Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on DevOps, CI/CD, Automation and related technologies.

Faster Approvals with ServiceNow + Kosli, How to Automate Compliance Evidence for Change Management

Are your deployments getting stuck waiting for approvals? If your code is ready but your ServiceNow change ticket isn’t — the bottleneck might not be people or process. It’s missing evidence. In this video, Matt Bailey (Product Manager, Kosli) shows how ServiceNow and Kosli work together to automate compliance evidence collection — turning manual approval bottlenecks into seamless, audit-ready change management.

The Ultimate Azure FinOps Guide: From Visibility to Optimization

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, host Michael chats with Anderson Oliveira, author of "FinOps Ultimate Guide for Azure." Anderson, a chemical engineer turned IT project manager, explains his journey into FinOps and breaks down his book, which focuses on organizing teams, measuring costs, tracking value, and building efficient practices on Azure. They discuss common challenges like stakeholder friction, the shift from CapEx to OpEx, and why focusing on value over just cutting costs is key for long-term success.

Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices

As systems grow, understanding how a request moves across multiple services becomes harder. Traces help bring this picture together by showing the exact path a request takes, along with the timings that matter. Grafana Tempo is built for this kind of workload. It stores traces efficiently, works well with OpenTelemetry, and keeps the operational overhead low.

Orbital Materials: WorldClass AI Models Built on CivoStack

Daniel Miodovnik, COO of Orbital Materials, explains how the CivoStack enables world‑class AI models that outperform the big‑tech giants. He outlines the power‑draw and cooling of megawatt‑scale GPU racks, the water‑ and CO₂‑intensity of today’s data centres, and why a sovereign, Civo‑based solution is the key to speed, and predictable costs.

What Is AWS Step Functions? A Complete Guide

Imagine you are building an e-commerce app. Every time a customer places an order, a lot happens behind the scenes. For example, you need to charge their card, update inventory, create a shipping label, and send a confirmation email. You could try to write one giant program that does everything in the correct order, but that quickly becomes a tangled mess — especially if something fails halfway through (say, payment succeeds but inventory update fails).

Announcing CloudZero's Oracle Cloud Connector: Real Cost Intelligence For AI And High-Performance Workloads

For years, enterprises have turned to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for what it does best: powering mission-critical applications with unmatched performance, security, and predictable economics. OCI has historically staked its reputation on being the go-to platform for organizations running complex, data-intensive workloads, from core databases and ERP systems to large-scale compute clusters, while putting extra focus on security and predictable pricing.

Developer Onboarding

Welcome to the future of developer onboarding with Cortex. In this demo, you’ll see how Cortex helps new engineers ramp up faster by giving them instant access to everything they need—context, ownership, best practices, and workflows—all in one place. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, onboarding becomes a structured, data-driven, and empowering experience. Developers can explore your ecosystem confidently, follow golden paths, and start delivering value immediately—reducing ramp-up time from months to days.

MTBF, MTTR, MTTF, MTTA: Incident Metrics Explained

No doubt that incidents are inevitable. However, it’s how you manage them (detect, respond to, and resolve) that matters. And a robust incident management process relies on data, not guesswork. Incident Management metrics like MTBF, MTTR, MTTF, and MTTA provide measurable insight into reliability, response time, and recovery performance. When used together, they help identify weaknesses, reduce downtime, and build more resilient systems.

Harness patent for hybrid YAML editor enhances CI/CD workflows

Harness earned a patent for it's unified pipeline editor which makes it easy to configure pipelines whether they are for CI, CD, IaC, database migrations, service onboarding or other DevSecOps activities. ‍ We're thrilled to share some exciting news: Harness has been granted U.S. Patent US20230393818B2 (originally published as US20230393818A1) for our configuration file editor with an intelligent code-based interface and a visual interface.