Retention policies play a crucial role in managing the life cycle of data in cloud storage. This comprehensive guide will provide an in-depth analysis of key factors that impact costs, explore the challenges and tradeoffs associated with various approaches, and highlight the importance of considering the impact on Azure storage.

Microsoft Azure, a leading cloud service provider, offers a vast array of resources to its users. In this ever-growing ecosystem, managing and organizing these resources is crucial. Enter Azure Resource Groups, a vital component of Azure’s management framework. This article will provide a comprehensive analysis of Azure Resource Groups, delving into key factors and addressing common questions.

Load testing is a big category, and how do you even start preparing for it? This post covers it all from planning to implementation.

System hardening means locking down a system and reducing its attack surface: removing unnecessary software packages, securing default values to the tightest possible settings and configuring the system to only run what you explicitly require. Let’s take an example from daily life.

The annual Cloud Native Foundation (CNCF) surveys have shown Kubernetes adoption and maturity advancing rapidly, The previous CNCF Annual Survey showed that Kubernetes had crossed the chasm to become mainstream.

DevOps doesn’t necessarily look like it used to. Engineers used to build software designed for on-prem hardware; they had a specific methodology for efficient production and distribution schedules; and they didn’t interface very much with non-engineers, if at all. Today, all that has been flipped upside-down. Cloud-era DevOps engineers now must possess wildly different skill sets, and some previously non-negotiable skills have faded into the past.

Observability is a powerful concept that can help you gain insight into the performance of your systems and applications. It refers to the ability to measure, monitor, analyze, and manage different aspects of an infrastructure or application—from hardware components to application code. With observability techniques such as distributed tracing, monitoring metrics, log analysis, and anomaly detection, organizations can ensure their applications run smoothly without downtime or disruption.

The concept of the internal developer platform (IDP) isn’t new to anyone who’s been doing DevOps for the last couple decades. But the recent explosion of interest around platform engineering, particularly among business leaders, has led to a re-examination of the IDP as we know it.