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Accelerating Product Delivery: A CTO's Guide to Automating Development Environments

In today's fast-paced tech industry, CTOs of growing scaleups face the challenge of delivering products faster while maintaining high quality and controlling costs. One powerful way to tackle this challenge is by automating development environments, which can significantly improve productivity, reduce errors, and speed up the entire development process. In this guide, we'll explore the benefits of automating development environments and explain why CTOs should prioritize this approach to accelerate product delivery and stay competitive.

How to Use Snowflake ODBC Connection Strings & Parameters

ODBC connection makes it easy for developers to access data stored in the Snowflake AI data cloud. Even if you aren’t familiar with Snowflake API or have never handled the specific formatting types of data this database supports, ODBC connectivity will still work for you. Using ODBC drivers to connect to Snowflake eliminates the need for manual interventions or finding workarounds.

The waiting game is over. 5G is coming to the edge.

Cédric Gégout (VP of Product at Canonical) reflects on a recent research report that Canonical published in collaboration with Omdia. The report uncovered that despite the lack of widespread 5G standalone infrastructure, enterprises, industrial actors and service providers are preparing for 5G edge computing to produce returns within two years.

How to deploy AI workloads at the edge using open source solutions

AI is driving a new wave of opportunities in all kinds of edge settings—from predictive maintenance in manufacturing, to virtual assistants in healthcare, to telco router optimisation in the most remote locations. But to support these AI workloads running virtually everywhere, companies need edge infrastructure that’s fast, secure and highly scalable.

Git, your way: Expanded strategies for branch sync & merge

By popular demand, we are happy to introduce several new strategies for syncing and merging branches in Bitbucket Cloud. Our goal is to provide you the full functionality of rebase and merge within the Bitbucket UI to help you manage your Git history according to your team's preferences. These new options have been among our most highly voted feature requests. In brief, here's what we've added.

GitHub Pull Request Details in GitKraken Desktop PART 2

Managing your GitHub pull requests in GitKraken Desktop has never been easier. From adding labels to assigning reviewers and tracking progress, everything you need is conveniently in one place. Learn more tips for simplifying your workflows with our GitKraken Desktop tutorial playlist!

Demo Roundups! Automation Standardization (Runbook Automation)

Solution consultants Asif Ahmad and Justyn Roberts show how PagerDuty's management and orchestration for the enterprise helps organizations connect and automate work across teams, systems, and environments. Level up your digital operations expertise with PagerDuty Demo Roundups — a series of live, interactive webinars where you can deepen your knowledge in the Operations Cloud and see how PagerDuty can work for you.

The Sustainability Challenge: Can Cloud Computing Keep Up?

Join Mark Boost, CEO of Civo, along with Chief Technical Officer Dinesh Majrekar and Chief Innovation Officer Josh Mesout, as they explore the critical intersection of innovation and sustainability in cloud computing at Civo Navigate Europe 2024. Together, they will discuss the challenges the industry faces, including rising energy consumption, the impact of AI, and the urgent need for transparency.

Achieving your AI Strategy with Automation

AI must be the hottest topic in the business news at the moment whether its public offerings like ChatGPT or the plethora of business offerings starting to appear. In a recent Gartner survey1 92% of CIOs believe AI will be implemented in their organizations by 2025 but turning the promise of AI into reality is not easy, in the same survey 49% of leaders highly involved in AI report that their organizations struggle to estimate and demonstrate the technology’s value.

Cloud Cost Optimization Metrics Every CFO Should Track

Cloud services have become an indispensable resource for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and innovation. However, with this increased reliance on the cloud comes the challenge of managing and optimizing costs effectively. For Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), understanding and tracking cloud cost metrics is crucial to maintaining financial health and ensuring strategic investments yield the desired returns.

Introducing Megaport AI Exchange

Supercharge your AI innovation with secure, scalable, and high-performance connectivity for your AI workloads. AI isn’t magic. Just like every other system in the IT world, AI is built on computing infrastructure – and the performance of your AI applications hinges on this infrastructure and the connections that bind it.

IT Infrastructure Optimization: Improved Performance and Cost Savings

IT infrastructure optimization should be a top priority. It is not just about upgrading hardware or software but about ensuring that all components work together seamlessly to support business needs. Your IT infrastructure supports all your daily operations and some of your long-term strategic goals. In this article, we'll explore the key aspects of IT infrastructure optimization, discuss practical steps to improve performance, and offer tips for managing costs.

What the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) means for IoT manufacturers

The EU Cyber Resilience Act is coming. I’ve talked about this piece of upcoming regulation in some depth before, having covered its background and stipulations in previous pieces on our website and for the Forbes Technology Council, and explored what it means for the businesses who consume open source in later articles (you can also read a version of this blog on Forbes).

Here Come the Newly Updated Delphi Data Access Components With Support for RAD Studio 12.2 and Lazarus 3.4

It’s high time we shared a new release of Delphi Data Access Components with a slew of new features and enhancements that will surely be worth your while—including support for the latest versions of RAD Studio and Lazarus, new options, improved performance, and much more. Curious? Let’s take a look at what awaits you in this release. Please refer to the revision histories in the table below for the full list of changes.

Guide To Calculating TCO On AWS And Tools To Help

Organizations often assume that switching to Amazon Web Services (AWS) will automatically reduce their on-premises spending. Certainly, cloud-based services like AWS’ Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can offer significant cost savings. Yet overspending on AWS is quite common. How can you tell if moving to AWS is the right decision? What figures would you use to quantify and justify that choice to decision-makers? Enter Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on AWS.

AI in Healthcare: 5 Use Cases and 1 challenge

The accelerated developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence in healthcare have set the stage for some interesting transformations. By enabling better care for patients, optimizing processes, and generating new opportunities for medical research and treatment, these technologies are indeed going to change the healthcare industry radically.

The case for edge in the legal industry

With a reputation for traditional reliance on extensive paperwork and detailed documentation, the legal industry is known for its slower adoption of technology. However, with well-established processes, reliable data sources, and often significant budgets, the profession has the ability for transformative innovation, but it comes with challenges. A recent report from the Law Society suggests ‘an indifference toward technological advancement among many legal professionals.

Coherent Routing and Optical Transport - Getting Under the Covers

Network operators need to make best use of their IP and Optical network resources. During this webinar we will explain how a new generation of high power coherent transceiver technologies is allowing us to assemble the traditional network building blocks in novel ways creating new architectures. Whatever the choice, the webinar shows how to construct a unified IP Optical network at the lowest TCO.

Understanding Automation Essentials Challenges, Solutions and Beyond

Automation is one of the main considerations when defining a cloud strategy. It is essential that enterprises implement automation within their cloud infrastructure so that they can not only enhance efficiency and generate opex savings, but also to scale operations and improve service delivery to their customers. Despite its importance, automation still has its challenges. Organizations must know how to automate tasks across often complex cloud architectures, in addition to meeting security expectations and navigating implementation costs.

How Schools and Nonprofits Implement Monitoring

Monitoring is crucial for schools and nonprofits, and there are dozens of use cases for how nonprofits and schools can implement monitoring. This article will explore them and show you how to start monitoring your organization using MetricFire. We'll also briefly examine EnglishScore, a real customer's use case for monitoring their educational application. We offer up to 40% off your monitoring bill for schools and nonprofits when you switch to MetricFire. Schedule a chat with our team to get a quote!
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Financial Benefits of Incident Management: Cost Savings and ROI

Have you ever assessed the financial impact of an hour of downtime on your business? If not, the results might be more alarming than you expect. For large enterprises, the cost can easily reach millions-and that's only the beginning of the potential consequences. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

How AI is Revolutionizing SaaS and Cloud Software: Key Trends for 2025

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has ceased to be a mere technological trend and has established itself as a foundational element shaping the future of Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud-based software solutions. By 2025, AI's integration into these domains will not just enhance existing functionalities but redefine what is possible in ways we’re only beginning to comprehend.

How to Enable, Configure, and Use MySQL Query Logging

What is the purpose of query logging in MySQL? Why is it important? How do you enable and configure it? In this article, we will address these questions and more. You will find a detailed guide on how to use mysqldumpslow to analyze slow query logs, along with tips on harnessing convenient GUI tools like dbForge Studio for MySQL to your advantage.

5G mobile networks: A driver for edge computing

Recently, a striking report published by Omdia and Canonical highlighted that 86% of communication service providers (CSPs) are optimistic about the future of edge computing on telco networks. This is a market that is expected to grow substantially in the coming years, with our report shedding light on the motivation that CPSs are drawing from the enhancements that 5G networks will bring.

Two Scenarios for Hybrid Multicloud Deployment With IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure

Learn how you can modernize your applications at scale for a powerful hybrid multicloud solution. Every network team wants a hybrid multicloud network that is efficient, resilient, secure, and scalable. Megaport has been a part of this journey for years, and many enterprises today leverage Megaport Cloud Router(MCR) for their cross-cloud workloads to achieve their dream networks.

Turning log anomalies into log alerts | LogicMonitor Envision

In this demo, discover how LogicMonitor Envision's anomaly detection helps your IT team stay ahead of issues before they escalate. By analyzing every log event, Envision identifies and marks new patterns as anomalies, ensuring your team is notified when something unusual happens. This capability, combined with unified logs and metrics, provides the context you need to make faster, smarter decisions about your network's performance and health.

AI vs. Human: Kelsey Hightower on the Battle for the Future of Development!

In this eye-opening keynote from Civo Navigate Europe 2024, Kelsey Hightower explores the future of software development in a world increasingly dominated by AI. Will AI tools like ChatGPT replace developers, or will they simply reshape the role of software engineers? Learn about the intersection of AI, open-source, Kubernetes, and what it means for the future of tech careers.

GenAI Meets K8s: The Role of Generative AI in Overcoming Kubernetes Complexity

For years, the potential of AI in operations has been a hot topic, often promising more than it delivers. As Kubernetes environments grow increasingly complex, the limitations of traditional monitoring and troubleshooting tools become glaringly apparent. But with the rise of GenAI, a new question emerges: Is AI finally ready to transform the way we manage and optimize Kubernetes Operations?

Time to Empower Yourself With the Newly Updated dbForge Tools for MySQL 10.1

There’s nothing quite like delivering regular feature-packed updates to our dear users—and we’ve got one for you today. dbForge tools for MySQL have been updated to version 10.1 with extended connectivity and quite a few new tricks to make your work easier and faster. To top it off, you get convenient CLI-powered generation of comparison reports. Would you like to know more? Then let’s get started!

Introduction to The Splunk Terraform Provider | Create a Detector in Splunk Observability Cloud

In this video I will demonstrate how to use the Splunk Terraform Provider. I’ll explain what it is and why you should use the Splunk Terraform Provider as part of your overall Observability as Code solution. Using a simple Terraform project, I will walk you through the setup of the provider and the creation of a Detector in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Top 9 CI/CD Best Practices for your DevOps Team's Success

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) have become quite popular in the software development environment for they emphasize automation and streamlined workflows. By implementing CI/CD best practices, developers will be able to deliver high-quality software faster and enhance productivity. However, the implementation of CI/CD practices is not an easy task, you may require careful planning to execute the process and gain results.

The Secret To Creating A Foolproof Customer Renewal Pricing Strategy

Your customer renewal pricing strategy can make or break your business. You can create the best product in the world, market it masterfully, and provide exceptional customer service, but if your prices aren’t where they need to be, either your customers will churn or you’ll wind up spending way too much money to support a proportionally small revenue stream. Either way, your company will struggle to make ends meet.

Introducing Charmed OpenSearch

Introducing Charmed OpenSearch – an enterprise solution for OpenSearch with advanced automation features, multi-cloud capabilities, and comprehensive support. OpenSearch is an open source search and analytics suite that developers use to build solutions for search, observability, security analytics, generative AI projects, and more. Charmed OpenSearch builds on this foundation with additional enterprise-grade capabilities that can help you spend less time on operational tasks and more time on high-value data and analytics projects.

Runbook Automation and Rundeck v5.6 Release Notes

The Runbook Automation and Rundeck product team are back with release v5.6, featuring some security updates and fixes, plus lots of contributions from Rundeck’s amazing open source community. Plus, Forrest takes us through some of the projects that community members can contribute to themselves, including the documentation and plugins.

Guide to Adding K8 Inventory Stats to Your Telegraf Daemonset

Having insights into your Kubernetes environment is crucial for ensuring optimal resource allocation and preventing potential performance bottlenecks. It also enables proactive monitoring of application health and security, helping to quickly identify and resolve issues before they impact users.

Testing Golang with httptest

Go, often referred to as Golang, is a popular programming language built by Google. Its design and structure help you write efficient, reliable, and high-performing programs. Often used for web servers and rest APIs, Go offers the same performance as other low-level languages like C++ while also making sure the language itself is easy to understand with a good development experience.

How SSIS Expression Works?

Using SQL Server Integration Services, you can perform all kinds of operations on your company’s data. Through a user-friendly environment with a relatively easy learning curve, you can create a vast range of complex and scalable data-rich solutions. Moreover, all of this is done within an easy-to-use IDE, where coding is often unnecessary for most common tasks. Fitting naturally into Microsoft environments, SSIS is also capable of connecting with diverse data sources and destinations.

25+ AWS Tools For DevOps And FinOps Teams To Use In 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a great platform for DevOps and FinOps teams for several reasons. It provides a wide range of services, supports extensive automation, and includes strong collaboration tools. Despite this, AWS can be a complex ecosystem that makes cloud management challenging. The good news is that AWS also offers a suite of tools to help you apply DevOps best practices and cloud cost optimization.

Overcoming the Alarm Avalanches Era

As networks become increasingly complex, I&O teams face a new challenge: alarm avalanches. In today’s world of interconnected technologies—on-premises data centers, private clouds, public clouds, and hybrid environments—the sheer volume of alarms can overwhelm teams, drowning out critical issues that need immediate attention.

Optimize Cloud Migration with Tidal Accelerator's Auto-Tagging

Cloud migration can be complex, especially when managing numerous applications across diverse environments. Tidal Accelerator’s latest update introduces auto-tagging and smart filtering features that simplify this process, making it more efficient than ever and significantly boosting staff productivity.

How to Connect Equinix and Digital Realty

Connecting these two leading data center providers can supercharge your network efficiency. Here are three ways to do it. It doesn’t matter what size your business is – the ability to seamlessly transfer and manage data across multiple locations is crucial for uninterrupted productivity. A common use case network managers want to implement is connecting their Equinix and Digital Realty data centers.

Are We Facing a Workforce Apocalypse? Frank Thelen on AI's Impact!

Join us for an exciting keynote session from Civo Navigate Europe 2024 in Berlin, featuring renowned European serial founder and technology investor Frank Thelen. In an engaging conversation with Civo's CEO Mark Boost and CTO Dinesh Majrekar, Frank dives deep into the future of technology, discussing the rapid evolution of AI, robotics, and quantum computing. He shares insights on how these technologies will reshape industries, enhance daily life, and revolutionize job recruitment processes.

Proudly Announcing JFrog's Full Conformance to OCI v1.1

JFrog has long supported standards widely used by developers, including OCI container images. We started with our OCI-compliant Docker registry, then followed up with dedicated JFrog Artifactory OCI repositories. In our continued commitment to developer freedom of choice, we’re excited to take another leap forward. JFrog is now fully conformant to OCI v1.1. Source: OCI Conformance Page JFrog is now fully certified to the OCI v1.1 standard.

SRE vs. DevOps vs. Platform Engineering: Differences Explained

SRE, DevOps and Platform Engineering are important concepts in today's world of software development. There are dedicated teams to manage these areas, each with a unique primary focus, set of responsibilities, tools and metrics used to gauge their performance requirements. This article explains SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering, including similarities and differences, and, most importantly, how these teams help streamline modern software development, delivery, and maintenance processes.

How to Get Started with GoMock

GoMock is a powerful tool for generating mock objects in Go, making it an essential asset for developers aiming to write advanced unit tests. By simulating the behavior of real objects, GoMock allows you to test your code in isolation, ensuring that each component functions correctly on its own. This capability is particularly useful in a language like Go, where interfaces play a crucial role in defining the behavior of different components.

What Is StrongDM, and How dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL Supports It

Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions have become increasingly popular due to their ability to address data security concerns with flexible access control. One essential area for employing PAM solutions is using them alongside database clients (from the simplest ones to full-fledged IDEs) to ensure safe access to databases. StrongDM is a leading PAM solution that supports modern software development infrastructures both on-premises and in the cloud.

NIS2: Compliance Requirements, Deadline & Instructions for the New NIS2 Directive

The compliance landscape for organisations in the European Union (EU) is heating up again — this time with the second landmark Network and Information Security (NIS2) Directive, set to take effect on 17 October 2024. But what does NIS2 compliance entail? What's the difference between the original NIS1 vs. NIS2? Who needs to comply with NIS2, and what are the penalties for not complying with the new directive?

How to Change SharePoint Document Versioning

For SharePoint Online administrators managing large environments, keeping track of storage usage is crucial to maintaining performance and controlling costs. One key factor contributing to storage consumption is document versioning. By default, SharePoint Online keeps up to 500 major versions of each document, and with frequent updates, this can quickly add up.

Best Amazon EC2 Alternatives For Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

Organizations need highly scalable compute capacity in the cloud to handle fluctuating workloads. This ensures they can meet peak demand without over-provisioning resources or incurring unnecessary costs during low activity periods. Amazon EC2 offers one of the most flexible, on-demand infrastructures that can be scaled to meet business needs. Yet, it isn’t suitable for everyone. In this guide, we’ll explore why that is and share the best EC2 alternatives to consider. But first, a quick recap.

Azure Data Factory Cost Optimization - Maximizing Efficiency and Minimizing Expenses

Azure Cost Optimization is one of the key factors to achieving a solid return on investment using the cloud. The more we use the resources, the more we have to pay increasing the Azure spend. But it is more important to keep an eye on the amount spent on the resources. Azure Cost Optimization is crucial for organizations leveraging Microsoft Azure to ensure they are using cloud resources efficiently, avoiding unnecessary expenses, and maximizing the value of their investment.

Keeping your code secure in the cloud

In this blog, we walk through Atlassian's cloud security practices and the controls we give you inside Bitbucket to maintain enterprise-grade security, without the overhead of managing it internally. Security is an essential part of Atlassian's offerings. We manage code and data for over 300,000 customers who serve hundreds of millions of users. To secure data at the scale we operate, we invest more in security than most individual organizations can.

The Importance of Access Checks and Controls in Database Development | The Tony and Tonie Show

Welcome to another episode of the Tony and Tonie Show, where we dive into the latest articles from Redgate's Product Learning platform. In today’s episode, Tony and Tony discuss a real-life database security incident where Flyway databases were accidentally deployed to the wrong environment. 😱 The team breaks down: The importance of access controls and the Principle of Least Privilege in database development. How a lack of proper permissions can lead to critical errors in production environments.

How to Deploy Machine Learning Models into Production

Machine learning (ML) models are almost always developed in an offline setting, but they must be deployed into a production environment in order to learn from live data and deliver value. A common complaint among ML teams, however, is that deploying ML models in production is a complicated process. It is such a widespread issue that some experts estimate that as many as 90 percent of ML models never make it into production in the first place.

VPS and Dedicated Servers for Business: How to Choose the Right Hosting

Choosing server hosting is a crucial step for any online project. Deltahost offers two key options: VPS server and dedicated server. Each solution has its own benefits depending on your business needs. In this article, we'll explore how to select the right server, key factors to consider, and the advantages of renting from a trusted provider.

Heroku to AWS Migration: Complete Guide for a Seamless Transition

Feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of migrating your application from Heroku to AWS? You're not alone. Many organizations face challenges like infrastructure management, scaling, and data transfer during this process. Migrating from a PaaS like Heroku to an IaaS like AWS provides many benefits including but not limited to more control, scalability, and cost efficiency. However, this migration comes with different challenges, especially the technical expertise required for a smooth migration.

Elevating Innovation: GitHub & JFrog Paving the Way Forward

What happens when the leaders in code management and GenAI join forces with the binary management and software supply chain security experts? Join Yonatan Arbel, Developer Advocate, JFrog and Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub as they detail game-changing advances in the world’s top DevOps and DevSecOps platforms and how together, JFrog and GitHub are creating tectonic shifts in the development landscape.

Trusting AI for Incident Response: The Role of AI in Modern Incident Management

In an age where every second counts, the swift resolution of IT incidents can mean the difference between maintaining business continuity and enduring significant operational setbacks. As businesses increasingly embrace digitalization, the complexity and volume of incidents rise exponentially. This new reality calls for innovative approaches to incident management—ones that can manage the unpredictability, scale, and urgency of modern IT ecosystems. Enter artificial intelligence (AI).

AWS NAT Gateway Pricing: Simple Strategies To Limit Costs

We are often asked about areas where customers overspend on Amazon Web Services (AWS). NAT gateway costs are high due to misplaced data transfers and are definitely near the top of our list. This article will walk you through five steps you can take to find out which data transfers you’re overspending on and how you can eliminate those excess charges.

Canonical and OpenAirInterface to collaborate on open source telecom network infrastructure

Canonical is excited to announce that we are collaborating with OpenAirInterface (OAI) to drive the development and promotion of open source software for open radio access networks (Open RAN). Canonical will bring automation in software lifecycle management to OAI’s RAN stack, alongside additional infrastructure capabilities. This will better enable telcos to adopt open source software as the telecom industry transitions to Open RAN running on COTS hardware.

Graphite vs Prometheus: Which One Is Best For Monitoring K8s?

Monitoring K8s is crucial to ensure that your applications run smoothly. But before you look for a monitoring solution, you need to ask what tools are the best for your situation. There are several options, but Graphite and Prometheus are two leading options. This article will compare the two.

What Does Archiving Mean? Definition and Examples

Archiving is a crucial concept in both personal and business data management, ensuring that important information is preserved for future use without cluttering up active systems. In today’s digital world, where vast amounts of data are generated every second, understanding the value of archiving and how it works can help organisations stay efficient, compliant, and secure.

An Engineer's Checklist of Logging Best Practices

The best DevOps and SRE teams have shifted their approach to monitoring and logging their systems. These teams debug problems cohesively and rationally, regardless of the system’s complexity. Gone are the days of having a slew of logs that fail to explain the cause of alerts, system failures, and other unknowns.

Using observability to ship faster with confidence ft. Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb

In this episode of The Confident Commit, Rob sits down with Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb, to delve into the evolving role of observability in modern software development. They discuss how observability goes beyond traditional metrics and monitoring, and allows developers to be better prepared for the unknown and embrace the complexities of distributed systems. Christine shares insights on how observability not only boosts developer confidence but also enhances productivity by reducing toil and enabling teams to focus on delivering value for customers.

Simplifying AWS Testing: A Guide to AWS SDK Mock

Testing AWS services is an essential step in creating robust cloud applications. However, directly interacting with AWS during testing can be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive. The AWS SDK Mock is a JavaScript library designed to simplify this process by allowing developers to mock AWS SDK methods, making it easier to simulate AWS service interactions in a controlled environment. Primarily used with AWS SDK v2, AWS SDK Mock integrates with Sinon.js to mock AWS services like S3, SNS, and DynamoDB.

Shlomi Ben Haim, CEO & Co-Founder, JFrog - EveryOps Matters

Developers used to code. Now they manage, import, secure, build, package, deliver and monitor… the list of every “Ops” is ever-growing. As if this wasn’t enough, they are now being asked by the C-suite to work with data science and machine learning teams in a gold rush of AI and ML-enabled application delivery. In our annual swampUP kickoff, join JFrog Co-founder and CEO Shlomi Ben Haim - alongside a special guest - as we explore how developers may still start with code and CI, but are increasingly asked to hold the reins of EveryOps; building, securing and delivering alongside the machines and systems they created.

5 key takeaways from IBC 2024

The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) is only getting bigger and better. This year’s show saw over 45,000 attendees and featured 1,350 exhibitors from around the world. The four-day event explored the latest advancements and trends shaping the future of the media and broadcasting industry, with AI at the forefront.

Tech Carbon Footprint: How Much Does Online Activity Contribute To Emissions?

In today’s digital age, social media and online communication have become an integral part of our daily lives. From scrolling through TikTok and Instagram to sending countless texts and emails, we’re constantly connected. Each minute spent scrolling or sending a quick message may seem harmless, but these small actions add up to a significant carbon footprint. The tech industry accounts for 7% of global emissions and is predicted to rise with the growth of data centers.

Interpreting your reliability test results

Gremlin’s default suite of reliability tests analyzes critical functions of modern services: scalability, redundancy, and resilience to dependency failures. Services that pass this suite of tests can be trusted to remain available during unexpected incidents. But what happens when a service fails a test? How do you take failed test results and turn them into actionable insights? This blog aims to answer that question.

Network Modernization: From Legacy TDM to Service Resiliency

Utilities today are focused on the 3-Ds, De-Carbonization and the transition to renewable energy, De-Centralization of energy resources and infrastructure, and Digitalization, with smart systems, grids, and substation modernization. In addition, the need to integrate the IT & OT networks puts the pressure on to increase efficiencies - but it also opens and enables a world of possibilities for the next-generation Utility, flexible to new Telco service offerings and revenue streams.

EU's Cyber Resilience Act Repercussions in Open Source

The European Parliament (EP) adopted a provisional version of the final text of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) on March 12, 2024, with the final version expected to be signed and published in October. The EU's CyberResilienceAct (CRA) proposes stringent cybersecurity requirements for digital products, aiming to bolster security against cyberattacks. While it promises safer hardware and software, it also raises questions for Open Source contributors and organizations.

Faster Incident Response with Cortex: A Before and After Story

The most time-consuming part of incident resolution is a data problem. Who owns this service? What's it made of? What are the dependencies? Where are the run books? Learn how Cortex cuts incident response time and prevents new issues with up-to-date ownership, reliable runbooks, and Scorecards that drive continuous improvement.

Setting Up Efficient Kubernetes Environments for Developers

Kubernetes has transformed how developers build, test, and deploy applications, providing a consistent platform for managing containerized workloads. Setting up efficient Kubernetes clusters is crucial for streamlining the development process, reducing time-to-market, and ensuring that applications run reliably from development to production.

RUM vs. Synthetic Monitoring: DevOps Team's Essential Guide

Application slowdowns or outages interrupt the user experience and web performance. This significantly impacts brand reputation, leading to customer churn and a heavy dent in the competitive edge. This is where Application Performance Monitoring (APM) comes in. APM tracks application performance to ensure a positive user experience. Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Synthetic Monitoring are two approaches to analyzing your app’s performance and the digital experience they provide.

Dataflow for Real-time Log Replication and Analytics

Streamline your log replication and analysis with Dataflow! Learn to build real-time pipelines that capture, process, and analyze logs from any source. See examples like detecting IoT sensor anomalies, responding to e-commerce traffic spikes, or mitigating security threats. Watch and discover how Dataflow integrates with different logging tools to empower you with real-time insights and build a truly scalable and resilient log analysis solution.

5 Tips for Using Azure DevOps and Jira Together

When it comes to managing development projects, many teams use both Azure DevOps and Jira to collaborate across departments. While Jira is often favored by project management teams for issue tracking, Azure DevOps excels with developers for managing code repositories, pipelines, and deployments. Combining these two tools can bring clarity, reduce duplication, and foster better collaboration between both development and non-development teams.

BizTalk to Azure Integration Services: A Migration Story and Best Practices

Steef Jan shares his experience with migrating on-premise systems to the cloud, specifically with Azure Integration Services. He talks about his journey of modernizing a retailer's integration platform, which involved migrating 50-60 interfaces from an on-premise solution to Azure. This episode also discusses the challenges of migrating large BizTalk installations to the cloud and the importance of having a roadmap for on-premise footprints. He shares his final thoughts on the importance of evolving and keeping track of changes in the cloud platform.

MFA Configuration: How Automation Lets You Configure & Enforce MFA Compliance at Scale

You probably used multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the device you’re using right now. Maybe your phone scanned your face or fingerprint to unlock. Maybe you got a text with a verification code while logging into your work browser profile. Configuring MFA is a go-to measure for system hardening, but MFA enforcement can get unruly, especially at the scale required by enterprise IT.

Introducing KlaudiaAI: Redefining Kubernetes Troubleshooting with the Power of AI

For years, AI in operations was plagued by noise—overwhelming alerts, false positives, and a lack of actionable insights. The tools available promised much, but often delivered little, leading to a loss of trust. However, with the groundbreaking work by platforms like OpenAI and the emergence of trustworthy AI tools like Copilot, the potential of AI in operations has never been nearer and clearer.

What is the 5G Edge and Multi-Access Edge Computing?

The 5G Edge is revolutionising the telecommunications industry by significantly enhancing network performance, bringing computing power closer to users, and dramatically reducing latency, enabling faster and more efficient services. This advancement is crucial for a variety of applications across different sectors, including smart cities, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and industrial automation.

Low-Code and Bring Your Own Code - The Future of IT Automation

In the rapidly evolving world of IT automation, the need for speed, flexibility, and ease of use has never been more critical. As organizations grow increasingly reliant on digital infrastructure to support everything from daily operations to innovative service delivery, the pressure is on IT teams to adapt quickly, automate repetitive tasks, and maintain control over complex systems.

How Does MC-RFID U-Level Asset Tracking Work? #assettracking #rfidtechnology #datacenters

In this video, we explore how MC-RFID U-Level Asset Tracking, powered by @hyperviewhq, revolutionizes asset management in data centers. With RFID technology, track your assets at the rack-unit level in real-time, eliminating manual data entry and providing instant, accurate audit reports. Learn how this innovative solution: Hyperview's RFID-powered solution simplifies asset tracking, offering instant audits, continuous monitoring, and total lifecycle management.

Flyway Forking and Branching in Database Development: Explained! | The Tony and Tonie Show

Welcome to another episode of the Tony and Tony Show, where we discuss the latest articles from Redgate’s Product Learning platform. This episode dives into Flyway Forking and Branching—an essential concept for team-based database development. In this episode: The importance of forking and branching in Flyway to allow developers to work on separate tasks in parallel. How Flyway supports multiple locations for migration files to enable smooth branching.

Galileo SMARTboards Feature Updates

In 2023, Galileo Suite introduced SMARTboards, our innovative customizable dashboards. Our initial launch was met with enthusiasm, especially after our live demo showcased their versatility and functionality. Today, we are excited to announce several Galileo SMARTboards feature updates that enhance their usability and value.

Meet SSIS Data Flow Components Major Release: Fresh Components, Subscription Model, New Licensing Options, and Other Enhancements

Devart is excited to announce a major release featuring new SSIS Data Flow Components for Zendesk, SurveyMonkey, and Shopify. This update also introduces a new subscription model with flexible and cost-effective plans for users, along with expanded licensing options. Additionally, significant enhancements have been made to improve performance and functionality of the existing SSIS Data Flow Components that aim to help businesses take their data integration processes to a whole new level. In this release.
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Seasonal Holiday Readiness Testing with Production Traffic

Many businesses depend on seasonal products, offerings, and campaigns. Seasonal traffic usually refers to high traffic levels because of festival seasons like Thanksgiving and Christmas and sales events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Boxing Day. These impact a wide range of industries, such as travel, hospitality, social activities, and, most prominently, e-commerce. If your business is primarily run online, you'll need your applications to be elastic and flexible enough to handle this significant increase in traffic to cater to demand and also maintain a good user experience for your customers.

AWS S3 Alternatives: Best Choices For Object Storage Solutions

Approximatly 94% of organizations worldwide have adopted cloud computing, with 50% relying on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their needs. This is mainly due to AWS’s global accessibility, scalability, and reliability. Among AWS services, Amazon S3 stands out as one of the most widely used. Modern businesses demand robust storage solutions, and S3 delivers with 99.99% durability. However, the service does have some limitations, leading some users to explore Amazon S3 alternatives.

AIOps Maturity Model

As organizations increasingly rely on complex and ephemeral infrastructure to drive business outcomes, the need for faster, more accurate, and automated IT operations has never been greater. Enter AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations), a transformative approach that leverages AI and machine learning to automate and enhance IT operations management. These new learning systems can analyze massive amounts of network and machine data to find patterns not always identified by human operators.

Introducing Data Science Stack: set up an ML environment with 3 commands on Ubuntu

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced the general availability of Data Science Stack (DSS), an out-of-the-box solution for data science that enables ML environments on your AI workstation. It is fully open source, free to use and native to Ubuntu. It is also accessible on other Linux distributions, on Windows using Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL), and on macOS with Multipass.

All you need to know about colocation

While it’s easy to think that everything is now in the cloud, there are still some use cases and some businesses that need private data centres. In this blog, we look at the benefits of colocation and explore the key considerations for businesses when choosing colocation services. Colocation, often shortened to ‘colo’, is a service provided by data centre owners and operators where the floor space and facilities, including electricity and connectivity, are rented to private enterprises.

Cloud Migration Strategy: A Complete Guide for Your Business

The cloud has become an essential tool for businesses looking to scale, innovate, and remain competitive. But migrating to the cloud is not as simple as flipping a switch. The process requires careful planning, robust strategies, and a deep understanding of the potential risks and rewards. That’s why having a well-defined cloud migration strategy is crucial.

Enhancing mission-critical enterprise collaboration with multi-LLM support for Mattermost Copilot

Mattermost is excited to announce the release of v10.0, bringing with it a groundbreaking enhancement to our Mattermost Copilot plugin: support for multiple large language models (multi-LLM). This feature, designed to empower mission-critical enterprises, adds a new layer of flexibility, privacy, and control to your AI-driven workflows.

How to Achieve Zero Trust Adoption in U.S. Government

Zero Trust adoption is critical, especially for U.S. government agencies. With changing policies and requirements, it can be tough to stay ahead of everything you need to know. We’ll provide a high-level overview of Zero Trust adoption + share how automation can help you achieve compliance.

Komodor Platform Adds GenAI Agent to Transform Kubernetes Troubleshooting

Komodor, the company that automates Kubernetes management, today announced Klaudia, the first Generative AI (GenAI) agent for troubleshooting and remediating operational issues, as well as optimizing Kubernetes environments. Integrated within the Komodor Kubernetes Management Platform, Klaudia simplifies and accelerates root-cause analysis, empowering both platform and application teams with precise diagnostics to resolve issues with unprecedented speed and precision.

Using a Mock Server: Understanding Efficient API Testing

API testing is critical to modern software development, ensuring that applications communicate seamlessly and function as expected. However, setting up testing environments that accurately mimic real-world conditions can be complex, time-consuming, and costly. APIs often change, and dependencies on third-party services or backend systems can delay the development process, making it challenging to conduct reliable tests in real-time.

Empowering DevOps and IT teams with Site24x7's iOS app

iOS 18 update and Site24x7 mobile app With the release of iOS 18, Apple has once again pushed the boundaries of innovation. At Site24x7, we’re committed to providing our users with the latest and greatest technology. That’s why we’ve diligently integrated the powerful features of iOS 18 into our mobile app.

The 35 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools Based On Use Case

The purpose of cloud monitoring is to identify, observe, track, and manage cloud infrastructure components and services. Cloud monitoring helps organizations ensure their services meet customer expectations of performance, availability, and security. Companies also use cloud monitoring to learn how users interact with their business websites, applications, and other digital touchpoints.

SharePoint Microsoft Information Protection

In today’s digital era, organizations increasingly rely on collaboration platforms to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. Microsoft SharePoint stands out as a leading solution, offering robust features for document management, team collaboration, and information sharing. It enables teams to work together efficiently, regardless of their physical locations, by providing a centralized hub for content, knowledge, and applications.

Civo Navigate Europe 2024 Wrap Up

And with that, we have concluded another incredible Navigate event As Navigate Europe 2024 comes to an end, we couldn't be more grateful for everyone involved, from our sponsors, attendees, and most importantly, the Civo team. It was a packed event with over 40 talks and workshops on a range of topics, such as artificial intelligence (AI), emerging technology, LLMs, and security in the cloud native space.

Announcing Authd: OIDC authentication for Ubuntu Desktop and Server

Today we are announcing the general availability of Authd, a new authentication daemon for Ubuntu that allows direct integration with cloud-based identity providers for both Ubuntu Desktop and Server. Authd is available free of charge on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. At launch, Authd supports Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) identity provider, with additional providers, including a white label OIDC provider, to be introduced in the future.

How to speed up database testing | The Tony and Tonie Show

In this pilot episode, Tonie and Tony dip into two new technical articles from Redgate: one about Redgate Test Data Manager and how use of containerized clones and PowerShell automation can speed up database testing, and one about Flyway, explaining its Repair command, what it does, how it works and best practice guidance.

Patch Management: A Guide to Protect Systems from Cyberattacks

Code, deploy, repeat. As a developer, your days are a whirlwind of Git commits, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines. In the rush to ship new features and hit those sprint goals, it's easy to overlook the less glamorous aspects of software maintenance. But one often-neglected practice could be the difference between a stable, secure system and a compromised system. Enter patch management, a key DevOps tool in your arsenal to safeguard your systems.

Megaport Enables Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro for More Resilient Network Connectivity

With our latest enablements, you can use ExpressRoute Metro and Megaport to reduce downtime, improve latency, and protect your bottom line. Downtime. Sunken costs. Missed deadlines. Compromised data. Poor latency. All of these problems have one thing in common (besides the fact that they strike fear in the hearts of network architects) – they’re consequences of a network with poor resiliency.

10: Container Strategies and Cloud Migration with Vladimir Remenar of Raiffeisen Bank

On this episode of Densify Talks, we welcome Vladimir Remenar, Director of IT Operations at Raiffeisen Bank in Croatia. Andrew Hillier and Vladimir Remenar dive into container optimization strategies and cloud migration, discussing Raiffeisen’s processes and innovative practices. Raiffeisen Bank was early in the automation of optimization. Vladimir shares why that was the case and what that meant for Raiffeisen. He also discusses Raiffeisen’s migration to cloud journey and shares challenges, benefits, and lessons learned along the way.

The Cost of Cloud 2024: Navigating rising cloud spend and complexity

As cloud computing evolves, so do its challenges. Rising costs, complex billing models, and concerns over vendor lock-in are reshaping the landscape. Join us as we delve into our latest white paper highlighting emerging trends and challenges in cloud economics. We will explore how organizations can pivot back to the core values of transparency, customer-centricity, and value and discuss strategies to manage cloud costs effectively.

Azure Integration and Security: Challenges and Best Practices

The video features an interview with Mattias Logdberg, a specialist in Azure integration and security, at the INTEGRATE summit. Mattias discusses his session on the challenges of iPaaS solutions in the context of Azure integration and implementation. He shares his experiences and insights on the importance of understanding networking and security in cloud computing, particularly in the context of Logic Apps and API Management.

Open-Source DevOps AI Agent: Effortless Migration from Heroku to AWS

Migrating applications from a Platform as a Service (PaaS) to a cloud platform is often a complex, time-consuming, and expensive process. Companies using PaaS platforms like Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Railway, Vercel, Netlify, and many others frequently delay this migration despite needing enhanced security, compliance, technical capabilities, and greater control over their infrastructure.

The Shift from SRE to Platform Engineering: Why It's the Future of Scalability and Innovation

As technology evolves, so do the roles and strategies that drive software development and infrastructure management. One of the most significant shifts we’ve seen in recent years is the move from Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to platform engineering. This change is reshaping how companies operate, from scaling their infrastructure to improving the developer experience.

The Future of SLOs in DevOps: Navigating Common Pitfalls in SLO Management

As the technology landscape continues to evolve, so do the methods by which organizations ensure optimal service delivery. Service Level Objectives (SLOs) have emerged as one of the most critical metrics in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), acting as a bridge between reliability and performance. SLOs reflect the target reliability of a service from the perspective of the user, providing measurable standards to maintain quality.

AWS Instance Types Compared: Choosing The Right Option

You might wonder how companies using Amazon Web Services waste more than $10 billion annually. It’s easy to ask, “why don’t they just reduce their spending?” Well, it’s because there’s more to it than that. AWS offers many options — over 200 different services, for example. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides over 300 AWS instance types spread over five unique instance families.

How IDPs "nudge" developer behavior

I was recently cruising LinkedIn and saw Abi Noda from GetDX reference a paper Meta wrote in 2022 on improving code review time. Meta’s focus on this metric was sparked by a developer survey, but what they did as a result is even more interesting (at least to me!). Meta developed a “NudgeBot” to alert reviewers to take action on stale diffs. And it worked; both time to review and time in review went down.

I Have SD-WAN, Do I Just Need SSE Security for the Branch?

As businesses increasingly adopt Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions to enhance connectivity and performance across their branch offices, a common question arises: “Do I just need Security Service Edge (SSE) security for the branch?” The answer is a resounding “no”. While SSE provides essential security features, it is not sufficient on its own.

[Android & iOS] How to Enable AR Camera | AirDroid Remote Support Guide

AirDroid Remote Support is an excellent remote support solution. Its AR camera features enable supporters to see the surroundings of the supportees' side and guide them with the 3D marker. This video tutorial will tell you how to enable the AR camera on AirDroid Remote Support.

Boost Developer Productivity: Why Bunnyshell is the Future of Cloud-Native Development

In the rapidly evolving world of cloud-native development, staying ahead of the competition requires more than just efficient coding—it demands streamlined infrastructure management, faster feedback loops, and optimized workflows. As development teams increasingly adopt cloud-native architectures, the need for tools that simplify complex environments and boost productivity is paramount.

How Growing Companies Can Achieve Faster Feedback Loops with Ephemeral Environments

For growing companies, speed and agility are essential to staying competitive in today’s fast-paced market. One of the most critical factors in accelerating product development is creating faster feedback loops. The quicker your team can test, identify issues, and refine code, the faster you can ship high-quality features. One of the best tools to achieve this goal is ephemeral environments.

Accelerating Product Delivery: A CTO's Guide to Automating Development Environments

In today’s fast-paced tech industry, CTOs of growing scaleups face the challenge of delivering products faster while maintaining high quality and controlling costs. One powerful way to tackle this challenge is by automating development environments, which can significantly improve productivity, reduce errors, and speed up the entire development process.

Jira and ServiceNow: A Comparative Analysis for Effective Incident Management

Incident management isn't just a buzzword—it's critical to keeping operations running smoothly. When systems fail, the ripple effects can be costly. For enterprises, maintaining service continuity and keeping customers satisfied depends on quick, efficient incident responses. That's where tools like Jira Service Management (JSM) and ServiceNow come in.

Speedscale vs Coder: Ephemeral Developer Environments for Different Needs

Speedscale and Coder are two distinct tools that, while both aim to increase developer productivity, serve fundamentally different purposes. Both provide software development environments for enhancing productivity and collaboration in software development teams.

Monitoring Azure Logic Apps Standard: Auto-Correction and Alert Configuration

The video discusses monitoring Logic Apps Standard, specifically at the workflow level. Michael Stephenson - Product owner for Turbo360, explains how to configure alerts and auto-correction for workflows in Logic Apps Standard. He demonstrates how to set up a rule to trigger an alert when a workflow is disabled and how to auto-correct the workflow back to an enabled state.

Custom Milestones: Empowering Enterprise Incident Management

Milestones have been central to our platform since day one, helping users track incident progress and drive automation. We're excited to introduce our enhanced Milestone feature, offering unparalleled customization. Now, you can fine-tune your incident management process to perfectly align with your organization's specific policies and workflows.

Turbo360's White Labelling Solution: Transforming Azure Management for Partners

Azure management is a very dynamic yet competitive industry whereby differentiation may sometimes remain a challenge. Every Managed Service Provider (MSP) and IT consultancy is working hard to showcase their Azure expertise. At Turbo360, our partners view our product as being a core piece of their cloud operating model.

Overcoming common challenges in cloud migration

Cloud migration–often also referred to as digital transformation or cloud modernization–is a critical process organizations undertake to enhance their IT infrastructure. Whether moving from traditional data centers to the public cloud (“lift and shift”) or transitioning from public cloud VMs to PaaS services (“refactoring”), cloud migration presents a set of common challenges that can impact project success.

Why did Hyperview adopt a PLG strategy for DCIM software? #plg #productledgrowth #datacenter

Hyperview's Jad Jebara talks about our shift to a Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategy, letting customers get started in minutes instead of months and saving costs. By focusing on the customer and the product, success naturally follows.

Achieve Operational Excellence in Software Engineering: 6 Tips

Measuring progress in software development is hard. Our industry is defined by complexity, entropy, shifting deadlines and priorities, and customer expectations that evolve almost as quickly as the technology that we use every day. The nature of this environment means that we need to apply continuous feedback loops, robust frameworks and structured approaches to do good work.

When to Hire Your First DevOps Engineer: A Startup Guide

As your startup grows, infrastructure and deployment get more complex, raising a key question: “Do we need a DevOps engineer?” While automation tools can handle many tasks early on, there comes a point when manual intervention becomes necessary to scale efficiently and securely. This guide will help you assess when it’s time to hire your first DevOps engineer, the key responsibilities they bring, and alternatives that can delay the need for a full-time hire.

Auto scaling beyond the basics: Fine-tuning AWS Auto Scaling groups

AWS Auto scaling Auto scaling is a powerful feature that allows your cloud infrastructure to dynamically adjust capacity based on demand, optimizing both performance and cost. However, to truly harness the power of Auto Scaling groups in AWS, you need to move beyond basic setup and dive into fine-tuning with advanced monitoring. This blog will guide you through advanced strategies for optimizing your AWS auto scaling using enhanced monitoring functionalities.

Simple Talks Podcast | Episode 6 - Coffee chat with Tonie Huizer

Louis is joined by Redgate author, business owner and conference speaker Tonie Huizer for coffee and a chat. Tonie discusses how he got into technology, why he loves automation, and how speaking about whiskey has more in common with conference speaking than you may think. He also gives a taster of his upcoming PASS Data Community Summit sessions and teases an exciting new Simple Talk series for 2025.

Securing External Sharing in SharePoint Online

In today’s interconnected business world, external collaboration is essential. SharePoint Online provides the flexibility to share documents with external partners, clients, and vendors, but this can also expose organizations to data security risks. Securing external sharing while ensuring smooth collaboration is key to maintaining trust and protecting sensitive information. Here’s how you can achieve that balance.

What sets Redgate Monitor apart. - Joshua Higginbotham | Redgate

Joshua Higginbotham, Senior Architect at Centric Consulting, shares what sets Redgate Monitor apart. Redgate Monitor provides context-rich diagnostic insights to maximize cloud database health and performance while ensuring a consistent monitoring experience across your on-prem and cloud database estate.

Executives, Here's What Your Network Team Wants You to Know

Understanding and aligning to the needs of your network team can unlock a more profitable, efficient, and sustainable business. Network and IT teams are part of the success of your organization. They keep your critical applications running smoothly and protect your data from threats, all while flying under the radar.

Office Hours: Get better reliability on AWS with our new release

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Cloud platforms make it easier than ever to deploy massively scalable, distributed workloads, but this is a double-edged sword. There are reliability challenges unique to the cloud that didn’t exist before. Failed migrations, recurring incidents, and reliability toil take their toll.

What does SLO stand for? A complete guide to Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

The world of tech is full of acronyms. SLOs are one of those that everyone talks about, but maybe not everyone fully gets. Whether you're nodding along in meetings or just hearing “SLO” for the first time, we’ve got you covered. In this post, we’ll break down what Service Level Objectives (SLOs) actually are, why they matter, and how they can help keep your systems (and your sanity) in check.

The ultimate guide to on-call schedules

An Ultimate Guide to on-call schedules? You might think this sounds overly grandiose for what’s essentially putting people into a list and rotating through them. But you’d be flat-out wrong. Getting your on-call setup correct is as real and as important as it gets, and getting things wrong can lead to prolonged incidents, burnt out employees, and damaged company reputation.

The Role of Technology in Enhancing Incident Response Call Etiquette

The interconnectedness of today's business environment has significantly heightened the complexity of incident response (IR). The need for immediate action, precise communication, and real-time collaboration is more critical than ever. However, beyond the technical precision required in solving problems, there lies an often overlooked aspect of effective IR management: the etiquette of incident response calls.

The Ultimate Guide to a Smooth Dev Environment Setup: Tips and Best Practices

Setting up a development environment can be challenging, especially for new developers or those adapting to new developer tools. A well-configured environment is crucial for efficient coding, testing, and debugging, enhancing productivity and minimizing errors. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know, from the basics to advanced customizations for different operating systems.

Investigating TCP timeouts at scale

At Mattermost, we’re on a quest to scale our application by one order of magnitude, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of concurrently active users per installation. Scaling up is a complex effort involving expertise at several different levels. At its core, it’s a game of catching the next bottleneck — whether it’s application CPU usage, memory consumption, database throughput, networking, or any combination of the above (among other causes as well).

Logic App Workspaces: A Comprehensive Overview

In this episode of Azure on Air podcast, Lex interviews Bill Chestnut, a seasoned MVP. Logic Apps Workspaces is a new feature in Azure that allows users to create and manage both Logic Apps and Functions in the same workspace, making it easier to share code and resources between the two. Bill discusses the challenges of writing code in Logic Apps and how Logic Apps Workspaces addresses these issues. He also shares his experiences with deploying Logic Apps and Functions using bicep scripts and Azure DevOps.

Understand how the Cyber Resilience Act will impact device manufacturers

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a European Union legislation that will enter into force in 2027. Its overall goal is to make devices safer by implementing more rigorous cybersecurity, documentation, and vulnerability reporting requirements for the IT industry. The CRA is especially relevant for device manufacturers, who will need to ensure devices are secure throughout the product lifecycle.

Autoscaling in Cloud Computing

Autoscaling in cloud computing is the ability of a system to adjust its resources in response to changes in demand automatically. This guarantees that applications always have the resources they need to perform optimally, even during periods of high traffic. Autoscaling eliminates manual intervention, allowing your dev team time to focus on your product. All major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform offer robust autoscaling solutions with many features and capabilities.

Cycle Spotlight: Sr Developer Thomas van der Pol discusses building resilient deployment automation.

In this edition of the Cycle Spotlight, Thomas van der Pol joins us to chat about deployment & automation. Thomas, a Senior Developer at Submarine, comes from a wealth of experience in software development and even dabbles in DevOps. Tune in to hear how an industry innovator delivers top-quality software consistently!

Monthly Recap: August 2024 + Looking Ahead to September

August has been an outstanding month for the Cycle team, marked by significant advancements across the platform. We've introduced new features aimed at simplifying workflows and enhancing user experience. As we wrap up August and look ahead to September, we're excited to share the progress we've made and what you can expect in the coming weeks.

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

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

8 DevOps Automation Best Practices for Startups

Automation is the foundation of any successful DevOps strategy, especially for startups and fast-growing companies. Manual processes simply don’t scale as the business grows, leading to delays, errors, and frustration. For organizations striving to optimize efficiency, speed up development, and maintain high-quality standards, DevOps automation is a must.

Why Scaling Your DevOps Capabilities is Crucial for Business Growth

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

Mastering Local Preview Environments: A Beginner's Guide

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

GitKraken's DevEx Advance Partner Program Boosts Developer Productivity

Most companies prioritize developer productivity, yet inefficiencies continue to cost dev teams valuable time. In fact, Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience report reveals that nearly 70% of developers lose more than eight hours a week to workflow friction. Atlassian Solution Partners are uniquely positioned to address this challenge, and GitKraken’s new DevEx Advance Partner Program is designed to help them do exactly that.

What's new & what's coming to Bitbucket Cloud

As part of our strategy to build for scale, security, and performance, Bitbucket Cloud is continuing to deliver features that help enterprise teams operate at scale to build world-class software. We've made a lot of progress this year with new features across code review and CI/CD. We've added AI functionality, added features to help you scale your CI/CD workflows, and integrated with Forge, our cloud app development platform, to help you build customizations into Bitbucket to meet your specific needs.

Platform Engineering Roundtable: Building the Future of Digital Transformation

The industry is still asking more questions than its answering around #DevEx, Platform Engineering, and even (still!) #DevOps! Hear from Cortex's very own Head of Developer Relations, Justin Reock, get together and talk with other interested minds helps move us more collectively to answers and solutions that can improve the flow, productivity, and ultimately joy of our workforce! Full description.

Introducing Kosli's Logical Environments: Gain total visibility and control over complex systems

In today’s fast-paced development landscape, environments are no longer simple or isolated. You’re managing resources that span across development stages, geographies, and technologies. And as those environments grow more complex, so does the need for a more logical and efficient way to manage them.

The CIO Pocket Guide to Internal Developer Portals

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

Azure Cost Assessment

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

Top 25+ AWS Cost Optimization Tools And Best Practices

While AWS offers significant benefits compared to traditional on-premise infrastructure, its inherent elasticity and scalability tend to create uncontrolled costs. AWS costs can be opaque and difficult to analyze, and without a system for identifying the source of costs and managing them, they can quickly undermine profit margins. However, several tools have emerged to help organizations manage and optimize their costs over the past few years.

Boosting Telecom Efficiency and Cutting Costs with Network Automation

In today’s fast-evolving technological landscape, the telecommunications sector faces both exciting opportunities and significant challenges. With the ongoing need to build, maintain, and upgrade digital communication infrastructures, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are under pressure to make strategic decisions that will shape the future of connectivity.

Ubuntu Community | 20 years of Ubuntu

A lot has changed in the past two decades. A lot of new releases, new platforms and even a few new logos along the way. One thing stayed the same: the heart of Ubuntu. A global community of users, enthusiasts and contributors all helping to spread the mission of changing the world through open-source software. We couldn't have done it without you.

High-Performance AI Unleashed

The AI revolution is transforming enterprises faster than you can say, “sudo apt-get install skynet.” According to McKinsey, 65% of organizations now regularly use generative AI, nearly doubling from last year. However, as developers rush to integrate AI into their products, the shift from AI proof-of-concept to production can feel like trying to assemble flat-box furniture in a hurricane.

Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 3.0

HAProxy Data Plane API 3.0 is now available! The latest version is hosted on our GitHub releases page. This release follows the recent HAProxy 3.0 release and incorporates its changes, along with some improvements and changes specific to the API. HAProxy Data Plane 3.0 adds multiple breaking changes. We'll cover the impacts of these changes in detail to highlight how your implementation and usage of Data Plane API may be affected.

Boosting Kubernetes Developer Productivity: Top Tools and Strategies for Efficient Development

Developer productivity is not just about writing code faster—it’s about creating efficient, self-service environments that minimize friction and reduce the time from development to deployment. In the context of Kubernetes clusters, enhancing productivity means leveraging the right tools and workflows to streamline development, reduce errors, and speed up feature releases. This guide explores the key strategies and tools that can significantly boost productivity in Kubernetes environments.

15 Application Monitoring Tools To Consider In 2024

Also known as application performance monitoring (APM), application monitoring tools track and analyze application performance. They monitor application metrics such as CPU usage, response times, error rates, and uptime. The tools also offer real-time insights to identify issues, improve user experiences, and optimize resources. But are APM tools really necessary?

5 Automated GCP Optimizations That Make Cloud Cost Savings Simple

As both the State Of FinOps 2024 and the State Of Cloud Costs In 2024 indicate, reducing cloud waste remains a top priority for cloud-driven organizations. Cloud spenders care more than ever about cost efficiency — and CloudZero is working tirelessly to make cloud savings simpler. To this end, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added a suite of automated GCP optimizations to our Insights feature.

Release Roundup August 2024

Over the past year, the Gremlin team has focused on giving you more tools to adapt Gremlin to your organization’s reliability needs. We started with customizable reliability tests, and now, we’ve released customizable role-based access controls (RBAC). We’ve also made it easier to target specific availability zones when running Failure Flags experiments, and to run experiments behind a proxy. Keep reading to learn more! ‍

How to Set Up Workspaces in GitKraken Desktop (Pt 1)

Looking for an easy way to organize your repos? In the first part of this tutorial, we’ll walk through the steps to easily create a cloud Workspace in GitKraken Desktop – so you can keep your repos neat and tidy, ready to collaborate with your team. Check out the full Create a Workspace tutorial here on our YouTube channel!

How are data centers changing their practices to become more sustainable? #datacenter #dcim

It all begins with recognizing the interconnected relationship between financial performance, social equity, and environmental impact. Hyperview CEO, Jad Jebara talks about the data center movement towards a greener future.

Ubuntu Community | 20 years of Ubuntu

A lot has changed in the past two decades. A lot of new releases, new platforms and even a few new logos along the way. One thing stayed the same: the heart of Ubuntu. A global community of users, enthusiasts and contributors all helping to spread the mission of changing the world through open-source software. We couldn't have done it without you.

Overcoming Challenges in Microsoft Integration Technologies: Expert insights

In this episode of the series "INTEGRATE expert voices—Unplugged" by Azure on Air, Andrew Rivers discusses the challenges that customers often face when getting started with integration technologies, such as understanding the various components and how they fit together, categorizing applications in terms of business criticality, and determining the appropriate infrastructure to support them. Links.

Best DevOps Automation Tools: Comprehensive Guide 2024

We all understand the significance of DevOps, defined here as the set of practices and processes that integrate software development and operations. By bridging the gap between traditionally siloed teams, DevOps accelerates software delivery processes, ensuring faster time-to-market for new features and updates. As you would expect at the intersection of software and operations, automation plays a central role.

What's new with Oracle Cloud for 2024

As we approach Oracle CloudWorld - a three-day event focused on cloud innovation, automation, and AI, where attendees can learn and network - we take a look at the innovation and growth Oracle Cloud has embarked on this year. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has experienced notable growth in fiscal year 2024. According to Oracle’s Q4 results, Cloud Revenue (IaaS plus SaaS) reached $5.3 billion, marking a 20% increase in both USD and constant currency.

Turbo360 FinOps and Cost Management Is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Turbo360 to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies. Turbo360, an advanced cloud Management platform, today announced the availability of its flagship module, FinOps and Cost Management for Azure, in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

A Comprehensive Review of the Cisco Meraki MX84: Is It Right for Your Business?

The Cisco Meraki MX84 is a next-generation security appliance designed to cater to small and medium-sized businesses. This cloud-managed device promises a variety of features aimed at improving security, connectivity, and ease of management. But is it really worth the investment? In this review, we'll explore its key features, pricing, performance, and whether it's the right fit for your business. If you're considering purchasing the device, don't forget to also evaluate the Meraki MX84 License, which is required to unlock its full potential.

Faster Migrations with Cortex: A Before and After Story

‍ ‍ Most migration/modernization/transformation—whatever you want to call these initiatives—are a pain. "Have you done x yet?" isn't something anyone wants to have to say or hear, 10x a month. But there hasn't always been a great way to drive coordinated progress on these projects—against a real deadline. Stand-ups are a productivity killer, emails go straight into the ether, and project management software is manual and self-reported.

Create Your AirDroid Remote Support Account in Minutes!

In this video, we’ll walk you through the simple steps to create your AirDroid Remote Support account. Whether you're new to AirDroid or setting up a fresh account for remote support, this tutorial will guide you through the entire process. From signing up on the platform to verifying your account, we'll ensure you're all set to start providing or receiving remote assistance with ease.

dbForge Tools for SQL Server 7.0: Big Release Overview

Are you a user of dbForge tools for SQL Server? If you are, then we’ve got a great slice of news for you—our entire product line for SQL Server has just been updated, and you’re welcome to get your update right now. If you are not, you may still want to take a look at all the goodies that come with this release. Our tools come with a hefty free trial, and we gladly invite you to give them a go. Down with the intros, let’s get started!

The Latest and Greatest dbForge SQL Complete 7.0 Is Now at Your Service!

dbForge SQL Complete is, without a doubt, one of our key add-ins for SSMS, designed to level up the speed and precision of your routine SQL coding, formatting, and debugging. And today, we’re happy to herald the release of its latest incarnation—version 7.0. Traditionally, here’s a detailed overview of all the new goodies awaiting you in it; so buckle up, since it’s going to be a long ride—but by no means boring.

Is PUE Still the Most Important Metric for Data Center Efficiency?

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a metric for measuring the overall energy efficiency of a data center facility. It is calculated by dividing the total amount of energy consumed by the facility by the energy used specifically by the IT equipment. This metric is useful to data center managers because optimizing for it can lead to better energy efficiency, lower operational costs, reduced environmental impact, and support regulatory compliance and certification requirements.

Early Cloud Adopters Are Rethinking Their Strategies

The early cloud migration gold rush promised agility, cost savings, and innovation. Yet, fast-forward a few years, and many of those “trailblazers” are now realizing their cloud strategy is anything but optimized. For those who lifted and shifted, hoping to catch the cloud wave, the tide is turning—and it’s not looking pretty. The truth? Cloud 1.0 is out. Simply moving your legacy apps to the cloud without rearchitecting was a band aid solution.

From BizTalk to Azure: Developer journey and evolution of Integration

In this episode of Azure on Air from the INTEGRATE Summit, Riccardo Viglianisi shares the importance of quality practices in development, the role of testing frameworks, integration experiences in modern cloud environments, and the ever-evolving nature of software development. It sets the tone for a technical discussion that's forward-thinking and rooted in practical advice for developers.

Oracle COUNT Function: From Basics to Advanced

Oracle is one of the most widely used database management systems for a reason. It provides an extensive set of tools that allow you to accomplish even the most intricate tasks. Today, we will focus on the Oracle COUNT function, exploring what it is, how it works, its structure, and addressing common misconceptions and best practices. dbForge Studio for Oracle will serve as our trusted wingman, supporting us throughout this process.

Top 5 Local Development Environments for Faster Coding

The rise of remote development environments, like GitHub Codespaces, has certainly captured the spotlight in recent years. These cloud-based solutions offer flexibility and ease of access, making them an attractive choice for many developers. However, it’s important not to overlook the tried-and-true advantages of local development environments. Hosting your code locally on your machine can provide a more controlled, efficient, and secure environment for your development needs.

Connecting in the Heartland: A Journey with Our Rural Customers

One of the highlights of my summer is a trip I took to visit some of our rural customers as part of a larger customer appreciation tour other members of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and I embarked on. Independent service providers hold a unique place in the telecom ecosystem, often forming the backbone of their communities, and this was a wonderful way for us to connect on a personal level.

Best Practices with Microsoft 365 Compliance Center

As businesses continue to generate and store massive amounts of data, effective document management becomes increasingly important. SharePoint Online, one of Microsoft 365’s core collaboration tools, allows organisations to store, share, and manage documents effortlessly. However, simply storing data isn’t enough—effective archiving is essential to ensure compliance, optimize storage costs, and preserve critical information for the long term.

How to Set up App Permissions Management Policy in AirDroid Business?

Welcome to this tutorial video, where we walk you through setting up an app permissions management policy in AirDroid Business. AirDroid Business is a mobile device management (MDM) solution that helps you manage all your Android and Windows devices effectively and securely.

Monthly Recap: August 2024 + Looking Ahead to September

August has been an outstanding month for the Cycle team, marked by significant advancements across the platform. We've introduced new features aimed at simplifying workflows and enhancing user experience. As we wrap up August and look ahead to September, we're excited to share the progress we've made and what you can expect in the coming weeks.

Create an EKS Cluster with Ubuntu Pro Using eksctl

Setting up an EKS cluster with Ubuntu Pro has never been easier, thanks to eksctl. In this brief tutorial, we'll walk you through the simplest way to create an EKS cluster with Ubuntu Pro, using the latest version of eksctl. Why choose Ubuntu Pro? Ubuntu Pro on EKS provides enhanced security features tailored for your enterprise needs. From Kernel Livepatch, which keeps your kernel secure without requiring node reboots, to ESM-Apps, ensuring your containers run with fully supported open-source software from Ubuntu's repositories—all backed by Canonical's active security maintenance.

The Impact of Technology on Kubernetes Consulting Service Trends

The internet is used for almost everything nowadays, from sending and receiving messages to transferring money between bank accounts. With more and more people using the internet, there is greater demand for web applications. Kubernetes is an open-source platform that helps with deploying, scaling, and the management of web applications. As a platform, Kubernetes can be confusing for beginners to master. Because of this, consultancy firms have established themselves as authorities and can help businesses use Kubernetes. This post intends to tell you how modern technology has influenced Kubernetes consultancy trends.

Understanding Modern Development Environments: A Complete Guide

A development environment is a crucial setup of tools, configurations, and processes that developers use to build, test, and deploy software. Whether it’s a local setup on a developer’s local machine or a remote cloud-based solution, a development environment’s primary goal is to provide a seamless space where code can be written, tested, and executed efficiently. It’s never been more important to have a streamlined setup of cloud and development environments.

What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

The Cyber Resilience Act is an upcoming European Union legislation that aims to implement more rigorous cybersecurity commitments, documentation, and vulnerability reporting requirements for the IT industry. The legislation would apply to developers, distributors, manufacturers and retailers of hardware, devices, software, applications, and other “products with digitally connected elements” sold within the EU. The requirements you need to meet depend on the CRA classification of products.

15+ GCP Cost Optimization Tools In 2024

Cost management in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can be complex. It’s a lot like costs in Azure or AWS. Often, companies don’t know where to begin when they receive 20-page invoices. GCP billing tools can be unfamiliar, especially to users from a different cloud provider. However, the platform continues to simplify its cost monitoring and billing tools.

Announcing $60M in Funding to Build the Future of Developer Experience

TLDR: We raised $60M in new funding, led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from World Innovation Labs, Cross Creek, Alpha Square Group, Patrick and John Collison (Stripe) IVP, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. With this new infusion of capital, we’re looking to further grow developer awareness around IDPs and invest in our platform capabilities with enhanced workflows, engineering intelligence, user interface, and of course, AI.

Product Release Notes August 2024

Creating a positive user experience is always one of the most important goals our teams focus on. Whether it’s administrators working behind the scenes on the platform, or users looking to uncover cost savings opportunities in Explorer, or engineers working with our APIs, we always strive to provide a frictionless experience making sure each person has the right information to achieve their goals in our platform.

Easy Ways to Interconnect Your Network

In 2024, an interconnected network is a must-have. Here’s how to get one and supercharge your business operations. Globally distributed networks, remote workforces, multicloud architectures – all of these setups have something important in common (besides the fact they’re the norm now). They all leverage multiples to maximize business benefits. Multiple locations, multiple endpoint types, multiple cloud providers.

Data quality testing

Data quality testing is a subset of data observability. It is the process of evaluating data to ensure it meets the necessary standards of accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability before it is used in business operations or analytics. This involves validating data against predefined rules and criteria, such as checking for duplicates, verifying data formats, ensuring data integrity across systems, and confirming that all required fields are populated.

Easily Remove Existing HAProxy Connections Made via Client Authentication

Most load balancers only check a client certificate when the client first connects. However, this can be problematic if a client stays connected for an extended period of time. Staying connected would allow clients to continually send and receive data. Imagine you have an employee whose certificate and key were stolen by an adversary. If you are using TLS client authentication, that adversary can connect to your infrastructure and maintain illegal access.

Burn rate is a better error rate

While building our Service Level Objectives (SLO) product, our team at Datadog often needs to consider how error budget and burn rate work in practice. Although error budgets and burn rates are discussed in foundational sources such as Google’s Site Reliability Workbook, for many these terms remain ambiguous. Is an error budget a static quantity or a varying percentage? Does burn rate indicate how fast I’m spending a fixed quantity, or is it just another way to express error rate?

GitKraken Workshop: Tips from GitKraken Power Users

Level up your GitKraken IQ with insights from power users. In this GitKraken workshop, a longtime GitKraken Desktop pro covers the features and workflows they use every day to streamline their work. We dive into the deeper aspects of the Commit Graph, sidebar, commit search and more. Whether you're a new user or a vet, you'll walk away with time-saving ideas you can apply today.

Step-by-Step Guide: How to Seamlessly Integrate Jira with Azure DevOps

Whether you’re managing code commits or tracking project tasks, integrating Jira with Azure DevOps can provide an informative, unified view of your development and deployment activities. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll walk through the process of connecting Azure DevOps to Jira using Git Integration for Jira – a versatile extension that enhances project management with real-time visibility and synchronization across your development pipelines.

Guide to Monitoring Nagios Plugins Using Telegraf

Nagios is an open-source monitoring system used to track the performance and health of IT infrastructure, including servers, network devices, applications, and services. It is widely used because of its ability to provide real-time alerts, identify issues before they become critical, and ensure uptime by detecting and addressing system failures promptly. Monitoring Nagios plugins on a more robust platform allows for better scalability, deeper analytics, and long-term storage of performance data.

Fixing Dependent Column Issues With dbForge Data Generator

Users should maintain data consistency to ensure accurate database testing and analysis, especially when generating data in dependent columns. For example, they can use formulas, data generators, or post-scripts to fill in columns based on other columns in the table. However, post-scripts may be complicated and affect database performance. In the article, we’ll explore how to generate values for the referenced columns using dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server.

How to Mass Update Records in Salesforce Using Excel Add-Ins

Manual updating of Salesforce records is far from optimal. If you have ever worked with this CRM, you should know it requires you to find the exact record you want to edit, and only then you’ll be able to change data in its fields. This is fine when you work with separate records, but what if you need to mass update records in Salesforce? If done manually, such an update might eventually lead to errors and consume time.

Mastering Golang Mocks for Efficient Testing and Improved Code Quality

Although GoMock is one of the most popular ways to create mocks in Golang, it’s important to understand the broader landscape of mocking methods in the language to fully leverage its potential value in testing. Mocking is a powerful technique that allows developers to isolate their code, improve test reliability, and ultimately enhance overall code quality.

What is a Preview Environment? A Comprehensive Guide for Modern Developers

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, efficiency and collaboration are paramount. As teams strive to deliver high-quality software faster, one tool that has emerged as a game-changer is the preview environment. In this blog post, we'll dive into what a preview environment is, why it's essential, and how it can revolutionize your development workflow.

Top Features to Look for in Enterprise Incident Management Software

Are you tired of dealing with unexpected system crashes and the chaos they bring? You're not alone. For enterprise SREs, DevOps, and IT Operations teams, mastering incident management goes beyond just fixing problems; it’s about preventing them. According to a recent report, incident volume within enterprise companies rose by 16% during 2023, highlighting the growing complexity and risk in digital operations. This underscores the urgent need for robust incident management solutions.

The 4 Types Of Cloud Computing: Choosing The Best Model

There are four main cloud delivery models (cloud computing services) and four major cloud deployment models (types of cloud computing). Each model is unique, and that affects how it impacts cloud management, data security, and cost management, among other considerations. Here’s exactly what each cloud computing model provides and how to choose the best option for your needs.

The Need for Speed: Highlights from IBM and Catchpoint's Global DNS Performance Study

Despite DNS being the backbone of Internet connectivity, reliable metrics for benchmarking DNS performance are surprisingly scarce. This gap often leaves IT teams navigating in the dark, unable to effectively gauge how their DNS configurations stack up against industry standards. To address this pressing need, Catchpoint worked with IBM NS1 Connect to provide a clear, data-driven picture of DNS performance.

Streamline code quality: Integrating SonarCloud and SonarQube scanning with Kosli for automated compliance

Static code analysis is an important part of testing your software to ensure it is release-ready. In contrast to dynamic testing, which involves executing your code to find errors, static analysis uses automated tools to “look” through the code, without executing it, to find potential errors (including potential security issues) and bugs. Since the code does not need to be executed, static testing can begin much earlier in development than dynamic testing.

How to Build an Effective DevOps Roadmap: A CTO Guide

As a CTO stepping into the fast-paced world of startups or scaling tech organizations, one of your first and most critical tasks is to chart a clear DevOps roadmap. This roadmap isn’t just a technical guideline—it’s a strategic blueprint that aligns your tech initiatives with your business goals. To succeed, your approach needs to be systematic, focusing on immediate wins while building a foundation for long-term scalability and resilience.

Introducing Statusy - An Open Source Status Page Aggregator

A quick walkthrough of Statusy—an open-source status page aggregator that centralizes service monitoring for your team. Created by Yash Jain at Squadcast, Statusy simplifies tracking with a unified dashboard and flexible notifications. Set up in minutes and keep your team informed! Statusy is fully open source.

Overcoming the ClickOps Era

In today’s digital-first world, the demand for network connectivity is at an all-time high. With everyone across the enterprise—from business units to individual employees—relying on the network to accomplish their tasks, the Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) team is constantly under pressure to deliver. They need to manage everything from spinning up new network resources to ensuring those resources are optimized for performance and security.

BEGIN TRY/BEGIN CATCH vs GOTO in SQL Server

When handling errors in SQL Server, SQL developers have several options for resolving issues that arise during query execution. Two commonly used methods are BEGIN TRY/BEGIN CATCH and GOTO. While both serve to manage and respond to errors, they do so in distinct ways. In this article, we’ll compare BEGIN TRY/BEGIN CATCH and GOTO, exploring their use cases, advantages, and potential drawbacks to help you choose the best approach for your SQL Server error-handling needs.

OpenTelemetry Filelog Receiver: Collecting Logs from Kubernetes

Master log collection in Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry's filelog receiver. Learn to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot log collection from various sources including syslog and application logs. Discover advanced parser operator techniques for robust observability.