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Understanding How OpenTelemetry can help with PCI Compliance

The early days of e-commerce on the internet resembled a digital Wild West, characterized by unencrypted form inputs and clear-text storage of sensitive information. Fast forward to today, and the landscape of online payments has transformed dramatically, bolstered by industry-driven guide rails like the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). These standards ensure that consumer details are stored appropriately and handled with the utmost care and security.

Introducing Next-Level Innovations on Virtana's AIOps Platform

In an era defined by rapid technological advancements and complex digital infrastructures, implementing advanced capabilities is how IT leaders stay ahead of the curve. We are at the forefront of this revolution, continuously evolving to meet and exceed the demands of modern IT landscapes. Today, we are thrilled to announce a series of innovative features and capabilities designed to transform how organizations manage and optimize their digital environments.

The Frugal Architect, Law III: Architecting Is A Series Of Trade-Offs

This is part three of seven in our Frugal Architect blog series. Read part one here, and part two here. In case you weren’t as giddy as CloudZero was at re:Invent this past year, we wanted to recount the seven laws outlined by Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, which he’s bundled into a framework called “The Frugal Architect” (check out the whole framework here). What is “The Frugal Architect”?

How Complyt used Datadog's Cloud Cost Management to reduce their cloud spend

Learn how the team at Complyt was able to integrate Cloud Cost Managament in a matter of hours and quickly pinpoint underutilized services to cut their cloud spend in half. CCM delivers cost data where engineers work and with resource-level context like CPU, memory, and requests — easily scoped to their services and applications — so that they can take action and spend effectively.

7 DevOps Best Practices You Should Be Following Now

In traditional engineering organizations, development and operations teams are often siloed, a scenario that can lead to friction between them. For example, developers are encouraged to write and release more and better code. Operations engineers are responsible for preventing errors and bugs from affecting customer experiences. As a result, operations teams frequently serve as gatekeepers and can significantly slow deployments down – to ensure everything works first.

Comparing NestJS and ExpressJS

Having delivered numerous applications, prototypes, and demos over the years, I’ve developed a deep appreciation for how robust development frameworks can significantly contribute to Speed to Delivery Time (SDT). This metric is vital in the fast-paced software industry, where the ability to bring scalable and maintainable applications to market quickly can set a project apart.

Episode 2 | Micah Wheat on Cloud Cost Management in the Age of AI

In this episode, the hosts discuss cloud cost management with guest Micah Wheat, co-founder of Dashdive. They explore the formation of Dashdive and the changes in the market that have made cloud cost management more important. They also discuss the use of arbitraging tools and the challenges of amortizing costs and pricing models. The conversation covers the differences between cloud cost observability and cloud cost management and the importance of granularity in cost attribution.

Turbo360 Unveiled: The Ultimate Cloud Management Platform for Azure

Today, we are thrilled to announce our brand-new product, “Turbo360”—an ultimate Cloud Management Platform for Microsoft Azure. It’s not a completely new product; we are rebranding and repositioning our successful product Serverless360, to Turbo360 to serve a bigger market and customer base. Serverless360 has evolved into a full-blown cloud management platform in the past seven years.

Generating Azure documentation from an Azure DevOps Pipeline

This week, I met with one of our partners, and my good friend Rik Hepworth asked a great question. This was: “Mike, we really like Azure Documenter in Turbo360, but what would be awesome is if I can generate the documentation from a DevOps pipeline so each time we deploy updates to Azure, we can regenerate the documentation” In this article, we will look at how to do it.