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Deploying a SolidStart app to Vercel with CircleCI

Deploying web apps can feel overwhelming. Multiple moving parts, including frameworks, hosting, databases, and automation tools make having a smooth, automated workflow seem impossible. But having an automated workflow is worth the effort; you can focus on building features and improving your app instead of worrying about manual deployments or server management.

How to Optimize Azure Costs and Improve Cloud Efficiency with FinOps

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, Dustin Mullenix from KPMG talks about his role leading a FinOps team that handles Azure spend for KPMG's audit business. He shares how internal FinOps teams work with consulting groups, the challenges of Azure's service tiers like managed disks and SQL options, and the trade-offs between cost and performance. Dustin discusses how to handle cost changes, manage knowledge in a big company, this talk is useful for anyone dealing with cloud costs in a large setup.

You're Late to the OpenTofu Party. Here's Why That's a Problem.

OpenTofu has emerged as the true open successor to Terraform, restoring transparency and community ownership after Terraform’s shift to a restrictive BSL license. With features like OCI registries, encryption at rest, and a public RFC process, it’s already outpacing Terraform’s innovation.

How to Use MetricFire Logging: Visualize Logs & Metrics Together in Grafana

Want full visibility into your systems? In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to use Grafana Loki with Promtail on Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to stream logs alongside your metrics. All visualized in Grafana dashboards. No more toggling between tools — get the full observability stack in one place.

Deploying Dgraph Clusters to Cycle

One of the best parts of my job is helping Cycle users explore self-hosting options on the platform. This time, I had the pleasure of working with Dgraph (now a part of Hypermode). If you haven't heard of it, Dgraph is a distributed, horizontally scalable graph database that gives you a native graph storage/compute engine with distributed ACID transactions (via Raft and snapshot isolation) and first-class GraphQL.

The Ultimate Azure FinOps Guide: From Visibility to Optimization

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, host Michael chats with Anderson Oliveira, author of "FinOps Ultimate Guide for Azure." Anderson, a chemical engineer turned IT project manager, explains his journey into FinOps and breaks down his book, which focuses on organizing teams, measuring costs, tracking value, and building efficient practices on Azure. They discuss common challenges like stakeholder friction, the shift from CapEx to OpEx, and why focusing on value over just cutting costs is key for long-term success.

You Can't Fix What You Don't Measure: Observability in the Age of AI with Conor Bronsdon

Only 50% of companies monitor their ML systems. Building observability for AI is not simple: it goes beyond 200 OK pings. In this episode, Sylvain Kalache sits down with Conor Brondsdon (Galileo) to unpack why observability, monitoring, and human feedback are the missing links to make large language model (LLM) reliable in production.

Access Real-Time Infrastructure Data With Puppet Infra Assistant #puppet #itautomation #aiops

Puppet Infra Assistant allows easy access to real-time infrastructure data to make faster data driven decisions. Be future-ready and effortlessly access vital infrastructure data with Puppet Infra Assistant; no Puppet experience required.

Easy JIRA Automation Anyone Can Do in Minutes

Tired of manually updating Jira issues after every change? Want to avoid the dreaded "what's the status of XYZ ticket" question? In this video, we’ll show you how to automate Jira updates using Smart Commits and Jira Automation Rules — so your issues always stay up to date without you lifting a finger. We’ll cover what they are and how they work, then walk through how to incorporate them into your workflows.