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Building Resilience from Architecture to Production with AWS & Gremlin

Unreliable software can have a painful impact on your customers and your business—something we’ve all seen and felt during high-profile outages. And while building on the cloud with AWS unlocks improved scaling and reliability capabilities, the complexity of modern distributed systems can potentially introduce outage-causing reliability risks. How can you be sure your systems are resilient to failure when they’re based on complex architecture, built by hundreds of teams, and are being updated almost constantly?

Maximize Azure Stack HCI Performance: Proven Resource Optimization Techniques

Looking to optimize your Azure Stack HCI and boost the efficiency of your on-prem infrastructure? Watch this exclusive on-demand webinar to learn actionable strategies for improving performance and reducing costs, tailored specifically for IT professionals managing Azure Stack HCI environments.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Guide for DevOps Teams in 2024

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has become a critical component for DevOps teams striving to maintain high-performing, reliable applications. This comprehensive guide explores everything modern DevOps teams need to know about implementing and optimizing their APM strategy.

Azure Savings Plans and Reservations: Unlocking Cloud Cost Savings

FinOps Certified practitioner Mike Stephenson talks with Obinna Nwokolo from Microsoft's Azure team about how businesses can save money using Azure's pricing options. They explain two main ways to save: Azure savings plans, which let customers commit to a certain spending level for flexibility and reservations, where customers reserve specific resources for a set time.

ASP.NET Core Blazor Best Practices - Architecture and Performance Optimization

Adopting Blazor best practices is the only way to get your ASP.NET Core applications on the right track. Rather than juggling between C# for the backend logics and JavaScript for the frontend interactions, you can use Blazor to build interactive web apps using only C#. It makes your development process easier, reduces context switching, and lets you create a more cohesive codebase.

Smooth Sailing to Amazon EKS: How Cortex Scorecards Simplify Your Kubernetes Migration

Migrating a Kubernetes cluster from a self-hosted environment to Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) offers considerable operational benefits—but this transition also brings challenges in reliability, compliance, and observability. By leveraging Cortex Scorecards, teams gain clear insights and structured benchmarks to simplify and improve the migration process. Here’s how Cortex Scorecards can make your EKS migration efficient and resilient.

How to Achieve SOC-2 Compliance on AWS

SOC-2 is a critical framework that ensures the security, availability, integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of systems and data. It is particularly important for organizations handling sensitive customer information. If you are using any cloud vendor, especially AWS, and aiming for SOC-2 certification then this article is for you. We will provide insights into how AWS supports SOC-2 compliance, and also go through a comprehensive roadmap and practical strategies for meeting these essential standards.

Our Plans for Open Source Puppet in 2025

In early 2025, Puppet will begin to ship any new binaries and packages developed by our team to a private, hardened, and controlled location. Our intention with this change is not to limit community access to Puppet source code, but to address the growing risk of vulnerabilities across all software applications today while continuing to provide the security, support, and stability our customers deserve.

Introducing AI-Enhanced Data Generation to Redgate Test Data Manager

We’re excited to reveal our latest effort towards simplifying and accelerating the test data management process: AI Synthetic Data Generation, part of Redgate Test Data Manager. Officially introduced in a session at the recent PASS Data Community Summit, the capability uses machine learning to rapidly generate realistic yet entirely synthetic data – all while maintaining data integrity and with data privacy built-in as priority.