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CloudZero is a platform that helps you understand cost — but that doesn't mean it's purely a finance tool. In fact, unlike most other cloud cost management and optimization solutions, it’s built for engineering. However, CloudZero still makes a lot of finance teams very happy. First of all, the work that engineering teams do while using CloudZero saves money, which every finance team appreciates.

CEO and Founder, Shipa Corp We see people talking more and more about Kubernetes these days, and if I have to guess, these conversations will continue to grow. Still, the reality is that most enterprise companies are just starting to explore Kubernetes, or they are at the very early stages of scaling it. As you deploy production-grade apps on Kubernetes, both developers and DevOps teams realize that operationalizing applications on Kubernetes can be way more complicated than expected.

Microsoft Azure has just announced the details of its new Azure Arc Validation Program, aiming to further increase customer confidence in deploying Arc enabled Kubernetes in production workloads, and at scale.

Let us get an insight on how Grafana and Prometheus work together for monitoring metrics. Application monitoring is a crucial feature for any successful software offering. Application monitoring in its simplest form refers to collecting metrics on an application and using those metrics to gain an insight to improve the performance and efficiency of the application. Think of it as a cycle. Grafana and Prometheus are probably the most prominent tools in the application monitoring and analytics space.

The best way to reduce your EC2 costs is to integrate MetricFire with CloudWatch. So let us first read what is AWS all about! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud storage and computing services platform that offers a variety of combinations for file storage, database storage, computing options, and content delivery networks.

Our 2020 State of DevOps Report focuses on two areas that can help organizations scale their DevOps initiative: a platform approach to software delivery and applying DevOps principles to change management. We found that internal platform usage is widespread — 63 percent of respondents report their company has at least one self-service internal platform.

The modern technology landscape is ever-changing, with an increasing focus on methodologies and practices. Recently we’re seeing a clash between two of the newer and most popular players: DevOps vs DevSecOps. With new methodologies come new mindsets, approaches, and a change in how organizations run. What’s key for you to know, however, is, are they different? If so, how are they different? And, perhaps most importantly, what does this mean for you and your development team?

11 Tips for Avoiding Cloud Vendor Lock-In Cloud vendor lock-in. In cloud computing, software or computing infrastructure is commonly outsourced to cloud vendors. When the cost and effort of switching to a new vendor is too high, you can become “locked in” to a single cloud vendor. Once a vendor’s software is incorporated into your business, it’s easy to become dependent upon that software and the knowledge needed to operate it.