Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Technology is a fast-moving commodity. Trends, thoughts, techniques, and tools evolve rapidly in the software technology space. This rapid change is particularly felt in the software the engineers in the cloud-native space make use of to build, deploy, and operate their applications. One particular area where we see rapid evolution in the past few years/months is Observability.

We've been receiving a lot of requests from our amazing customers who are eager to learn more about optimizing their cloud costs with Qovery. It's clear that this is a hot topic, and we couldn't resist the opportunity to help you out. That's why we've organized a special live event just for you! In today's recap, we'll dive into why cloud cost optimization matters and share our best tips on how you can make the most of it using Qovery and our fantastic partners.

We've seen a tremendous transition in the architecture of our systems over the years, from basic, linear systems to increasingly sophisticated, non-linear systems. We've moved away from monolithic programs, where a single person could comprehend the entire operation of a system, and toward a distributed world dominated by a microservices design.

Picture this: it's September 2022, and we at Qovery are happily chugging along, serving nearly 20,000 developers around the globe with our self-service infrastructure platform. Everything's coming up roses until one day, a tiny typo in our API documentation threatened to turn our world upside down.

At Upsun, we run containers. Lots and lots of containers. On hundreds of virtual machines rented from various IaaS providers. These containers run your software. They also team up with other containers that run other software that your software depends upon (such as databases or caches). This is naturally an extremely complex system, and today we'll take a look at how we wire (most of) it up.