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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.

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!

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.