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Enterprise Drupal: Why hosting all your apps on one platform matters

For many enterprises, Drupal has been the backbone of their web operations for years. It’s a battle-tested CMS that handles complex content needs with elegance. But business needs have evolved. Today, it’s rare for a company to rely only on Drupal. They are spinning up Python APIs, .NET backend services, Node.js apps, Java microservices — expanding their digital ecosystems around Drupal’s core.

Navigating Shopware logs and slow pages in a real world scenario

A Shopware store goes from smooth to sluggish—pages take 10 seconds to load, even longer in some cases. What happened? In this post, we tell the true story of how one overlooked plugin setting nearly collapsed a storefront, and how it was resolved using native tools. If you’re shipping code in Shopware without clear performance observability, this is your wake-up call. Everything was working, until it wasn’t.

How to Configure Docker's Shared Memory Size (/dev/shm)

Your Node.js app runs fine on your machine. But inside Docker? You start getting weird crashes—ENOSPC: no space left on device. Chrome headless tests fail out of nowhere. PostgreSQL throws shared memory errors under load. The problem? It’s probably /dev/shm, the shared memory volume Docker sets up by default. Most containers get just 64MB of space here.

Amazon SQS Metrics: Monitor, Debug, and Optimize Your Message Queues

Message queues quietly take care of a lot—buffering workloads, smoothing traffic spikes, and keeping services connected. But they don’t always get much attention until something feels off. Amazon SQS offers a solid set of metrics to help you understand how your queues are doing, whether you’re scaling well or nearing limits. This blog breaks down the key SQS metrics: where to find them, what they mean, and how to respond when things start to shift.

How to Deploy Helm Charts on Kubernetes the Easy Way with Qovery

Deploying Helm charts on Kubernetes can be complex, especially when dealing with configuration overrides, security, and environment-specific setups. In this article, we show how Qovery simplifies Helm chart deployment through a seamless developer experience, robust security defaults, and powerful automation, without sacrificing flexibility.

Kubernetes Costs: More Than Meets The Eye

As organizations expand their Kubernetes deployments and scale production workloads, effective cost management becomes an essential priority. The rapid innovation demanded from development teams often intersects with a shortage of advanced Kubernetes expertise, leading to resource inefficiencies and unnecessary expenses. This challenge is further amplified by the growing prevalence of AI/ML workloads and the intricate demands of GPU utilization.

#046 - Simulating, Scheduling, and Saving: Optimizing Kubernetes with David Morrison (Applied Res...

In this episode, Itiel has an insightful conversation with Dr. David Morrison, a research scientist and founder specializing in Kubernetes scheduling and autoscaling. David shares his journey from operations research to leading distributed systems efforts at tech giants like Yelp and Airbnb. Learn about the transition from Apache Mesos to Kubernetes at Yelp, including the role of their open-source API layer, Pasta.

32 Best FinOps Tools For 2025: Features And Comparison

In recent years, cloud financial management has evolved beyond what many cloud stakeholders anticipated. The overwhelm has led too many companies to struggle to accurately monitor, allocate, and optimize their cloud costs. This issue cost companies about 30% of their cloud budgets in 2022 alone, according to Gartner. With FinOps, you can prevent this bleeding without sacrificing innovation. Yet, taking a manual approach to FinOps can be inefficient and error-prone.

Windows VPS Hosting in Practice: Insights from the Kamatera Platform

When diving into the world of Windows VPS hosting, it's essential to choose a provider that offers robust performance, flexibility, and reliability. Kamatera stands out as a dominant player in this domain, providing an expansive suite of features tailored to enhance user experiences and system capabilities. By harnessing the full potential of Kamatera's platform, you can streamline your digital operations, ensuring they are both efficient and effective.

Best HubSpot Connector Apps

HubSpot connectors are the backbone of modern CRM operations, marketing, and sales. These powerful tools let you break down data silos, sync information across platforms, and build automated workflows. Whether you’re connecting databases, analytics tools, or custom-built systems, HubSpot connector apps can help you get more out of every lead, campaign, and customer interaction. As great as these tools are, not all will work for you.