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Platform Engineering: A Deep Dive into Building the Foundation for Modern Software Delivery

In the ever-evolving software development landscape, platform engineering has risen to prominence as a pivotal practice, transforming how organizations build, maintain, and operate internal infrastructure. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, companies are under immense pressure to deliver software faster, more reliably, and at scale. Platform engineering provides the foundation for achieving this by creating and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that streamline the development process, enabling developers to focus on writing code rather than managing complex infrastructure.

How the dbForge SQL Tools Accelerated Creating Complex Queries and Boosted Financial Data Management at TC Transcontinental

An ability to work with databases with increased efficiency and speed can essentially contribute to a company’s success, assisting with the optimization of the overall workflow and the reduction of operational costs as there is less time one needs to spend on SQL coding, refactoring, and code optimization. However, it takes effort to find a product that would help with these goals while being reliable and stable and providing fast results without requiring any complex onboarding.

Nearly 90% of our AI Crawler Traffic is From TikTok Parent Bytedance - Lessons Learned

This month, Fortune.com reported that TikTok’s web scraper — known as Bytespider — is aggressively sucking up content to fuel generative AI models. We noticed the same thing when looking at bot management analytics produced by HAProxy Edge — our global network that we ourselves use to serve traffic for haproxy.com. Some of the numbers we are seeing are fairly shocking, so let’s review the traffic sources and where they originate.

What is Network Discovery? Find and Validate Devices on Your Network

Keeping track of all devices connected to your network is a fundamental part of effective IT management. This process, known as network discovery, is essential for identifying each device and verifying that it’s authorized and secure. Through network discovery, administrators gain visibility into the network, allowing them to monitor devices, detect potential vulnerabilities, and support ongoing network maintenance.

New and Improved: The JFrog Packages User Experience

I think we can all agree that, in general, different users have different needs. For instance, we’ve found that developers generally use Artifactory to find, select, and then install packages into their development environment, while administrators tend to use Artifactory for troubleshooting, confirming package operations, and other related analyses.

Dashboards are dead; long live Reviews!

Dashboards are everywhere. We use them to inform us about the next big decision we need to make, understand the current state of our business, or see how our Engineering org is running. However, are dashboards actually useful? Are dashboards truly solving a problem for us? Ultimately, we don’t really want more data in our lives - we want answers. Getting these answers is not about adding another dashboard. It is about observing data and taking action to find answers that help us drive outcomes.

Hybrid Cloud Strategies: Balancing Cost, Performance, and Security

Keeping data is an essential process for businesses in the 21st century. Data like customer information, financial records, product details, company projects, future plans, and more are what ensure businesses keep thriving and ensure smooth operation. In fact, 95% of businesses rely on statistical data to make informed decisions.

SecureBridge 10.6 With Support for RAD Studio 12.2 and Lazarus 3.4 Is Out!

We’ve been on a release spree recently, and it seems not to show any signs of stopping. This time, we’ve got some good news for the users of SecureBridge, our top-tier library of client and server components for SSH, SFTP, FTPS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL, WebSocket, and SignalR protocols. Today, we have rolled out an update of SecureBridge with a few nifty enhancements that will keep your experience with it at an all-time high.

Mastering Developer Productivity Analytics: A Guide to Boosting Team Efficiency

Developer productivity is ultimately a measure of the efficiency and effectiveness with which software developers produce high-quality code and complete projects. Where this becomes a bit more complicated is in the relationships between those efforts and the measurements that reflect them.

Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL: Your All-in-One Guide to Features, Installation, and Effective Usage

PostgreSQL is a popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) known for its flexibility, scalability, and extensibility, offering a wide range of features. However, for large, enterprise-level projects, PostgreSQL’s capabilities may not be sufficient, leading developers to explore alternative systems. One such solution is Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres, a PostgreSQL-based database enhanced with commercial features designed to meet the demands of larger projects.

Create Drag-And-Drop Unit Cost Dashboards In Minutes

As 2024 peeks into 2025, cloud-driven businesses are poised for yet another year of record cloud spending. After exceeding $675B this year, cloud spenders are expected to shell out more than $820B in 2025 (Gartner). But as any good unit economist knows, it’s not just that cloud costs are growing, it’s that they’re growing inefficiently — taking too big a bite out of companies’ profits.

Why You Need a Multi-Region Deployment Strategy for Availability

Availability and reliability are crucial for modern software applications and digital services. Meeting service requirements and avoiding downtimes promote customer satisfaction, trust, and credibility. A multi-region deployment strategy can help. Systems that are not reliable or available when needed can cause lost revenue and business, unplanned maintenance, and decreased productivity. Companies can lose up to $9,000 per minute during service downtime.

Making Full Use of Environment Variables for Flyway | The Tony and Tonie Show

In this episode of The Tony and Tonie Show, the pair discuss how Environment Variables make interactive use of Flyway much easier, and how they are essential when developing callback scripts. This article explains the range of configuration details you can provide and how, and demos a PowerShell script to auto-convert the parameter values stored in Flyway.conf files into environment variables.

What's New in Turbo360 - Azure Cost Analyzer Improvements, Anomaly Detection Enhancements...

Turbo360's Product Owner, Michael Stephenson, brings you the latest updates in the Azure cost management and monitoring platform. This video highlights exciting new UI themes, enhanced widget features, and improved cost analysis tools—all designed to boost your productivity and deliver deeper insights.

How to use CircleCI Support Center: Submitting tickets and accessing resources

CircleCI Technical Success Manager, Nico, guides you through using the CircleCI Support Center to efficiently resolve issues and access support. Learn how to navigate the Support Center, use the knowledge base, and utilize the AI widget for quick answers. Nico also explains how to submit a support ticket, ensuring it reaches the right team—whether for build issues, billing, or advisory services.

Reduce storage costs on CircleCI: Managing artifact, cache, and workspace retention

In this video, CircleCI’s Technical Success Manager, Adrian, walks you through simple yet effective strategies for managing storage costs on CircleCI. Learn how to adjust retention periods for artifacts, caches, and workspaces to significantly reduce credit usage each month. Adrian covers how to review storage usage in the CircleCI UI, identify high-storage components, and set optimal retention durations. Ideal for teams looking to lower overhead costs on CircleCI while maintaining efficient builds. Start saving credits and optimizing your storage strategy today!

Optimizing resource utilization with CircleCI: A guide to right-sizing

Learn how to maximize efficiency and minimize costs with CircleCI by right-sizing your resources. In this video, CircleCI's Technical Success Manager, Nic, demonstrates how to adjust resource allocations for jobs based on utilization trends, helping you optimize CPU and RAM usage, reduce credit consumption, and prevent resource overuse issues like out-of-memory errors. Discover tips on monitoring resource usage, leveraging the insights tab, and using CircleCI’s Usage API for automated tracking. Perfect for developers looking to streamline their CI/CD workflows and get the most out of CircleCI’s platform!

The DevEx Advantage: Understanding and Improving Developer Experience

Developer Experience (DevEx) is a general term that encompasses all of the interactions a developer has with their work environment. The tools that a developer uses, the processes they employ, and even the organizational culture, all play a role in establishing a great Developer Experience – or, unfortunately, a bad one.

Using SSIS Foreach Loop for Automated Data Processing

When you need to perform certain actions with each of the elements from an array that you don’t want to edit in any way, the SSIS forech loop container, a control flow task, comes in handy. Using it, you can easily iterate through items defined in a collection and automate processing them one by one. Eventually, this approach helps cut the time usually spent on manually handling each item from the dataset.

What's New in Devart Python Connectors: Support for Python 3.13, Enhanced Work With Queries, and More

Another release is coming your way! This time we have rolled out an update for our collection of high-performance Devart Python Connectors, which help access a variety of database servers and cloud services from Python applications and facilitate CRUD operations with data.

Top .NET Framework Trends of 2025 - What Developers Need to Know

The.NET ecosystem has come a long way, but the latest.NET Framework trends for 2025 prove there’s still much to explore and develop. Since its release in 2002, every newer version has brought some sort of upgrade, like the Parallel Task Library in.NET 4.0 and the shift to.NET Core in 2016. The introduction of later.NET versions unified these advancements to make development faster and more flexible. So, what does 2025 hold?

Continuous Improvement with Squadcast: Optimizing Incident Response for Long-Term Growth

Incident management plays a critical role in ensuring service reliability, customer satisfaction, and overall business success. Effective incident response is not a static process but one that benefits from constant refinement and optimization. As organizations grow and evolve, so must their approach to handling incidents.

How to Configure a Server: A Comprehensive Guide

Configuring a server can feel overwhelming, especially if you're new to IT infrastructure. However, understanding how to configure a server is essential for effectively managing any network, whether for a small business or a large enterprise. This guide equips you with the knowledge and steps to successfully set up your server, helping you navigate through the complexities of Server Management.

The Complexity of Modern IT Operations: Navigating the Challenges and the Future of Automation

Remember when IT was mostly about managing a few on-premise servers and ensuring email worked? Those days are long gone. Today’s IT landscape is an intricate web of cloud services, legacy systems, automation, security protocols, and more. It’s a challenge to navigate, and as a result, IT operations have become increasingly complex. The more intricate your operation becomes, the more you realize that automation isn’t a luxury anymore—it’s a necessity.

Now Generally Available: Cortex Workflows with Enhanced RBAC

After an incredible week at IDPCon, we're excited to share one of the major announcements we unveiled during the event: the General Availability (GA) of Cortex Workflows with advanced Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC). One of the most highly requested features for Cortex Workflows, advanced RBAC gives you complete control over who can view, edit, and run workflows, supporting enterprises that deal with sensitive operations.

Northern Exposure: the confidence connecting Scotland and the Nordics to drive data centre evolution

Scotland has a strong historical record in seeking out and supporting data centre investment. The Green Datacentres and Digital Connectivity: Vision and Action plan is already four years old. However, time has not dampened enthusiasm. The renewed interest in data centre investment that has followed encouraging comments from Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has spread across the UK.

Building Robust Solutions on Azure: Insights from Industry Experts

Building robust solutions on Azure is essential in today’s cloud-driven world, where performance, availability, and resilience are the cornerstones of successful applications. In a recent episode of Azure on Air podcast, we brought together leading Azure experts to dive deep into these critical aspects of cloud architecture. From overcoming the challenges of distributed systems to mastering performance optimization, the conversation explored the ins and outs of creating high-performing, reliable solutions on Microsoft Azure.

End to end tracking of Azure Function Apps

In this video, Mike Stephenson explores a practical use case for gaining transparency in Azure Function integrations that help in end-to-end tracking of Azure Function Apps. Discover how leveraging Application Insights can help your team gain visibility into hidden integrations and improve operational efficiency. Learn how one customer successfully implemented this solution to streamline their processes and reduce support ticket escalations.

Finding DevOps & Cyber Professionals: A How-to Guide

It's safe to say that in the past couple of years, DevOps practices have become very high in demand, and a vast majority of companies resort to them whenever they want to optimize different deployment processes and software development in general. However, in order to do this the right way, businesses need to consider joining forces with DevOps and cyber connoisseurs because they (unlike them) are perfectly familiar with the latest tools and strategies that are necessary to accomplish the abovementioned goals.

Streamlining Your Kubernetes Development Environment: A Comprehensive Guide

Kubernetes has revolutionized how modern applications are built, deployed, and scaled. However, due to its complexity, managing a Kubernetes development environment can sometimes feel overwhelming for developers. Utilizing a cloud environment can simplify Kubernetes development by providing better scalability, manageability of dependencies, and a more consistent development experience across various cloud providers.

SQL Konferenz 2024 Insights Recap

SQL Konferenz 2024, an event that regularly connects database professionals, SQL enthusiasts, and data architects from the DACH region, took place this October in Hanau, Germany, hosting numerous attendees as well as expert speakers ready to share valuable insights and discuss the latest trends and innovations in the industry.
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The Role of AI in SRE: Revolutionizing System Reliability and Efficiency

Maintaining high service reliability is crucial for enterprises that depend on software services to drive their businesses. This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) comes into play-a practice that integrates software engineering approaches with operations to build scalable and highly reliable software systems. As the world's reliance on digital infrastructure grows, so do the challenges of keeping these systems running smoothly. To meet these challenges, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly integrated into SRE practices, enhancing their capabilities in unprecedented ways.

LLMs vs Generative AI: Differences in Capabilities and Business Applications

When we talk about AI, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the different models, terms, and tech advancements constantly being thrown around. Yet, understanding these distinctions is crucial as businesses increasingly look to AI to drive efficiency, innovation, and customer engagement. So let’s make this simple. In this blog, I’m going to break down the key differences between Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, and how businesses are leveraging these technologies in the real world.

Understanding & Automating DevOps Processes and Let Go (A Little)

As the demand for instant innovation and real-time delivery of mission-critical processes continues to grow, your organization risks falling behind if it can’t adapt to an automation-centric strategy. To succeed, managers must loosen the reins and enable teams to automate DevOps processes. Automating DevOps processes is not an all-or-nothing decision, and implementing automation processes can let teams adapt to the changing environment and let go, little by little.

Understanding Provisioning In IT: A Complete Guide For 2024

Your IT infrastructure, resources, and components play a crucial role in your system performance, security, and overall health. Provisioning is often one of the very first steps toward setting up the right environment for your workload requirements – both locally and in the cloud. Here’s a handy guide to how provisioning works in IT. We’ll also share a tool to help you prevent overprovisioning and waste by automating provisioning in the cloud.

Imagining the future of Cybersecurity

October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu. The cybersecurity landscape has significantly shifted since 2004. If you have been following the Ubuntu Security Team’s special three-part series podcast that we put out to mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, you will have listened to us talk about significant moments that have shaped the industry, as well as what our recommendations to stay safe are.

Unleash new ways of working with flexible, cost-effective VDI

For years, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has helped power the most complex IT environments—and the technology is still relevant today. After all, VDI allows employees to access their work applications and data across any device, anywhere. And the growth of 5G networked edge computing means that VDI workloads can soon be optimised for even greater flexibility, security and cost savings. But what’s the right way to deploy VDI in the cloud era?

Local presence today, global potential tomorrow: using colocation to access an ecosystem that drives growth

In an era where modern commerce is inseparable from technology, digital transformation has become crucial for businesses to survive and thrive in all markets. Scotland has led the way in understanding the impact of this shift. In August 2023, the Independent Expert Group (IEG) on Unlocking the Value of Data delivered its report to the Digital Directorate, covering private sector use of public sector personal data.

Looking to the edge to secure the legal industry

The 2023 National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) report into the UK legal sector warns that a failure to: “maintain appropriate cyber security measures… can have exceptionally negative consequences for a legal practice and its clients". Current figures cite that 65% of UK law firms have been victims of cyber incidents . Elsewhere, another report revealed that 72% - almost three-quarters - of UK-headquartered law firms have at least one employee password on the dark web.

Streamlining Enterprise Migration with Squadcast

Migrating your enterprise incident management system can be a daunting process, but with the right tools and support, it doesn’t have to be. Squadcast’s comprehensive migration solutions ensure a seamless transition with minimal disruption to your operations. This webinar is designed to walk you through the essential steps for a successful migration, showcasing how our personalized approach and expert support can help you take control of your incident management.

Azure Function and APIM: The Ultimate Tool for Business Data Tracking

The Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module is designed to shift support “left,” meaning it empowers support operators to identify and address issues earlier in the process by providing them with a business-friendly view of the underlying complex infrastructure. This makes it easier for operators to understand and manage critical processes without needing to have expert skills in the technical complexities of Azure.

How to Rent a Dedicated Physical Server: A Comprehensive Guide

Renting a dedicated physical server can offer immense benefits for businesses, developers, and professionals who need complete control over their hosting environment. However, choosing the right server can be challenging due to the numerous options and factors involved. In this guide, we will cover everything you need to know about renting a dedicated server, from its characteristics to costs, and what knowledge is required to manage one effectively.

Incident Management in the Cloud Era: Challenges and Opportunities

The rapid adoption of cloud technology has revolutionized how organizations operate, collaborate, and innovate. With cloud solutions enabling on-demand scalability, data accessibility, and cost savings, they have become the backbone of modern business infrastructures. However, with this progress comes new challenges, especially in the realm of incident management.

The Importance of Monitoring for Gaming Companies

For gaming companies, creating a positive user experience is paramount. Gamers expect seamless gameplay, fast response times, and 24/7 availability. Maintaining top-notch performance is crucial when managing massive multiplayer online games, mobile games, or e-sports platforms. This blog will explain how gaming companies rely on monitoring and explore many widespread monitoring use cases for gaming companies.

Managing Humidity to Reduce Data Center Water Consumption

Did you know that an average data center can consume around 300,000 gallons of water every day? With data center sustainability being a top priority for many organizations around the world, it is important to remember that sustainability is not just about decreasing the use of fossil fuels and lowering carbon emissions but reducing water consumption as well. However, according to Uptime Institute, only 43% of data centers collect data on their water usage for corporate sustainability purposes.

Developer Self-Service: The Benefits for DevOps & How Platform Engineering Makes It Happen

Developer self-service can sound like a dream: A platform that developers can use to freely develop — unburdened by sprawling IT, tools they shouldn’t need to know how to use, and tickets that take forever to complete. But in DevOps, self-service is becoming a differentiator for organizations with growth goals, widening skill gaps, a need for visibility, or just an appetite for better DevOps efficiency.

13 Snowflake Tools To Help Monitor Cloud Storage And Usage

Snowflake is special for several reasons. To begin with, its architecture separates storage and compute, making it fast, highly scalable, and efficient. Snowflake’s cloud-native, SaaS, and serverless approach also means you don’t have to worry about provisioning servers on-premises. Instead, you just need a Snowflake subscription; their team will handle the handy work on your behalf. At CloudZero, we use Snowflake for these and several more reasons.

Six Key Differences Between Major Cloud Providers

Demystify your private cloud options with our comparison of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. On a typical day at Megaport, our Solutions team helps a lot of customers with a lot of questions. And in my time here, I’ve noticed these questions often follow the same theme: What’s the best way to connect to their cloud service providers? The reality is that there’s no simple answer to this question.

Top Traffic Replay Alternatives to Enhance Your Testing and Analysis

Traffic replay is a valuable technique for capturing and analyzing network interactions, providing essential insights into user behavior and website performance. Utilizing existing traffic enhances software testing accuracy, allowing for more realistic application testing and ensuring that various environmental factors do not lead to unnoticed errors.

DevOps Best Practices to Transform Your Development Process

Businesses are under constant pressure to deliver software faster and more reliably. Yet, the real challenge lies in maintaining quality standards without sacrificing speed. Traditional software development methods often lead to silos between teams, slower release cycles, and more frequent errors. These inefficiencies impact the speed of software delivery, risk system downtime, and customer satisfaction. The solution? Implementing DevOps best practices.

Migration Announcement: Transitioning from Legacy Flows to Flows with Trails

We are excited to announce that we will be migrating your Kosli Flows data to Flows with Trails. This transition will unlock access to our latest features, such as the first-class Sonar integration, as well as upcoming ones like environment compliance policies and custom attestation types. Legacy Flows have served us well in the early stages, where they were designed to map the value stream of producing a single software artifact.

Mastering Cybersecurity: From Integration to Real-World Threats and AI

In this episode of Azure on Air, Nino Crudele dives into the world of cybersecurity, revealing critical insights on safeguarding digital data. Drawing from personal experiences and real-world hacking stories, Nino unpacks how threats like social engineering and the dark web operate. He also explores the role of artificial intelligence, showing both its potential to strengthen and undermine security efforts. This episode is a must-listen for anyone wanting to stay informed about emerging cyber risks and learn best practices for protecting their online presence.

Cloud Financial Operations: Strategies for Cost Management

This episode of FinOps on Azure delves into financial operations within cloud infrastructure management, featuring host Michael Stephenson, A FinOps certified practitioner, and Andrew Matveychuk, Information Technology Architect. They discuss the critical importance of cost management in cloud environments, highlighting the expectations versus reality of cloud migration costs.

How VirtualMetric significantly reduces SIEM ingest costs

Ever wondered how you can massively reduce SIEM data ingestion costs? In this video, Yusuf walks you through how VirtualMetric makes it happen. We’ve found a way to reduce SIEM ingestion costs by up to 90% using smart data pipelines, real-time data processing, and 99% compression rate for long term storage. If you’re dealing with large amounts of log data and looking for a way to save on costs while improving your cybersecurity operations, this might be what you need!

Encoding HAProxy logs in machine-readable JSON or CBOR

Standardized logging formats are important for teams that rely on logging for observability, troubleshooting, and workflow integration. Using structured formats simplifies parsing and eliminates the need to interpret fields manually, ensuring consistency across logging formats. This reduces manual work, prevents brittleness from unstructured logs, and simplifies integration between teams that feed logs into a shared aggregation system.

How to Track an IP Address: Tools and Methods Explained

Ever wondered how to track an IP address? You might be troubleshooting network issues or dealing with security threats. While this may sound technical, it’s more straightforward than you might think once you get the hang of the basic concepts and tools involved. In this article, we'll discuss how to track an IP address and cover tools and methods. Keep reading, and by the end, you'll be able to trace an IP address confidently.

Introducing Custom Metrics

In 2024, there’s no shortage of tools to help engineering teams track team health, productivity, or efficiency. But the problem with those solutions has been two-fold. First, most only track “output” metrics, with no insight into what’s causing teams to ship slower, or resolve fewer incidents. Second, these tools lack flexibility in data inputs and metric definitions, preventing teams from building their own unique measures of excellence.

The Fundamentals of Enterprise Incident Management

These days, where businesses are more reliant on technology than ever before, ensuring operational continuity is critical. At the heart of this effort is enterprise incident management, a discipline that ensures organizations can effectively handle unplanned disruptions and restore services as quickly as possible.

Choosing The Best AWS Pricing Model: A Complete Look At AWS Pricing (With Examples)

We uncovered over $1.7 million of annualized cloud savings a few months ago. The key to getting here was understanding the whos, whats, and whys of our costs as they were. Well, that’s three things, but you get the idea. Now here’s the thing. The key to understanding your Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs is to know what you are paying for and why. To understand these two, you have first to understand what you’re paying, right?

The digital evolution of Dun Eideann

Since the 2011 Scottish Digital Strategy, Scotland's political and economic commitment to the technology industry has been consistent and substantial. The 2020 Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review and the subsequent TechScaler startup programme are great examples of this dedication at work today. Edinburgh's vital role in these plans has been equally long-standing.

swampUP Recap: "EveryOps" is Trending as a Software Development Requirement

swampUP 2024, the annual JFrog DevOps Conference, was unique in it’s addressing not only more familiar DevOps and DevSecOps issues, but adding specific operational challenges, stemming from the explosive growth of GenAI and the resulting need for specialized capabilities for handling AI models and datasets, while supporting new personae such as AI/ML engineers, data scientists and MLOps professionals.

How to View Usage Report and Logs | AirDroid Remote Support Guide

Learn how to easily view usage reports and logs in AirDroid Remote Support to keep track of your remote sessions. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll show you how to access detailed reports and activity logs, helping you monitor remote support activities, troubleshoot issues, and optimize your remote assistance workflow.

Understanding the NIST Framework and Recent AI Updates

A lot has changed for the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST Framework since 2013, when former President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13636 that directed the Executive Branch to: Since the creation of the NIST framework, we’ve seen an evolution in sophisticated cyberattacks on the rise with new challenges like AI.

Mired in PCF Complexity? Transition to Kubernetes With Komodor

In the wake of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, the world of virtualization is in flux. Customers, especially those reliant on VMware’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), are feeling uncertain about the future. This blog post is designed to guide customers through the specific hurdles they now face due to the acquisition, explore Kubernetes (K8s) as an alternative to PCF, and discuss how Komodor can help with a K8s migration.

Azure VM Recommendations: A Comprehensive Guide

Microsoft Azure offers a wide range of Virtual Machines (VMs) to suit various use cases, making it a flexible platform for organizations of all sizes. However, choosing the right VM for your workload can be challenging, especially with Azure’s continuously expanding portfolio. This blog aims to provide detailed Azure VM recommendations to help optimize your cost, performance, and operational efficiency.

What is the Future of Data Center Operations?

Data centers support everything from online transactions and streaming services to enterprise IT infrastructure and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). As technology continues to evolve rapidly, so do the operational demands placed on data centers. Staying ahead requires understanding the key trends shaping the future and adapting strategies accordingly. In this blog post, we’ll explore what may lie ahead for data center operations.

12 Benefits You Get by Scaling with Netdata

80% of decision-makers globally acknowledge that digital infrastructure is essential for reaching business goals. However, IT infrastructure is becoming increasingly distributed and complex. Organizations are managing hundreds—even thousands—of nodes across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments. This predicament makes effective monitoring across all systems more essential than ever.

Microsoft Teams vs. SharePoint. The Ultimate Guide

In today’s fast-paced, digitally-driven work environment, effective collaboration and content management are crucial for success. Microsoft offers two powerful tools to help you achieve these goals: Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. While both platforms are designed to enhance productivity, they serve distinct purposes. In this in-depth comparison, we’ll explore the strengths of each tool, examine real-world scenarios, and provide actionable tips to help you make informed decisions.

How to Conduct an HTTP/2 Test on APIs

Slowly but surely, HTTP/2 has become the preferred protocol for transferring data files between clients and servers. In contrast, HTTP/1, which once stood as the sole method for loading web applications, is now falling short, particularly in terms of user experience. Since 2015, HTTP/2 APIs have taken the lead with lightning-fast server responses.

Better Database Incident Management | The Tony and Tonie Show

In this episode of The Tony and Tonie Show, we discuss how Redgate Monitor helps teams manage database incidents efficiently, by providing the right data to the right people, at each stage of a tiered incident response system. With fewer distractions from routine issues, specialist staff can focus on core tasks while teams resolve problems faster and prevent future disruptions.

Harnessing the Power of Automation: Key Insights from the 2024 Hype Cycle for I&O

In the rapidly evolving world of Infrastructure and Operations (I&O), automation has emerged as a key enabler of efficiency, agility, and value creation. As enterprises grapple with increasingly complex IT environments, automation is no longer a luxury but rather a fundamental necessity. The 2024 Hype Cycle for I&O Automation highlights the trends, innovations, and predictions that will shape the future of IT operations.

What is Ubuntu used for?

The launch of Ubuntu in 2004 was a step-change for everyday users and developers everywhere. Nicknamed “Ubuntu Linux” in its early days, to differentiate it from its various cousins in the Linux world, it has since lost the need for its surname and grown to become a powerful force. Besides being used by millions of home users, Ubuntu is widely used in the development and business world. As developers have become a driving force of innovation, so has Ubuntu.

What is GitOps? Continuous delivery to Kubernetes with ArgoCD

With the increasing adoption of Kubernetes in recent years, there are various means and tools for achieving continuous delivery to Kubernetes. While it is possible to create a consistent CI/CD pipeline up to deploying to Kubernetes using CI/CD tools like CircleCI, there has been a rise in cases combining dedicated CD tools like FluxCD and ArgoCD to achieve this as well. A common aspect among these CD-dedicated tools is their adoption of GitOps.

The Ultimate Guide to implementing Hotwire and Turbo in a Rails application

Hotwire and Turbo have revolutionized how we build modern web applications with Ruby on Rails. By leveraging server-side rendering and minimizing JavaScript, Hotwire enables developers to create reactive, real-time user experiences without the complexity of a single-page application framework. This comprehensive guide will walk you through implementing Hotwire and Turbo in a Rails application from the ground up.

Diligent Accelerates Secure Software Delivery with Cloudsmith

Discover how Diligent transformed its software delivery process with Cloudsmith’s universal package management platform. By centralizing security, automating workflows, and enhancing compliance, Diligent achieved significant efficiency gains and scalable operations. With real-time insights and reduced manual tasks, their teams can now focus on innovation.

Feature Store Benefits: The Advantages of Feature Stores in Machine Learning Development

Feature stores are rapidly growing in popularity as organizations look to improve their machine learning productivity and operations (MLOps). With the advancements in MLOps, feature stores are becoming an essential component of the machine learning infrastructure, helping organizations to improve the performance and ability to explain their models, and accelerate the integration of new models into the production.

Qovery Joins the AWS ISV Accelerate Program

We are proud to announce that Qovery has been officially accepted into the AWS ISV Accelerate Program as of October 21, 2024. This strategic achievement is a game changer for both Qovery and our customers, offering new avenues for collaboration and growth through an integrated go-to-market approach with AWS.

Leveraging GenAI to Enhance Kubernetes Reliability

In the ever-evolving DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) landscape, Kubernetes stands out as a pivotal technology, revolutionizing how we deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications. K8s offers powerful orchestration capabilities, ensuring our applications are resilient and can scale seamlessly to meet varying demands. However, as robust as Kubernetes is, managing it efficiently requires significant expertise and effort.

Dark theme for Bitbucket Cloud is here!

Software development requires a comfortable setup to be successful. If a key on your keyboard isn't working, it feels like nothing is working. Your chair, lights, monitor – they all come together to help you be productive. But what's on the screen matters too. If you're looking to improve your focus, reduce eye strain and lift your overall code review experience, Bitbucket Cloud now offers a dark theme option, a long-awaited feature among our most passionate users.

A Guide to Kubernetes Performance Testing: Top 5 Tools & Methodologies for Load Testing

Kubernetes has become the dominant orchestration platform for cloud-native apps– and for good reason. It can be a powerful tool in your software development lifecycle. But how do you know if your Kubernetes-based app can handle the demands of production traffic? Kubernetes alone isn’t always enough to ensure your app’s performance under load. In many cases, it is, but it’s always wise to know your application’s limits.

How to Migrate From SQL Server to MySQL

One of the standout features of dbForge Studio is its ability to import data from various sources, including ODBC data. This significantly expands your capabilities, both for direct conversion of data stored on different platforms and for the convenient development of database-related objects such as ETL procedures, reports, and more.

Ternary Alternatives For FinOps Teams And Cloud Optimization

As of 2024, 89% of organizations are using a multi-cloud strategy. Among the reasons for this shift are avoiding vendor lock-in and achieving scalability and cost-effectiveness. Yet, maximizing the value of investments in multi-cloud environments is a major challenge. That’s where multi-cloud FinOps solutions like Ternary come in — or, as you’ll see in this guide, where the top Ternary alternatives can take the lead.

How to Automate Your Megaport Infrastructure With APIs

Learn how to transform your network efficiency and interoperability, all from a single interface. As networks expand and automation becomes the norm, API usage has exploded; in today’s digital landscape, 90% of developers are now utilizing APIs. APIs are no longer just technical constructs, confined to the dark corners of software engineers – they’re now the lifeblood of many companies. API tools allow you to connect to diverse data sources, supporting interoperability and innovation.

Beyond Basics: Advanced Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations for Your Business

Discover how to maximize your Azure cost savings by exploring strategies and techniques that go beyond the insights provided by Azure Advisor. Also, learn why managing Azure costs has become a critical challenge for organizations and why native tools like Azure Advisor may not be giving you the full picture. This video unpacks the complexities of cloud cost optimization and explores how data-driven insights are revolutionizing Azure Cost Management.

How Ecommerce Businesses Monitor Web Traffic

Businesses in many industries turn to MetricFire for one goal: to quickly set up hosted monitoring with an expert team. Developers everywhere ask, "Will setting up a monitoring solution with a free trial be worth my time?" How can you find the right monitoring solution for your use case? This article will review some common monitoring use cases for online retail and ecommerce businesses. If any part of this article rings true for your business, click here to contact us.

How Cortex Speeds Production Readiness: A Before and After Story

Engineering teams are always shipping something—new services, resources, models, clusters, etc. You probably have a set of standards you expect developers to abide by when doing that work, like adequate testing, code coverage, resolution of outstanding vulnerabilities, etc. But how are you actually tracking and enforcing those standards? Without an Internal Developer Portal, you might find that to be an incredibly manual effort.

How to Optimize MPLS Network Monitoring to Improve Performance and SLAs

In the IT infrastructure serving increasingly digitized enterprises, the criticality of network quality of service is more than evident to ensure connectivity to everyone at any time. System and network administrators need to understand which technology enables efficient, reliable, and lowest latency data transmission between IT applications and services.

AWS Budgets Alternatives To Help Optimize AWS Cloud Spend

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers several native tools for reporting and cost optimization. Among them is AWS Budgets, a service that enables users to set spending and usage limits on their AWS resources. It also schedules reports with regular updates on actual or forecasted costs, ensuring users are informed of usage. However, AWS Budgets is a budgeting tool and has limitations when it comes to comprehensive AWS cost control.

End-to-end tracking for Azure Data Factory

This video by Michael Stephenson focuses on utilizing Turbo360's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) data query feature in conjunction with Azure Data Factory. It begins with an introduction to the architecture, highlighting how data factory diagnostic settings can push events to a Log Analytics workspace for tracking purposes.

Creating a Secure Cyber Environment | Ubuntu Security Podcast

Software supply chain knowledge is crucial for cybersecurity. It's essential to understand not only what's running but also its provenance and reliability. In episode two of our 3-part Month podcast series, Eduardo Barretto and Luci Stanescu join Alex Murray to discuss some of the best cybersecurity practices for everyone.

Top Reasons Your Business Needs Scalable Data Center Solutions

In today's fast-paced business environment, the demand for flexible and efficient technology solutions is at an all-time high. Companies are increasingly reliant on data to drive their operations and make informed decisions. As data needs grow, businesses face significant challenges in managing their IT infrastructure. Scalable data center solutions offer a way to adapt to these evolving requirements effectively.

Kubernetes Load Testing: How JMeter and Speedscale Compare

At some point, your development team may be considering implementing load testing (also known as stress testing) as part of your software testing process. Load testing validates that your web app is able to withstand a large number of simultaneous users, decreasing the chance that any traffic spikes will bring down your services once deployed. These stress tests can be highly granular, giving you the opportunity to test run virtually unlimited strategies before they are set into the wild.

The Incident Dilemma: Choosing Between Reactive and Proactive Incident Response

As the IT landscape evolves, businesses face increasingly complex challenges related to system availability, data integrity, and customer satisfaction. One of the most pressing dilemmas is how to manage incidents effectively—deciding between reactive and proactive incident response approaches. Both methodologies have their own merits and pitfalls, but the decision can significantly influence how efficiently an organization handles IT disruptions and maintains operational continuity.

Ways to Use Mock Services in Software Development

Mocking APIs is a popular practice in software development. An increasing number of developers are reaping the benefits and no longer using their valuable time to spin up duplicate resources. Many mock services do not require account creation, making them easy to use and privacy-friendly. In the rest of this article, we explain what mock APIs are, when you should think about using them, and what solutions are available within the open-source and proprietary markets.

Kubernetes at 10: Is It Still Relevant or Just a Fad?

Kubernetes has turned 10! Join our panel of experts from Civo Navigate Berlin 2024 as they explore the evolving landscape of container orchestration and the future of Kubernetes. With the rise of decentralized technologies and new cloud-native solutions, is Kubernetes still the go-to platform for managing complex applications? Discover insights, challenges, and what's next for Kubernetes in this engaging discussion.

Managing Nuisance Calls, Toll-Free Fraud & Brand Pirating

Not only are businesses losing millions of dollars to hackers running up toll-free charges and stealing telecom services, these same bad actors also harass employees with nuisance calls or phishing attempts. Worst of all, some are stealing your brand to make fraudulent calls to customers and are threatening your organization’s reputation.

Cloud Engineer - Roles and Responsibilities

Cloud engineers have become a vital part of many organizations – orchestrating cloud services to create seamless digital experiences for clients. With responsibilities spanning across cloud security to troubleshooting incidents, cloud engineers are key to keeping modern businesses running efficiently. And as the need for cloud expertise continues to rise, so do opportunities in the field.

About Redgate Software

Today, more than 200,000 people globally, including 92% of the Fortune 100, trust Redgate to deliver ingeniously simple software. About Us: Redgate offers end-to-end Database DevOps to help organizations streamline software development and get value from their data faster. Redgate’s portfolio of solutions helps organizations reliably solve the complex challenges of database management across the DevOps lifecycle on any database, anywhere.

Getting transparency on hidden Azure Function Integrations

Recently we released a new feature for Business Activity Monitoring and one of our customers was able to get almost immediate value from this feature with an integration use case they were struggling to support. The solution implemented involves the source data coming from various operational technology systems that push data to an event hub.

End-to-end tracking for Azure APIM

In the video, Michael Stephenson discusses the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) data queries feature and its integration with API management, emphasizing its role in enhancing operational insights. He explains how the tool allows users to query both App Insights and Log Analytics, enabling the creation of user-friendly views for non-technical users, such as support operators.

How to Migrate MySQL Database to Amazon RDS or Aurora

Amazon cloud storage offers a scalable and secure way to keep and access data across multiple devices. As to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), it provides automated backups, software patching, and scaling without the need for manual intervention. In this guide, we are going to walk you through the process of transferring a database from a local machine or a traditional server to AWS with the help of the command line as well as with a convenient GUI – dbForge Studio for MySQL.

AWS vs GCP vs Azure: Which Cloud Platform is Best for your Business?

Are you a startup struggling to choose the right cloud platform for your business? With so many options available, it can be overwhelming to determine which vendor best suits your needs. This article will compare AWS, GCP, and Azure based on key factors such as pricing, compliance, security, scalability, ease of use, and their specific benefits for startups. After you have gone through this article, you will have a clearer understanding of which cloud platform is the best fit for your business.

Three serverless reliability risks you can solve today using Failure Flags

Serverless platforms make it incredibly easy to deploy applications. You can take raw code, push it up to a service like AWS Lambda, and have a running application in just a few seconds. The serverless platform provider assumes responsibility for hosting and operating the platform, freeing you up to focus on your application. Naturally, this raises a question: if something goes wrong, who’s responsible?

Best Practices for Testing Zone Redundancy

The way the story goes is that in the old days Amazon used to cut power to data centers so they could see if their services were actually redundant across different data centers; and that they only abandoned this practice when EC2 customers started to complain (no matter how many times they were warned their instances might disappear without notice). This story may be apocryphal, but you don’t need to be worried about power loss outages in order to have a given data center go down.

How NaaS and APIs are reshaping enterprise connectivity

As enterprises continue to migrate workloads to cloud environments, they are reaping significant benefits, such as scalability, agility, and the ability to deploy applications in near real-time. However, these advantages are often undermined by the limitations of legacy networks. Traditional networks, restricted by long-term contracts and inflexible delivery timelines, are no longer fit for purpose in a cloud-driven world.

What is DORA and how will it affect me?

The Digital Finance Strategy is a European directive that aims to support and develop digital finance in Europe while maintaining financial stability and consumer protection. There are three main components to the package: In this blog post, we’ll attempt to summarize the 113-page DORA proposal, highlighting how it will apply to incident management at financial entities. Side note: we also wrote a blog post about the other DORA, also known as the DevOps Research and Assessments.

Introducing shadow IT controls for workspace admins

Shadow IT is defined as the use of IT-related hardware or software by an individual without the knowledge of the IT admin. For example, if a user creates a new Bitbucket Cloud workspace within your organization without the knowledge of the organization admin, it can lead to potentially sensitive data being exposed.

Azure Logic Apps Consumption: The Ultimate Tool for Business Data Tracking

In the latest release of Turbo360, significant improvements have been made to the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module. This module is designed to shift support “left,” meaning it empowers support operators to identify and address issues earlier in the process by providing them with a business-friendly view of the underlying complex infrastructure.

15 Cloud Business Intelligence Tools: Organized By Category

Data overload. Poor decision-making. Inefficient processes. Limited real-time insights. These are just a few of the many challenges an organization would face without business intelligence (BI). Yet traditional BI has its own set of challenges, including complexity, cost, data diversity, and more. These limitations have led businesses to seek a more affordable and efficient solution — the cloud. This article explains cloud business intelligence (cloud BI), how it works, and its benefits.

Real-time application monitoring and bottleneck detection l Blackfire

Blackfire's continuous observability solution empowers developers to monitor their applications' real-time behavior and proactively identify existing bottlenecks or the consequences of upcoming changes before they reach production. By speeding up the discovery process and allowing long-term performance optimization, Blackfire lets developers stay in control, even during crises, to build and grow their applications confidently.

Stop Infrastructure Delays - Supercharge Your Workloads Now!

Are your developers waiting too long for environments? Do they spend excessive time grappling with infrastructure? In this session from Civo Navigate Europe 2024, Will Stewart, co-founder and CEO North Flank, explains how redirecting focus to workloads allows developers to abstract away the complexities of the underlying infrastructure, enabling them to concentrate on writing code and building features.

Deterministic Data Masking in Redgate Test Data Manager | The Tony and Tonie Show

Struggling with inconsistent and unrealistic test data? Tony and Tonie discuss a new article by Khang Chan, a developer at Redgate, explaining how deterministic data masking ensures sensitive data stays protected while maintaining data integrity and reproducibility — critical for reliable testing and development work.

7 Ways Self-Service Automation Speeds Up DevOps & Empowers Platform Users

In software development, even common IT operations tasks require specialized skills. Collaboration between specialized teams is the driving force of DevOps, more than any tooling or workflow. But self-service automation becomes valuable when common, routine tasks and processes start to restrict developers and burden operations teams.

RAN-tastic Opportunities: Driving the Future of Telecommunications

The telecom landscape is undergoing a transformation unlike anything we’ve seen before, and at the heart of this epic shift is the Radio Access Network (RAN). What used to be a quiet, behind-the-scenes player in mobile communications has now become the backbone of modern connectivity—powering everything from the phone in your pocket to entire smart cities.

Tech Bacteria Experiment: Just How Much Bacteria Is Lurking On Your Devices?

We take our phones and tech devices everywhere — whether it’s on the train, at a coffee shop, or even in bed, we’re rarely far from them. In fact, 75% of Americans admit to using their phones even while on the toilet. With each new location, our devices pick up a mix of dust, dirt, and germs along the way. While the COVID-19 pandemic may have heightened our awareness of germs, are we paying enough attention to the bacteria that can gather on our everyday gadgets?

Azure Cost Management Per Department: Optimizing Cloud Spending using Turbo360

Cloud adoption is growing rapidly, and businesses are increasingly using platforms like Azure to run their services. However, managing costs efficiently is crucial to prevent overspending. By tracking costs per department, you ensure that each team is accountable for its cloud spending, making optimization and budgeting more effective. In this article, we’ll explore how to track and allocate Azure costs per department, ensuring your organization optimizes its cloud budget.

Introducing pipe syntax in BigQuery and Cloud Logging

Writing complex SQL queries can be challenging, but BigQuery's new pipe syntax offers a more intuitive way to structure your code. Learn how pipe syntax simplifies both exploratory analysis and complex log analytics tasks, helping you gain insights faster. Watch along and discover how to leverage pipe syntax in BigQuery for a more efficient analytics experience.

Open source cybersecurity: Zero trust and confidential computing

What is the Zero Trust model in Cybersecurity? Watch the video as Ijlal Loutfi, Product Manager at Canonical, explains what Zero Trust is and why confidential computing is essential to safeguard systems against cyber attacks and vulnerabilities. Ijlal also discusses the technology that allows AI workloads to run in a confidential way. Stay tuned to our social media pages as we share educational materials to help your organizations stay secure this Month.

G2: Squadcast Leads in Incident Management and Secures Key Wins Across IT Alerting

We’re thrilled to share that Squadcast has been recognized as a Leader for the second time in the Incident Management Category. This win celebrates our pioneering role in Unified Incident Management, where we bring together On-Call Management, Incident Response, Workflow Automation, AI/ML-powered Noise Reduction, and SLO tracking—all in one platform.

How to get started with a local kubernetes development environment

Mocks can be useful, but hard to build. You can use them as backends for development, or even tests (like load and performance testing). Speedscale takes the legwork out of building mocks, by modeling them after real observed traffic. This video covers a real-world example of how to use mocks to backend a JMeter load test.

Mastering regulatory compliance with incident.io

The origin of incident.io goes back to our days building Monzo, a UK-based bank, where Stephen, Pete, and I first crossed paths. As a bank, compliance with numerous regulations was, unsurprisingly, a top priority. When it came to incident management—something we were very involved in—this meant that every aspect of reporting, policy adherence, and root cause analysis (or "contributing factors," as we called it) had to be managed consistently and meticulously.

Netdata's Integration with ilert: Streamlining Monitoring and Incident Response

Netdata now integrates with ilert, a leading incident response platform. With this integration, the incident management features and alerting capabilities of ilert and the real-time systems monitoring provided by Netdata can be leveraged. By combining both systems, users can not only monitor their infrastructure with fine detail as never before, but also assure the responsiveness of critical alerts to the correct teams swiftly.

Using Kosli attest in Github Actions Workflows - Some Do's and Don'ts

The heart of Kosli’s functionality lies in its attest command. Think of it as a digital notary for your CI process. Every time you complete a significant step in your pipeline (e.g., a security scan, a build, a deployment, etc) you use kosli attest to create an immutable record of that event. However, integrating Kosli into your existing CI workflow isn’t always straightforward. You might find yourself grappling with questions like.

The Power of Community: Berlin's Tech Leaders Share Their Stories!

In this panel session from Civo Navigate Europe 2024, top tech leaders from Berlin dive into the factors that have transformed the city into a thriving tech hub. Discover how networking groups and community engagement have played a crucial role in boosting Berlin's tech scene. With its unique blend of creativity, diverse talent, and a vibrant startup culture, Berlin is leading the way in tech innovation. Tune in to learn how collaboration and innovation are driving growth and shaping the future of technology in this major European market.

How to Enable Black Screen Mode in AirDroid Remote Support

In this video, let's learn how to enable Black Screen Mode in AirDroid Remote Support for secure remote access to your Windows PC. Black Screen Mode helps protect your privacy by blanking the screen of the remote device while you're accessing it, ensuring no one can view your activities. Follow our step-by-step guide to activate this feature and safeguard your privacy during remote sessions.

20 years of partnership: how our partners help us take Ubuntu across industries, markets and devices

As we celebrate 20 years of Ubuntu, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the value of partnership. The idea that software should be open source and accessible to all gave birth to a vibrant community of users and a partner ecosystem who help us take Ubuntu across industries. So who do we work with? We are fortunate to count over 100 partners, all of whom have a different relationship with Ubuntu.

Best Amazon RDS Alternatives For Cloud Database Management

Data is in the digital age what oil was in the industrial age. Many organizations have noticed this and are now racing to find the most efficient, cost-effective, and robust platforms to help organize, store, and manage their data. Amazon RDS offers a robust cloud database solution, but like any service, it has limitations. In this guide, we’ll explain cloud database management, how Amazon RDS supports it, and why it might not meet all needs.

Replay Production Traffic to Mock local development environments

Building and debugging Kubernetes microservices can be tough, especially when you don't have realistic data or environments. See how Speedscale can quickly mock DBs and APIs based on observed production behavior, so you can debug and develop features quickly. People familiar with GoReplay will notice a more modern and automated approach to turning user behavior into reproducible developer environments.

How to Load and Performance Test Kubernetes, what is Kubernetes and nuances of the platform

Check out Matt LeRay's talk on How to Test in Kubernetes at Star WEST 2024. Distributed architectures like Kubernetes present unique performance challenges. Autoscaling, Load Balancing and other mechanisms help with resiliency but can also serve to cover up fundamental problems. In this video, learn best practices and high level concepts around Kubernetes and achieving high throughput.

Postman Load Test Tutorial

Postman is highly popular in the testing tools space for verifying API requests. While its use for general API testing is widely adopted, conducting load testing with Postman is not as straightforward. In this post, we assume that you have some experience working with Postman and are familiar with the fundamentals of creating and sending requests. If you’re new to Postman, there are numerous resources available in the Postman Learning Center.

10 Signs Your Organization Needs an Incident Management Tool

In the world where digital infrastructure forms the backbone of operations, incidents—disruptions to service, system downtime, security breaches, or technical failures—are inevitable. For any organization that depends on technology, the ability to respond swiftly and effectively to these incidents can mean the difference between a minor hiccup and a business catastrophe.

28 Bash Terminal Commands: An Essential Cheat Sheet

Bash, or the Bourne Again SHell, is a command-line interpreter popular in Unix-like operating systems. The default shell for most Linux distributions and older macOS versions, Bash is a preferred tool by many developers and system administrators. A versatile tool for interacting with UNIX-based systems, Bash terminal commands handles a wide range of tasks, including: Bash is the most widely used command-line interface (CLI).

How Device Management Companies Can Simplify Monitoring

Many companies that provide IoT or device management solutions need help building an in-house monitoring solution. Managing devices for your clients is challenging enough—building a monitoring system is not everyone's wheelhouse and takes time to set up. In this article, we will review some of the most common use cases for device management companies and discuss how these businesses can use MetricFire to save time and money on their monitoring.

What is a SEV1 incident? Understanding critical impact and how to respond

In the world of incident management, a SEV1 incident is something of lore: you’ve either heard the tales of the critical outages that result in widespread disruption and chaos, or you’ve lived through one (and lived to tell the tale). SEV1 incidents are a game-changer. When one hits—think major outages or critical failures—it can seriously impact a business, leading to lost revenue, unhappy customers, and a whole lot of chaos.

OpenTelemetry Tips Every DevOps Engineer Should Know

OpenTelemetry has quickly become a must-have tool in the DevOps toolkit. It helps us understand how our applications are performing and how our systems are behaving. As more and more organizations move to cloud-native architectures and microservices, it's super important to have great monitoring and tracing in place. OpenTelemetry provides a strong and flexible framework for capturing data that helps DevOps engineers keep our systems running smoothly and efficiently.
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Top 7 Kubernetes Chaos Engineering Tools

Developing highly resilient Kubernetes deployments is crucial for ensuring that your hosted applications in Kubernetes can effectively manage and recover from disruptions. This capability is vital in order to maintain continuous availability for your customers. The importance of resilience in your distributed system also escalates depending on your customer base and the critical nature of your application. Even brief periods of downtime can have a significant negative impact on your business.

The Importance of Microsegmentation in a Multilayered Cybersecurity Defense Model

Cybercrime is expected to exceed $10.5 trillion in 2025. To put that into perspective, the total U.S. GDP in 2023 was $21 trillion. So why is cybercrime so profitable? The answer lies in the ‘perfect storm’ of conditions we currently face. Today’s organizations are totally reliant on their digital assets to function. This dependence gives bad actors the opportunity to extract data, digital assets, and money once they are inside a network—often without human intervention.

Valkey is now included in Ubuntu

In pursuit of open source sustainability, Canonical is a committed contributor to the development of Valkey. Following our mission to amplify the impact of open source and enable a broad diversity of open source communities to collaborate under the Ubuntu umbrella, we’re pleased to announce that Valkey is now included in Ubuntu. Valkey is included in Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Nombat) and will be included in future releases.

Why Italy is Europe's Next Cloud Expansion Hotspot

With a growing network sector, flourishing digital landscape, and exciting growth targets, there’s never been a better time to expand your business to Italy. Italy has long been known for its rich history, culture, cuisine, and natural beauty. But beyond tourism, Italy is an economic powerhouse and a growing player in the global tech scene. In recent years the country has experienced impressive growth, emerging as one of the largest economies in Europe.

Unleashing Android Automotive development with Anbox Cloud

Developing a system based on Automotive Android OS (AAOS) comes with challenges like hardware dependencies, logistical delays and the need for vehicle and OEM specific customisation. Join us for an exclusive webinar where we explore how Anbox Cloud is solving these challenges and transforming the world of Android Automotive development. Designed to streamline and enhance the development process, Anbox Cloud enables developers to efficiently deploy, test, and scale Android apps across various configurations, eliminating the traditional hardware dependencies that slow down the development process.

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole

Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed, is now available to download and install. “Oracular Oriole sets a new pace for delivering the latest upstream kernel and toolchains. Experimental new security features demonstrate our commitment to continually elevate the Linux desktop experience in conversation with the community for the next 20 years and beyond.” Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. Soar into the future of open source with.

Office Hours: How to test serverless applications using Failure Flags

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Serverless applications are ideal for deploying scalable applications without having to manage infrastructure. However, this also makes it difficult to test their reliability. It’s easy to simulate a network outage or latency when you have direct access to the host that your software’s running on. What do you do when you only have control over the code?

You're right to be VMwary - life after Broadcom!

Join Dinesh Majrekar, CTO of Civo, as he unpacks the ramifications of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware. Discover how this transition impacts pricing, support, and product offerings. Dinesh shares a comprehensive history of VMware's journey and highlights the opportunities for businesses looking for alternatives in a rapidly evolving cloud landscape. Are you prepared for what's next?

End-to-end tracking for Azure Logic App Standard

Turbo360's BAM Data Queries feature is designed to provide end-to-end visibility into business processes and workflows, allowing you to track and monitor the entire flow of your integration platform. In this video, Michael Stephenson - Product owner for Turbo360, demonstrates how to leverage the BAM Data Queries feature in Turbo360 to create a user-friendly view of your workflow's transactions. This allows business users and support operators to monitor the integration platform without needing to be technical experts.

GitHub Copilot and Beyond: The Evolution of AI in Integration

This in-depth conversation with Martin Abbott, a seasoned expert in integration and AI, explores the transformative power of Gen AI Copilot. In this episode, Martin shares his journey in integration and AI, from his early days working with BizTalk to his current work with Gen AI. He provides a comprehensive overview of GitHub Copilot, including its features, benefits, and potential applications. It also discusses the importance of ethics and responsible AI development, as well as the real-world impact of Gen AI Copilot on various industries.

Simple Talks Podcast | Episode 8 - Coffee chat with Kevin Feasel

On this episode of Simple Talks, Louis sits down with Kevin Feasel and talks database design, conferences, battle tech games, and a lot more. Kevin has one of the most interesting origin stories so far in this series. He is a Data Platform Microsoft MVP and is the model of a great member of the data community. Also on the podcast, Louis learns a few new words and phrases, and for those of you watching on video, you can see him accidentally take himself out of the video a few times as well.

How Densify solves the cloud efficiency challenge

The FinOps Foundation states that “For the first time, Reducing waste was the highest key priority for FinOps practitioners across all spending tiers. This may be influenced by macroeconomic trends, with businesses looking for ways to reduce spending without reducing the value they are getting from their cloud investments.”

Kubernetes Autoscaling vs. Optimization: Understanding the Difference

In cloud-native environments, autoscaling and optimization are often confused, yet they serve different purposes. While Kubernetes offers several built-in autoscaling features, these are often mistaken for optimization. In reality, autoscaling is reactive, responding to changing demands, whereas optimization is proactive, focused on configuring workloads efficiently from the start.

Unlocking the Secrets to Sustainable Data Centers!

In this panel discussion from Civo Navigate Europe 2024, industry experts dive deep into the pressing environmental challenges faced by the tech industry. Discover innovative strategies for making data centers more sustainable, the role of energy efficiency, and the importance of individual and collective action in driving meaningful change. Join Sophia, Dinesh, Matt, and Mario as they share insights on the future of technology and sustainability, and learn how you can be a part of this vital conversation.

How to Lower Your Cloud Costs

Cloud costs can pile up quickly, and often behind the scenes. We explain how you can help your business keep cloud spend under control. Enterprises—including small- to medium-sized—often find themselves struggling to manage costs and predict their cloud storage. And it’s not necessarily because we’re acquiring more things – it’s because the things we have are getting bigger.

IT Infrastructure Management: Best Practises For Startups

Effective IT infrastructure management is essential for startups aiming for operational excellence and sustainable growth. A well-structured infrastructure lays the groundwork for seamless operations, scalability, and competitive edge. Today, we’ll break down essential best practices for managing your IT infrastructure effectively—providing practical insights to help you create a resilient and scalable foundation for your startup. Let’s get started!

A Guide to Hardware Support For Your Organization

Keeping hardware running smoothly can be a challenge for any business, but having the right hardware support system in place can make all the difference. Of course, hardware, from computers and servers to networking devices, is at the core of your daily operations. And when things go wrong, addressing issues quickly and efficiently is your top priority to avoid costly downtime.

Hyperview DCIM 4.6 Software Release

We're excited to share the new features in Hyperview v4.6, highlighting our commitment to innovation and better functionality. Key updates include improved Alarm Management, featuring a clearer alarm grid and integrated categories for notification policies. Now, you can mute notifications for assets under maintenance or those with too many alerts, and even perform bulk actions on multiple assets. Other cool updates include a widget for easy access to Asset Documents, some tweaks to the Carbon Footprint report, and more.

Databricks Alternatives For Data Intelligence in 2024

Data drives decisions forward. Every insight leads to action. A 2024 Gartner report revealed that organizations utilizing analytics and AI are better positioned to manage complexity, build trust in data, and empower their teams. This underscores the critical role of data intelligence. It involves collecting and analyzing data to uncover patterns and trends that help businesses take action. As a result, they can make informed decisions, optimize performance, and gain a competitive edge.

How to Change Privacy Policy | AirDroid Remote Support

In this video, we walk you through how to change the Privacy Policy settings in AirDroid Remote Support. Protecting your data and ensuring privacy is essential when using remote support tools, and AirDroid makes it simple to customize these settings to your preferences. Follow this step-by-step guide to update your privacy settings quickly and securely.

End-to-end tracking of APIM and Azure Functions

In this video, Michael Stephenson, Turbo360's Product owner, demonstrates how to design and implement a seamless end-to-end tracking system for API management and Azure Functions, providing real-time visibility into business processes. Discover how to create a transaction, add stages, map fields, and create a query to retrieve data from App Insights. Also, learn how to create a simplified view of an end-to-end process for users, allowing them to see what's happening behind the scenes.

dbForge Edge Overview | All-in-One Database Development and Design Solution

Learn how dbForge Edge enhances database development and design with powerful features such as context-aware code completion, visual query building, and version control integration. Whether you work with SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL, dbForge Edge will help you easily reinvent and streamline your daily workflow.

Navigating the Complex Challenges in Engineering Management with Bunnyshell (Part 1)

Engineering teams face numerous challenges as they navigate the complexities of modern infrastructure and deployment. From managing multiple environments to reducing feedback loops and mitigating manual errors, engineering leaders are under constant pressure to improve operational efficiency and accelerate product delivery.

PagerDuty Introduces Enterprise-Grade, AI-Powered Innovations to Future-Proof Operations and Improve Business Results

Strategic enhancements built on PagerDuty's strong AI heritage expand the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, empowering organizations by protecting them from revenue loss and improving customer trust.

Driving sustainability and excellence: a FinOps story at Upsun

FinOps Professional Sumaira Nazir defines herself by her commitment to growth. With a master's degree in psychology and a background in both business analysis and project management, Sumaira’s passion for self-improvement means she’s always in pursuit of her next professional milestone. In fact, this love of learning is part of what drew her to Upsun.

An Introduction to AI Inference

As a straightforward definition, AI inference is the process of applying a pre-trained machine learning model to new, unseen data in order to generate predictions, classifications, or decisions. Unlike the training phase, where the model learns from a dataset, inference involves utilizing the learned patterns to analyze and interpret new inputs.

Optimizing IT Incident Resolution with Automation: A Game Changer for ITSM Investments

Businesses heavily rely on IT Service Management (ITSM) platforms to ensure the smooth functioning of critical services. While these platforms offer excellent incident management capabilities—tracking, organizing, and reporting incidents—they often fall short when it comes to fast, reliable resolution. Enter incident resolution automation, a game-changer in optimizing ITSM investments.

Maximize the Power of Kubernetes Data for Enterprise Success!

Join Eric, a Client Technical Director at Pure Storage, as he reveals the transformative power of Kubernetes in modern enterprise environments. This video from Civo Navigate Europe 2024 features insightful discussions on how cloud-native technologies are reshaping business models and driving innovation. Learn from real-world examples of industry leaders like Amazon and Disney, and discover strategies for leveraging Kubernetes to optimize application performance and streamline operations.

What is SysOps? Learn more about key SysOps responsibilities and how Landscape can help

What is SysOps and what role do systems management tools play in SysOps responsibilities? Canonical’s Rajan Patel explains the concept and dives into the key features Canonical’s systems management tool delivers to help teams take control of their IT infrastructure.

Installing and Upgrading the Flyway CLI | The Tony and Tonie Show

Tony and Tonie discuss a Phil Factor article that explains how the Flyway CLI installation and upgrade process works on Windows and Linux, and how we can make it simpler and less time-consuming using a bit of PowerShell automation, or by running Flyway from a Docker container, or finally by using a package manager.

GitKraken Workshop: Practical Tips for Enhancing Team Alignment with GitKraken.dev

In this Workshop, we dive into how GitKraken.dev can help your team stay aligned and work more efficiently. Ken and Jeff take you through key features like Team Launchpad and Insights, showing you how to improve team visibility, track important metrics, and maintain compliance – all within one platform. You'll also get a sneak peek at the upcoming Automations feature, which promises to make repetitive tasks a thing of the past, freeing up your team to focus on what matters most.

Want Better Git Repository Management?

Managing your repos a whole lot easier with Launchpad and Workspaces! See all your pull requests, issues, and branches in one place. Whether it’s just you or your whole team, get a full view of what’s going on in just a few clicks! Learn more about efficient repo organization with our GitKraken Desktop tutorial playlist on YouTube.

Step into the Role of a Crime Scene InvestiGITor!

Join 'Chief Inspector Detective Cadell' in his session at Civo Navigate Europe 2024, where he unveils the secrets of Git through a hilarious crime scene investigation! As broken unit tests and mysterious bugs abound, you’ll learn how to become a revered investiGITor, mastering the essential skills to solve version control offenses like a pro. From safely removing sensitive information to pinpointing the exact commit that broke your code, this session covers it all.

Ubuntu Early Days | 20 Years of Ubuntu | Reflections from the Canonical team

In this video, the Canonical team reflects on 20 years of Ubuntu. Canonical attracts a diverse team of experts united by one mission: to amplify the impact of open source. Many of the original contributors and team members behind Ubuntu are still around, including our Founder and CEO. So what was it that attracted them to get involved in a project like Ubuntu?

Artificial intelligence in healthcare: transforming the practice of medicine

In this episode of the Azure On Air podcast, Mick Badran joins our host to discuss his journey in the integration space and how he's applying AI and integration in the healthcare industry. He dives into the challenges and opportunities of using AI in healthcare and also shares his experiences with building a healthcare startup and working with medical professionals to improve patient outcomes.

How Visa Cross Border Solutions Reduces Outages by Testing System Resilience in Their SDLC

For global financial services companies, reliability must be built-in and validated before and after shipping to production. Resilience testing is crucial for verifying the reliability of your applications under real-world conditions. But ad-hoc testing and exploratory experiments aren't sufficient: you need to run automated, standardized tests at global scale.

25 Azure Monitoring Tools To Consider For Cloud Optimization

Microsoft Azure is the most popular cloud computing platform after Amazon Web Services (AWS). With over 200 services and resources available, there are plenty of ways to use Azure. This means the Azure public cloud allows hundreds, if not thousands, of unique configurations. This flexibility is ideal for tailoring Azure to your workload’s requirements but also makes cloud management more challenging.

Cortex secures investment from ServiceNow to unify tech operations at the enterprise.

This month marks a huge milestone for us at Cortex. We’re excited to announce that ServiceNow, the global leader in digital workflows, has invested in our Series C funding round. Together, we’re pushing forward with our mission to unify tech operations at the enterprise through our industry-leading Internal Developer Portal (IDP).

Why I like discussing actions items in incident reviews

Are incident reviews about learning or tracking actions? This question has sparked recent debate in incident management circles, including in my recent panel at SEV0 and in Lorin Hochstein’s post. Should the goal of an incident review be learning, or should it focus on tracking actionable improvements? When is the right time to discuss actions, and are they picked up just to make us feel better? From my experience, learning from incidents and identifying actions are inseparable.

Complete Guide: How to Manage IT Infrastructure Remotely

Learning how to manage IT infrastructure remotely is an essential capability for businesses of all sizes, particularly with the rise of distributed workforces. With the right tools and strategies, IT teams can effectively monitor and troubleshoot systems from anywhere, ensuring smooth operations and minimal downtime. This guide will cover best practices for maintaining control over your network, regardless of your team’s location.

Stop Using TCP Health Checks for Kubernetes Applications

As developers, one of the most important things we can consider when designing and building applications is the ability to know if our application is running in an ideal operating condition, or said another way: the ability to know whether or not your application is healthy. This is particularly important when deploying your application to Kubernetes. Kubernetes has the concept of container probes that, when used, can help ensure the health and availability of your application.

How to Calculate TPS in Performance Testing: A Kubernetes Guide

Transactions-per-Second (TPS) is a valuable metric for evaluating system performance and is particularly relevant for engineers overseeing Kubernetes environments.TPS, alongside average response time, provides critical insights into system performance during load testing. This post covers two approaches to calculating TPS; a manual approach applicable in all environments, and an automatic Kubernetes-specific solution using production traffic replication.

.NET Core Top Practices for Developers

It’s 2024; who hasn’t heard of.NET Core, the primary framework developers use to build desktop and web apps? However, if you want to build something impactful, just choosing the right technology isn’t enough. Any major development process requires you to follow certain best practices to ensure that the project you’re building is future-proof. In this article, you’ll find the.NET Core top practices to help you ensure that your application is secure, scalable, and efficient.

Kubernetes Load Testing: How JMeter and Speedscale Compare

At some point, your development team may be considering implementing load testing (also known as stress testing) as part of your software testing process. Load testing validates that your web app is able to withstand a large number of simultaneous users, decreasing the chance that any traffic spikes will bring down your services once deployed. These stress tests can be highly granular, giving you the opportunity to test run virtually unlimited strategies before they are set into the wild.

AWS Cost Explorer Vs. Cost And Usage Report: How To Use Each

A major problem led Amazon to introduce Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) users were overspending on services they couldn’t quite identify. Before the two cloud financial management tools, the AWS public cloud was like a buffet menu without prices. Engineers could use as many cloud resources as possible (and then some), only to be hit with surprise bills at the end of the month or billing cycle.

11 helpful KPIs to improve your network performance

Digitalization has surpassed network modernization, resulting in networks struggling to keep up with daily operations. While many networks can accommodate GenAI and other new technologies, network administrators are responsible for maintaining uninterrupted operations and preventing any errors. For this, they must diligently monitor network performance and related metrics so their networks remain secure and robust yet flexible enough to adapt to the latest technologies.

What is the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)? | Open Source Cybersecurity

Today, compliance is more important than ever before. As part of our #CybersecurityAwareness month series, we’re sharing essential insights on security compliance. Watch as Cédric Gégout, VP of Product Management at Canonical, breaks down the key aspects of the Cybersecurity Resilience Act (CRA), a new regulation set to take effect in 2027. In the video, you’ll learn what CRA is, how it classifies products, and what it means for your organization.

Moving SharePoint Online Documents to Azure Blob Storage

Managing large volumes of documents in SharePoint Online can become challenging as storage needs grow. With rising storage costs and limits, organizations often look for efficient ways to offload files. One highly scalable and cost-effective solution is moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.

How to Use SSIS Web Service Tasks for Data Retrieval

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a core component of the Microsoft SQL Server ecosystem that provides you with a versatile services toolkit for different types of data integration and transformation. Among many ways to pass data using the SSIS data integration tool, Web Service Tasks take up a special place, enabling you to fetch and load data, smoothly integrate applications with Cloud services, and handle real-time data exchange.

Awards and Endorsements Recap: Discover the Best dbForge Products of Q2 and Q3 2024

Recognition is essential for the Devart team, especially in the contests and nominations where the users get to vote. Such endorsements show us that our effort is acknowledged and highly appreciated by the community of developers, database administrators, and everyone involved in data management processes.

How to Mock HTTP APIs With MockServer| Speedscale

As the name suggests, MockServer is a powerful tool that allows developers to mock HTTP APIs, making it much easier and more efficient to run an integration test in initial development phases. It aims to solve the problem of testing APIs that are still in development or not yet available, allowing developers to make http calls on an http client without a real server.

6 Golang Testing Frameworks for Every Type of Test

What do good tests look like, and do you even need a Golang testing framework? It’s a loaded question with an open answer. Not only do tests help ensure that your code will work as intended, but good tests can also serve as documentation for your codebase, making it easier to update and maintain in the future, while accelerating and streamlining your software development process. In this article, we outline 6 Golang testing frameworks for every type of test.

Announcing Cloud 66 Secrets

I love writing about features that take only a few sentences to introduce! Today, I am excited to tell you about Cloud 66 Secrets. Frankly, there is not much I can write about, because this is a feature that's easy to understand for all developers and we made it so easy to use that you will be up and running in minutes. But I'm going to try and write everything you might need to know about Cloud 66 Secrets here, so let's go!

Record an immutable record of all changes made to your LaunchDarkly feature flags with Kosli

We’re thrilled to introduce our latest integration with LaunchDarkly! This powerful combination allows you to keep an immutable record of all changes made to your feature flags using Kosli Trails, ensuring you have the information you need for audits, compliance checks, security investigations, and incident responses.

Azure Cost Allocation to manage Azure spend and get the most out of it

As more and more companies are moving their operations to the cloud, cost management becomes one of the significant concerns, and Azure cost allocation provides the solution for it. Due to the fact that more and more companies use Azure services, it has become crucial to define the correct Azure cost allocation and resource management.

Retail ITOps: Boost Operational Resilience with Business Service Observability

david.arrowsmith • Oct 03, 2024 In today’s competitive and fast-paced retail environment, service availability is paramount to delivering exceptional customer experiences. As an ITOps Manager or Site Reliability Engineer in a large retail enterprise, you're tasked with managing complex, interdependent systems that support vital business functions such as supply chain operations, point-of-sale (POS) systems, and inventory management.

Code Review Best Practices for Developers in 2024

*Cue infomercial voice* Has this ever happened to you? You’ve worked hard on a feature, run all your tests, and felt pretty good about it – until the review comes back. Next thing you know, you’re scouring through vague feedback and unclear comments like “this is confusing,” leaving you feeling frustrated that the review ever happened in the first place. Bad code reviews can suck the motivation out of any developer.

Secure your stack with Canonical | Open Source Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is an ongoing challenge for many enterprises, and safeguarding systems against evolving threats requires proactive, diligent security assessments and monitoring. Security and compliance is a challenge for organizations, with research showing that 84% of codebase contains at least one vulnerability and requires about 100 days on average to apply those fixes. In this video, Cédric Gégout, VP Product Management at Canonical, dives into the complexities of securing open source systems and company infrastructures, sharing insights from Canonical’s 20+ years of experience.

What is a vector database?

A vector database is a data storage system that organises information in the form of vectors, which are mathematical representations. These databases are designed to store, index, and query vector embeddings or numerical representations of unstructured data, including text documents, multimedia content, audio, geospatial coordinates, tables, and graphs.

Are You Managing Your Hybrid Cloud by Default?

In today's technology landscape, the hybrid cloud has become the backbone of today’s IT strategies. Combining the flexibility of public cloud services with the control of private infrastructure, hybrid cloud environments offer a balance of scalability, cost efficiency, and data sovereignty. But let’s be real: Managing these complex ecosystems isn't easy.

Transforming Developers: How Omid Givehchi Turns Code into Purpose!

Join Omid Givehchi, CTO of Susteco, as he shares invaluable insights from his extensive experience in corporate and startup environments at Civo Navigate Europe 2024. Discover how to involve and motivate developers with purpose, bringing their values and motivations beyond just coding. This transformative approach not only enhances the efficiency of development teams but also drives higher value toward business targets and goals. Omid discusses real-world applications of this methodology, highlighting successful strategies tested in various startups and corporations.

End-to-end Tracking of Azure Logic Apps consumption

In this video, Mike Stephenson demonstrates how to use a new feature in Turbo360's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to create a business process dashboard for Azure Logic App consumption. Learn how to easily integrate with Azure Monitor's diagnostic settings and create a friendly view of your transactions, empowering your users to see what's going on in your integration platform.

.NET Framework vs .NET Core: Which Should You Use for Your Projects?

Knowing the key.NET Core vs.NET Framework differences is essential to decide which platform is best for your project. If you’re building modern, cloud-native apps that need to scale dynamically, you need a lightweight runtime with cross-platform compatibility, fast response times, and efficient resource management — and that’s what.NET Core offers. .NET Framework is a Windows-only runtime. It’s good for projects that depend on legacy UI like Windows Forms or ASP.NET Web Forms.

Bandwidth control: A comprehensive guide

A well-kept network is the mainstay of any business. Ignoring its upkeep is a recipe for disaster. To ensure smooth operations and avoid costly downtime, businesses must prioritize network health. Investing in the right equipment and assembling a skilled team is akin to building a sturdy foundation for your business. Managing and controlling your network’s bandwidth is an important ingredient for keeping your network in tip-top shape.

Google Cloud Monitoring Guide: Best Practices And Tools To Use

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a great alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. If you use Google Products extensively at work, such as Google Workspace, moving to GCP may be a natural choice. Perhaps you already use GCP with AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider as part of your hybrid cloud strategy. But maybe you struggle to manage GCP costs, monitor security and compliance, and observe performance.

15 Essential Kali Linux Commands Ethical Hackers Need to Know

As ethical hacking continues to grow in importance, professionals require a reliable operating system to assist them in their tasks. A Debian-based distribution, Kali Linux is the go-to OS for ethical hackers and penetration testers. But why has it become the industry standard? This post will explore what makes Kali Linux essential and dive into the key commands every ethical hacker should know.

Peering: How Local Is Local?

Optimize network performance by ensuring both you and your peers are locally connected. When it comes to Internet Exchanges (IXs), there are two types of peering: local peering and remote peering. And depending on your network setup and goals, the type you use can have a significant impact on your network performance. While remote peering has valuable use cases, we often see customers using it in scenarios where it is actually doing more harm than good to their network performance.

Integrating Open edX with AppSignal

Imagine stepping into the role of a DevOps engineer at an online learning company that utilizes Open edX as its core Learning Management System (LMS). As the platform scales to accommodate more learners, a myriad of challenges begin to surface: These are just the tip of the iceberg. It's pivotal that you provide timely reports on site performance and error tracking in real time, and fix any issues before they affect a significant user base.

5 Azure 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 Azure optimizations to our already robust library of automated Insights.

Infrastructure and Observability as Code | An Introduction

In this video I will introduce you to the concept of Observability as Code and what that looks like in Splunk Observability Cloud. I’ll first discuss the issues you might encounter managing infrastructure manually, and then define Infrastructure as Code so that you have a better understanding of the motivation behind Observability as Code. We’ll briefly introduce Terraform and then I’ll discuss the benefits of implementing Observability as Code using Splunk’s Terraform provider in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Launching Your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel TDX on Google Cloud: A Guide to Enhanced Security

In the world of cloud computing, we rely on abstraction layers to manage complex systems. While this simplifies development, it also creates vulnerabilities for sensitive data. Traditionally, privileged software within the cloud has access to your data, and could pose a significant security risk, if not managed properly. But there’s a new way to protect your data: confidential computing.

Ubuntu powers Azure's confidential AI offering

Microsoft Azure has announced the general availability of their confidential virtual machines (VMs) with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, powered by Ubuntu. This offering combines the hardware-based protection of AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA’s latest GPU technology to enable secure and high-performance AI workloads in the cloud. Combining these technologies allows sensitive sectors to unlock AI adoption through addressing previous concerns of critical data privacy.

The Future of AI and ML: Are You Ready to Navigate the Change?

Join us at Civo Navigate Europe 2024 for an engaging session featuring pioneers and leaders discussing the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Discover breakthroughs in deep learning and neural networks, along with the ethical considerations and regulations shaping these technologies. Gain insights into how AI and ML are transforming industries, driving economic changes, and addressing practical aspects like scalability, data privacy, and human-machine interaction.

Heroku Alternatives: Why Bunnyshell is the Best Choice for Modern Cloud Deployment

With Heroku announcing significant changes, such as the discontinuation of its free tier, developers are left seeking alternatives that offer similar ease of use but more robust and scalable options. While Heroku was once the go-to for rapid deployment and management of applications, several alternatives now stand out, each offering unique benefits on different cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner, Vultr, and Scaleway.

Enhance Incident Response with Squadcast's New AI-Powered Incident Summaries

Imagine having a concise, AI-generated report of any incident at your fingertips. That’s what Squadcast’s new Incident Summaries feature delivers—instant clarity on ongoing issues, saving precious time during critical moments. At any point in time, any stakeholder or a responder can simply generate and view the incident summary with all important details highlighted, essentially offering a single pane of glass.

Golang Wrapper: Dependency Wrapping, in Go

All but the simplest applications borrow code. You could write everything yourself from just core language features but who has time for that? Instead you take on dependencies, pieces of code written by others that usually give us 80% or more of what we need with 20% of the effort. Sometimes these dependencies are made to interact with a specific technology like a database, or perhaps it’s just a library providing some feature that would be onerous to write yourself.

PagerDuty Bolsters Leadership Team with Appointments of Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering

PagerDuty, Inc. announces the appointments of Pritesh Parekh as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Rukmini Reddy as Senior Vice President of Engineering. With these appointments, the company expands its senior leadership as it continues its commitment to innovating as the most trusted and resilient digital operations management platform for the enterprise.

The Top 10 Debates in Platform Engineering

Let’s be honest: platform engineering is evolving fast, and a lot of teams are being forced to write the rules while still collecting context. Plenty of terms and topics are still up for debate—from, “Is this just DevOps 2.0?” to “How much abstraction is too much?" In this blog we pulled together 10 of the biggest topics being debated today. While we may not have all the answers, we think just getting up to speed on what's left to decide helps all of us get better.

Upsun now a Certified B Corp, continues to aim for the stars

Upsun was built on a set of core principles: positive impact, caring for others, fairness, aiming for the stars. Since 2015, our founders have followed their own true north, creating a cloud application platform and technologies that would make developers’ daily lives easier. Like most for-profit businesses, the leadership team sought marketplace differentiation. Revenue growth. Continuous innovation. But they wanted something more.

incident.io is best in class for momentum, relationships and enterprise adoption

Trust doesn’t just happen overnight. For us at incident.io, it’s been a journey—one that’s focused on people just as much as the product. From the start, we knew that building great incident management software wasn’t just about creating features and functionality. It was about building relationships, understanding our users, and truly being there for them when it matters most. Our focus has always been to help teams manage incidents better.

Why enhanced connectivity is critical for the future of SaaS applications

Software as a Service (SaaS) is growing at a rapid rate with businesses increasingly reliant on cloud-based solutions. According to the 2024 State of SaaS Growth report, organisations globally now use an average of 371 SaaS applications. This surge in adoption means that IT leaders are tasked with managing a more complex environment, which comes with a suite of challenges. To ensure the performance, security and reliability of these services, network connectivity is critical.

Breaking the Myths About Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs)

In the ever-evolving IT landscape, new buzzwords and acronyms seem to emerge almost daily, each promising to revolutionize how we manage technology. One such term that’s gaining traction is Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs). You’ve probably seen the news by now: Gartner just released their latest Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms.

Partnering for the planet: our investment in a supplier education programme to step up environmental responsibility in Pulsant's supply chain

As part of Pulsant’s commitment to make a positive difference to our environment, we recently pushed ourselves forwards in value chain engagement and brought together a cohort of SME suppliers for a series of in-person decarbonisation workshops. In association with sustainability specialists SLR Consulting, our investment in these sessions supported our suppliers in understanding the landscape of decarbonisation and establishing their own action plans.

Unleashing the Power of Kentik Data Explorer for Cloud Engineers

Kentik Data Explorer is a powerful tool designed for engineers managing complex environments. It provides comprehensive visibility across various cloud platforms by ingesting and enriching telemetry data from sources like AWS, GCP, and Azure, and with the ability to explore data through granular filters and dimensions, engineers can quickly analyze cloud performance, detect security threats, and control costs in real-time exploration and historically.

GitKraken Desktop 10.4 Release: Time-based filters, Stash descriptions, and more!

Which pull requests or issues are tied to my GitHub milestone? And what if I want to add more info about my stash? GitKraken Desktop 10.4 has got your back, packed with features like GitHub milestone filtering in Launchpad, stash descriptions on the commit graph, and smoother interactive rebase with worktrees. Plus, stay tuned for a surprise at the end!

Master Developer Productivity: Secrets to Boosting Performance!

Join Matt Saunders, a leading expert from Adaptavist, as he delves into the critical aspects of developer experience and how to empower your teams. In this engaging session from Civo Navigate Europe 2024, discover actionable strategies to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and leverage platform engineering to overcome common developer challenges. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, this talk offers invaluable insights to transform your approach to software delivery.