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How to define your monitoring requirements (before you talk to a vendor)

This is a guest post from Laura Copeland. Key insights from a fireside chat with Chris Yates. Part 1. Choosing the right database monitoring vendor isn’t just a technical decision, it’s a strategic one that affects your teams, your estate, your growth plans, and the culture of your organisation. It’s also a personal one if you’re a DBA. Something as critical as your monitoring system will shape your day‑to‑day work, and, in many cases, how well you sleep at night.

10 best practices for optimizing Kubernetes on AWS

Optimizing Kubernetes on AWS is less about raw compute and more about surviving Day-2 operations. A standard failure mode occurs when teams scale the control plane while ignoring Amazon VPC IP exhaustion. When the cluster autoscaler triggers, nodes provision but pods fail to schedule due to IP depletion. Effective scaling requires network foresight before compute allocation.

Preparing Web and Mobile Cloud Infrastructure for Massive Advertising Traffic Spikes

When a digital marketing team launches an aggressive display network campaign, they measure success in clicks, impressions, and conversions. However, for IT operations and DevOps teams, that same success manifests as a massive, often unpredictable surge in server requests. A sudden influx of users can be a triumph for brand visibility, but it quickly becomes a nightmare if the underlying web and mobile cloud infrastructure is not equipped to handle the heavy load. Bridging the gap between marketing ambition and technical reality requires robust planning, dynamic resource provisioning, and intelligent system monitoring. Without these elements, a successful ad campaign can accidentally execute a self-inflicted denial of service attack on a company's own platforms. Modern businesses cannot afford the disconnect that often exists between the departments generating traffic and the teams responsible for keeping the lights on. Aligning these two functions ensures that the digital infrastructure is primed and ready long before the first advertisement goes live.

Why Release Management Is Broken and How to Fix It

Are you tired of slow, expensive, and ineffective Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings? In this video, Eric Minick from Harness explores the evolution of release management and how to transition from traditional manual approvals to a streamlined, automated DevOps approach. What You'll Learn: Whether you are a release manager or a DevOps engineer, learn how to build a reliable audit trail while accelerating your software delivery.