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How to balance reliability with other DevOps priorities

Reliability efforts do take up some bandwidth, but in the end it's worth it—as our customers find out when their outage costs go down. "Everyone has their own priorities that they're dealing with. Given unlimited time and money, absolutely everyone would want to build the best possible system that is the most secure, performant, resilient, and everything.

Avoiding Hidden AWS EKS Costs: A Guide to Cluster Management

In recent months, AWS has announced significant changes to its Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pricing structure, particularly concerning extended support for older K8s versions. This change is a crucial development for organizations that rely on AWS for their Kubernetes clusters, as it introduces potential cost increases for maintaining outdated versions.

Ribbon Voice Network Transformation - The Saving Pay for the Conversion

Ribbon's Fixed Network Transformation solutions consolidate and modernize infrastructure, eliminating inefficiencies. Ribbon provides solutions to transform both the core IP and optical networks and the IP-based communications services that run on top of that network, helping service providers expand and improve business services as well as enter new markets like unified 5G xhaul and broadband backhaul. At the same time, these transformations reduce the cost and complexity of delivering traditional residential communications services by dramatically reducing recurring power, HVAC, space, and staffing costs.

Beyond Monitoring: Empowering NOCs with Automation

In the ever-evolving landscape of network operations, the role of Network Operations Centers (NOCs) has become increasingly complex and demanding. Traditional monitoring and observability tools have been crucial in identifying and alerting teams to potential issues. However, as networks grow in complexity with the advent of IoT, 5G, and other digital advancements, the sheer volume of data and incidents can overwhelm even the most robust monitoring systems.

BYO Payload: Custom event sources for Signals have landed

Automated event payloads come in many shapes and sizes. These infinitely different event structures pose a problem for users who want to send them all to the same place to page on-call staff. Unless that on-call solution supports the schema directly, you’re out of luck. While we’re proud of the number of integrations we support today for event sources into on-call, we also think the best number that we should support is infinity.

Manage Ansible Collections with JFrog Artifactory

If you work with virtual machines or install and configure software on EC2 or leverage dynamic runtimes, chances are you’re also using Ansible. In fact, JFrog has supported installation via Ansible for some time. If they’re not using Red Hat, the way most organizations have managed their Ansible Collections – including Roles – is by storing them in Git repositories.

How to set up Grafana Mimir using Ansible

Gerard van Engelen is a seasoned DevOps engineer who ensures the quality of products by drawing parallels between complex issues and simpler, everyday scenarios. This approach helps in delivering value, ensuring that products are not only built correctly but also offer the right functionalities. Ansible is popular with system administrators and DevOps professionals who use it for automating IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration.

10 tips for Test Data Management success

The role of effective Test Data Management (TDM) is often underestimated in the software development process, yet it is a cornerstone for ensuring quality, compliance, and efficiency throughout the software development life cycle. As Bloor say in their Test Data Management Market Update 2024, “… many enterprises are, to quote one vendor we spoke to, “still in the stone age” when it comes to TDM.

How to see the size of your SharePoint Document Libraries

Managing document libraries in SharePoint can become a daunting task, especially when dealing with large amounts of data. Luckily, SmiKar’s SharePoint Storage Explorer (SSE) offers a simple and efficient way to generate comprehensive reports on your document libraries. In this post, we’ll walk you through the process of using SharePoint Storage Explorer to list the sizes of all document libraries, including the file count.