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7 Incident Communication Templates (+ Best Practices)

In today's tech world, clear communication during incidents is crucial. Whether it's a small issue or a major outage, how you communicate with stakeholders can build trust and speed up resolution. This post explores the essential elements of incident communication templates, providing a straightforward guide to crafting clear and concise messages. From planned maintenance to critical system failures, we'll cover a range of templates for different situations, so you're prepared for anything.

Website Maintenance Plans: Checklist, Tools, Reviews & Cost Breakdown (2025)

While most businesses invest heavily in website creation, many overlook the ongoing website maintenance plans needed to keep their digital presence performing at its peak. Data from recent studies reveals a harsh truth: 88% of online consumers won't return to a website after encountering technical issues or outdated information.
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What's new in Avantra 25 - AIOps for Cloud ERP

I am pleased to announce that we have released Avantra 25, the next evolution of the Avantra platform. This year we have focused on all things cloud, from native support of SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition to SAP RISE capable automation templates in our add-in library and our very own Avantra AIR cloud-based AI extension for Avantra, there's a lot to like with Avantra 25. There are some great new features though so let's dig deeper. For a complete list of changes, check out our public release notes.

Supercharging FerretDB Performance with Coroot: A Success Story

At Coroot, we’re passionate about providing developers with the tools they need to build and maintain high-performing applications. Recently, we had the opportunity to help a team using FerretDB, the open-source document database offering MongoDB compatibility with a PostgreSQL backend, significantly improve their monitoring and performance. This is their story.

Traceparent and Tracestate Explained: A Guide to Distributed Tracing with Atatus

In modern microservice architectures, requests often span multiple services, making it challenging to monitor and debug performance issues. Distributed tracing provides the ability to follow a request’s journey through these services, identifying performance bottlenecks and dependencies. The W3C trace context standard simplifies this process by introducing two critical headers: traceparent and tracestate.

Amazon Bedrock vs OpenAI: Guide to Your Best Generative AI Platform

Amazon has heard FinOps practitioners’ cries asking for new AI tools, and the answer is Titan and AWS Bedrock. These new tools provide the same generative AI abilities of generating images like expected from DALL-E, operating like a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT, and even transcribing audio to text. But how do these new tools compare to pre-existing ones like Azure’s OpenAI? Most importantly, which of these tools is the best financial investment for your organization?

Adding a Grafana Dashboard to Your Prometheus Setup

This article is part of a series on setting up an end-to-end monitoring and alerting stack using Prometheus. Continuing our series on setting Prometheus in a Docker container, we will add a Grafana instance to our Prometheus setup. Please refer to the previous article where we use docker compose to run Prometheus and Alertmanager together as that forms the basis to run multiple related containers. We will add a container to run Grafana to the same compose file in this article.