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Site Reliability Engineering: Top SRE Tools As Voted On By SREs

Catchpoint is proud to present the top SRE tools as voted on by SREs. In our fourth annual SRE Survey, compiled in partnership with VMware Tanzu Observability and DevOps Institute, we simply asked, “What are a few tools that every SRE should have available in their toolbelt?” Today, we are excited to share the findings with you. While some of the answers were not strictly tools, the analysis gives us valuable insight into the mindset of an SRE.

Why Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Visibility Is Everybody's Problem

When you have workloads running in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment, it’s hard to get a unified view of your entire infrastructure. In fact, Virtana’s recently published State of Hybrid Cloud and FinOps survey reveals that only 36% of respondents said they have comprehensive, unified visibility and management capabilities across all their public clouds, leaving more than two-thirds (68%) with less-than-ideal conditions for managing their multi-cloud infrastructure.

General availability announcement

After nearly 2 years of perfecting our product during our beta phase and just over 5 months since we opened for early access, I have great pleasure in announcing that Civo is now 'General Availability'. It's taken us over 4 years to get to where we are today, with a colossal amount of work being contributed by our team to build the Civo platform and developer eco-system. I can honestly say that we're lucky to have so many amazing people at Civo.

New Trends In Network-As-A-Service

Enterprise adoption of what has become known as Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is being spurred by several factors, not least of which is the ‘technical hangover’ exposed by the global pandemic. Find out how the consumerisation of IT, the shift from capex to opex consumption of enterprise services, and the need to respond to changing market dynamics quickly, are all creating the perfect storm for NaaS adoption...

Configuration, Access, and Connection to GCP CloudSQL for PostgreSQL

GCP is increasingly being used by teams all over. In this blog, Uzziah explains how CloudSQL is Google Cloud Platform’s solution that provides a managed PostgreSQL and MySQL server. Relational databases are the preferred choice for persisting data in most non-trivial applications. CloudSQL is Google Cloud Platform’s solution that provides a managed PostgreSQL and MySQL server.

General availability announcement

After nearly 2 years of perfecting our product during our beta phase and just over 5 months since we opened for early access, I have great pleasure in announcing that Civo is now 'General Availability'. It's taken us over 4 years to get to where we are today, with a colossal amount of work being contributed by our team to build the Civo platform and developer eco-system. I can honestly say that we're lucky to have so many amazing people at Civo.