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A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend AWS re:invent, one of the biggest cloud industry events of the year. An event so massive and big that only AWS can pull it off – 50,000 people marching across half a dozen of the finest hotels on the Las Vegas strip. The expo hall alone would have taken more than a couple of days to cover all the vendor booths spread across the expansive Venetian convention center.

We are all about providing the best web deployment experience on the market. Working to ensure that our product is delivering the quality we promise with regular product updates and new features being introduced all the time. And that’s exactly why we’re here! We’re delighted to share the new version of our API server and Metrics server, designed to optimize transparency, crons, builds and sources operations control- to name but a few. Ready to find out more? Keep on scrolling.

Technology has been evolving rapidly over the past few decades, and artificial intelligence (AI) has been leading the charge. AI has been used in various applications from self-driving cars to automated customer service. But one of the most intriguing applications of AI is in the form of chatbots. Chatbots, or computer programs designed to simulate conversation, have been around for a while, but the latest iteration of chatbot technology is taking it to a whole new level.

Repatriation in cloud computing refers to moving workloads from the public cloud to on-premise infrastructure. Sarah Wang and Martin Casado from Andreessen Horowitz have written one of the most popular articles about repatriation: they explain the motivation with the significant cost savings possible. For software-based businesses, public cloud spend can rise to 50% of the cost of revenue (COR). Reducing these costs has the potential for significant margin increases.

Most customers running Kubernetes clusters Amazon EKS are regularly looking for ways to better understand and control their costs. While EKS simplifies Kubernetes operations tasks, customers also want to understand the cost drivers for containerized applications running on EKS and best practices for controlling costs. Anodot has collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to address these needs and share best practices on optimizing Amazon EKS costs.

In the software industry, monitoring and observability come hand in hand and are referenced simultaneously, but both are not the same thing. Having the right tools for these capabilities is vital to keep your systems, data, and security perimeter safe. With cloud solutions topping up in the integration space, great tools have been available in the market, and choosing the right one would be challenging.

A hybrid infrastructure brings business benefits but it also brings new challenges. Migrating workloads to the cloud is a complex operation that generates more data than engineering teams can adequately manage. Traditional monitoring tools are limited in helping teams find and fix problems during and after a cloud migration. This can throw business strategies off course, limit customer value and hurt the bottom line.