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Are You Managing Your Hybrid Cloud by Default?

In today's technology landscape, the hybrid cloud has become the backbone of today’s IT strategies. Combining the flexibility of public cloud services with the control of private infrastructure, hybrid cloud environments offer a balance of scalability, cost efficiency, and data sovereignty. But let’s be real: Managing these complex ecosystems isn't easy.

What is a vector database?

A vector database is a data storage system that organises information in the form of vectors, which are mathematical representations. These databases are designed to store, index, and query vector embeddings or numerical representations of unstructured data, including text documents, multimedia content, audio, geospatial coordinates, tables, and graphs.

Secure your stack with Canonical | Open Source Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is an ongoing challenge for many enterprises, and safeguarding systems against evolving threats requires proactive, diligent security assessments and monitoring. Security and compliance is a challenge for organizations, with research showing that 84% of codebase contains at least one vulnerability and requires about 100 days on average to apply those fixes. In this video, Cédric Gégout, VP Product Management at Canonical, dives into the complexities of securing open source systems and company infrastructures, sharing insights from Canonical’s 20+ years of experience.

Code Review Best Practices for Developers in 2024

*Cue infomercial voice* Has this ever happened to you? You’ve worked hard on a feature, run all your tests, and felt pretty good about it – until the review comes back. Next thing you know, you’re scouring through vague feedback and unclear comments like “this is confusing,” leaving you feeling frustrated that the review ever happened in the first place. Bad code reviews can suck the motivation out of any developer.

Retail ITOps: Boost Operational Resilience with Business Service Observability

david.arrowsmith • Oct 03, 2024 In today’s competitive and fast-paced retail environment, service availability is paramount to delivering exceptional customer experiences. As an ITOps Manager or Site Reliability Engineer in a large retail enterprise, you're tasked with managing complex, interdependent systems that support vital business functions such as supply chain operations, point-of-sale (POS) systems, and inventory management.

Azure Cost Allocation to manage Azure spend and get the most out of it

As more and more companies are moving their operations to the cloud, cost management becomes one of the significant concerns, and Azure cost allocation provides the solution for it. Due to the fact that more and more companies use Azure services, it has become crucial to define the correct Azure cost allocation and resource management.

Record an immutable record of all changes made to your LaunchDarkly feature flags with Kosli

We’re thrilled to introduce our latest integration with LaunchDarkly! This powerful combination allows you to keep an immutable record of all changes made to your feature flags using Kosli Trails, ensuring you have the information you need for audits, compliance checks, security investigations, and incident responses.

Announcing Cloud 66 Secrets

I love writing about features that take only a few sentences to introduce! Today, I am excited to tell you about Cloud 66 Secrets. Frankly, there is not much I can write about, because this is a feature that's easy to understand for all developers and we made it so easy to use that you will be up and running in minutes. But I'm going to try and write everything you might need to know about Cloud 66 Secrets here, so let's go!