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Beyond AI hype: put reliability at the forefront

Jul 31, 2025 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Reliability is a constant for every technology, whether it’s cloud, microservices, or AI. Full transcript:  Just a few years ago everybody was screaming about microservices, "That's the wave of the future," and now everybody's looking at AI. No matter what the change in technology hot topic is, your reliability should still be at the forefront of everything that you're doing.
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How To Start A FinOps Career: Roles, Skills, Jobs, And Growth Paths

Jul 31, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Want to know how to get a job in FinOps? You’re not alone. FinOps careers are rapidly emerging as essential roles in tech, helping companies manage cloud costs without slowing down innovation. These roles sit at the intersection of finance, engineering, and cloud operations. FinOps roles and responsibilities are expanding fast. In this guide, you’ll learn what FinOps professionals do, how to frame your skills for the job, what certifications help, and how to grow your FinOps career over time.
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spike

9 Best Incident Response Tools (Plus 4 Open-Source Options)

Jul 30, 2025 By Sreekar In Spike
I’ve curated a list of 9 best incident response tools, plus 4 open-source options for you. But first, a quick note: Many people mix up alerting, monitoring, and incident response. Incident response is what you do after receiving an alert. It includes alert acknowledgment, escalations, incident communication, post-incident analysis, and response automation. Yes, some of these (incident communication and post-incident analysis) overlap with incident management.
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Komodor

Kubernetes Is Powerful-But It's Slowing You Down. Here's How to Fix It.

Jul 30, 2025 By Sudheer Goparaju In Komodor
Ask any SRE what slows them down in a Kubernetes incident, and the answer is usually too much information in too many different places. Kubernetes has changed the way we run software. It’s given us incredible flexibility, scalability, and power. But in the years I’ve worked in cloud operations and platform engineering, I’ve also seen how that power comes at a price: complexity.
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Developing Modules for Puppet and the Forge in 2025

Jul 30, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
Since announcing changes to our OSS plans as well as introducing the new licensing starting with PDK 3.5.0, the team has received questions from the community around how the changes will affect them. In this article, we’ll highlight some helpful resources about how you can develop and contribute to modules on the Forge and ensure compatibility with Puppet Core and Puppet Enterprise.
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cloudzero

SQS Vs. SNS: Choosing The Right AWS Messaging Service

Jul 30, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Picture this. You recently shipped a new feature, and things were working smoothly — until they didn’t. Now, one service is timing out. Another is overloaded. You dig in and realize the issue is with how your systems communicate. Messages are not arriving when or where they should. Your team had set up Amazon SNS for notifications and Amazon SQS for processing tasks. But somewhere along the way, the difference between SQS vs. SNS (and how they’re wired together) got lost in translation.
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FinOps Is Not A Side Hustle

Jul 30, 2025 By David Aponovich In CloudZero
When rideshare drivers talk about a “side hustle”, they mean working a few hours on weekends to make extra cash. That’s fine for pocket money, but it’s catastrophic when the “hustle” is controlling your cloud and AI spend. Right now, too many companies run FinOps the way they run the office coffee pot: A volunteer refills it when things look empty.
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Collecting and Visualizing Metrics in Puppet Enterprise

Jul 30, 2025 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
This walkthrough covers how to enable and leverage metrics collection in Puppet Enterprise for monitoring and troubleshooting your Puppet infrastructure. Presented by Barr Iserloth and Tony Green learn how to activate metrics logging, integrate with visualization tools like Grafana, and diagnose Puppet Server, PuppetDB, and system-level behaviors with real-time observability.
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Rancher Live: What is Developer Advocacy?

Jul 30, 2025 By Rancher In Rancher
Join us for an engaging Rancher live stream hosted by Orlin Vasilev, as we dive into the world of Developer Advocacy—what it really means, why it matters, and how it's evolving in the cloud-native space. Orlin will be joined by two powerhouse guests in the field: Jorge Castro – a community strategist and long-time open source advocate, known for his work with Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems. Jorge brings deep insights from years of building developer communities and bridging the gap between engineers and users.
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