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2022 was another year of innovation and growth for SUSE’s Enterprise Container Management business. We introduced significant upgrades to our Rancher and NeuVector products, launched new open source projects and matured others. Exiting 2022, Rancher remains the industry’s most widely adopted container management platform and SUSE remains the preferred vendor for enabling enterprise cloud native transformation. Here’s a quick look at a few key themes from 2022.

In the early days of SaaS companies, most engineering and cloud operations teams weren’t tasked with monitoring or optimizing cloud costs. In fact, it would have been unlikely for these teams to care about cloud cost optimization at all, let alone take measures to fix issues and look for opportunities. Today, SaaS companies that want to secure a competitive foothold and ensure long-term success have to care about cloud costs.

Becoming a proficient DevOps professional involves mastering a wide range of technical and non-technical skills, as well as gaining a deep understanding of the principles and practices of DevOps. Here are some key steps that can help you to become a proficient DevOps professional.

When enterprises run online services, web servers play an essential role. They allow the software to surface on the world wide web and make it accessible through web browsers for customers worldwide. When the performance of a web server gets degraded or, even worst, if a web server is entirely down, it impacts not only the business bottom line but also the brand image for not providing reliable service to customers. Failure to manage web servers can also lead to security risks.

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service provides a variety of virtual machines (instances) for compute workloads. Among those, Amazon EC2 M5 instances are among the most versatile. In addition, there are different types of M5 instances available. Each of these has its own best use case. In this guide, we share an in-depth look at M5 instance types, sizes, and when to use them.

Most automation approaches start in the same place; coding. For years, IT professionals have relied on scripts or series of scripts to perform tasks and then link them to provide an ‘automation. No-code or low-code reduces complexity and resource overhead, allowing both non-technical and technical users to automate processes through graphical user interfaces (GUI). In most cases, this involves drag-and-drop boxes that imitate a user’s interactions in a process.

In this podcast, the three incident.io co-founders Stephen, Chris and Pete take a trip down memory lane, revisiting the story of how they came to found incident.io and the major milestones of the first 12 months in business.