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KubeCon NA 2023: Celebrating Innovation and the K8s Community

The sun has officially set on KubeCon North America 2023, but the CNCF's flagship event has left a lasting impression on us. Roughly 9,000 Kubernetes enthusiasts descended on Chicago's McCormick Place West to see the K8s community's latest innovations. DevOps professionals, engineers, and architects alike were eager to share and boost their K8s knowledge. Overall, HAProxy joined over 250 other sponsor organizations to celebrate open-source, cloud-native technologies over four activity-packed days.

Why Automatic Cloud Cost Optimization Isn't Enough

As the leader of a SaaS company, you’re just as busy as you are concerned with making sure your bottom line is as healthy as possible. There’s no denying that putting some aspects of cloud cost management on autopilot is a useful strategy. Most automated cost optimization platforms — one of our favorites is ProsperOps — use advanced algorithms to identify areas where you can find provider discounts or lower-cost alternatives to the resources you’re using now.

Unlocking Git's Power with GitLens: A Visual Studio Code Extension Guide

In the dynamic world of software development, where collaboration and version control are paramount, it’s important to have the right tools to be able to support you. GitLens is a powerful Visual Studio Code extension that can help shed light on the intricacies of your Git workflow. In this blog post, we will introduce you to GitLens and some of its amazing features.

Succeeding with Backstage 4: Backstage as Part of a Broader Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) Initiative

This final article in the “Succeeding with Backstage” series focuses on how you can incorporate Backstage as part of a broader developer productivity engineering (DPE) initiative. The previous parts dealt with customizing the look and feel of Backstage, creating and maintaining custom plugins, and improving Backstage adoption.

Advanced Search Capabilities in SharePoint Online

When you enter a query in SharePoint Online‘s search box, you are tapping into a complex system designed to interpret your needs and retrieve the most relevant content. It’s a system built not only to understand what you’re looking for but also to respect the security and organization of your company’s data. By mastering SharePoint Online’s advanced search capabilities, you unlock the potential to transform vast data stores into actionable insights swiftly.

AI for Software Development | Dharmesh Shah: The Future of Software, GitKon 2023

"The future opportunity is not having generative AI generate something for human consumption, it's having it generate things for computer consumption." Dharmesh breaks down what he believes is the next biggest advancement in software development (and beyond) – using AI to transform ideas from our brains.