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As organizations expand their Kubernetes deployments and scale production workloads, effective cost management becomes an essential priority. The rapid innovation demanded from development teams often intersects with a shortage of advanced Kubernetes expertise, leading to resource inefficiencies and unnecessary expenses. This challenge is further amplified by the growing prevalence of AI/ML workloads and the intricate demands of GPU utilization.

In this episode, Itiel has an insightful conversation with Dr. David Morrison, a research scientist and founder specializing in Kubernetes scheduling and autoscaling. David shares his journey from operations research to leading distributed systems efforts at tech giants like Yelp and Airbnb. Learn about the transition from Apache Mesos to Kubernetes at Yelp, including the role of their open-source API layer, Pasta.

Send Honeycomb JSON or sophisticated OpenTelemetry. Traces, logs, metrics. Then add a few business-specific fields (or calculate them), and answer important questions on the fly.

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, host Michael Stephenson is joined by Alexander Golev from SAM Expert for an honest conversation about what's really changing in Microsoft licensing. With decades of experience in software asset management, Alexander breaks down the shift from traditional licensing to more flexible, consumption-based models -highlighting the role of Azure Arc, the growing complexity of AI licensing, and the importance of collaboration across IT, finance, and procurement.

At Datadog, we use Cursor to empower our teams to build more quickly. And we know that building and troubleshooting with AI tools like Cursor is done best with the right observability data and context. Discover how Cursor was able to rapidly and reliably scale their infrastructure 100x using Datadog to meet the needs of a fast growing user base. And learn more about how we’re bring Datadog tools and context to your favorite AI IDEs and agents with our MCP Server and extensions.

Learn how to create correlation rules with Security Events Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager).

SolarWinds Security Event Manager is designed to give users a centralized view of logs and events occurring across their network, and quickly and easily recall specific logs and identify suspicious patterns and behaviors in that data. This video gives a quick overview of the features in SEM, making it easy for users to view and interact with their log data.

This overview video provides high-level awareness of the capabilities of SolarWinds Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager). Use the SIEM tool to detect threats, quickly respond to cyber incidents, and report compliance from a consolidated interface.

Learn how to configure File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) capabilities in SolarWinds Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager).

Thinking about getting IT or cybersecurity certifications? Here's why they actually matter — and how networking at places like DEF CON can lead to real career opportunities. Whether you're in desktop support or breaking into security, this one's for you.