Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Looking at nth degree's Innovative Fractional Service Delivery Model

The nth degree team joins Cribl's Ed Bailey and Andrew Duca to discuss nth degree's innovative fractional service delivery model. This is a discussion anyone who has had to engage professional services should be interested in hearing. nth degree has developed a service delivery model that enables fast engagement and removes friction around service delivery and planning. Imagine not having to get an SOW reviewed by legal for every engagement. That alone solves a big problem for almost everyone.

Introduction to eBPF with Grafana Beyla, with Nikola Grcevski (Grafana Office Hours #25)

Nikola Grcevski, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, gives us an introduction to eBPF with Grafana Beyla. We discuss what is eBPF, how you can use it to auto-instrument applications, and how to get started with Beyla. eBPF observability is all the rage because we all want automagical instrumentation-- but does it live up to that promise? Nikola's here to tell us what eBPF can and can't do, and where he'd like to take Beyla next.

Shifting Left with FinOps: A Developer-Centric Approach to Managing Azure Costs

Shifting Left with FinOps: A Developer-Centric Approach to Managing Azure Costs In this episode of "Azure on Air," discover why a developer-centric approach is essential in optimizing Azure costs. Host Lex engages with Michiel, an Azure cost optimization specialist, unraveling the significance of developers in driving efficiency and accountability. Also, learn how shifting left with FinOps allows developers to take ownership of production costs, accelerates innovation, and leads to substantial Azure savings.

Revolution in Development: Mark Allen's Code Zero & Kubernetes Top Tips - Navigate Europe 23

Mark Allen, a developer evangelist from DevCycle, shares his expertise and insights on revolutionizing local development environments. Diving into his journey from Docker Compose to Code Zero and Kubernetes, Allen unfolds the challenges and solutions in creating efficient, easy-to-use development setups.

Simplifying MongoDB Operations

In the dynamic realm of database technology, MongoDB has emerged as the leader among document databases. A growing number of enterprises are deploying MongoDB on diverse infrastructures, such as the public and private cloud. This approach is unlocking the advantages of containerisation, virtualisation, and orchestration for MongoDB instances. The benefits are compelling, but achieving them is a highly complex undertaking.

Paving the Road for Proactive Reliability

At Expedia Group, Kaushik Patel and Nikos Katirtzis have thousands of engineers and micro-services. Heterogeneity in terms of infrastructure and technologies used over the years created inefficiencies and posed the need for a set of automated best practices for our engineering teams. Over the past 2 years, using a data-driven approach, we’ve worked on creating a set of platforms that helps teams to adopt good reliability practices, including chaos engineering, release safety, or automatic failover between cloud regions. In this talk Kaushik and Nikos will cover the platforms they’ve built, including how they used data to drive their investment decisions.

Rancher Live: What's the buzz with Cilium?

The Cilium community has had some truly buzzworthy accomplishments (pun intended!) in the past year - from hosting the first ever CiliumCon in Amsterdam to becoming a CNCF graduated project! In this first episode of Rancher Live for 2024, we will be joined by the community pollinator for Isovalent, Bill Mulligan. Together, we will be diving into the how-tos of creating "hive"-ly orchestrated container workloads that are as sweet as honey!