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[Webinar] 5 Things to Consider When Migrating Databases to Kubernetes with Komodor & Ondat

Kubernetes is eating the world...at least the world of modern software engineering. Besides their applications, most businesses consider their data as the holy grail. It is key to the value they deliver. As they progress through application modernization, Kubernetes is the natural foundation to support their effort. But where should the data go? Is Kubernetes safe enough to take care of it? How to prepare for DB related incidents in an everchanging environment?

Understanding AWS EC2 Billing: Ways To Optimize Your Costs

EC2 instances come with a spider web of charges — when you take a look at your bill, you’ll see there are hundreds of unique line items connected to your usage. In addition to the instance, you’re also billed for storage, data transfer, and networking associated with that instance. It’s important to fully understand those charges so you can find ways to optimize your costs.

Managing the Complex Networks of Financial Services

It’s no surprise that monitoring and managing networks in the financial services industry is a complex task with plenty of challenges. In addition to the “standard” networking requirements, like high availability and traffic capacity planning, IT in the finance industry has to deal with regulatory and industry-specific challenges that create even more issues to deal with.

New Upsun overview video: a proven, 5-step approach helps explain a complex concept

The question that people who don’t know us constantly ask, “What does Upsun do, exactly?” Our new overview video aims to answer just that. We took a five-step approach to ensure our message was both clear and succinct: We hope that this video addresses the question about what Upsun does and inspires you to use the same five-step framework when you’re tasked with explaining a difficult concept.

Deploy Friday: E80 Sylius - the enterprise open-source e-commerce platform

Sylius - the Polish startup conquering the French market & making more and more buzz in the international e-commerce platform landscape. Why? What is unique about this software and the company behind it? How does it align with Platform.sh? Meet the people running the business growth of this new exciting product.

What is object storage?

Object storage has by far the most simplistic interface out there, with no need for complicated SCSI drivers, HBA drivers, multipathing tools, or volume managers embedded into your Operating System. All you need to do is point your application at an HTTP endpoint, and use a simple set of verbs to describe what you want to do with a piece of data. Do you want to PUT it somewhere for safekeeping? Do you want to GET it so that you can do some work with that piece of data?

Writing a Book Using Git and Staying Organized on a Project

Git can be intimidating for non-developers, even though it’s in use by businesses and organizations across the world. In what other ways can we use Git to build and structure our lives? In this talk from the GitKon Git conference by Jessi Shakarian from DIA Design Guild, we will look at how you can use Git and GitKraken to brainstorm, draft, and edit parts of a book. Using Git for writers is just one example of how Git can be used beyond coding.