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“Perfect tagging” is a little bit like perfectly tuning a piano. It takes an enormous amount of manual effort to get right, it’s never truly perfect, and the slightest change in the surrounding environment can throw it out of harmony. The closer an organization wants to get to perfect tagging, the more engineering resources they have to invest in it — frequently at the expense of more impactful, innovation- and product-oriented projects.

As a developer, how much time do you actually spend writing code? According to this survey by The New Stack, developers spend less than one-third (32%) of their time writing new or improving existing code. And this is because they get stuck in multiple tasks that aren’t really part of their main responsibilities.

We started Cloud 66 with a single product to deploy any Rails application to any cloud. Then, in 2014, we introduced Cloud 66 for Node; in 2015, Cloud 66 Maestro v1, 2016 Cloud 66 Maestro v2 (Kubernetes), 2019 Cloud 66 Skycap, and finally, Cloud 66 Prepress (Static Sites) was released in 2022. All these products exist to serve a single purpose: deployment of any application to any cloud. Today we are making it easier to do that: we are consolidating all our products into one: Cloud 66!

Over half of the world’s population are active on social media, with a typical user spending two hours and 25 minutes each day, equating to roughly one full waking day of their life each week. According to a report published by researchers at the University of California, San Diego—on average, we consume about 34 gigabytes of data and information each day.

In this article, we will explain how you can monitor all your cloud service status pages in Datadog with the help of IsDown.

Today we’re pleased to announce the availability of Kubewarden 1.4.0. Kubewarden is an open source security policy engine. This 1.4.0 version brings some minor fixes to our controller and helm charts and two new interesting features.

Thanks to the increasing usage of different software solutions, API usage has become an everyday practice. As such, API security is a more prevalent issue in app development than ever before. SaaS companies have an average of 350 integrations, whereas major SaaS companies like Slack, Zoom and Shopify have 2,000+ integrations. This is great for developers and end users, as Application Programming Interfaces (API) make life easier.

As macroeconomic pressures increase, it’s common to hear more in corporate hallways about “Tail Spend.” But what is it, and how can companies move this sometimes-shadowy expenditure into a strategic advantage for IT and DevOps teams? TOC: Here are some answers to commonly asked questions.

Enterprises are looking at Software as the key differentiator to render faster services to their customers, which has led to an exponential rise in the number of Enterprise software being onboarded and deployed. The recent move to remote and hybrid working has accelerated this trend. Currently, IT teams are managing an average of 170+ Enterprise apps in large organizations and 70+ in small and medium organizations (Okta report).

We have talked many times about the life and miracles of Pandora FMS Enterprise version. We are very proud of it indeed! We are like the father of the kid who wins the football final of the school league or the mother of Halle Berry crying inconsolably when her girl received her Oscar. That’s why today, in Pandora FMS blog, we wanted to stop for a second to talk, summing things up, about our Enterprise version features.