Apache Tomcat servers are useful because they provide a robust and flexible environment for running Java-based web applications, ensuring high performance and scalability. They are essential to monitor because regular monitoring helps in identifying performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and potential failures, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of web applications.

In March of 2024, The FinOps Foundation announced an update to the FinOps Framework. Within that Framework, each domain is meant to describe a set of business outcomes that a mature FinOps practice should ultimately strive for. As an individual customer’s cloud usage grows and as they progress through their own cloud journey, they will end up working through their challenges in each of these domains. However, each customer’s cloud journey is rarely linear, and maturing is never easy.

In today's fast-paced digital world, where data breaches and geopolitical uncertainties are becoming more common, ensuring the security and sovereignty of your data is paramount. Organisations are increasingly seeking cloud solutions that not only offer advanced technological capabilities but also guarantee data compliance with local laws. Addressing this critical demand, Civo proudly introduces our UK Sovereign Cloud.

The rapid dynamics of K8s require the ability to rapidly scale up infrastructure and then tear it down just as quickly when you’re done processing data. Any unnecessary bottleneck that you experience throughout this process can be stressful to the team managing your Kubernetes environments. Your autoscaler’s controller could result in such bottlenecks – unless it’s well-architected.

Databases are essential for storing data and providing user access to specific information. This fundamental task becomes increasingly complex as databases expand, data volumes swell, and data processing times lengthen. For quick and efficient data retrieval from large databases, we use indexes. An SQL index functions similarly to an index in a book or journal, referring to data within tables. This article will explore SQL indexes, enhancing your understanding of database management.