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2023 has been a year of significant growth for Squadcast, with an expanding presence in both Mid-Market and Enterprise segments across IT Alerting and Incident Management categories. And with the release of the G2 Winter Report '23, it's an opportune moment to share some of our key achievements.

I'm thrilled to announce the global availability of the port-forwarding feature via the Qovery CLI (v0.77.0). This feature marks a significant stride in application access and security, allowing users to securely access not only their applications but also containers and managed databases without exposing them to the public internet. This advancement aligns with our commitment to providing developers an unparalleled experience, focusing on autonomy, security, and ease of use.

FinOps, short for Financial Operations, is not just a term but a transformative approach that combines finance, operations, and engineering teams. At its core, it empowers organizations to take control of their cloud spending, optimizing resources while aligning seamlessly with business goals.

Your applications are only as powerful as they are iterable. To keep up with their rapidly changing production environments, your teams need reliable CI/CD systems that implement best practices—including build and test automation, flaky test management, and deployment management. By optimizing their CI/CD pipelines, your teams can build their apps more efficiently, deploy them more safely, and catch bugs and security vulnerabilities before they make it to production.

Microsoft’s Azure Synapse is a cloud-based analytics service that transforms how organizations analyze and visualize large datasets in real-time for better decision-making. To maximize its benefits, effective cost management is crucial, emphasizing the importance of “Azure Synapse cost optimization.” This analytics powerhouse accelerates insight across data warehouses and big data systems by integrating SQL and Spark technologies, along with tools like Data Explorer and Pipelines.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has revolutionized the way organizations deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes. However, optimizing costs on EKS infrastructure remains a challenge for many. Enter Karpenter, a Kubernetes-native node autoscaler designed to improve resource efficiency.

2023 at incident.io was a year to remember. While it's easy to be cyclical about proclaiming that every year was better than the last, a few things stand out that made 2023 truly a year for the books. TL;DR, a lot happened! Especially when you consider that a lot of things didn't make the list above. So as we turn the page to 2024, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the transformative year that was 2023, not only for us but our customers as well.