Adoption of Azure Functions in cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure has been increasing exponentially over the last few years. Serverless functions, such as the Azure Functions, provide a high level of abstraction from the underlying infrastructure and orchestration, given these tasks are managed by the cloud provider. Software development teams can then focus on the implementation of business and application logic.

Technology is a fast-moving commodity. Trends, thoughts, techniques, and tools evolve rapidly in the software technology space. This rapid change is particularly felt in the software the engineers in the cloud-native space make use of to build, deploy, and operate their applications. One particular area where we see rapid evolution in the past few years/months is Observability.

We've been receiving a lot of requests from our amazing customers who are eager to learn more about optimizing their cloud costs with Qovery. It's clear that this is a hot topic, and we couldn't resist the opportunity to help you out. That's why we've organized a special live event just for you! In today's recap, we'll dive into why cloud cost optimization matters and share our best tips on how you can make the most of it using Qovery and our fantastic partners.

Data is the new oil, and it’s crucial to protect it from prying eyes. With the increase in cyber attacks, encryption is more important now than ever before. Azure Storage Data Encryption offers robust security features that help safeguard data stored on Microsoft Azure Platform.

Software Defined Cloud Interconnects (SDCIs) offer several advantages over other private cloud connectivity options, and are becoming a key part of enterprise cloud connectivity as businesses consume more business-critical cloud applications. As enterprises add more public cloud providers and regions, the network becomes more complicated, requiring more accessible private cloud connectivity options.

D2iQ is pleased to offer AWS members a self-hosted free trial of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) on AWS. All that is required is an active AWS account. Once you qualify, you will receive all the directions and credentials you need. Surveys show that the top challenges organizations face in deploying Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies are complexity, security, and a skills gap.

On the 2nd of May 2023, Jaspreet Kaur of the Azure Automation Product Group released this blog, providing an update on updates to Azure Automation in 2022 and what is in the pipeline for 2023. In the blog, Jaspreet detailed the major changes that Microsoft have made to the core of Azure Automation to improve the reliability and scalability of the underlying infrastructure.

Migrating data can be tricky and stressful, even under the best conditions. Jira migrations can be particularly complicated due to the various applications many organizations use in conjunction with it. As you are likely aware of, in an effort to focus on offering a better Cloud service, Jira Server has reached the last stage of its End-of-Life transition, with no further support planned after Feb. 2024.

AWS users usually assume that Northern Virginia, also referred to as US East (N. Virginia) and us-east-1, is the least reliable in terms of uptime. We analyzed AWS outage history in 2022 across regions to see if N. Virginia, indeed, had the most downtime. Then we reviewed and proved some of the theories as to why N. Virginia has the most outages.

It’s a fact of life within the SaaS world that some features will perform better or worse than others in terms of costs versus revenue. If it were possible to develop every single new release in a way that it would flawlessly maintain desired profit margins, everyone would be doing it. What separates the major players from companies that struggle year after year is how they monitor and respond to changing circumstances as they arise, and whether they learn from past mistakes.