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The Enterprise Roadmap to Reducing Costs While Increasing Value

Every enterprise is now facing the same challenge: to do more with less in a demanding economic environment. Releasing value to customers sooner while at the same time controlling the costs of their infrastructures, retaining skilled staff, and reducing risk. With technology now central to the way many enterprises offer, package and deliver their products and services, it has a big part to play here. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella summed it up perfectly in the keynote to Microsoft Inspire 2022 when he said.

Hidden Losses: The ROI of Insight into Microsoft Teams User Experience

If your business relies on Microsoft Teams to keep employees connected and productive, it is highly likely that some portion of your user base is experiencing problems such as delay or failed calls every day. If this is a surprise to you, you may be wondering what the impact of this is on your business. In the second edition of our blog series, we look at how to measure the impact of these undetected issues, and the Microsoft Teams ROI of implementing solutions to detect them more proactively.

Top 10 Git Commands Every Developer Should Know

Today, a developer’s typical workday would not be complete without using Git. Yes, Git has grown to be a crucial component of our normal development process, and it greatly facilitates our collaboration with others. One must become familiar with how it functions to use it effectively and make the most of it. If you are new to Git, the worst thing you can do is copy and paste answers you find online without understanding what they do or when to be utilized them.

Choosing an Observability Pipeline

An observability pipeline is a tool or process that centralizes data ingestion, transformation, correlation, and routing across a business. Production engineers across ITOps, Development, and Security teams use them to more efficiently and cost-effectively transform their telemetry data to drive critical decisions. Businesses of all sizes can enjoy several benefits and gain a significant competitive advantage by implementing an observability pipeline.

Stress test your Kubernetes application with Speedscale's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Properly testing a service’s APIs to ensure that it can handle production traffic presents many challenges for engineers—SREs need to guarantee the resiliency of their application, while developers must ensure that their features perform well at any given scale. Speedscale is a testing framework built for Kubernetes applications that enables you to load test with real-world production scenarios by replaying actual API traffic that your application has experienced.

How to win the war for developer talent

Though organizations are projected to pump $4.4 trillion into IT spending this year, the supply of developer talent has struggled to keep pace, and many companies are having a hard time hiring workers. This is due to the fact that today’s top-performing developers understand their value and are increasingly asking for more money and better benefits when considering job offers.

Top 5 FinOps Tips to Optimize Cloud Costs

The efficiency, flexibility and strategic value of cloud computing are driving organizations to deploy cloud-based solutions at rapid pace. Fortune Business Insights predicts the global cloud computing market will experience annual growth of nearly 18% through 2028. As the cloud becomes one of the most expensive resources for modern organizations, cloud financial management, or FinOps, has become a critical initiative.

Can Shift Left Go Too Far? Why Testing in DevOps May Never Be the Same

Testing is commonly understood to be an essential and fundamental part of software development, but when and how to test is open to a wider variety of opinions. DevOps practitioners often advocate for performance and quality testing early in the development and deployment process. This is known as a “shift left” approach.