Cortex has raised $35m in Series B financing. New investor IVP led the round alongside Craft Ventures, with participation from existing investors Sequoia, Tiger Global, and YCombinator. Cack Wilhelm of IVP joined our board.

As you know, having reliable checks is a cornerstone of synthetic monitoring. We don’t want false alarms, or worse, checks succeeding when things aren’t working. But sometimes, problems can be hard to identify because they only happen intermittently, or in certain situations. Similarly, monitoring results can be skewed by infrastructure issues, or network errors on the monitoring provider end, causing false alarms when there is actually no problem with the product.

HAProxy Fusion Control Plane gives you power to simplify, scale, and secure your HAProxy Enterprise infrastructure using a centralized orchestration solution, making it easier to extend HAProxy Enterprise’s security and performance across on-premises and cloud-hosted applications. With the release of version 1.1, HAProxy Fusion is more secure, more flexible, and even easier to use.

Sure techies and digital professionals use cloud storage, but what about you, the average Joe? You don’t have a ton of digital information, just pictures and the occasional Word docs or PDFs, so do you need it? Whether you believe it or not, data plays a huge, pivotal role in our personal and professional lives, and having a reliable and efficient storage solution is crucial. Losing some data, though rare, is a surefire way to make your life more difficult.

Technology juggernauts–despite their larger staffs and budgets–still face the “cognitive load” for DevOps that many organizations deal with day-to-day. That’s what led Spotify to build Backstage, which supports DevOps and platform engineering practices for the creation of developer portals.

HAProxy 2.8 is now available, and HAProxy Enterprise 2.8 will be released later this year. Register for the live webinar HAProxy 2.8 Feature Roundup to learn more about this release and participate in a live Q&A with our experts.

DevOps and Agile are some of the most prominent concepts in modern IT. Agile emerged at the turn of the century to help development teams become more efficient than with previous approaches. Several years later, around 2010, DevOps emerged as we know it today to enable development and operations teams to deliver better software products, more quickly, and together. These two approaches have a lot in common, including inflated expectations.

At CloudZero, we’re always talking about different ways you can save money and increase your cloud cost efficiency with our platform. From choosing the best provider discounts for your situation to spotting cost trends that have gone off the rails or boosting the metrics that are most important to investors, we’ve discussed numerous ways you can use CloudZero to your company’s financial advantage.

Canonical began the development of Ubuntu Core in 2014, to create a fully-containerised platform for IoT. In Ubuntu Core, we use the same kernel container technology that Docker and LXC are built on, to put every component of the system into a secure sandbox, with well-defined upgrade and rollback. We did this to enable autonomous connected Internet of Things devices to receive updates which they could apply without human intervention, to address security and business needs at the edge.

When people hear the word “migration,” they typically think about migrating from on-prem to the cloud. In reality, companies do migrations of varying types and sizes all the time. However, many teams delay making critical migrations or technical upgrades because they don’t have the proper tools and frameworks to de-risk the process.