Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

May 2024

Maximizing ROI: The Value of an Incident Response Platform Measured in Metrics

Organizations are constantly challenged by the threat of IT incidents, cyberattacks and breaches. Incidents such as data breaches, malware infections, and system outages can have devastating consequences for businesses, including financial losses, reputational damage, and legal liabilities. In response to these threats, many organizations are turning to incident response platforms to streamline their incident management processes and enhance their cybersecurity posture.

How to Structure Your Argo CD Repositories Using Application Sets

In the previous article of the series we explained how to model GitOps environments and promote an application between them. That article was laser-focused on a single application and its Kubernetes resources. In this article we will zoom out to look at several related subjects: It is worth mentioning that as always, our advice is a general recommendation that follows best practices.

Migrating from CentOS to Ubuntu: a guide for system administrators and DevOps

CentOS 7 is on track to reach its end-of-life (EoL) on June 30, 2024. Post this date, the CentOS Project will cease to provide updates or support, including vital security patches. Moving away from the RHEL-based ecosystem might appear daunting, but if you’re considering Ubuntu the switch can be both straightforward and economically viable.

Chatinsight AI Business Card, A Revolutionary Way to Build & Grow Your Network

Discover how ChatInsight AI Business Card can transform your networking experience by offering more than just basic contact details. Say goodbye to traditional business cards and embrace the future of digital networking. Whether you are a sales professional, a businessperson, or a real estate agent, ChatInsight AI Business Card helps you build and grow your network with ease.

Ep. 19: Cloud Mapping with Simon Wardley

In this episode we are joined by Simon Wardley, a pioneer of Wardley Maps and strategic thinking. Join us as Simon looks back at his foundational days at Canonical, the shaping of Ubuntu’s cloud dominance, and his groundbreaking work on mapping techniques that aid in anticipating technological shifts. He explores the critical role of open source in cloud computing, the impact of serverless architectures, and the futuristic shift towards conversational programming and AI.

How to Streamline Your Deployment Pipeline A DevOps Journey

In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency is key. One of the most critical aspects of ensuring smooth and reliable software delivery is streamlining your deployment pipeline. A well-optimized deployment pipeline not only saves time and resources but also enhances the overall quality of your product. Let’s embark on a DevOps journey to explore how you can streamline your deployment pipeline effectively.

Driving Technical Delivery: Balancing Speed and Quality in Enterprise Platforms

Enterprises face a constant challenge: how to deliver technical solutions quickly without compromising on quality. In the race to innovate and stay ahead of the competition, the pressure to accelerate delivery can sometimes overshadow the importance of maintaining high standards of quality and reliability. However, striking the right balance between speed and quality is crucial for the long-term success and sustainability of enterprise platforms.

Successful Business: Lessons from a Tech-Savvy CEO

I’m Romaric, the CEO and co-founder of Qovery. With 15 years of experience managing large-scale infrastructure and a passion for computer science, I’ve embarked on a journey to build an ambitious tech product designed to revolutionize the developer experience. At Qovery, we aim to simplify the path to production for developers, ensuring they can focus on writing code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.

Advancements in Code Review: A Scientific Approach to Designing for Software Efficiency with GitKraken

Writing optimal code is crucial for developers, and human collaboration is key to achieving this. Code review tools are essential for maintaining the integrity of well-built products, which are vital for software development. We are a team of developers that love building tools that optimize our worlds. As engineers, designers and product managers, we identified many challenges in standard Git workflows that inhibited us from working more effectively together.

Expert talk: Business sustainability in 2024 l Platform.sh x Liip

Discover the ways digital companies are leading the charge in creating a progressive future. Dive into how tech companies can be pioneers not just through innovative tools, but also by making a positive ecological, social, and economic impact. Join our speakers on a journey in discussing business sustainability in 2024. Speakers: Leah Goldfarb, Environmental Impact Officer at Platform.sh Gerhard Andrey, Co-Founder of Liip and National Councillor for the Swiss Green Party.

Ultimate Guide to Measuring Software Quality

Software quality isn't just about defect density; it embodies the reliability, performance, and security that underpin digital trust and user satisfaction. But measuring software quality can be as challenging as defining it. In this post, we'll demystify the complexities around assessing software quality and provide actionable insights for you and your software development team.

How DevOps is Revolutionizing Software Development A Guide to Success

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, DevOps has emerged as a transformative force. It’s not just a set of practices or tools; it’s a cultural shift that aims to streamline collaboration, automate processes, and deliver value to customers faster and more efficiently than ever before. In this guide, we’ll delve into how DevOps is revolutionizing software development and provide insights into achieving success in this domain.

How to use Buildpacks as part of a Platform Engineering strategy

While platform engineering is not a new concept, it has been rapidly gaining popularity. It is estimated that by 2026, 80% of major software engineering organizations are expected to form platform engineering teams. One of the reasons why platform engineering is getting so much attention is that it helps to automate deployment while allowing developers to remain in a productive state and avoid high cognitive loads.

What Is S3 Intelligent-Tiering? Here's What You Need To Know

Here’s the thing. You frequently access some files, but not others. So, if you can determine the most appropriate storage tier for any given data/object automatically, you can transform it accordingly. That means you can save both time and money by not manually deciding which files to move to their best storage class. To help optimize things, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new storage class called S3 Intelligent-Tiering Storage.

The Expensive Cost of 'Free' Kubernetes

In recent years, Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to solution for container orchestration, offering flexibility and scalability for deploying and managing applications. However, organizations quickly realize that the allure of its open-source nature can be deceiving—while free to download, the costs of managing Kubernetes can stack up rapidly. Initially embraced for its agility, Kubernetes soon reveals its complexity.

Azure Storage Cost Optimization | How to reduce Azure Storage Costs?

Azure Storage Cost Optimization | How to reduce Azure Storage Costs? Azure MVP Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) introduces a new feature in Turbo360 that aims to optimize Azure storage costs. He begins by explaining customers' challenges with Azure's lifecycle policies and their desire for more control over optimization processes.

Simplify Log Management Across Any Cloud

Developers waste countless hours managing logs and juggling tools. Control Plane centralizes log management, making it easy to filter and analyze logs from apps running on any cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, etc. In this video, we demonstrate how Control Plane simplifies log management for your applications deployed across any cloud (or multi-cloud). We showcase the intuitive Log QL query language, built-in Grafana integration, and the flexibility to ship logs to your favorite external log providers like Datadog, S3, Elastic, and CloudWatch.

The Future of Observability: High-Performance Observability at Edge and Beyond with Rust

Join Prabhat Sharma, founder of Open Observe, as he delves into the realm of high-performance observability. Learn about the challenges faced by cloud workloads and explore innovative solutions to enhance observability at the edge, in servers, and across cloud environments. Prabhat shares his journey from addressing persistent problems with existing solutions to building Open Observe, an open-source platform revolutionizing logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards. Gain valuable insights into the power of Apache Arrow Data Fusion in optimizing data storage and analytics performance.

Conventional Commits using AI with GitLens in VSCode

Writing a good commit message is time-consuming. With GitLens, you can use AI providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini to generate a commit message based on your staged changes in git. If you go to Settings and modify the prompt, you can also convert the commit to a "Conventional Commit" format, which provides context and helps with automations like generating changelogs.

Maximizing Uptime: Four Essential System Monitoring Best Practices

System uptime is a fundamental necessity for every organization that gives importance to the customer experience and satisfaction. A single minute of downtime can trigger a cascade of negative consequences, impacting everything from revenue streams to customer loyalty. So, why exactly is system uptime important? Downtime translates to lost revenue, frustrated users, and operational disruption.

False Positive Alerts: A Hidden Risk in Observability

Observability systems are designed to keep tabs on key metrics, identify unusual patterns, and alert teams when things go awry. Despite best efforts, however, these systems are not infallible, and sometimes they send out alerts for issues that don’t exist. This is what we call a false positive. These false alarms can wreak havoc on team efficiency, lead to alert fatigue, and obscure genuine problems. Let’s delve into what false positives are and why they matter so much.

A Guide To GCP Cost Anomaly Detection

Keeping costs under control is crucial to managing projects on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Yet, even the most experienced teams can face unexpected increases in their cloud bills. These surprises, known as cost anomalies, can disrupt budgets and plans. But, with the right approach and tools, you can spot these issues early and keep your cloud spending on track.

GitKraken Acquires CodeSee & Launches New, Ubiquitous DevEx Platform

TL;DR: GitKraken acquires CodeSee and launches the unified GitKraken DevEx Platform, enhancing workflows across all major development environments and setting new standards in developer tools. Dive in to discover our powerful new features and how they contribute to simplifying your coding life. Almost a decade ago, we introduced GitKraken Client with a clear mission: make Git simpler for developers.

How Can OpenTelemetry Transform Your Cloud Native Observability Strategy? Insights from Sudhir Singh

Join Sudhir Singh, co-founder and COO of Cloud Builders, as he delves into the essentials of observability in the cloud-native landscape. In this session, Sudhir explores the advantages of implementing OpenTelemetry over traditional monitoring tools and vendor-specific solutions. Discover why OpenTelemetry is crucial for gaining comprehensive insights into your applications and infrastructure, learn about its role in enhancing system health monitoring, and understand its impact on mitigating potential incidents before they escalate.

Announcing HAProxy ALOHA 16

HAProxy ALOHA 16 is now available, and we’re excited to share that this release includes one of the cornerstone features announced in HAProxy Enterprise 2.9—the next-generation HAProxy Enterprise WAF. Customers of our hardware and virtual load balancer appliances also benefit from four new Layer 4 load balancing algorithms, the upgrade of the Linux kernel to version 6.1, and the ability to bind admin services on a dedicated interface.

Ubuntu Pro for EKS is now generally available

May 14, 2024 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is delighted to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This expansion brings robust security offerings to AWS’ managed Kubernetes service, including enhanced uptime and security through Kernel Livepatch and unrestricted access to Pro containers to Amazon EKS, a managed Kubernetes services to run Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-premises data centers.

Uncover the secrets of dev- and org- friendly IDPs

Are you looking to enhance your organization's scalability journey? Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) can be a game-changer, especially when optimization is integrated into their design. By optimizing resource provisioning, utilization, and spend through automated workflows and guardrails, you can achieve more with your engineering time and budget. Join our roundtable discussion where we explore practical strategies for making optimization an integral part of your IDP.

Tried and True Migration to Kubernetes--An Authentic Guide

A few years ago, lift and shift to the cloud was all the rage––with the companies building those solutions being snatched up at exorbitant selling prices to the biggest cloud vendors. Nearly a decade, and multiple failed lift and shift migration stories later, we have now learned the hard way that slow and steady wins the race.

How reliability differs between monolithic and microservice-based architectures

Microservices have forever changed the way we build applications. Tools like Docker and Kubernetes made microservice-based architectures widely accessible to software developers, and cloud platforms like Amazon EKS made deploying containers fast and inexpensive. They've also enabled even small engineering teams to deploy code faster, leverage fault tolerance and redundancy, scale more efficiently, and take full ownership of their services from development all the way into production.

GitKraken DevEx platform: Meeting you wherever you & your team code

The GitKraken DevEx platform enables 30 million+ developers worldwide to experience coding workflows with fewer distractions, better collaboration and increased velocity. GitKraken’s DevEx platform supports developers wherever they want to write or manage their code: from Windows, Mac & Linux desktops; to the IDE; to the terminal; to web or even mobile. Across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps. Even integrating with Jira, Trello and other issue tracking systems.

Welcome to the Spiceworks Community!

We're excited that you've joined us! The Spiceworks Community is about technology professionals helping and connecting with other technology professionals, whether you're the lone ranger doing IT all by yourself, or one of a huge team of IT pros. It's about getting answers to your questions, picking up tips and tricks, learning about new products and vendors that might work for you, and – most importantly – sharing what you know with others.

Building the Intelligent Middle Mile

During a recent webinar, Ribbon's Jonathan Homa, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, and David Stokes, Head of IP Portfolio Marketing, discussed the pivotal role the middle mile network plays for Service Providers in taking advantage of the hugely increased access capacity recent investments in fiber and 5G offer. Service Providers require efficient, cost-effective solutions for this critical link in network connectivity.

Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS Lands on Google Cloud: Power Up Your Cloud Experience

Exciting news for cloud enthusiasts and developers! Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available on Google Cloud, bringing a robust and secure platform for your cloud workloads. This latest Long Term Support release from Canonical offers a wealth of features and enhancements, making it the perfect choice for building and deploying applications in the cloud.

Server Administrator's Guide to POP3 and IMAP Monitoring

Over 347 billion emails were sent and received every day in 2023, a number that is expected to increase to over 361 billion daily emails in 2024. With so much information always flowing, the reliability and efficiency of email servers have never been more important. So what happens when servers fail and emails don’t go through? Consider the financial repercussions — downtime can cost businesses as much as $5,600 per minute (a whopping $300,000 per hour).

Serverless Architecture Design Patterns For Cost Efficiency

Serverless architecture has emerged as a pivotal technology for developers seeking to build scalable, efficient applications without the overhead of managing servers. At the heart of this revolution are services like AWS Lambda and API Gateway, which have redefined how we deploy and scale applications, offering a truly pay-as-you-go model that aligns operational costs directly with actual usage.

How to choose your Software Defined Cloud Interconnect provider

With a growing number of enterprises adopting Software Defined Cloud Interconnects (SDCIs) to better support their hybrid- and multi-cloud architectures, what are the features, functions and capabilities you should look for when choosing your private connectivity partner?

Introducing A new Bitbucket pull request experience

Here at Bitbucket Cloud, we are focused on helping you and your teams have the best possible experience for code review. That's why we continue to add features like batched comments, marking files as viewed, AI-assisted pull request descriptions – and coming very soon, iterative reviews. We also want to give you the best possible experience navigating a pull request, which is why we're proud to be introducing a brand-new layout for pull requests.

Can You Move Stateful Apps with Zero Downtime Across Continents? Kubernetes Live Migration Secrets!

Dive deep into the realm of zero downtime live migration for stateful workloads on Kubernetes! Join Shivansh Vij, founder of Loophole Labs, as they unravel the secrets behind migrating applications like Redis and Postgres across nodes, regions, and continents without a second of downtime. Explore groundbreaking techniques, challenge traditional cloud limitations, and witness live demos that showcase this innovative approach in action.

Announcing Civo VMware Importer Tool - Easily Migrate from VMware to Civo in Minutes!

Join us in this step-by-step tutorial as we guide you through the seamless migration of your VMware instances to Civo's cloud platform with our new VMware Importer Tool. From verifying your current VMware's functionality to the final connection checks on Civo, we cover everything you need to ensure a smooth transition.

The importance of psychological safety in incident management

When an incident strikes, it often brings a whirlwind of stress for everyone involved—from the teams directly handling the issue to the stakeholders making crucial decisions. Imagine support teams on high alert, customers anxiously awaiting resolutions, and executives probing for answers to steer the company through turbulent times. This mounting pressure can make a challenging situation nearly unmanageable, especially when faced with problems that are new or unexpected.

Ways to Detect Anomalies in Azure with Real-Life Examples

Azure MVP, Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) walks through a practical example of Azure anomaly detection and the importance of keeping an eye on costs in Azure. Using Turbo360's cost analyzer module, Mike shows us how to efficiently manage everyday expenses and save money. Mike shares a scenario where he manages a Data Gateway service on Azure within a limited budget. He then explains how changes in resource scheduling led to unexpected cost increases. Using the anomaly detection feature, he identifies the abnormal cost behavior and discusses the significance of promptly addressing such issues.

How eG Enterprise solves uncertainty and challenges in the world of hypervisors and virtualization migration

In a recent blog article, we covered how the license changes for VMware virtualization may impact many of our partners and customers and are driving uncertainty in the market and causing many to consider their virtualization migration strategy, see Will Broadcom’s plans for VMware affect you? | eG Innovations.

Post-Incident Reviews: Turning Failures into Learning Opportunities

Incidents are inevitable. From software failures to service disruptions, unexpected events can disrupt the smooth functioning of systems and processes, causing frustration for users and impacting business operations. However, what separates successful organizations from the rest is not the absence of incidents, but rather their approach to handling and learning from them.

How to run Chaos Engineering experiments in your CI/CD pipeline

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Ad-hoc Chaos Engineering experiments are great for learning more about how your systems work, but they don’t tell you how your systems behave over time. As new features get deployed, environments change, and regressions get introduced, even the most resilient systems can gain reliability risks. QA and performance testing are already built into CI/CD - why not reliability?

GitLens' Features to Better Understand Code History

When you’re working on a complex project, keeping track of all the who’s, what’s, and when’s of code changes can be a daunting task. From deciphering the origins of a specific line to understanding the entire journey your project has undergone through its various stages of development, the challenges can be numerous and nuanced – especially for devs working on large teams.

10 Best Container Management Tools in 2024

Containerization has revolutionized the way software applications are deployed and managed. However, it comes with its own set of challenges. This is because of these challenges, that we opt to use different container management tools to streamline the deployment, scaling, and maintenance of containerized software. This article explores the top ten container management tools of 2024, providing insights into their pros, and cons.

Navigating Unconscious Bias in Cloud Native Communities

Join Aakansha Priyaa at Civo Navigate as she delves into the topic of unconscious bias within cloud native communities. Through personal anecdotes and practical examples, this presentation sheds light on the subtle biases that permeate the tech industry and provides strategies for creating a more inclusive workplace.

What Is the Impact of Digital Operational Resilience Act (Dora) on My IT?

If you’re in banking, you know the drill. Adhering to stringent EU regulations is a standard practice. This involves undergoing extensive audits, closely managing IT assets, maintaining your CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) rating, conducting and responding to fire drills, and establishing continuity plans. So far, nothing new, and if you’re in other highly regulated environments, you know that these measures are commonplace.

An overview of machine learning security risks

Data is at the heart of all machine learning (ML) initiatives – and bad actors know it. As AI continues to occupy the limelight of modern tech discourse, ML systems are becoming increasingly attractive targets for attack. With the Identity Theft Resource Center reporting a 72% spike in data breaches in 2023, it’s critical to take the proper precautions to ensure your ML projects don’t provide a back door to your data.

Windows on ARM: 5 tips to success

Windows on ARM refers to the version of the Windows operating system designed to run on devices powered by Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) architecture processors, instead of traditional x86 or x64 processors. This adaptation brings Windows to a variety of devices beyond traditional laptops and desktops, including tablets, and some smartphones.

Navigating the Complexity of IT Operations: A Guide for Startups

Startups are the pioneers forging new paths and disrupting industries. At the heart of every startup's success lies its ability to navigate the complexities of IT operations effectively. In this blog, we delve into the intricacies of IT operations for startups, offering insights, strategies, and best practices to steer through the maze of technology with finesse.

Elevate Your iPaaS Game with Native Images

In the age of modern cloud computing, native images have been gaining traction as a powerful tool for optimizing the performance and scalability of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions. These native images are pre-compiled executables directly available to the host operating system without needing an additional runtime environment. Unlike traditional container images that rely on runtime environments, native images are compiled to run directly on the target platform.

How to Create an S3 Bucket with AWS CLI

Managing an Elasticsearch cluster can be complex, costly, and time-consuming - especially for large organizations that need to index and analyze log data at scale. In this short guide, we’ll walk you through the process of creating an Amazon S3 bucket, configuring an IAM role that can write into that bucket, and attaching that IAM role to your Amazon S3 instance - all using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).

Code Quality Metrics: Definition, Examples, & Tips

Developers are working to faster development cycles, having their productivity measured in embarrassing ways and facing burnout due to poor productivity metrics. Detecting and preventing bugs in this environment is challenging for developers, but code quality is too important to ignore or leave to chance. Improving code quality requires smart metrics, not just more measurement. The quality of your code is foundational to your software, and ultimately your products and company.

Turbo360 Welcomes Black Marble as a Partner in Excellence

We at Turbo360 are thrilled to announce our partnership with Black Marble, a renowned leader in high-quality software development and innovative solutions. With their extensive expertise across the Microsoft platform and commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences, Black Marble brings a wealth of knowledge and skill to our collaborative efforts.

Customizable Azure Rightsizing Recommendations - Expert Insights

In this video, Michael Stephenson introduces a feature in Turbo360 that allows users to configure customizable settings for Azure rightsizing recommendations. He demonstrates how users can access these settings in the Turbo360 portal and modify rules for rightsizing various resources such as VM scale sets and SQL databases.

How to build zone-redundant cloud instances and clusters

Redundancy is a core tenet of cloud computing. While major cloud platforms have high targets for reliability, they can still fail, and it’s important for teams to have a plan for when they do. But how can you build services that can withstand something as disruptive as a datacenter outage? In this blog, we’ll show you how to prepare for availability zone outages by proactively detecting services operating in a single zone.

Webinar - 2024 State of Software Production Readiness

98% of engineering leaders reported at least one major consequence of failing to meet production readiness standards. To better understand how teams are addressing new challenges in production readiness, Cortex recently conducted a survey of engineering leaders at companies with more than 500 employees in North America, Europe, and AsiaPac. The survey included questions pertaining to production readiness standards, tools, struggles, and desired future state.

Bring more context to your code with Compass

Understanding and interacting with code repositories can be frustrating: you often don't get all of the information you need to get your work done efficiently and effectively. Who owns the repository? What are its dependencies? Where do I ask for help about interacting with it? This lack of context around code, and the time it takes to find it somewhere in the bowels of your organization, slows everything down.

Leveraging Proxies for Scalable Cloud Operations

The cloud has become a fundamentally impactful feature of the business IT ecosystem, and it's the scalability that's innate to this tech which means it can accommodate the needs of all sorts of organizations - from startups with limited budgets to multinationals with few limits on their spending.

Strengthen Your Security in the Cloud: Privacy and Data Security

Managing security in the cloud and throughout hybrid environments is a challenge with high stakes — customer data, sensitive information, access privileges, and other cloud-based assets are all at risk when an organization uses the cloud. Let’s explore some common cloud-based security concerns and learn how to keep your cloud environment secure.

What Is Snowflake? A Beginner-Friendly Guide

Imagine if you had a magic box where you could keep all your business information — sales numbers, customer feedback, everything — safe and sound, but also easy to look at whenever you needed. That’s kind of what Snowflake does, but for big organizations and using the cloud. It’s a new way for companies to store and use their data without getting bogged down by the techy details.

Transforming Kubernetes into an Internal Developer Platform in 10 Minutes

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a powerful tool for providing self-service infrastructure for developers. It allows developers to manage application lifecycles without the constant need for IT team involvement, streamlining the process from development to production. With its widespread adoption, Kubernetes has become the standard for running application workloads across various organizations.

Go fixes its 7th code execution bug in the same feature

If there’s one Go programming language feature that just doesn’t seem to catch a break when it comes to security, it’s the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS handling in cgo. This is a feature that lets parts of Go source code control the compiler and linker flags that are used to build that same code.

Potential causes of a collaboration platform data breach

Data is the lifeblood of modern organizations. Since data helps teams make better decisions and provide a competitive edge, it’s also a target of bad actors looking to steal sensitive information or launch ransomware attacks. From software vulnerabilities and weak authentication mechanisms to malware and inadequate access controls, there’s no shortage of ways for hackers to infiltrate networks and gain access to mission-critical data.

Mastering Cybersecurity: Essential OWASP Guidelines for Effective Protection

Join Dwayne McDaniel as he discusses the challenges and essentials of effective cybersecurity, highlighting the impact of bad security practices, the benefits of robust security measures, and the importance of community collaboration. This talk explores practical insights on improving security protocols, leveraging community knowledge, and the significant role of automation in ensuring safe, uninterrupted digital environments.

Your DevOps Checklist: 7 Software Deployment Best Practices

Failures and bugs are all too common during software deployment, even with the best development teams. Following software deployment best practices helps you increase efficiency, improve security, and bring products to market faster. This article combines the seven most valuable practices your team can start implementing today.

Advanced Incident Management Strategies for Engineers

The business world is in constant flux, and the way we handle Incident Management (IM) needs to evolve alongside it. Incidents come in all priorities and urgencies, and while some can be addressed with any planning, others are simply unpredictable. That's why businesses can't afford to be caught off guard. The potential consequences of such incidents for businesses have never been greater. A single event can disrupt operations, damage reputations, and result in significant financial losses.

AWS Data Transfer Pricing: 7 Ways To Reduce Unexpected Costs

You’re probably familiar with finding surprise, hidden charges if you’ve been using the cloud for a while. Data transfer fees are the most common source of unanticipated charges on Amazon Web Services (AWS). They can be so costly that some companies, like Netflix and Pinterest, have spent fortunes on data transfer fees — up to $30 million a year. In this post, we’ll share tips for navigating AWS data transfer costs and how you can optimize them.

Five ways Gremlin helps organizations meet DORA requirements

Enacted by the European Union, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) establishes new standards for digital operational resilience in the financial sector. DORA changes the financial sector's approach to digital security and resilience by imposing stringent Information and Communication Technology (ICT) risk management, incident reporting, third-party risk management, and regular testing.

Resolve Actions vs. DIY Automation: Which is Really Better?

When it comes to IT automation, the choice between a service orchestration and automation platform like Resolve Actions or building your own automation engine or workflow tool is a pivotal decision. While each option presents its own set of strengths and considerations, Resolve Actions emerges as a powerful solution for organizations looking to streamline their automation efforts. Here’s why.

Balancing AI Workloads and Energy Demands with DCIM Software

AI-driven processes, including machine learning models and data processing, require significant computational resources which can lead to increased energy consumption and heightened operational costs. The complexity of these workloads, which often involve real-time data analysis and continuous model training, exacerbates the need for robust data center management.

Console Connect recognised as gold-tier Google Verified Peering Provider

In the cloud-centric world of today, enterprises rely on highly available connectivity for access to public-facing Google Cloud apps, Google Workspace, or Google APIs. Some also need to access latency sensitive Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions, combining security and networking services on one cloud platform.

Manage incidents seamlessly with the Datadog Slack integration

Modern, distributed application architectures pose particular challenges when it comes to coordinating incident management. DevOps, SREs, and security teams—often spread out across separate locations and time zones, and equipped with limited knowledge of each other’s services—must work quickly to collaboratively triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate customer impact.

Three roles you need for reliability success

It’s one thing to say that reliability is a priority for your organization, and a whole other thing to make actual, demonstrable improvements in the availability of your applications. Sadly, it’s common for organizations to invest time, money, and effort into improving reliability only to barely nudge the needle on incidents and downtime. But there are hundreds of companies successfully improving their reliability posture—and doing it at enterprise scale.

What Can a Service Mesh Do for Your Kubernetes Environment? with Tony Pope-Cruz

Explore the essentials of Kubernetes management with Tony Pope-Cruz from @dynatrace in this detailed walkthrough. Understand how to avoid common pitfalls in Kubernetes deployments, such as mismanagement of resources that can lead to significant outages. Gain insights into how service meshes provide robust solutions for traffic management, service reliability, and observability.

The relationship between cloud FinOps and Security - Expert tips

In this episode, we delve into the relationship between Azure Cost Management and security in cloud computing with FinOps certified practitioner Michael Stephenson and Microsoft MVP for Security Nino Crudele. Learn how security measures impact cloud costs and explore strategies for balancing robust security with cost-effectiveness. Discover the crucial role of governance, policy enforcement, and FinOps in optimizing both cost and security postures.

Network traffic analysis for today's IT

When there is a radical evolution of technologies that promise improved operational benefits, many challenges beyond a network administrator's typical scope emerge. Organizations need to determine effective strategies to manage the potential setbacks that can result from these complexities as well as address the evolution of cyberthreats. With network traffic analysis and awareness of the potential challenges these technologies pose, network admins can ensure their network remains resilient.

Mastering Full-Stack Monitoring in Your IT Operations

The absence of comprehensive monitoring tools in today’s complex IT environments introduces significant challenges and risks. Without the ability to oversee the entire stack, organizations may run into an undetected performance issue, leading to potential downtime. According to numerous studies, that can cost between $5,600 and $9,000 per minute. Fortunately, full-stack monitoring emerges as a worthy solution.

Scaling Kubernetes On A Budget: AKS Vs. EKS Cost-Saving Features

As of 2023, Kubernetes firmly holds the reins of the container orchestration market with a commanding 92% market share, underscoring its position as the unparalleled leader in this domain. Celebrated for its exceptional scalability, robustness, and flexibility, Kubernetes boasts widespread integration across numerous industries, supported by development efforts from more than 7,500 companies.

Cross-Platform Cloud Cost Optimization On AWS And Azure

Cloud cost optimization refers to reducing overall cloud spending by identifying mismanaged resources, eliminating waste, reserving capacity for higher discounts, and right-sizing computing services to scale. In the modern business environment, where agility and efficiency are paramount, mastering cloud cost optimization reduces expenses and strategically allocates resources to drive innovation and growth.

Track changes in your containerized infrastructure with Container Image Trends

Datadog’s Container Images view provides key insights into every container image used in your environment, helping you quickly detect and remediate security and performance problems that can affect multiple containers in your distributed system. In addition to having a snapshot of the performance of your container fleet, it’s also critical to understand large-scale trends in security posture and resource utilization over time.

How to Setup Cost Alert Notification in Azure?

How to Setup Cost Alert Notification in Azure? In this video, Azure MVP - Michael Stephenson explains how users can set up alerts for exceeding cost thresholds within their monitoring setup, specifically focusing on a product called Document360. Michael demonstrates how users can configure email alerts to be notified when a cost threshold is breached, and he walks through the process of receiving and managing these alerts. He also mentions the ability to view incidents and analyze cost data in more detail if necessary.

Azure Management Platform - Turbo360

Turbo360 (Formerly Serverless360) is an advanced Cloud Management platform that empowers you with significant Azure Cost savings and Infra Monitoring for complex Azure Environments. This tool has helped customers experience annual savings of up to 30% through advanced cost monitoring, granular analysis, optimization insights, and reduced incident resolution time by 80% through holistic infra monitoring across multiple Azure resources with business context.

Get Ephemeral Environments on Kubernetes in Less than 10 Minutes

Qovery is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) designed to make Kubernetes developer-friendly. It offers self-service capabilities, allowing developers to efficiently manage and scale their applications. One of the standout features of Qovery is the ability to create Ephemeral Environments, which we will focus on in this guide. So keep reading to see how you can get a fully operational Ephemeral Environments system on your Kubernetes Cluster in less than 10 minutes.

10 Best Tools to Manage Kubernetes Clusters

Managing multiple Kubernetes clusters presents a significant challenge, primarily due to operational overheads, complexity, and the steep learning curve associated with Kubernetes' complex ecosystem. As organizations scale and deploy across various environments; production, staging, and development, the need for a robust tool to streamline management becomes crucial.

Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 2.9

HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 is now available and we’re quite excited about this one. This release includes next-generation web application firewall (WAF) and bot management capabilities, and extends HAProxy Enterprise’s legendary performance and flexibility to support applications using the UDP transport protocol. Supported by industry-leading benchmark results, these landmark features offer customers a powerful solution to the challenges of security, latency, and scale.

Speedrun to Signals: automated migrations are here

When we launched Signals to the world, we were excited to hear how our product resonated with many teams. But with that excitement came an understandable concern: how much time and effort will I have to put in to move from my existing provider to Signals? We hear you — that’s why we built the Signals Migrator tool. And we’re open sourcing it.

Densify Wins Intel 2024 Americas Partner Award

At Intel Vision April 2024, Densify won Intel Partner of the year for Cloud Solutions. This award recognizes the impact of our jointly developed offering: Intel® Cloud Optimizer. Densify – Cloud: For Densify’s collaboration with Intel to continuously fine-tune the Intel Cloud Optimizer software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, to include a sophisticated understanding of key Intel hardware features and how they benefit specific customer workloads.

Fast Easy Onboarding with GitLens

Dive into the power of GitLens in VS Code! Learn how to fast-track onboarding processes, from tracing code evolution and creating pull requests seamlessly to exploring advanced features like branch management and commit visualization. Gain valuable insights into branch management, commit visualization, integrating with Jira for enhanced project tracking, and more.

Mix-n-Match ANY combination of services from AWS, GCP and Azure

Say goodbye to cloud lock-in and hello to endless possibilities! In this walkthrough, you'll learn how to avoid vendor lock-in and optimize costs by mixing and matching services from AWS, GCP, Azure -- as if these clouds have merged. Control Plane's Universal Cloud Identity® makes it easy to consume any combination of cloud services and craft the ideal cloud environment while running apps on-premises or on any cloud, in any region.

Let's Do It All in Under an Hour with @kubefirst

Dive into the world of Kubernetes with the co-founders of @kubefirst John Dietz and Jared Edwards, as they provide an insightful live demonstration of their cutting-edge project. Watch as they navigate through real-time challenges, explain the integration of GitOps, and highlight the capabilities of KubeFirst using tools like k3d, Linkerd, and Argo CD. Don't miss out on learning from their vast experience in cloud and platform building.

Practical lessons for AI-enabled companies

We went live with our first set of AI-enabled features a few months ago. Needless to say, we learned a lot along the way, as this was the first time we had experimented with generative AI. Here, I'll share some of what we've learned as we’ve grappled with using LLMs to power new products at incident.io. This will be most applicable to the application layer, AI-enabled but not AI companies.

Factors to Consider When Choosing a VPS Cloud Server for Hosting Game Servers

Are you eager to create a thriving online community for your favorite game? Choosing the right VPS cloud server is crucial for ensuring a smooth, lag-free experience for your players. You must generate a perfect base for your game server and foster a passionate online world. There has been tremendous growth in the gaming industry in the previous few years. Due to COVID-19, many people were locked in their homes, turning to digital paths of entertainment and searching new networks.

360° Observability Strategy Webinar

Catch our on-demand webinar, "360° Observability Strategy: Enhancing Reliability Across the Board," featuring Andreas Prins, CEO of StackState, and Meriem Ahmed. Originally held to guide IT professionals through the complexities of observability in today's diverse tech environments, this session is now available for you to access anytime.

How do I review Azure costs?

In this video, Azure MVP Michael Stephenson will walkthrough on how he uses Turbo360 to conduct cost reviews for a SaaS company. And then he explains the process of monitoring costs, analyzing trends, identifying spikes, and optimizing resources using the Turbo360. He also emphasizes the importance of maintaining efficiency and sustainability in cloud spending by regularly reviewing costs. The goal is to identify cost-saving opportunities and ensure accountability within the teams to take action on optimizing resources.

ServiceNow Integration products updates for Washington DC and OAUTH Support

Kelverion is pleased to announce the latest release of all our ServiceNow integrations, which now provide ServiceNow Washington DC release support and include OAUTH for authentication for our REST API-based products. This is our 22nd release of products for ServiceNow, stretching right back to Berlin, providing integrations for System Center Orchestrator 2016, 2019, 2022 and also for Azure Automation.

Securing Dashboards in a Command Line World with Marc Boorshtein

Join Marc Boorshtein, CTO of Tremolo Security and Kubernetes expert, as he explores how to secure Kubernetes dashboards effectively in a command line-centric setup. From discussing the advantages of dashboards to unveiling critical security practices, Marc offers a comprehensive guide to safeguarding your Kubernetes environment.

PagerDuty Appoints Eduardo Crespo, Vice President of EMEA

PagerDuty, Inc announces the appointment of Eduardo Crespo as vice president of EMEA. Crespo will lead PagerDuty's next phase of growth in the EMEA region bringing the PagerDuty Operations Cloud to enterprise customers across EMEA to solve their biggest digital challenges.

Demystifying Azure Container Instance Pricing

Since containers revolutionized resources utilization and their cost by significantly increasing VM densities, understanding Azure Container Instance Pricing is key for making informed decisions about your containerized apps. ACI is the serverless option within Azure, to provision additional compute for demanding and highly scalable workloads. Knowing the ACI pricing, you can optimize costs while efficiently deploying your containers in a managed service that will optimize your operations.

How to build reliable services with unreliable dependencies

In an earlier blog, we looked at slow dependencies and how they can impact the reliability of other services. While we explored what happens when dependencies are degraded, what happens when dependencies outright fail? What can you do when your application or service sends a request to another service, and nothing comes back? We’ll answer this question by using Gremlin to proactively test a service with multiple dependencies.

IRL to IAC: Your Environment to PagerDuty via Terraform

Figuring out how to represent your as-built environment in PagerDuty can be confusing for new users. There are a lot of components to PagerDuty that will help your team be successful managing incidents, integrating with other systems in your environment, running workflows, and using automation. Your organization might have a lot of these components – users, teams, services, integrations, orchestrations, etc.

Live event recap: Humanizing the on-call experience

There’s no two ways about it: on-call is stressful. But with humans at the center, it’s especially important to find ways to make it as manageable and empathetic as possible. In this webinar with our friends at ELC, incident.io VP of Engineering, Noberto Lopes, and Intercom Staff Product Engineer, Andrej Blagojević, discuss their own experiences with on-call, and how the process can be better.

Why You Don't Need to Hire Kubernetes Experts

History has a tendency to repeat itself. This is because bad habits and anti-patterns are hard to break. And this remains the case with the latest sought-after engineering unicorn––the “Kubernetes expert”. These days, there is a veritable gold rush to hire the best and brightest Kubernetes wizards. Like all forms of expertise––this gold is rare, and as a result––is also costly. But this isn’t a new phenomenon in the technology world.

We need to talk about production readiness

On December 31, 2008, all the Microsoft Zunes around the world stopped working. The development team hadn’t properly accounted for the Leap Year, and when the year changed over, everything broke. On February 29, 2024, card payments in a Swedish grocery chain went down, payment terminals in New Zealand gas stations crashed, and an EA Sports racing game was rendered unplayable for the day.

Unlocking the Power of Cloud Native Transformation - A Beginner's Guide by Sully Martinez

Explore cloud native technologies with Sully Martinez at Civo Navigate NA 24. Learn why giants like Spotify and Netflix are switching to cloud native, understand its benefits over traditional architectures, and get insights into key components like microservices and Kubernetes. Perfect for those considering a shift or optimizing their cloud native strategies.

Best TeamViewer Competitors and Alternatives in 2024

With the digital world changing faster than ever, businesses are rushing to keep up, especially when it comes to supporting remote work. Interestingly, a report from 2023 highlighted that over 82% of businesses now support some form of remote work, underscoring the critical role of effective RMM solutions today. This makes choosing the right remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools more important than ever.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Frameworks and static site generators

In 2024, JavaScript is bigger than ever. The ecosystem is just as huge, and almost impossible to keep track of - so I've had a go at picking out 2024's most essential JS tools for you. In part 1 of this series, we reviewed runtimes and package managers, the foundational building blocks of your software project. So in part 2, we're analyzing the tools which form the walls and roof that give your software project its structure: frameworks and static site generators. For this installment of JS Toolbox 2024, we explore various frameworks & generators available in the JavaScript & TypeScript ecosystem, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases.

Kubernetes Cost Optimization: Tips and Best Practises

Kubernetes has become the go-to solution for container orchestration, but managing Kubernetes costs effectively is challenging for businesses aiming to optimize their IT expenditures. Let’s go through various types of costs associated with running Kubernetes and explore some key strategies and practical tips for Kubernetes cost optimization.

Canonical releases Landscape 24.04 LTS

London, 30 April 2024. Today Canonical announced the availability of Landscape’s first LTS release. Landscape 24.04 LTS features a new versioned API, a new web portal with accessibility and performance in mind, and intuitive controls for software distribution. Landscape 24.04 LTS comprises Landscape Server and Landscape Client. With a modernised backend and web portal in place, engineering teams can work efficiently, focusing on patches and new features.

Whose infrastructure is it anyway?

The recent McKinsey report, the state of cloud computing in Europe has exposed not only low returns, but also serious challenges for businesses embracing cloud as the basis of digital transformation. The first concern is that not only is the value of cloud ‘in isolated pockets and at subscale ’, but also that it is limited to the IT department. Whilst 75 percent of those surveyed reported either technology cost savings or productivity increases, only one-third have seen such savings beyond IT.

EBS Pricing Explained: A Guide For 2024

Understanding Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) pricing is fundamental for any organization using AWS to manage their cloud costs effectively. Amazon EBS provides the storage your cloud applications need to run smoothly. However, it’s equally important to understand its pricing to keep your cloud spending in check. This guide aims to simplify Amazon EBS pricing and offers practical tips on managing and reducing these costs. But first, what is it?

#026 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with BJ Badyk (Nexxen)

BJ Badyk is a human who desires an easier life. Nerd from birth, his curiosity led him down a path through the start of ISPs, Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble, the last few years of the Playboy brand, and into the world of Adtech. He currently runs the platform engineering team at Nexxen, where they work on unique ways of handling millions of requests per second with Kubernetes. The team was an early adopter of Talos Linux, which they now run at scale. He presented at TalosCon 2023 and continues to pursue simple solutions to complex problems.

How Safe Is Your Kubernetes Environment? Discover ML-Driven API & Web App Security Solutions

Join @ChadMCrowell in this Navigate North America 2024 talk on enhancing Kubernetes security with machine learning-based API and web application security solutions. Discover the challenges and solutions of managing traffic through Kubernetes environments, the effectiveness of web application firewalls, and innovative ML techniques to combat zero-day vulnerabilities and other cyber threats.

DCIM Software: What Is the Risk of Not Making This Investment?

Investing in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is critical for modern businesses to efficiently manage their data center resources. Without DCIM software, organizations lack comprehensive visibility into their data center infrastructure, making it challenging to identify and address issues promptly, leading to potential service disruptions.