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Practical Workflows for Managing Vulnerabilities using Cloudsmith

Worried about supply chain attacks and hidden vulnerabilities compromising your organization's software integrity? Join Alison Sickelka, VP Product, and Ciara Carey, Developer Relations, as they lead our webinar, 'Practical Workflows for Managing Vulnerabilities using Cloudsmith.' Discover how Cloudsmith serves as your organization's central source of truth for builds, mitigating risks, optimizing workflows, and ensuring global distribution.

The Simple Formula To Calculate SaaS Gross Margin

SaaS is a competitive sector, so finding ways to win on gross margin is increasingly crucial. By finding sustainable strategies that either increase your revenue or minimize your cost of goods sold (COGS), your SaaS company can gain a competitive advantage. Every SaaS brand wants to be profitable, but the definition of profitability varies greatly.

24 Agile metrics to track in 2024 | What, Why, and How

Agile metrics are key performance indicators (KPIs) that help measure, evaluate, and optimize the efficiency of Agile software development practices, processes, and outputs. They provide visibility into how well Agile teams are delivering value, enabling data-driven decisions, and fostering continuous improvement. Agile metrics sit under the broader umbrella of software engineering metrics, which track code quality, system performance, release velocity, and more.

Introduction to Apache Kafka

Have you heard about Apache Kafka but aren’t quite sure about its functions or applications? This webinar is tailored for you. Apache Kafka is more than just a buzzword in the tech community; it’s a critical tool for data processing and management. Join our expert-led webinar to explore the world of Apache Kafka, a powerful distributed event streaming platform. Learn how Canonical simplifies Kafka operations, offering secure, automated deployments and maintenance across various clouds.

Upgrade to SCOM 2022: Choosing between in-place upgrade and side-by-side installation

Upgrade to SCOM 2022: Choosing between in-place upgrade and side-by-side installation With mainstream support for SCOM 2019 ending on the 9th of April 2024, it is time to start planning for the upgrade to SCOM 2022. However, there are several factors to consider before making an upgrade. One of them is whether you should choose an in-place upgrade or a side-by-side installation. In this blog post, we aim to give you some important aspects to evaluate when making your decision.

Telco-grade Sylva-compliant Canonical platforms

In December 2023, Canonical joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe to provide fully open-source and upstream telco platform solutions to the project. Sylva aims to tackle the fragmentation in telco cloud technologies and the vendor lock-in caused by proprietary platform solutions, by defining a common validation software framework for telco core and edge clouds.

How to detect and overcome Kubernetes CPU Throttling

A few days ago, I challenged myself: Could I create a CPU throttling monitor without using StackState's docs page? I'll go a bit deeper into CPU throttling later, but first: Why this mission? At StackState, we believe that every software developer should be able to observe the health and reliability of their own application — quickly and easily.

Finally: alerting and on-call scheduling for how you actually work

TL;DR You deserve a better alerting and on-call tool. So we built Signals. In our early days, we often used the tagline, “You just got paged. Now what?” It encapsulated how FireHydrant solved for all of the messy bits that come after your alert is fired, from incident declaration all the way through to retrospective. At the time, we saw alerting and on-call scheduling as a solved problem.