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This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly a million customers with incorrect balances, many of whom were unable to meet payments.

The rapid technological advancements in the last decade led to a massive migration of data and applications from on-premise environments to the cloud. While this cloud migration trend dominated the IT world, a recent paradigm shift has emerged that’s moving in the opposite direction – ‘Cloud Reverse Migration’ or ‘Cloud Repatriation’.

Understanding Metrics, Logs, Events and Traces - the key pillars of observability and their pros and cons for SRE and DevOps teams.

Welcome to the third part of this series of blog posts on How to throw custom exceptions inside Logic Apps. In this series of five blogs, I will cover throwing custom exceptions in Logic Apps. I will cover the following topics: In this third approach, we are going to do a considerable fine-tuning of the previous approach, keeping the same capability to define custom error messages but redesigning the business logic in order to minimize the number of actions and optimize performance.

It feels great writing this. It's hard to believe that we have been working on Spike.sh full-time for 3 years now. It's been the most rewarding experience of my life. A big thank you to all of our users and your constant feedback, which has only made Spike.sh better month on month. We are - Over the years, we have always kept our heads down and built. During this entire process, we have learnt a huge deal of things when it comes to incidents and how they are being managed.

The use of virtualization in modern computing is becoming indispensable. Virtualization allows users to operate numerous operating systems on a single physical machine, which boosts productivity, lowers costs, and makes maintenance easier. But It's crucial to conduct periodic checks on a Linux virtual machine to make sure it's operating smoothly and effectively.

I couldn't be more excited to share a groundbreaking update with all of you today. We've been burning the midnight oil, tinkering with codes and algorithms, and today we're unveiling the result of our hard work - the integration of Qovery with Doppler is officially here! If you're unfamiliar, Doppler is more than just a secret management system. It's an innovative tool that enables developers to synchronize their secrets and credentials across a multitude of platforms.