed deployment that will take hours to resolve. But there’s a problem. The database copy you’re working with isn’t up to the job.

Top 10 How-To Guides To Improve Your Network

Tech providers often provide valuable resources to help you optimize your network. Here are ten of our recent favorites. Cloud, network, data center, and managed service providers often go beyond just offering their services. Explore any of your providers’ websites, and you’ll often find an abundance of resources with actionable guidance that can help improve and maintain an efficient enterprise network.

AI in Telecommunications: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Role of Resolve

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an essential component of the telecommunications industry, driving significant changes in how networks are managed, optimized, and maintained. With the growing complexity of telecom networks, coupled with the rising demand for seamless connectivity, AI offers a range of solutions to address these challenges. From predictive maintenance and network optimization to enhancing customer service, AI is poised to transform telecom operations.

Deployment Pipeline: How to Automate It & Why It's Important

DevOps practices have become essential for streamlining the journey from code to production. Development and operations teams work together to ship better software faster. But even with DevOps, getting source code from commit to production can face long lead times and scalability issues. That's where deployment pipelines come in, automating the journey and speeding processes up. In this article, we’ll walk you through automating your deployment pipeline.

Moving Past Annual Audits: Why Continuous Cybersecurity is Essential

It’s 2 am on a Saturday, you’re sound asleep, and suddenly your phone lights up, ringing and buzzing loudly on your nightstand. You know it won’t be good news, but it’s worse than you could have imagined—your network and systems have suffered a ransomware attack. As you quickly change and start driving into the office, you keep asking yourself one question—didn’t we pass our annual security audit three months ago with flying colors?

What is DCIM software? #datacenters #datacentersolutions #datacenter

@hyperviewhq CEO Jad Jebara: "If you're someone in the industry or who has experienced DCIM software in the past, you would know that it can be a PAIN. But for those who are unfamiliar, let's break it down and discuss how a modern DCIM solution can transform your operations.".

Isolating Bottlenecks: How to Determine If Your Slowdown Is Due to the Database or API

Every slowdown in your application can be traced to specific components like a database or an API, and quickly identifying the source aids the troubleshooting process. But when an API is underperforming, it may be difficult to tell whether the issue is with the API logic itself or an external service like a database that it interacts with before sending responses.
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Traffic-Driven Testing: All the Benefits of Shift-Right Testing with None of the Risk

The shift-right testing approach moves testing to later in your production cycle. Also known as "testing in production," with shift-right, you test software after it has been deployed. It gives you continuous feedback based on real-world user interactions. However, there are major drawbacks to the approach. For example, testing in production risks disrupting your user satisfaction and can mean you catch issues too late to respond to them effectively. It can also be difficult to test problems related to scale and traffic volume. Your tests are also difficult to repeat under the same conditions.

Building an asset attribution system for software security

Asset attribution is an operational necessity for robust digital protection, but hasn't always been easy to achieve. Especially when software state and ownership is unknown, or inconsistent. This blog delves into the historical complexities and challenges of asset attribution for security and engineering teams and explores how Internal Developer Portals like Cortex can help.

5 Best SOC 2 Compliance Solutions in 2024

SOC 2 compliance is crucial for any company handling sensitive customer data, but the process can be a headache. From managing your infrastructure to rigorous audits and ongoing monitoring, staying compliant demands a lot of time and effort. Thankfully, SOC 2 automation tools can make this process much smoother and faster. In this article, I’ll walk you through five top SOC 2 automation tools that can help you get and stay compliant with less stress.

Cut Cloud Infrastructure Costs By 5x - Guide For Startups

Managing costs while scaling operations is a challenging balancing act. One significant cost center is cloud infrastructure and its maintenance. This article aims to provide CTOs, VPs, and Head of Engineering with insights on optimizing these expenses. It highlights the benefits of leveraging DevOps Automation Platforms like Qovery to cut up to 5x their Cloud infrastructure costs.

Deciphering your bandwidth usage to ensure smooth network operations

In a world where businesses require uninterrupted network operations and people rely on applications for their day-to-day activities, understanding bandwidth utilization is critical. Rather than playing whack-a-mole with your bandwidth problems, you can monitor your network’s bandwidth usage and make informed decisions based on clear data. Bandwidth utilization metrics tell you how much data an interface, switch, or router can handle and how much data is currently passing through them.

How AWS Regions Affect Cloud Costs (And How To Reduce Fees)

AWS is the most popular cloud service provider partly due to its global data center network. The distribution enables organizations to configure their workloads to meet the needs of their global clients. The thing is AWS Regions charge different rates for almost everything, from compute and storage to data backup and retrieval services. And these cost variances can add up quickly.

Control Plane's Tamper-Proof, Immutable Audit Trail

Control Plane's audit trail service provides an immutable record of all resource mutations, whether initiated by the API, CLI, UI, Terraform, or other means. Users can leverage a user-friendly interface to search, filter, and review these actions, gaining visibility into timestamps, resource details, user information, and raw event data. Apply filters to refine the displayed actions based on resource type, audit context, resource name or ID, subject name, and date range, streamlining the audit review process and ensuring compliance with ease.

Control Plane's Aggregated Metrics

Metrics play a fundamental role in cloud computing, enabling the monitoring, optimization, and cost-effective operation of resources. They contribute to performance enhancement, efficient resource utilization, and overall operational excellence in the dynamic and scalable cloud environment. The Control Plane platform facilitates the collection of custom metrics from workloads, allowing applications to emit Prometheus-formatted metrics at a specified path and port. This configuration option extends to each container in a workload, providing flexibility in metrics management.

Why Move from Open Source Puppet to Puppet Enterprise? Here are 10 Reasons

Considering moving from Open Source Puppet to Puppet Enterprise? Great! In this article, we'll cover typical use cases for the enterprise version of Puppet, why businesses that moved from Puppet's open source version to Puppet Enterprise made the switch, and how customers drive time to value with Puppet Enterprise faster than Open Source Puppet.

The 6 Best GitOps Tools for Developers

GitOps is a game-changer for managing infrastructure and deployments using Git as the single source of truth. It makes DevOps processes more efficient, reliable, and traceable. For developers and organizations, GitOps not only speeds up development but also improves security and compliance. Today, I’ll break down what GitOps is, why it’s important, and review some top GitOps tools to help you on your journey.

Jaeger vs. Grafana Tempo: A Comprehensive Comparison for Distributed Tracing

When it comes to monitoring, diagnosing, and optimizing the performance of complex systems today, you can’t really go wrong with tracing tools. And while OpenTelemetry has become the go-to choice for instrumenting apps and collecting traces, there are several other options in the backend that can effectively store, manage, and analyze traces sent by OpenTelemetry. Two of these open-source tools are Jaeger and Grafana Tempo. In this article, we’ll compare and contrast the two.

Rancher Live: openEuler x Uyuni

Uyuni is a fully open source configuration and infrastructure management tool for Linux that helps you easily manage and update server estates. It is also the upstream project from which SUSE Manager (SUMA) is derived. Earlier this year, the project introduced support for openEuler, the popular open-source Linux distribution platform. Join us on this Rancher Live episode with Zhenyu Zheng, community operations manager and maintainer of several special interest groups within the openEuler project, to learn more about the project & its collaboration with Uyuni.

AI Summer Camp | Episode 4: AI on public cloud with open source

Welcome to AI Summer Camp. Join 5 essential trainings on AI from Canonical experts and level up your skills while on holiday. Episode 4: AI on public cloud with open source This will cover: Scenarios in which open source tooling on public cloud solves a problem for AI initiatives Main benefits of using open source tooling on the public cloud for AI projects Use cases from our customers Hybrid cloud and multi cloud opportunities for AI projects.

AI Summer Camp | Episode 5: AI on private cloud in the hyperscalers era

Welcome to AI Summer Camp. Join 5 essential trainings on AI from Canonical experts and level up your skills while on holiday. Episode 5: AI on private cloud - why is it relevant in the hyperscalers era? This will cover: Why consider a private cloud for AI? Key considerations when building a private cloud for AI projects Performance acceleration options for private cloud Guidance for Kubernetes on OpenStack for AI initiatives.

Why OpenStack is the Best Solution for Your Cloud Strategy | Open Source Cloud Computing

Operating in the cloud has become the norm in today's business world. However, depending solely on public clouds can introduce several challenges such as increased costs, privacy issues, and performance limitations. Enter OpenStack, the world's leading open-source cloud platform. OpenStack empowers you to create your own cloud infrastructure, giving you control over your digital future.

What is the telco core network?

The telecommunications industry relies heavily on their core network, which is essential for enabling communication and data transfer. As technology advances and data demand increases, these core networks pose significant challenges. Telcos may face immense difficulties in ensuring fast data transfer, maintaining network reliability, and securing communications. At the same time, the transition to technologies like 5G adds to these challenges, requiring substantial infrastructure changes.

Build and test a LlamaIndex RAG application

LlamaIndex is a framework for building context-augmented large language model (LLM) applications. It enables you to augment the model with domain-specific data to customize it and improve its responses to your use case. You can use this framework to build a question-answering chat bot, a document understanding and extraction application, or an autonomous agent. The framework provides tools to ingest data, process it, and implement query workflows that combine data access with LLM prompts.

Building On-call: Continually testing with smoke tests

With the release of On-call, our system’s reliability had to be solid from the outset. Our customers have high expectations of a paging product—and internally, we would not be comfortable with releasing something that we weren’t sure would perform under pressure. While our earlier product, Response, was the core of a customer’s incident response process after an incident was detected, we’re now the first notification an engineer gets when something’s wrong.

Virtualization vs Cloud Computing: What's the Difference?

What’s the difference between virtualization vs cloud computing? The server virtualization market is growing, driven by the need to modernize procurement procedures and manage compliance policies. Fortune Business Insights states that in 2023, 66% of businesses reported increased agility due to virtualization implementation. They also found that companies with over 100 computers have already adopted virtualization, and smaller industries with fewer than 100 workstations are quickly following suit.

Seamless Quality: Integrating Quality Control into Your CI/CD Pipeline

Integrating quality control into your Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is essential, especially with inspection software for quality control. This integration ensures that code changes meet high-quality standards before they reach production. Businesses can deliver robust software more efficiently by embedding quality control processes and utilizing inspection software within the CI/CD pipeline.

Optimizing Business Performance With Flexible IT Infrastructure

Is your business struggling to keep up with the ever-changing business landscape? Well, many companies find it challenging to adapt quickly to new technologies and market changes. But here's the good news: a flexible Information Technology (IT) infrastructure could be the key to boosting your business performance. With that said, here are a few tips on optimizing business performance with flexible IT infrastructure.

ROI of Reducing MTTR: Real-World Benefits and Savings

Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) stands as a critical metric when it comes to IT Operations and Incident Management. Reducing MTTR is not just a technical goal but a strategic business imperative, driving significant Return on Investment (ROI) through various tangible and intangible benefits. This blog delves into the real-world benefits and savings achieved by reducing MTTR, emphasizing its importance in contemporary business environments.

The wait is over, Flyway community: Git integration is here for everyone!

After a successful rollout for Flyway Teams and Flyway Enterprise, we are pleased to announce Git integration has been extended to Flyway Community users for Flyway Desktop. Today, Flyway Community users can enjoy seamless version control for their databases, integrated with popular Git systems like Azure DevOps Git, AWS CodeCommit, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket – to name a few.

Developer Experience (DevEx) Trends Shaping 2024

The quality of developer experience (DevEx) can make or break a development team’s success. But, what are the key trends shaping developer experience in 2024? We dove into the findings from Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience Report 2024, which sheds light on the various aspects that contribute to an optimal DevEx – from efficient tooling and processes to a supportive and inclusive work culture.

5 essential resilience tests for a successful cloud migration

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Migrating to the cloud usually means faster deployments and easier scalability, but it also means latency. Cloud applications communicate over distributed networks, and while these networks are fast, little bits of latency can quickly add up.

How to fix network latency with network traffic monitoring tools: Use cases and examples

Seamless network performance is the cornerstone of business success. However, network latency—the delay in data transfer initiation—can greatly hinder user experiences, decrease productivity, and even incur financial losses. For businesses aspiring to thrive, it is crucial to address and resolve network latency issues. In this context, network traffic monitoring tools emerge as pivotal solutions.

Before you go native in the cloud world, there are a few things you should know

The “cloud native” conversation is transitioning from the enterprise data center into the telecommunications world, just in time for a new generation of 5G and AI/ML enabled telecom services. Couched in that conversation are some important nuances about what constitutes a truly cloud-native solution versus a cloud-capable solution.

Crafting User-Friendly Solutions: Our Step-by-Step Design Process

Creating user-friendly solutions is crucial as it enhances the overall user experience and increases customer engagement. By making products easier to use and navigate, we ensure that users are more satisfied and likely to continue using them. At Qovery, we continuously deliver new features to enhance the developer experience. In this article, I will present our design process.

How to Achieve Ultimate Freedom With Your Load Balancer

The popularity of open source software continues to soar alongside growth in cloud usage, including multi-cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Pluralsight's State of Cloud 2023 report revealed that 65% of organizations actively leverage multi-cloud environments. Open source software is prized, in part, because it enables freedom of choice in an organization’s tech stack, especially in complex deployment environments.

DevOps Automation: What is it and How to apply it?

DevOps automation is essential for businesses aiming to accelerate software delivery, improve quality, and enhance operational efficiency. By automating repetitive tasks and integrating tools across the development and operations lifecycle, organizations can achieve significant gains in productivity and agility. So let's discuss DevOps automation in detail, exploring its benefits, tools, processes, best practices, and commonly asked questions.

Platform Engineering: What is it and how it can empower developers

If you’ve heard of DevOps, then you have probably heard of the term ‘platform engineering’ before. Over time, platform engineering has become a hot topic that we love to hate. While it promises faster release cycles and developer empowerment through self-service, not everyone buys into this concept.

Unlocking the power of blockchain for smarter NaaS

Today, businesses seek technical solutions that offer flexibility, increase efficiency and reduce costs. To meet this need, many are adopting as-a-Service models, particularly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). A key advantage is that businesses can choose from a variety of commercial models such as, subscription-based, pay-as-you-go models, or enterprise agreements, providing access to on-demand services.

Introducing Flyway Pipelines - your new window into the health and history of your database deployments

We’re excited to share Flyway Pipelines with you, a new service available in preview for all Flyway users of our Community, Teams and Enterprise editions to view the health and history of their database changes through a single pane of glass. Over recent years, one of the biggest challenges Flyway users have shared with us is how to gain easy visibility of all the database changes that teams are developing and deploying with Flyway.

The State of Database Landscape Survey | Redgate

The database landscape is constantly evolving, driven by major technologies like Artificial Intelligence that are now widely available. Which new technologies and trends are most important for you, and how will these impact your career trajectory? Join our latest survey to explore the current hot topics and enter our prize draw for the chance to win a $250 Amazon voucher.

How To Choose The Right Virtualization Monitoring Software For Your Entire IT Stack - Part 1

With many virtualization monitoring software options in the market, which is the right one for your entire IT stack? In this post, we’ll explore one of the crucial aspects of making this decision: the choice between agent-based, agentless, and hybrid monitoring solutions. Each approach has its own set of advantages and trade-offs, making it essential to understand which one aligns best with your organization’s needs.

Guide to Monitoring Kubernetes Using a Telegraf Daemonset

Kubernetes is used in production-level applications and software services to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications - ensuring high availability and consistent performance across distributed systems. It enhances reliability through features like load balancing, self-healing, and rolling updates, enabling efficient resource utilization and orchestration in cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Voice Solutions for Regional & Rural Service Providers

Being a voice service provider is challenging. Many regional and rural service providers are constrained by legacy TDM networks that are expensive to maintain, are well into their late lifecycles, are becoming a burden to administer and manage due to resource shortages and therefore pose risks to their business vitality. Continuing changes are experienced with vendors and products that seemingly constantly enter and exit the market. Ribbon offers a comprehensive transformation portfolio tailored to regional and rural providers.

#030 - Kubernetes for Humans with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart Ventures)

Ellen is a Partner at boldstart. She joined the boldstart team in January 2021, after having worked with the team as a founder at Dark. Her role allows her to do exactly what she loves – investing and supporting founders building pre-product, dev-focused, enterprise companies. Prior to boldstart and founding Dark, she worked in a variety of early stage product roles: at Lola on travel tooling, at Kickstarter on backer-facing projects, and at Microsoft on the first versions of cross-platform Office Mobile. The common thread is building tools that enable people to do creative work.

AI Summer Camp | Episode 3: Vector databases for generative AI applications

Welcome to AI Summer Camp. Join 5 essential trainings on AI from Canonical experts and level up your skills while on holiday. Episode 3: Vector databases for generative AI applications Join us for a deep dive into the role of vector databases in generative AI applications.

Announcing the Cycle Toolbox

Today we announce the launch of the Cycle Toolbox, a suite of tools that are designed to streamline the workflows of Devops professionals and developers. Our goal is to create a toolkit that not only simplifies your daily tasks but also helps alleviate some of those common frustrations. This is just the beginning, but for our initial release, we're excited to introduce the following tools.

Do You Still Need a DevOps Team in 2024?

In the early days of DevOps, building and maintaining infrastructure required a specialized team. DevOps engineers were essential for ensuring smooth development operations and bridging the gap between development and IT operations. Today, however, with mature markets and advanced tools becoming standard, the necessity of a dedicated DevOps team is being re-evaluated.

How HighRadius Engineers Use CloudZero To Make Smart Choices

HighRadius is a FinTech company that specializes in using automation to make financial management easier. So naturally, RamKishore Middela, assistant vice president of cloud engineering at HighRadius, recognizes more easily than most the benefits of automating his company’s cloud cost management with CloudZero.

What is Multi-Cloud, and why should you care?

As companies embrace cloud-native architectures and scale their operations, ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime become paramount; even brief outages can result in substantial revenue loss and reputational damage. In July 2023, a flaw in CrowdStrike's software update caused widespread disruption across various industries. The air travel sector was particularly hard hit, with over 3,300 flights cancelled globally. Major airlines like United, Delta, American Airlines, British Airway.

SIGKILL vs SIGTERM: A Developer's Guide to Process Termination

As a developer working with Linux systems, containers, or Kubernetes, it's crucial to understand process termination signals, particularly SIGKILL and SIGTERM. This comprehensive guide will explore these signals, their differences, and their implications in various environments. We'll delve into best practices, common scenarios, and advanced considerations to help you manage process termination effectively in your applications.

Streamlining Ecommerce Operations: A Case Study on Resolving Stuck Orders with Automation

In the fast-paced world of ecommerce, efficiency is everything. The Global Operations Center (GOC) TOO team constantly battles with ecommerce store orders that get stuck, causing delays and resulting in customer dissatisfaction. Here’s a look at how one retail organization transformed their order troubleshooting process using automation.

The risks - and rewards - of using production data for testing

Data, and the way enterprises use data in areas like development and testing, has not traditionally been a focus for business leaders but that’s now changing. Data is more varied and complicated than ever before, for example, with enterprises using two or more different database platforms – and 40% using four or more. It’s also spread wider and further, with enterprises hosting their databases in a combination of cloud and on-premises infrastructures.

An Introduction to Last9 Levitate

Levitate is a high-cardinality monitoring tool and a telemetry data warehouse with support for metrics, events, logs, and traces. Prometheus and OpenTelemetry compatibility makes it easy to get started with a hassle-free monitoring journey, be it starting from scratch or even swapping out your existing monitoring tool. Used by engineering teams worldwide at companies like Replit, Disney+ Hotsar, Clevertap, Probo, Quickwork, Axio, and more.

How Stress Affects Our Learning Abilities in Incidents (And What To Do About It)

While retrospectives provide a valuable pathway for learning outside of the flow of work, we also want learning to happen during an incident or unexpected event as it unfolds. This can be challenging due to the negative impact of stress on our ability to learn and navigate difficult situations. In this article, we’ll dig into how stress inhibits our ability to learn and what we can do about it.

Introducing Squadcast's Audit Logs: Enhanced Visibility and Control

Maintaining comprehensive records of user and entity-related changes within your Incident Management platform is crucial. Organizations have long relied on external analytics tools for these insights. However, the demand for an integrated solution within Squadcast has been growing. We are excited to introduce Squadcast's Audit Logs feature, designed to address this need directly within our platform.

From DevOps to Platform Engineering: The Next Evolution

As organizations continue to navigate the complexities of modern IT environments, the evolution from “DevOps” to “platform engineering” has emerged as a crucial next step in maximizing operational efficiency. By reimagining DevOps as platform engineering, organizations can create a more cohesive and streamlined approach to IT operations and development, breaking down the silos that often impede progress. In this webinar, the Cloudsmith team will explore Omdia’s latest Market Disruptors Report and discuss which critical success factors you need to consider before making the transition to platform engineering.

Azure FinOps Tool to Analyze and Optimize Azure Costs

Turbo360 is an Azure FinOps tool designed to provide a clear view of cost trends through in-depth analysis across multiple subscriptions in a comprehensive dashboard. This powerful platform empowers finance and engineering teams with transparency into cloud spending, enabling effective cost optimization with business context.

DevOps Checklist for Startups

This checklist is here to help startups evaluate and improve their DevOps practices. Based on our experience with over 200 startup customers, it’s tailored for teams with little or no dedicated DevOps staff. The aim is to highlight areas where you can make improvements, not to point out failures. Use this list to measure where you are now and to plan for future progress, ensuring your startup can grow smoothly and effectively.

GCP Cost Reporting: Key Features And Optimization Tips

GCP Cost Reporting is one of several tools provided by Google Cloud Console. The more you know about them, the more you’ll understand your Google Cloud bill. In addition, knowing the drivers behind your costs will help you reduce waste and maximize your GCP spend. This quick guide to GCP reporting tools will guide you on how to do it. We’ll also share how to get more detailed cost intelligence such as Cost per Customer or Cost per Feature on top of basics such as total and average costs.

Comparing Encryption in Transit Options

Weigh up three popular ways to protect your data in transit—host level encryption (TLS/SSH), MACsec, and IPsec—to fortify your network security. Encryption in transit refers to protecting data while it moves from one place to another, in contrast to “encryption at rest” which is used to protect data where it is stored. In this blog we’ll look at a few common options for encryption in transit, and the pros and cons of each from a network perspective.

Ribbon Voice Network Transformation - The Savings Pay for the Conversion

Ribbon's Fixed Network Transformation solutions consolidate and modernize infrastructure, eliminating inefficiencies. Ribbon provides solutions to transform both the core IP and optical networks and the IP-based communications services that run on top of that network, helping service providers expand and improve business services as well as enter new markets like unified 5G xhaul and broadband backhaul. At the same time, these transformations reduce the cost and complexity of delivering traditional residential communications services by dramatically reducing recurring power, HVAC, space, and staffing costs.

Common DevOps Challenges and How to Overcome Them

The IT industry has come to greatly value DevOps in the past few years. Professional specialists have advanced to integrate technology into their company, disregarding conventional approaches and striving for an automated, synchronized world. Organizations develop DevOps roadmaps to align their development and operation goals. Tech giants like Amazon, Netflix, Google, Walmart, and Alibaba have established a competitive edge in the industry, and adopting their digital strategies can provide an advantage.

Our migration from Kubernetes Built-in NLB to ALB Controller

Working with Kubernetes Services is convenient, especially when you can deploy Load Balancers via cloud providers like AWS. At Qovery, we initially started with Kubernetes’ built-in Network Load Balancer (NLB). However, we decided to move to the AWS Load Balancer Controller (ALB Controller). In this article, I explain why we made this switch and how it benefits our infrastructure.

The Ultimate Guide to Archiving Software

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses generate vast amounts of data every day. Managing this data efficiently is crucial for ensuring smooth operations and long-term success. That’s where archiving software comes into play. This article will break down what archiving software is, why it’s essential, and how it can benefit your organization. We’ll also take a closer look at Squirrel, an innovative archiving solution for SharePoint Online.

How to Use UniDAC and RAD Studio to Access Oracle Database

Developers using the RAD Studio environment frequently encounter challenges with database engines like Oracle. This happens particularly when they have to ensure compatibility and seamless data integration or struggle with matching Delphi data types to the ones used in a database. On the other hand, Universal Data Access Components can efficiently connect to and interact with different databases, including Oracle, without additional access layers or needing extra time to build tailored connectivity.

ITOps vs DevOps: Unveiling the Key Contrasts

In the recent few years, IT Operations (ITOps) and Development Operations (DevOps) are the two distinct practices that have gained much attention in the realm of Information Technology and software development. The purpose behind designing these practices was to improve efficiency and ensure seamless functioning across the organization’s IT infrastructure. Both might have certain similarities, but they differ in various aspects, such as roles, responsibilities, and methodologies.

Azure API Management and Generative AI - What's Next?

Andrei Kamenev, a member of the API management team at Microsoft, discusses the relationship between generative AI and API management. He explains that API management can be important in an architecture that uses generative AI, as it helps to solve challenges such as token usage, rate limiting, and load balancing.

AWS Auto Scaling 101: Tips For Success

Whether you’re growing rapidly and need to expand your infrastructure or demand has slowed and you need to scale down, AWS Auto Scaling can help. While manual scaling is time-intensive and costly, auto scaling is an automated process that adjusts capacity for predictable performance and costs. Auto scaling can help you optimize how your application is used and reduce wastage and optimize cloud spend.

How Canonical enables PCI-DSS compliance

Anyone who deals with online payments will have heard of PCI-DSS. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a comprehensive security control framework that is designed to keep payment card data safe from hackers and misuse. Merchants who accept debit or credit card payments (and service providers who process this information) will know this standard particularly well, as it’s a mandatory requirement for them to ply their trades.

Hyperview DCIM 4.5 Software Release: Carbon Footprint Reporting

Version 4.5 introduces a new add-on feature, Carbon Footprint Reporting that lets you keep an eye on the carbon footprint of any location with ease. Dive into the details of rack workloads, assess how your average offset percentages are shaping up, and get specific insights for each location. Plus, we've added a sleek dark mode option for Hyperview, introduced two fresh dashboard widgets, and rolled out a bunch of improvements to enhance your experience.

Decoding the Digital Tapestry: The Imperative of Network Device Discovery

In the labyrinth of modern IT infrastructures, network device discovery emerges as a pivotal process, indispensable for maintaining oversight and control over increasingly intricate digital ecosystems. This analytical examination delves into the mechanics, significance.

MySQL Performance Monitoring Tools and the Most Important Metrics to Monitor

This article covers some of the most popular MySQL performance monitoring tools alongside the key performance metrics that can help improve and optimize query performance in MySQL databases. MySQL is an open-source relational database that a lot of users prefer to utilize in their work and daily operations due to the variety of storage engines it supports, its flexibility and high performance, strong data security, cost-effectiveness, easy management, and reliability.

Product Release Notes July 2024

For years, CloudZero has been a leader in the cloud cost allocation space, a statement supported by the fact that we remain the only cloud cost management platform to have received SOC1 Type 2 certification for our extreme accuracy when it comes to allocation and financial reporting capabilities. To quote our co-founder in the 2022 blog post listed above, “Quite simply, we organize cloud spend better than anyone else in the world.” Even so, we’re always looking to iterate and improve.

How to test AWS managed services with Gremlin

Note In this blog, we use “managed service providers” to refer to companies that provide hosted computing services, not managed IT service providers (MSPs). ‍ When was the last time you thought about the reliability of your cloud dependencies? The biggest challenge with using cloud platforms and SaaS services is also its biggest strength: the provider controls everything.

The Secret To Blazing Fast Docker Builds

It's not an understatement to say Dockerfiles are the underpinning of modern DevOps. Writing a simple Dockerfile that 'works' is relatively straightforward, but there are several tricks and tips that could significantly improve the build speed and efficiency of your container images. If your current Dockerfiles copy in multi gigabyte contexts, reinstall dependencies on every build, or use only a single stage, we need to talk.

Are you testing for known reliability vulnerabilities?

Are you testing for known reliability vulnerabilities? "Risks have different priorities, but ultimately we want to be aware of those risks. Just like we want our security team to go scan for known vulnerabilities, our reliability team should be scanning for known vulnerabilities. And those are easy things we should go address. There's a second part of it, which is kind of just good engineering testing, which is: Hey, we have a set of test cases that we know need to pass.

Service-Centric Cross-Cloud Network demo - AWS and Google Cloud

This demo showcases the capabilities of the Cross-Cloud Network. See how customers running on another cloud provider can, securely access services hosted on Google Cloud over a private Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection using Cross-Cloud Network products Speaker: Ishita Mehta-Desai, Network Specialist.

Carbon Footprint Reporting

We’re excited to share some big updates and enhancements that underscore our dedication to innovation and efficiency. Check out our new Carbon Footprint Reporting add-on feature, a sleek dark mode GUI theme, and major improvements to Business Entity tracking and Dashboard Widgets. Plus, we’ve added new custom components for better peripheral logging and expanded firmware update support for Panduit Gen6 rack PDU products.

How to Setup & Use Unattended Remote Access on AirDroid Remote Support

AirDroid Remote Support is an excellent solution for IT admins needing to remote control and manage any unattended Windows device without the end user present. This powerful tool is ideal for handling IT infrastructure, remote software installations, accessing files, and resolving non-urgent problems seamlessly.

Comprehensive SharePoint Glossary

Welcome to the comprehensive SharePoint glossary. This resource is designed to help you understand the various terms and concepts associated with SharePoint, a powerful platform used for collaboration, document management, and business processes. Whether you are new to SharePoint or looking to deepen your existing knowledge, this glossary provides clear and detailed explanations to guide you through the complexities of the platform.

How to Use the Live Chat Feature on AirDroid Remote Support

Live chat is an essential tool for remote support, offering instant communication that leads to faster problem-solving and increased customer satisfaction. AirDroid Remote Support takes this to the next level with live chat via text, voice messages, and voice calls, ensuring synchronized and delay-free communication.

GitKraken Workshop: Unblocking your Teams with Launchpad

This GitKraken Workshop walks through how you can use GitKraken’s Launchpad to manage and prioritize your daily tasks. See how three different team members enhance their collaboration using features like Launchpad and CodeSuggest to keep their projects moving smoothly. Whether you’re a developer or a team lead, discover how you can improve your coding flows and boost your team's productivity!

Kubernetes Security: The Essential Role of Guardrails

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, Kubernetes has become essential for deploying and managing containerized applications. As organizations increasingly rely on Kubernetes to scale their operations, the need for robust guardrails becomes paramount. In this context, guardrails refer to the policies and mechanisms that ensure the safe and efficient operation of Kubernetes environments.

Simple Talks Podcast | Episode 3 - The Evolution of Database DevOps

Ryan Booz, Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey discuss the evolution of Database DevOps, from its origins to its significance today. They discuss what they were doing at the time of its inception as a concept and how it impacted their day-to-day, while also looking at the various pieces that make up the Database DevOps puzzle – from automation to testing - and where it may go next.

Charmed Kubeflow 1.9 enters general availability with new support for GenAI

Kubeflow 1.9. Kubeflow is a fully open source MLOps platform, part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubation project. Canonical is one of the project’s official distributors, ensuring security maintenance of the container images, tight integration with the wider AI/ML ecosystem, and delivering enterprise support and managed services. The latest release offers new features related to GenAI, enabling organisations to run any new initiative in production.