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The AI Boom Will Drive up Data Center Costs and the Need for Control

Data centers are the backbone of the digital economy, hosting the servers, networks, and software that power the internet and cloud services. Data centers consume a lot of electricity, accounting for about 1% of the global energy demand in 2019. As AI becomes more widespread and complex, data centers will need to upgrade their hardware and infrastructure to meet the growing demand for AI processing. This will increase the cost of operating data centers in several ways.

What is Pushgateway?

Prometheus is an amazing tool, but it has limitations. Some of your applications, including batch jobs and ephemeral jobs, may not live long enough for it to find and scrape them. Since Prometheus cannot scrape all jobs, the company developed Pushgateway as a bridge tool. Because you usually cannot push metrics directly to the Prometheus application, you can sometimes use a Pushgateway to deliver the necessary data. When you need monitoring solutions, try Metricfire.

Unleashing the Power of Azure Storage Integration

Azure Storage Integration! Sounds like a mouthful, doesn’t it? If you’ve been around the block in the world of cloud computing, you’ve probably heard of Azure and its seemingly limitless storage capabilities. In this article, we will dissect this powerful service, shedding light on what it is, how it works, and how you can leverage it to make your cloud journey smoother and more efficient.

Vanilla 4.0 release

Last week we released a new major version of the Vanilla framework. Vanilla 4.0 introduces the elements of the new style used for a current rebranding of Canonical’s brochure websites, including typography changes of headings utilising new variable Ubuntu font, wider grid width, removed rounded corners, some updated colours, and updates to any related components.

10 Burning Questions CTOs Have About Kubernetes

As enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders, it's crucial to understand the benefits, limitations and best practices associated with building cloud native apps and modernizing legacy workloads. Gartner recently published a worthwhile read addressing what keeps CTOs up at night while assessing Kubernetes and container adoption.

The DevOps tool catapulting Gigpro from slow to swift

The DevOps tool catapulting Gigpro from slow to swift: Rick Cabrera, VP of Engineering, and Tucker LoCicero, Software Engineer and Team Lead at Gigpro tell us how Sleuth helped their team improve release frequency, gain visibility to bottlenecks, build trust between the business and engineering, and measure DORA metrics to prove their progress. Chapters: Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

Infeasible? Yes, developers are technically correct

Infeasible? Yes, developers are technically correct when they say something is infeasible. To engineering managers, that translates to impossible, which is correct, too. This is where software developers and managers can agree to disagree. Here's part 3 of 4 of Sleuth's CTO and cofounder, Don Brown's take on decoding developer speak. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

CloudHealth Vs. CloudWatch: How Do They Differ?

Amazon’s CloudHealth and VMware’s CloudHealth are two of the most popular cloud management and system monitoring platforms today. But which platform does what, and are they even direct competitors? In this post, we'll compare the two services and highlight their main differences so you can choose which to use — or whether to use both.