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How to generate (attractive) colors in code?

Not all colors look good. Let me rephrase: not all colors look good on everything. This is even more applicable when it comes to websites. When put next to each other, it is important for colors to look good, have the right contrast and be readable. Thankfully there are ways to generate such colors - attractive, readable and complementary - using code. I started looking into generating attractive and complementary colors when we were working on a feature involving tags.

How to avoid spiraling up Azure Subscription costs?

Cloud adoption has got a tremendous uptrend as never before. The World pandemic has made startups, and enterprises move their legacy systems into Cloud to cut huge infrastructure maintenance costs. According to Gartner, cloud spending is forecasted to increase 23.1% at $332.3 billion in 2021 from $270 billion in 2020. We can even see enterprises using BizTalk servers moving to the Azure Cloud for better maintenance and features that confirm the above forecast.

Australian Government Essential 8

It seems that virtually every day, another threat to cybersecurity presents itself. In response to this ongoing concern, the Australian Cyber Security Centre has developed prioritized mitigation strategies, in the form of the Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents, to help organizations protect themselves against various cyber threats.

Multi-cloud Strategy with Azure

Multi cloud leverages public, private and hybrid cloud services and become a smart investment strategy for many businesses. Especially for mid-market and enterprise-level organisations it helps a lot in multiple ways. With the strategic distribution of your cloud management tasks between multiple providers, multi cloud adoption can help achieve greater efficiencies, take advantage of the economies of scale and establish the resilient performance of your virtual infrastructure.

Topio + JFrog | Scaling Continuous Software Delivery for Edge & IoT Applications

Enterprises came to expect that software that underpins their business can change at the speed of the market. Cloud-native technologies and modern DevOps tools enable enterprises to continuously deploy software updates across data centers and public clouds. But things often get slowed down when trying to update applications across mixed environments and large fleets of edges and IoT devices.

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.

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.