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Introducing New dotConnect Integrations With Zoho and Major Updates

dotConnect stands at the forefront of database connectivity, providing a robust solution for linking.NET applications with various database systems. In its latest update, dotConnect has introduced exciting new products and significant upgrades to its existing lineup, enhancing its appeal to developers and IT professionals.

Announcing Devart's New dotConnect Providers for Zoho Desk & Zoho Books

We are extremely happy to herald the release of brand new dotConnect data providers for Zoho Books and Zoho Desk. In today’s business world, the significance of efficiency and accuracy in managing finances and customer service has reached unprecedented levels. This is the reason why we extend our dotConnect product line to Zoho applications, providing our users with helpful tools to optimize their workflows and enhance productivity.

How To Reduce The Alert Noise For Optimal On-Call Performance

The relentless push in organizations can have unintended consequences, particularly for your On-Call engineers. One threat that can quickly erode their effectiveness is alert noise. When your On-Call engineers are bombarded by constant alerts (– genuine emergencies, false positives or redundant notifications) it creates a state of information overload, forcing them to constantly switch context and struggle to identify the critical issues amidst the din. The result?

6 GitHub Collaboration Problems Solved by GitKraken's Tools

Picture this: you’re working on a big project with tight deadlines, juggling multiple pull requests, and just when you think you’re getting ahead, you hit a merge conflict that throws everything into chaos. Your inbox is flooded with GitHub notifications, you’ve lost track of which issues are the most urgent, and the code review feedback is as clear as mud. Sound familiar? Well, you’re not alone.

How to Troubleshoot Kubernetes in Minutes

In this "Observability in Action" video, Andreas Prins, CEO of StackState, shares how you can troubleshoot Kubernetes in minutes by… Streamline your Kubernetes monitoring and troubleshooting with StackState’s full stack observability. Sign up for our free trial to see all your Kubernetes resources in one place and get the visibility and guidance you need to detect and fix issues in minutes.

Archiving and Compliance in SharePoint

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, managing extensive document volumes in SharePoint Online is a challenging task for any organization. As businesses expand, there is an increasing demand for efficient, cost-effective storage solutions that provide space savings, ensure compliance, and offer easy access. Squirrel is a cutting-edge SaaS solution designed to automate the archiving process by moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.

Installing & Setting Up #GitLens in VS Code #tutorial #shorts

Looking for the ultimate GitLens tutorial? We've got you covered! In Part 1, learn how to quickly install and set up GitLens in VS Code so you can get started optimizing your workflow in no time. Watch the full video here on YouTube to uncover tips and tricks that will help you become a GitLens pro!

How SQL Prompt Help Teams- Frank Geisler | Redgate

Frank Geisler, CEO of GDS Business Intelligence GmbH, explains how SQL Prompt helps teams. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works..

5 Ways To Optimize Skyrocketing Observability Costs

Many of our customers frequently ask us how they can calculate the ROI of their observability platforms. It’s a tough question, and one that comes up because company decision-makers often feel like they may be overpaying for observability when things are running smoothly – especially when it comes to their applications.

What is Developer Experience (DevEx) and Why It Matters?

Developer Experience (DevEx) has rapidly gained attention and emerged as a pivotal factor influencing not only the efficacy of software creation but also the overall satisfaction and productivity of developers. But what exactly is DevEx, and why is it so crucial? In this article I will address the multifaceted nature of DevEx, exploring its significance, components, and practical strategies to enhance it.

Celebrating Türk Telekom's Win for DCIM/DC Management Innovation of the Year at DCS Awards 2024

We are thrilled to congratulate Türk Telekom for their outstanding achievement in winning the DCIM/DC Management Innovation of the Year award at the DCS Awards 2024. This recognition is a testament to their exceptional commitment to innovation, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence in the data center industry. The DCS Awards recognize success stories, technological advancements, and significant contributions in the data center industry.

Network observability in Kubernetes clusters for better security and faster troubleshooting

For DevOps and platform teams working with containers and Kubernetes, reducing downtime and improving security posture is crucial. A clear understanding of network topology, service interactions, and workload dependencies is required in cloud-native applications. This is essential for securing and optimizing the Kubernetes deployment and minimizing response time in the event of failure.

How To Ensure a Successful Database Upgrade

Ensuring smooth transitions during application upgrades are important. Maintaining system consistency and stability with a database upgrade is paramount. Databases are complex systems with numerous stored procedures, each intricately linked to critical functionalities. Changes to these procedures during an upgrade could potentially disrupt overall system performance and negatively impact thousands of customers.

The Complete Incident Management Tech Stack To Increase Performance, Reduce Cost And Optimize Tool Sprawl

Effective Incident Management is crucial for keeping your IT services reliable and available. Imagine having a tech stack that not only boosts performance but also cuts costs and reduces tool overload—sounds perfect, right? But finding that ideal mix of tools and best practices can feel overwhelming. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!

Megaport Enhancing Connectivity in Canberra

As the demand for cloud services continues to grow, ensuring security, compliance, and reliability remains paramount, especially for government entities and affiliated sectors. Megaport is meeting these critical needs with its recently expanded network in Canberra, providing robust and secure connectivity options for such users.

The CTO is responsible for reliability and availability

Who's ultimately responsible for reliability? "You need an executive champion that cares about this. And to me, it's the CTO. The CTO is responsible for the quality of the code that you're writing, the quality of the customer experience, the quality of the product. And so, you know, your software doesn't work. The quality is zero. Not half points here. If you can't use it, it doesn't work.

Orphaned Resources in Kubernetes: Detection, Impact, and Prevention Tips

Once upon a time, in a tech company, an engineering team had the freedom to independently deploy updates and new features to a Kubernetes cluster. This autonomy helped speed up development but also led to unforeseen issues with resource management. The platform team responsible for maintaining the cluster's health noticed an increase in orphaned Persistent Volumes (PV), a piece of plug-in storage independent of other Kubernetes cluster pods.

GitLens Tutorial: How to use the VS Code Extension

Learn GitLens with this comprehensive tutorial. Discover how to use GitLens rich set of features to enhance your IDE in Visual Studio Code. Perfect for beginners and experienced users alike, this GitLens tutorial is your expert guide to mastering this essential tool. GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into VS Code. Whether you’re a seasoned Git developer or just getting started, GitLens makes it easier, safer and faster to leverage the full power of Git. This GitLens tutorial will show you how to use GitLens in VS Code and get the most out of the tool.

Canonical releases Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

London, 30 May 2024. Today Canonical announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. By ensuring high-priority processes are executed first, with deterministic response times, Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS reduces latency compared to mainline Linux and enhances the system’s ability to handle time-sensitive operations effectively.

Elevating Kubernetes Operations with Komodor's Continuous Reliability Management

Kubernetes is the linchpin for orchestrating containerized applications. However, with great power comes great complexity. As seasoned professionals in the tech sphere, we understand that the true challenge lies not in deploying Kubernetes clusters, but in ensuring their continuous reliability and efficiency at scale. This is where Komodor steps in, redefining the landscape of Kubernetes management with our latest suite of reliability management capabilities.

Introducing our Terraform provider: Dashboards as Code

Ever wished you could automatically generate a detailed and targeted dashboard at the end of your CI/CD pipeline for immediate visibility into your new deployments? Well, that’s exactly what we’re doing at SquaredUp, and we're excited to share our approach to integrating Dashboards as Code.

Azure Budget Monitoring - A Step-by-Step Guide

When it comes to managing costs in the Azure cloud, it is essential to have a reliable system that can help you keep track of your spending and alert you when you are getting close to exceeding your budget. This is where Turbo360’s Budgets monitoring feature comes in. The Budgets monitoring feature in Turbo360 is designed specifically for Azure cost monitoring.

You're Not Too Late to the AI Party with Joey de Villa

Join Joey de Villa in his engaging Civo Navigate talk, "You're Not Too Late to the AI Party," where he demystifies artificial intelligence and reassures developers of all levels that there's still plenty of time to get involved. Joey's presentation is part technical deep dive, part career advice, and 100% entertaining. He covers the history of AI, current trends, and the ethical considerations we must navigate as this technology evolves. Perfect for software developers, Python enthusiasts, and anyone curious about AI's future.

Auto-generate documents on your Azure App registration details

Azure App Registration plays a crucial role in securing and managing the applications in your Azure environment enabling secure interaction with various Azure services. Given the importance of Azure App registration in authentication and security, this blog will provide a way to document its details and manage it effortlessly.

What we can learn from Google's UniSuper incident comms

Earlier this month, an inadvertent misconfiguration in an internal tool used by Google Cloud resulted in the deletion of a user’s GCVE Private Cloud. The user in question? UniSuper Australia — a $125 billion Australian pension fund with over 600,000 users. In this post, Ashley reflects on the communications shared and what we can learn from them.

Building The Plane: Reflections On A Successful Year One At CloudZero

Startup veterans will recognize the opportunity presented by an early-stage company: You not only get to run your organization, you get to define how it runs. All the pieces may not be in place by the time you arrive, and the heart of the job becomes building the organization — the plane — while you run it.

Weekly Cost Summary Notification in Azure

This video explores the weekly cost summary notification alert in Turbo360. Learn how to stay updated on reserved spend with alerts via email, Slack, Teams, or ServiceNow. See detailed reports, track spending changes, and explore resource costs easily. This video also talks about the recent optimizations that have led to a 6.7% ( week on week) reduction in Azure costs. Stay informed and manage your costs effectively.

From Chaos to Calm: Streamlining Enterprise Ops for Proactive Reliability

Discover how Squadcast revolutionizes incident management for enterprises. Learn how to reduce alert fatigue, automate incident response, and gain valuable insights from past incidents. Our experts will share real-world use cases and demonstrate how Squadcast can streamline your operations, leading to improved reliability and faster resolution times. Key Takeaways.

How to Connect the JFrog Platform to Your GitHub Environment to Create a Seamless Integration

The latest JFrog collaboration with GitHub enables you to easily combine your favorite solutions for source code and binaries in a seamless integration. This means you now have a unified comprehensive and secure end-to-end experience that supports your software projects. This integration covers everything from curating open source packages, coding, CI, release management, deployment and production. Including three major improvements to your developer experience.

What's in a name? Data residency vs Data Sovereignty vs Local Legal Mandates

Even the largest global companies have challenges operating across multiple countries, moving and storing data and navigating multiple jurisdictions. In the globalised digital economy, data can flow across borders in milliseconds. But the legal frameworks governing this data vary widely from one jurisdiction to another. If the UK, Europe and the US are characterised by robust data protection laws, so are many other countries, including the Nordics, Australia, India and China, to name a few.

My Favourite feature of Prompt+ - Frank Geisler | Redgate

Frank Geisler, CEO of GDS Business Intelligence GmbH, explains his favourite feature of Prompt+. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works..

What is your favorite story of Hyperview helping a client?

We have two. The first is a client who was spending $700k annually on manual audits for their data centers. They were unaware that these error-prone and costly audits could be replaced with automation. By eliminating physical audits through our Asset Tracking RFID solution, they not only achieved greater accuracy and speed but also saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.

CI/CD: The Key to Accelerating Software Development and Delivery

The CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline stands as a pivotal tool in modern software development. It comprises a sequence of automated steps essential for delivering updated software versions seamlessly. CI/CD pipelines are pivotal in enhancing software delivery across the development lifecycle through automation.

Engineering Data Systems for the next 10 years of growth with Amit Kesarwani

Join Amit Kesarwani from Treeverse as he discusses the historical progression of machine learning and introduces lakeFS, an open-source platform providing Git-like data version control. This session covers the necessity of ML in business strategies today and how lakeFS aids in managing, versioning, and collaborating on data projects seamlessly.

Snowflake Vs. Redshift: Everything You Need To Know In 2024

Whether you’re a data-driven, data-informed, or data-backed organization, your data remains your most crucial business intelligence resource. All the data you collect for later analysis needs to be stored in a secure location as well. Cloud-based data warehouses offer superior performance, flexibility, and cost benefits.

DevOps and SRE Metrics: R.E.D., U.S.E., and the "Four Golden Signals"

In the fast-paced realm of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), success starts with effective monitoring. Understanding the fundamental metrics is crucial for identifying and mitigating issues proactively. In this article, we’ll delve into the leading metrics frameworks — R.E.D., U.S.E., and the “Four Golden Signals” — which will provide you with a solid foundation to enhance your monitoring practices.

Announcing HAProxy 3.0

Here we are in our twenty-third year, and open source HAProxy is going strong. HAProxy is the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer, with over one billion downloads on Docker Hub. It is the G2 category leader in API management, container networking, DDoS protection, web application firewall (WAF), and load balancing.

Platform Engineering Best Practices: Data Security and Privacy

Security is and will always be a huge concern, and Platform Engineering is here to stay: so, what are some Platform Engineering best practices that can support your data security and privacy efforts? You’d be surprised where they overlap, and what you can learn about putting security and productivity together — we’ll explain.

Guide to Monitoring Your Apache Zipkin Environment Using Telegraf

Using Apache Zipkin is important because it provides detailed, end-to-end tracing of requests across distributed systems, helping to identify latency issues and performance bottlenecks. Monitoring your Zipkin environment is crucial to ensure the reliability and performance of your tracing system, allowing you to quickly detect and address any anomalies or downtime.

What is a DevOps engineer? A look inside the role

DevOps engineers play a vital role in modern software organizations, helping to bridge the gap between software development and IT operations. DevOps is a cultural and technical approach that emphasizes collaboration, automation, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). DevOps engineers are responsible for implementing and supporting these practices to improve efficiency, enhance software quality, and accelerate delivery times.

Provide full context to reviewers by including pipeline artifacts within the pull request

The code insights functionality in Bitbucket Cloud provides a variety of reports, annotations, and metrics to help your team have full context during the code review process. With code insights, you can automatically have artifacts such as static analysis reports, security scan results, artifact links, unit test results, and build status updates appear in your pull request screen so reviewers have access to all reports and statuses before they approve the code change.

Zero Trust Pipelines with OIDC, Cloudsmith, and GitHub Actions

In CI/CD workflows, leaked credentials pose a significant threat, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data breaches, and system compromises, ultimately disrupting development pipelines and undermining the integrity of software deployment processes.

AI Essentials - Your Gateway to Machine Learning with Kubeflow with Josh Mesout & Rishit Dagli

Join Josh Mesout and Rishit Dagli in our in-depth workshop on Kubeflow as a Service, aimed at demystifying the deployment of machine learning models using open-source tools. This Civo Navigate 24 session caters to participants of all skill levels in machine learning, Kubernetes, and ML infrastructure. It covers foundational aspects of Kubeflow, dives into advanced tools like Llama 2 and Kerve, and showcases how to use these models as cost-effective alternatives to services like ChatGPT.

How Nagarro used Gremlin to prevent a cascading failure outage

Check out how Nagarro used Gremlin to help a client prevent a cascading failure before it caused an outage. "Once we had tested a critical software that was doing millions of online transactions on a daily basis. The design was fail safe, providing redundancy on critical services by having multiple instances deployed on different VMs. What we did was we ran a virtual machine terminate test to bring down an instance of that service with the hypothesis that it will recover automatically. Well, the service did recover automatically, but the system saw a cascading failure.

Creating Reliable and Easy to Maintain Connections with Git Integration for Jira

Set up your Git Integration for Jira successfully! This GitKraken workshop explores best practices for setting up and maintaining integrations between Git and Jira. The session covers workflows for both Jira Data Center and Jira Cloud, highlighting important considerations for pre-planning, configuration, and troubleshooting common issues. Discover tips to optimize integrations for large numbers of repositories, avoid rate limiting, leverage GitKraken's features for more efficient workflows, and more.

Workshop: Kubernetes Challenge

You are entering the mysterious world of the Kubernetes where secrets and challenges await your discovery. Watch our interactive “Kubernetes Challenge Workshop” while learning the clue on how to solve complex application mysteries in real time with StackState. Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, and our own Ms. Scarlett will guide you through the game to help you unravel the clues to the mysteries within Kubernetes.

How to automate adding nodes to rooms in Netdata?

How we organize nodes (and the Netdata agents that are running on those nodes) across different rooms should reflect our architectural decision because the room is a logical container with its own user members and notification rules. So if we are monitoring large infrastructure we should be consistent with these rules and one way to achieve this is to choose automation.

How Does SQL Prompt Enables Team Collaboration - Tracy Boggiano

Tracy Boggiano, Database Architect for Sound Physicians, explains how SQL Prompt enables team collaboration. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works..

35 Best CFO Tools In 2024 (Every Finance Exec Should Use)

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) role has expanded significantly due to technological advancements. Today, CFOs have more responsibilities than ever, managing everything from payroll to IT and software expenses. This requires new processes and the right tools to get the necessary cost data for making smart decisions and ensuring the company’s profitability. With so many financial software options available, choosing the right one for each financial task can be challenging.

Scorecard Series: Migrations without the Migraine

Software migrations are an inevitable part of running any technical organization. Whether you're upgrading your database, moving to a new cloud provider, or modernizing legacy applications, migrations are necessary to keep software efficient and secure. Unfortunately, migrations are often a slow and messy processes, dragging across months and potentially years. They are difficult to coordinate, from both managerial and technical standpoints, and often cause a lot of frustration for those involved.

Migrating from ECS to EKS: A Complete Guide

Organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize their IT operations, reduce costs, and improve flexibility. One trend gaining popularity is the shift from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This migration is driven by several factors, including the desire for greater flexibility, improved scalability, reduced vendor lock-in, and access to the rich feature set offered by Kubernetes.

Third Largest Retailer Worldwide Builds Automation Over Time to Launch Cost Savings, Surge ROI

A leading retailer based in the U.K., in early 2021, was in search of help to solve a few problems its business was facing, and so they decided to implement automation—starting with the resolution of service desk tickets. There were too many tasks and processes that the company’s IT team was completing manually. They needed to automate such repetitive work, with the potential to build onto other automations already in place.

What is Site Reliability Engineering and How it Transforms IT Operations?

In today’s digital age, where downtime can cost companies millions and customer expectations are higher than ever, ensuring the reliability of web services and applications is crucial. This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) comes into play. Born out of the unique operational challenges faced by Google, SRE has evolved into a pivotal discipline within the IT and software development world.

Why DevOps Career Path Should Be Your Next Move

Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding career? Consider a DevOps career path. This field combines development and operations, making it vital for modern tech companies. In a DevOps role, you help create smooth workflows, from coding to deployment. The demand for DevOps professionals is growing, offering job security and competitive salaries.
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SSMS 20 - What's new

Sure enough, the latest incarnation of SQL Server Management Studio, version 20.x, is more about evolution than revolution (you can download it here, by the way). And if you haven't gotten acquainted with it yet, here's a brief recap of the newly introduced features and enhancements that you can already get your hands on. We'll also tell you about a surefire way of powering up your stock SSMS with a bundle of add-ins called dbForge SQL Tools, which brings SSMS to the levels of the most demanding users.

Streamlining Operations: A Guide to the Top System Monitoring Tools

In information technology, the saying 'you can't manage what you can't measure' rings true. Blind spots in system health lead to reactive troubleshooting and potential outages. System monitoring software bridges this gap, providing real-time visibility into your infrastructure. It empowers proactive management, maximizing uptime, optimizing resource allocation, and enabling informed future planning.
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Advanced Incident Management Strategies for Engineers

The business world is in constant flux, and the way we handle Incident Management (IM) needs to evolve alongside it. Incidents come in all priorities and urgencies, and while some can be addressed with any planning, others are simply unpredictable. That's why businesses can't afford to be caught off guard. The potential consequences of such incidents for businesses have never been greater. A single event can disrupt operations, damage reputations, and result in significant financial losses. Here's where modern and advanced Incident Management practices come into play.

Strategies for migrating to Kubernetes

Migrating to a new platform can often feel like navigating a maze of technical challenges, especially when the platform is as complex as Kubernetes. Kubernetes has a vast number of features designed to help with deploying and managing large applications, but learning how to use it effectively can be just as challenging as‌ moving your workloads over. This doesn’t mean it’s impossible, of course, and there are several strategies for easing this process.

Kosli and Swiss Digital Network partner to enhance Continuous Compliance and Verification

We are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership between Kosli and Swiss Digital Network (SDN). This collaboration is set to revolutionize how Swiss organizations approach Continuous Compliance and Verification, combining the strengths of both companies to enabeling regulated sectors like finance and healthcare the power to deliver software with security, compliance, and speed.

Tips for Controlling and Monitoring Azure Costs in Real-Time

Azure cost monitoring in real time is crucial for efficient cloud management, enabling organizations to optimize resource usage and maintain financial governance. Due to challenges like complex pricing and changing workloads, utilizing Azure Cost Tracking and Reporting becomes essential. Here, we’ll explore tips for real-time monitoring of Azure Costs.

What Is DNS? Definition & How It Works

The Domain Name System, commonly known as DNS, is a fundamental component of the internet, yet it remains a mystery to many users. Without DNS, browsing the web would be a cumbersome process, requiring us to remember complicated numerical addresses for every website we want to visit. In this article, we will demystify DNS, explaining its importance, how it works, and its critical role in our everyday online activities.

What's new in Flyway? State-based deployments in Flyway Teams

Historically, Flyway has been a migrations-based database deployment tool. It greatly improves database deployments by tracking what migration scripts have been executed against a target database and applying any pending migration scripts. Since Redgate acquired Flyway in 2019, we’ve been incorporating Redgate’s database comparison technology into the paid editions (Flyway Teams/Enterprise) so that users can benefit from the best of both worlds.

Code Suggestions in your Favorite Editor #GitKraken #shorts

Tired of tedious, disjointed code reviews? Code Suggest is here to help! Now, you can make suggested changes on your favorite editor – including Neovim, VS Code, and more – to simplify the review process. This is just example of someone on our "Dev Team" collaborating on a pull request with Code Suggest, making the review process smoother and more efficient for everyone involved. Check out the full demo here on YouTube!

Azure Sandbox Environment

This episode of Azure on Air explores the power of Azure sandbox environments with Luke Murray, a Microsoft Azure MVP. Discover how sandbox environments provide a secure playground for learning, accelerating project development and cost-effective experimentation. Learn key implementation considerations and best practices to leverage the full potential of Azure sandbox environments. Also, listen to Azure on Air on.

Step-by-Step Process to Build and Manage a Website Using cPanel on a VPS Server

Stress tests comparing shared hosting and VPS hosting found that performance increased by 15% to 35% by switching from shared hosting to a VPS server. One reason VPS hosting is affordable is that Linux runs on about 60% of all VPS servers. It is open-source and free, meaning that hosting providers can offer much more budget-friendly VPS packages than if their offerings were limited to Windows. More than 2,500 companies offer VPS hosting, so it shouldn't be impossible to choose a VPS provider that fulfills your requirements in terms of resources, budget, and location.

Building a DevOps Culture in High-Growth Companies: A Leader's Blueprintment

Let's face it, running a high-growth company is exhilarating! You're constantly innovating, customer demand is soaring, and the future feels limitless. But with that growth comes a unique set of challenges you need to navigate to stay ahead of the curve. Let’s say, your development team is churning out new features at breakneck speed. That's fantastic! But can your operations team keep up with deploying them to production? What about potential bugs or security vulnerabilities?

Growing pains? Developing new infrastructure strategies as businesses grow

‘On-premise versus cloud’ remains the heavyweight division of digital infrastructure rivalries. And depending on where you look, both sides claim victory. Cloud is often perceived as a runaway success. As part of report into the domestic cloud services market, UK regulator Ofcom noted that the UK cloud infrastructure market is growing, with overall revenues increasing at a rate of 35% to 40% annually.1.

Vector databases for generative AI applications

Join us for a deep dive into the role of vector databases in generative AI applications. Vector databases facilitate efficient data representation, retrieval and manipulation, enabling AI systems to generate high-fidelity outputs across various domains, from natural language processing to image synthesis. This webinar will discuss various concepts, such as generative AI, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), the importance of search engines, and efficient open source tooling that enables developers and enthusiasts to build their generative AI applications.

Introducing... Progress WhatsUp Gold Free Edition

At Progress, we understand the challenges faced by IT teams in maintaining operational networks. Everything we do is to best serve those tasked with maintaining more seamless operations for an entire environment including network systems, servers, applications and services. We want to confirm that the greenest, first-day sysadmin can sit down in front of a product like Progress WhatsUp Gold and figure out how to use it in minutes.

Most Popular Data Center Environmental Sensors

Data center environmental sensors helps data center managers maintain uptime, increase energy efficiency, and remotely manage their data centers. From temperature and humidity to other parameters like airflow, these sensors can be paired with modern data center management software to provide real-time insights and alerts, enabling proactive management and rapid response to potential issues. There are many types of sensors and vendors on the market.

Hyperview DCIM 4.4 Software Release

Version 4.4 comes with several new feature updates: Business Entities for tracking customers, partners, and departments, improved control for transfer switch power devices, streamlined bulk actions for Business Entity association with assets, enhanced import capabilities for connections and circuits, and advanced search function to filter by Business Entity for easier, more efficient work.

Amazon makes reliability a priority-do you?

Are you making really reliability a priority? Or are you just giving it lip service? "At Amazon, I was part of the retail website. Outages were lost money, lost money was bad. So Amazon cared deeply about this. That was part of it. The other part was it was part of the engineering culture. When I arrived, one of the things I was told was, we expect you to write high quality, performant, efficient, available code. It's just everybody.

Master SharePoint Online Storage Consumption

SharePoint Online has become an essential tool for businesses, offering robust document management and collaboration capabilities. However, with its widespread adoption comes the challenge of managing storage effectively. SharePoint Online storage consumption can quickly escalate, leading to increased costs and potential performance issues. Therefore, understanding and managing this consumption is crucial for maintaining an efficient and cost-effective SharePoint environment.

What is Log Analytics? The Significance of Log Analytics Solutions Explained

Every action, transaction, and interaction in an application generates some sort of data. ThisAnd this data holds a wealth of information that, when collected and analyzed over a period of time, provides a comprehensive view of application behavior and performance. Logging is the most widely used technique for collecting data on application states, transactions, errors, and code flow tracking.

Intel x SUSE demo with Alexey Fomenko

At #Kubecon EU in Paris, Erin Quill, our Principal Technical Marketing Manager, met with Alexey Fomenko from @Intel to discuss all things Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) in the #cloudnative #AI ecosystem. In this video, learn more about how Intel's DRA driver allows better isolation of the GPU resources available to your #kubernetes clusters.

How to be a no-code AI power user

This presentation was delivered on May 21, 2024 at the Artificially Intelligent Enterprise conference by Andrew Zigler, Developer Advocate at Mattermost. Mattermost is at the forefront of providing a seamless platform for teams to connect and collaborate. Mattermost AI Copilot has already proven invaluable, automating tasks and answering questions with conversational ease. But we’re envisioning a world where Copilot can do more than just chat.

Engineering Onboarding: The Key to DevEx Success

Engineering onboarding comprises more than just allocation of credentials and orientation to top tools. Depending on staffing, capacity for resource and permission allocation, and maturity of self-serve tooling, it can take weeks or even months for engineers to contribute their first meaningful PR—a common measure of "onboarding completeness." So how should engineering leaders think about optimizing their processes to improve developer effectiveness, velocity, and confidence?

Business Entities

We’re thrilled to share Version 4.4 release with new feature updates: Business Entities for tracking customers, partners, and departments, improved control for transfer switch power devices, streamlined bulk actions for Business Entity association with assets, enhanced import capabilities for connections and circuits, and advanced search function to filter by Business Entity for easier, more efficient work.

How to Monitor Host Metrics with OpenTelemetry

Today's environments often present the challenge of collecting data from various sources, such as multi-cloud, hybrid on-premises/cloud, or both. Each cloud provider has its own tools that send data to their respective telemetry platforms. OpenTelemetry can monitor cloud VMs, on-premises VMs, and bare metal systems and send all data to a unified monitoring platform. This applies across multiple operating systems and vendors.

Mastering SQL PARTITION BY with dbForge Studio for SQL Server

The role of data analysis and manipulation in SQL Server is hard to overestimate. By partitioning data effectively, you can handle large datasets and get accurate and relevant results for various analytical and operational tasks. This is when PARTITION BY proves invaluable. In this article, we are going to talk about the theoretical foundations and practical applications of this SQL argument with the help of a convenient IDE — dbForge Studio for SQL Server.

Introducing a Brand New Microsoft Teams Integration

We’ve gotten clear feedback from our customers that we’ve needed a strong Microsoft Teams integration. Responders want a full suite of incident management functionality, no matter what chat application their organization uses. We heard you. That’s why we’re proud to announce a brand new MS Teams integration with fully robust incident management lifecycle capabilities.

SQL Update With JOIN Techniques for Efficient Data Management

One of many things SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle have in common is that they store data in multiple tables related to each other with a common key value. This means you cannot avoid retrieving records from two or more tables based on some condition while working with these relational databases. In SQL, this can be easily achieved with the help of JOINs.

Cost Management Best Practices for Azure Integration Solutions

In this episode of "FinOps on Azure" Sandro, an enterprise Integration expert, shares his insights on optimizing costs for building robust Integration solutions on Microsoft Azure. Sandro emphasizes the importance of establishing a solid foundation by defining clear naming conventions, environment policies, and access controls to manage costs to avoid potential issues.

Managing Infrastructure like a pro, from ClickOps to IaC with Nuno do Carmo & Engin Diri

Dive into the world of infrastructure as code in this detailed workshop led by Nuno do Carmo and Engin Diri. Learn about Civo CLI, the transition from ClickOps to CLI, and how to effectively implement and manage your infrastructure using Pulumi. Whether at home or in the office, enhance your understanding and skills in infrastructure management.

The Engineer's Roadmap to Building Resilient Systems in High Growth Environments

In the past, software development was all about hitting deadlines and budgets. But times have changed. Today, users expect flawless, 24/7 experiences that drive business value. That's why building reliable and resilient systems is no longer a luxury - it's a necessity.

Sustainability in the Age of AI

In the last few years, there has been a remarkable expansion in the benefits Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers. AI’s influence is pervasive everywhere, from voice-activated virtual assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa to recommendation systems such as those employed by Netflix, Amazon, and Instagram and phone cameras that can provide real-time translation of text, signs, and menus. Nearly 77 percent of devices today use AI technology in one form or another.

Jenkins is No Longer Free: Why Razorops CI/CD is the Best Free Forever Alternative

For years, Jenkins has been a staple in the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). Its open-source nature and extensive plugin ecosystem made it a go-to choice for developers and organizations worldwide. However,Jenkins no longer being free, prompting many to seek alternative solutions. Enter Razorops, a CI/CD platform that offers robust features and a commitment to being free forever.

The Cost Of Shutting Down The Internet

The internet is the lifeblood of our modern world. With over 5.4 billion users globally, it connects us to friends, family, information, and opportunities. But what if the internet suddenly disappeared? What would be the cost of shutting down the internet? Internet outages, while thankfully rare, can have devastating consequences. To highlight these, we’ve delved deep into the economic impact of internet disruptions, analyzing real-world cost data to reveal just how staggering the effects can be.=

Monitor Your Apache Tomcat Servers Using Telegraf and MetricFire

Apache Tomcat servers are useful because they provide a robust and flexible environment for running Java-based web applications, ensuring high performance and scalability. They are essential to monitor because regular monitoring helps in identifying performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and potential failures, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of web applications.

Ultimate Guide to SQL Indexes

Databases are essential for storing data and providing user access to specific information. This fundamental task becomes increasingly complex as databases expand, data volumes swell, and data processing times lengthen. For quick and efficient data retrieval from large databases, we use indexes. An SQL index functions similarly to an index in a book or journal, referring to data within tables. This article will explore SQL indexes, enhancing your understanding of database management.

50 BI Tools You Need To Know In 2024

It’s not news anymore. More businesses are collecting a lot more data than they can handle. One out of ten respondents to surveys by IDC, Seagate, and Matillion said they were finding it hard to transform their data into an analytics-ready format. This does not have to be you. This snackable guide explains how modern business intelligence can help you make the most of your data.

Introducing Civo's UK Sovereign Cloud: Secure, Compliant, and Locally Governed

In today's fast-paced digital world, where data breaches and geopolitical uncertainties are becoming more common, ensuring the security and sovereignty of your data is paramount. Organisations are increasingly seeking cloud solutions that not only offer advanced technological capabilities but also guarantee data compliance with local laws. Addressing this critical demand, Civo proudly introduces our UK Sovereign Cloud.

Puppet Delivers Secure Infrastructure Automation Required for a New Operating Reality

Puppet by Perforce today announced a significant enhancement to the capabilities of its commercial offering with the addition of new security, compliance, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities.

How Automation can Streamline Azure Cost Tracking and Reporting

In Azure cost tracking, automation is vital for streamlining processes and overcoming challenges associated with manual intervention and invoice analysis. Establishing an automated Azure cost report and tracking system ensures timely insights, facilitating informed decision-making, cost-saving measures, and financial control for organizations using Azure services.

AI in Networking: Revolutionizing Network Operations

In the ever-evolving world of network operations, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. With the exponential growth of data, increasing complexity of networks, and rising demand for seamless connectivity, traditional network management methods are becoming insufficient. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the transformative technology poised to radically transform network operations. By integrating AI into network management, organizations can achieve unprecedented efficiency, reliability, and performance.

GKE Cost Optimization: Best Practices To Help You Save

GKE is a powerful tool for managing and deploying containerized apps. As organizations expand and fully leverage its capabilities, managing costs becomes a significant challenge. Without a strategy for cutting GKE expenses, cloud spending can quickly spiral out of control. This guide aims to simplify the complexities of GKE pricing and offer actionable cost optimization tips to help you save on costs. We’ll cover insights for making your GKE usage efficient and cost-effective.

What to consider when introducing a new database platform

This is a guest post from Mri Pandit. With the rise in the quantity and the complexity of data organizations now need to handle, the nature of the data that you store is driving the reason for your database platform of choice. Sometimes you have a mix of data, where some is relational and some is heterogeneous, which cannot be contained in a relational format.

Can Developer Tools Transform Software Security? Unpacking the Shift Left Approach

Emre Baran, co-founder and CEO of Cerbos, joined us at Civo Navigate North America 2024 to speak about the transformative world of developer tools within the "shift left" security approach in software development. During this session, he explains the vital role of building effective authorization layers, enhancing developer experiences, and the pressing need to integrate security early in the development lifecycle.

DISA STIGs: Who Needs Them & How to Enforce DISA STIG Compliance

DISA STIGs are an important compliance standard. There’s a security technical implementation guide (STIG) for almost every kind of technology in an IT environment, and each STIG can include hundreds of individual settings, configurations, and recommendations for ensuring compliance and security.

Enjoy the Updated Code Compare, Now Compatible With Visual Studio 2022!

Meet the newly updated Devart Code Compare, a smart and flexible tool that provides you with the easiest possible way of comparing and merging source code, files, and folders. Now you can install and integrate it with Visual Studio 2022 and experience all of its capabilities right there!

Check the Size of SharePoint Storage

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, managing large volumes of documents in SharePoint Online can be a daunting task for any organization. As businesses grow, so does the need for efficient, cost-effective storage solutions that not only save space but also ensure compliance and ease of access. Enter Squirrel, an innovative SaaS product designed to automate the archiving of documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage, providing a seamless blend of efficiency and security.

Navigating the VMware by Broadcom Acquisition

In November 2023, the technology landscape witnessed a monumental shift with Broadcom's acquisition of VMware for $69 billion. This strategic move not only redefines the contours of IT and cloud computing but also signifies a new era for the new giant. Broadcom's leap towards subscription-based services and hybrid cloud environments echoes a broader industry evolution towards more flexible, service-oriented architectures.

Choosing The Right Ephemeral Environments Tool: A Checklist

Engineering teams are rapidly embracing ephemeral environments. These short-lived, on-demand environments offer a game-changer for developers, accelerating workflows and boosting efficiency. However, with a variety of ephemeral environment tools available, choosing the right one can feel like navigating a maze. Today, I’m sharing a detailed assessment checklist for Ephemeral Environment tools.

Advanced Monitoring And Cost Reporting In Kubernetes

Kubernetes has emerged as the clear cornerstone for orchestrating containerized applications. However, alongside its numerous benefits, Kubernetes introduces its own set of complexities, particularly in monitoring and managing costs. The dynamic nature of Kubernetes — where resources can be scaled up or down in response to demand — makes traditional cost monitoring methods inadequate.

Cloudify your data centre - A guide to VMware infrastructure transformation

You know what’s going on. You’ve been monitoring the situation around VMware for at least a year now. There is no need to convince you that whatever comes next, you have to prepare for a big change. You and your team are already well prepared. You have a budget, timeline and necessary resources. However, one thing that you’re missing is the answer to the “HOW?”. If this is the case, you are in the right place.

A product engineer's highlights from DrupalCon Portland 2024

It was great to be back at DrupalCon Portland 2024, drawing together a diverse mix of Drupal enthusiasts, developers, and industry leaders under one roof. The buzz of new conversations and reuniting friends in the convention halls excites me every year. I returned to Portland for the third year and immediately reminisced on the conference that started it all, DrupalCon Portland 2022. I was back in the place that started my love for the Drupal community!

How to find Idle Azure Resources or Unused Azure Resources?

The focus of this video is to help users identify idle resources within Azure deployments. Azure MVP Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) explains the importance of managing these idle resources, as they can accumulate over time and lead to unnecessary costs without providing any business value. Mike shows how users can utilize the cost analyzer module to identify idle networking resources such as virtual networks (vnets), IP addresses, and subnets. He explains the process of filtering and identifying idle resources within the Azure deployment, using a tree view to model the organization's cost data.

Monitor your CI/CD modernizations with Datadog CI Pipeline Visibility

As your organization adopts modern technologies and scales its workloads, it’s critical that your CI/CD environment follows suit to maintain smooth development and testing workflows. Adopting modern CI/CD tools (e.g., pipeline runners and testing frameworks) and best practices can increase the agility and resilience of your CI/CD environment as well as enable your teams to configure new jobs, stages, and tests to meet changing business requirements.

Quality Engineering: Mastering quality control & assurance

We know speed to market matters—now more than ever. Bill Gates said in the nineties that “if you don’t meet customer demand quickly enough, without sacrificing quality, someone else will.” But software quality also matters, affecting everything from customer loyalty to developer experience. Poor quality causes immediate issues like bugs and crashes, as well as building technical debt and making updates needlessly hard.

Control multi-regional infrastructure in a monorepo with CircleCI

How can your organization leverage continuous integration (CI) to manage your infrastructure at scale in a reliable, secure, and repeatable fashion? If you are maintaining multiple projects, the monorepo strategy can be a useful approach that allows for a unified build and CI process and makes it easier to enforce coding standards and organizational practices. It can also help DevOps and platform teams streamline dependency management to reduce conflicts and compatibility issues.

Surfing the Argo CD Sync Waves with Frederic Harper

Join Frederic Harper from @kubefirst as he explores the dynamic capabilities of Argo CD in this enlightening presentation. Discover how Argo CD transforms Kubernetes and cloud-native application management through GitOps. From synchronization features to security enhancements, learn how this tool can streamline your development processes. Perfect for developers looking to deepen their understanding of continuous delivery within a GitOps framework.

Powering Progress: IT Services in the Nation's Capital

In the bustling heart of the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., a dynamic ecosystem of IT services thrives, catering to the diverse needs of businesses, government agencies, and organizations. From essential infrastructure support to cutting-edge digital solutions, D.C. offers a comprehensive array of IT services to drive innovation and facilitate success.

How To Resolve "fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting" Git Error

When working on a shared Git repository, you may sometimes see the "fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting" error. This happens when your local branch and the remote branch have split, meaning the remote branch has new commits that are not in your local branch. In this article, we'll look at the steps to fix this error and talk about some good habits to prevent it in the future.

Maximizing ROI: The Value of an Incident Response Platform Measured in Metrics

Organizations are constantly challenged by the threat of IT incidents, cyberattacks and breaches. Incidents such as data breaches, malware infections, and system outages can have devastating consequences for businesses, including financial losses, reputational damage, and legal liabilities. In response to these threats, many organizations are turning to incident response platforms to streamline their incident management processes and enhance their cybersecurity posture.

New in Delphi DAC: Support for RAD Studio 12, Patch 1, Cloud Providers Metadata, and More

We are glad to announce the latest update of Devart’s Delphi Data Access Components product line. This update implements support for the newest version of Embarcadero RAD Studio 12 Athens. RAD Studio 12, Patch 1 brings improved VCL and FireMonkey libraries, Split Editor Views, modernized C++ compilers and toolchain, Android API level 34, support for 4K+ screens, and now targets Windows 11.

New in Delphi DAC: Support for RAD Studio 12, Release 1, Cloud Providers Metadata, and More

We are glad to announce the latest update of Devart’s Delphi Data Access Components product line. This update implements support for the newest version of Embarcadero RAD Studio 12 Athens. RAD Studio 12, Release 1 brings improved VCL and FireMonkey libraries, Split Editor Views, modernized C++ compilers and toolchain, Android API level 34, support for 4K+ screens, and now targets Windows 11. There are many more changes, don’t forget to check them all out!

Migrating from CentOS to Ubuntu: a guide for system administrators and DevOps

CentOS 7 is on track to reach its end-of-life (EoL) on June 30, 2024. Post this date, the CentOS Project will cease to provide updates or support, including vital security patches. Moving away from the RHEL-based ecosystem might appear daunting, but if you’re considering Ubuntu the switch can be both straightforward and economically viable.

Chatinsight AI Business Card, A Revolutionary Way to Build & Grow Your Network

Discover how ChatInsight AI Business Card can transform your networking experience by offering more than just basic contact details. Say goodbye to traditional business cards and embrace the future of digital networking. Whether you are a sales professional, a businessperson, or a real estate agent, ChatInsight AI Business Card helps you build and grow your network with ease.

How to Streamline Your Deployment Pipeline A DevOps Journey

In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency is key. One of the most critical aspects of ensuring smooth and reliable software delivery is streamlining your deployment pipeline. A well-optimized deployment pipeline not only saves time and resources but also enhances the overall quality of your product. Let’s embark on a DevOps journey to explore how you can streamline your deployment pipeline effectively.

Step By Step Guide to Monitoring Your Apache HTTP Servers

Monitoring Apache HTTP servers is crucial for ensuring they are always available and perform optimally, helping to identify and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies. It aids in capacity planning and security by detecting abnormal activities and potential security threats. Regular monitoring also facilitates troubleshooting, improves service reliability, and ensures compliance with regulatory standards.

How to Create Static Pod in Kubernetes

In Kubernetes a static pod is a concept where you can deploy a pod that is not managed by the API server. Static pods are directly managed by the Kubelet component. The Kubelet service is deployed with the configuration path where we can add the pod manifest for the Kubelet to deploy. Even though a static pod is not managed by the API server, you can use Kubectl to list the static pod. This is because, when Kubelet deploys a static pod, it creates a mirror pod in the API server.

Complete Handbook of OpenTelemetry Metrics

You have probably heard of OpenTelemetry in the context of traces. But did you know OpenTelemetry also supports metrics with a comprehensive, forward-looking data model and SDKs? When it comes to metrics, one thinks of Prometheus, but Otel metrics provide exciting ideas such as cumulative deltas, exponential histograms, and more! This talk will demystify everything about Otel Metrics, from the data model to APIs to how to get started. We will cover the differences between Otel Metrics and Prometheus and explain the reasons why people get excited about using Otel Metrics.

Top 29 Excel Add-ins for Every Need

Excel remains one of the most versatile tools in the business and academia, allowing users to manage data most efficiently. However, its built-in features can sometimes fall short for more specialized, narrow-focused tasks. This is where Excel add-ins come into play. Whether you’re analyzing large data sets, managing financial records, or visualizing complex information, the right add-ins can transform Excel into a more powerful tool, far better tailored to your needs.

How to Migrate from Oracle to SQL Server

Before we discuss how to migrate from Oracle to SQL Server, let us understand what data migration is and when it may be used. This process involves exporting data from the source location, modifying if needed, and then transferring it to a destination location. In other words, data migration is moving data between database objects or servers.

Driving Technical Delivery: Balancing Speed and Quality in Enterprise Platforms

Enterprises face a constant challenge: how to deliver technical solutions quickly without compromising on quality. In the race to innovate and stay ahead of the competition, the pressure to accelerate delivery can sometimes overshadow the importance of maintaining high standards of quality and reliability. However, striking the right balance between speed and quality is crucial for the long-term success and sustainability of enterprise platforms.

How Thanos Almost Snapped $100,000 from our Infra Budget with S. Srivastava and P. Bedarkar

Join Shubham Srivastava and Pratik Bedarkar from @zenduty at Civo Navigate NA 24 as they delve into the intricacies of infrastructure management. Discover how they thwarted a potential financial catastrophe of $100,000 by employing Thanos for cost optimization and performance improvement. This insightful narrative not only sheds light on their triumphs but also illuminates the path for IT professionals grappling with similar hurdles.

SRE vs. Platform Engineering vs DevOps: What's The Difference?

In the evolving world of technology, organizations are continuously working to increase their system stability, deliver software faster, and help their programmers work better. Different disciplines, each with its own distinct set of roles and responsibilities, have arisen to accomplish these goals.

Successful Business: Lessons from a Tech-Savvy CEO

I’m Romaric, the CEO and co-founder of Qovery. With 15 years of experience managing large-scale infrastructure and a passion for computer science, I’ve embarked on a journey to build an ambitious tech product designed to revolutionize the developer experience. At Qovery, we aim to simplify the path to production for developers, ensuring they can focus on writing code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.

Advancements in Code Review: A Scientific Approach to Designing for Software Efficiency with GitKraken

Writing optimal code is crucial for developers, and human collaboration is key to achieving this. Code review tools are essential for maintaining the integrity of well-built products, which are vital for software development. We are a team of developers that love building tools that optimize our worlds. As engineers, designers and product managers, we identified many challenges in standard Git workflows that inhibited us from working more effectively together.

Expert talk: Business sustainability in 2024 l Platform.sh x Liip

Discover the ways digital companies are leading the charge in creating a progressive future. Dive into how tech companies can be pioneers not just through innovative tools, but also by making a positive ecological, social, and economic impact. Join our speakers on a journey in discussing business sustainability in 2024. Speakers: Leah Goldfarb, Environmental Impact Officer at Platform.sh Gerhard Andrey, Co-Founder of Liip and National Councillor for the Swiss Green Party.

Ultimate Guide to Measuring Software Quality

Software quality isn't just about defect density; it embodies the reliability, performance, and security that underpin digital trust and user satisfaction. But measuring software quality can be as challenging as defining it. In this post, we'll demystify the complexities around assessing software quality and provide actionable insights for you and your software development team.

How DevOps is Revolutionizing Software Development A Guide to Success

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, DevOps has emerged as a transformative force. It’s not just a set of practices or tools; it’s a cultural shift that aims to streamline collaboration, automate processes, and deliver value to customers faster and more efficiently than ever before. In this guide, we’ll delve into how DevOps is revolutionizing software development and provide insights into achieving success in this domain.

Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters: Interview with Pierre Mavro, CTO of Qovery

Managing the upgrade process for hundreds of Kubernetes clusters is a daunting task, one that Pierre Mavro, co-founder and CTO at Qovery, is adeptly prepared to tackle. Leveraging his deep expertise and a skilled team of engineers, Pierre and his team have efficiently automated the upgrade process for both public and private clouds. Bart Farell sat down with Pierre Mavro to explore how he achieved this without breaking anything.

How to use Buildpacks as part of a Platform Engineering strategy

While platform engineering is not a new concept, it has been rapidly gaining popularity. It is estimated that by 2026, 80% of major software engineering organizations are expected to form platform engineering teams. One of the reasons why platform engineering is getting so much attention is that it helps to automate deployment while allowing developers to remain in a productive state and avoid high cognitive loads.

Conventional Commits using AI with GitLens in VSCode

Writing a good commit message is time-consuming. With GitLens, you can use AI providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini to generate a commit message based on your staged changes in git. If you go to Settings and modify the prompt, you can also convert the commit to a "Conventional Commit" format, which provides context and helps with automations like generating changelogs.

#027 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Ben Sigelman (ServiceNow)

Ben Sigelman is the General Manager of ServiceNow Cloud Observability, which solves for the reliability and performance of cloud and cloud-native applications while broadening the scope and leverage of the broader Now Platform. Previously, he co-founded and was CEO of Lightstep, which ServiceNow acquired in 2021, and co-created both the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. Ben also helped define modern observability with his work on tracing and metrics monitoring at Google (the Monarch and Dapper projects) and was a pioneer in SRE best practices and tooling.

What is the Difference Between Distributed and Centralized Version Control Systems

Safe and efficient source code management is crucial during application development. The code should be stored securely, with all changes meticulously documented to catch and fix any errors, especially when multiple developers are involved. This is typically done using version control systems (VCS). Version control enables teams to collaborate effectively, reduce risks, and maintain stability.

Making Sense of Your IoT data with AWS and MetricFire

The Internet of Things (IoT) is all the rage these days, and for good reason. It lets us connect all sorts of devices to the internet, opening up a world of possibilities. However, managing all those devices and the data they generate can be a challenge. That's where AWS and MetricFire come in. AWS offers a robust suite of cloud services called AWS IoT that makes it easy to develop and manage IoT applications. MetricFire is a platform that helps you monitor your AWS services, including your IoT devices.

Log Monitoring: Challenges and Best Practices for Modern Applications

Almost everyone acknowledges that log monitoring is essential for maintaining the reliability, security, and performance of modern applications. However, the complexities increase as organizations adopt diverse architectures to effectively manage the various log data challenges they encounter. In our previous blog post, we discussed the significance of log monitoring alongside a few popular log monitoring tools available in the market today.

Speed Up Your End-to-End Testing with Bunnyshell Ephemeral Environments

What You Will Learn: Who Should Attend: Developers, QA Engineers, DevOps Professionals, and Technical Managers interested in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their testing processes through innovative technologies. Join us to discover how to streamline your end-to-end testing and enhance your development pipeline with Bunnyshell ephemeral environments. Gain insights into practical tools and strategies that reduce testing bottlenecks and lead to faster, more reliable releases.

What Is S3 Intelligent-Tiering? Here's What You Need To Know

Here’s the thing. You frequently access some files, but not others. So, if you can determine the most appropriate storage tier for any given data/object automatically, you can transform it accordingly. That means you can save both time and money by not manually deciding which files to move to their best storage class. To help optimize things, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new storage class called S3 Intelligent-Tiering Storage.

The Expensive Cost of 'Free' Kubernetes

In recent years, Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to solution for container orchestration, offering flexibility and scalability for deploying and managing applications. However, organizations quickly realize that the allure of its open-source nature can be deceiving—while free to download, the costs of managing Kubernetes can stack up rapidly. Initially embraced for its agility, Kubernetes soon reveals its complexity.

Azure Storage Cost Optimization | How to reduce Azure Storage Costs?

Azure Storage Cost Optimization | How to reduce Azure Storage Costs? Azure MVP Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) introduces a new feature in Turbo360 that aims to optimize Azure storage costs. He begins by explaining customers' challenges with Azure's lifecycle policies and their desire for more control over optimization processes.

Simplify Log Management Across Any Cloud

Developers waste countless hours managing logs and juggling tools. Control Plane centralizes log management, making it easy to filter and analyze logs from apps running on any cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, etc. In this video, we demonstrate how Control Plane simplifies log management for your applications deployed across any cloud (or multi-cloud). We showcase the intuitive Log QL query language, built-in Grafana integration, and the flexibility to ship logs to your favorite external log providers like Datadog, S3, Elastic, and CloudWatch.

The Future of Observability: High-Performance Observability at Edge and Beyond with Rust

Join Prabhat Sharma, founder of Open Observe, as he delves into the realm of high-performance observability. Learn about the challenges faced by cloud workloads and explore innovative solutions to enhance observability at the edge, in servers, and across cloud environments. Prabhat shares his journey from addressing persistent problems with existing solutions to building Open Observe, an open-source platform revolutionizing logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards. Gain valuable insights into the power of Apache Arrow Data Fusion in optimizing data storage and analytics performance.

Maximizing Uptime: Four Essential System Monitoring Best Practices

System uptime is a fundamental necessity for every organization that gives importance to the customer experience and satisfaction. A single minute of downtime can trigger a cascade of negative consequences, impacting everything from revenue streams to customer loyalty. So, why exactly is system uptime important? Downtime translates to lost revenue, frustrated users, and operational disruption.

GitKraken DevEx platform: Meeting you wherever you & your team code

The GitKraken DevEx platform enables 30 million+ developers worldwide to experience coding workflows with fewer distractions, better collaboration and increased velocity. GitKraken’s DevEx platform supports developers wherever they want to write or manage their code: from Windows, Mac & Linux desktops; to the IDE; to the terminal; to web or even mobile. Across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps. Even integrating with Jira, Trello and other issue tracking systems.

Building the Intelligent Middle Mile

During a recent webinar, Ribbon's Jonathan Homa, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, and David Stokes, Head of IP Portfolio Marketing, discussed the pivotal role the middle mile network plays for Service Providers in taking advantage of the hugely increased access capacity recent investments in fiber and 5G offer. Service Providers require efficient, cost-effective solutions for this critical link in network connectivity.

Why we've open sourced our secure SDLC process template

One of the big things we’ve learned since starting Kosli is that engineers often struggle to define an SDLC for compliance purposes. That doesn’t mean they don’t know how to deliver secure, quality software. They’ve just never had to actually define a process for how they do it. Perfectly capable engineers can spend years shipping great products and features without ever having to properly define and standardize their SDLC.

Devart dbForge Product Line and SecureBridge Join the 2024 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards Contest

We are thrilled to announce that Devart products participate in the DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards 2024, a yearly worldwide contest held by DBTA magazine that features the best solutions for database connectivity, development, and administration. The Devart team works non-stop to provide you with the best-in-class products, and we look forward to seeing them win this year. Check the list of our solutions and make sure to support them!

Load Balancing - What Is It and How Does It Work?

There is a greater need than ever to ensure seamless web application performance. One of the foundational components ensuring this smooth operation is load balancing. While the term might sound technical, its concept is simple and vital for maintaining an uninterrupted online user experience. This article will explore load balancing's various algorithms and types and their significance in modern web infrastructure.

False Positive Alerts: A Hidden Risk in Observability

Observability systems are designed to keep tabs on key metrics, identify unusual patterns, and alert teams when things go awry. Despite best efforts, however, these systems are not infallible, and sometimes they send out alerts for issues that don’t exist. This is what we call a false positive. These false alarms can wreak havoc on team efficiency, lead to alert fatigue, and obscure genuine problems. Let’s delve into what false positives are and why they matter so much.

A Guide To GCP Cost Anomaly Detection

Keeping costs under control is crucial to managing projects on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Yet, even the most experienced teams can face unexpected increases in their cloud bills. These surprises, known as cost anomalies, can disrupt budgets and plans. But, with the right approach and tools, you can spot these issues early and keep your cloud spending on track.

GitKraken Acquires CodeSee & Launches New, Ubiquitous DevEx Platform

TL;DR: GitKraken acquires CodeSee and launches the unified GitKraken DevEx Platform, enhancing workflows across all major development environments and setting new standards in developer tools. Dive in to discover our powerful new features and how they contribute to simplifying your coding life. Almost a decade ago, we introduced GitKraken Client with a clear mission: make Git simpler for developers.

How Can OpenTelemetry Transform Your Cloud Native Observability Strategy? Insights from Sudhir Singh

Join Sudhir Singh, co-founder and COO of Cloud Builders, as he delves into the essentials of observability in the cloud-native landscape. In this session, Sudhir explores the advantages of implementing OpenTelemetry over traditional monitoring tools and vendor-specific solutions. Discover why OpenTelemetry is crucial for gaining comprehensive insights into your applications and infrastructure, learn about its role in enhancing system health monitoring, and understand its impact on mitigating potential incidents before they escalate.

Announcing HAProxy ALOHA 16

HAProxy ALOHA 16 is now available, and we’re excited to share that this release includes one of the cornerstone features announced in HAProxy Enterprise 2.9—the next-generation HAProxy Enterprise WAF. Customers of our hardware and virtual load balancer appliances also benefit from four new Layer 4 load balancing algorithms, the upgrade of the Linux kernel to version 6.1, and the ability to bind admin services on a dedicated interface.

Ubuntu Pro for EKS is now generally available

May 14, 2024 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is delighted to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This expansion brings robust security offerings to AWS’ managed Kubernetes service, including enhanced uptime and security through Kernel Livepatch and unrestricted access to Pro containers to Amazon EKS, a managed Kubernetes services to run Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-premises data centers.

Tried and True Migration to Kubernetes--An Authentic Guide

A few years ago, lift and shift to the cloud was all the rage––with the companies building those solutions being snatched up at exorbitant selling prices to the biggest cloud vendors. Nearly a decade, and multiple failed lift and shift migration stories later, we have now learned the hard way that slow and steady wins the race.

How reliability differs between monolithic and microservice-based architectures

Microservices have forever changed the way we build applications. Tools like Docker and Kubernetes made microservice-based architectures widely accessible to software developers, and cloud platforms like Amazon EKS made deploying containers fast and inexpensive. They've also enabled even small engineering teams to deploy code faster, leverage fault tolerance and redundancy, scale more efficiently, and take full ownership of their services from development all the way into production.

Can You Move Stateful Apps with Zero Downtime Across Continents? Kubernetes Live Migration Secrets!

Dive deep into the realm of zero downtime live migration for stateful workloads on Kubernetes! Join Shivansh Vij, founder of Loophole Labs, as they unravel the secrets behind migrating applications like Redis and Postgres across nodes, regions, and continents without a second of downtime. Explore groundbreaking techniques, challenge traditional cloud limitations, and witness live demos that showcase this innovative approach in action.

Announcing Civo VMware Importer Tool - Easily Migrate from VMware to Civo in Minutes!

Join us in this step-by-step tutorial as we guide you through the seamless migration of your VMware instances to Civo's cloud platform with our new VMware Importer Tool. From verifying your current VMware's functionality to the final connection checks on Civo, we cover everything you need to ensure a smooth transition.

The importance of psychological safety in incident management

When an incident strikes, it often brings a whirlwind of stress for everyone involved—from the teams directly handling the issue to the stakeholders making crucial decisions. Imagine support teams on high alert, customers anxiously awaiting resolutions, and executives probing for answers to steer the company through turbulent times. This mounting pressure can make a challenging situation nearly unmanageable, especially when faced with problems that are new or unexpected.

Ways to Detect Anomalies in Azure with Real-Life Examples

Azure MVP, Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) walks through a practical example of Azure anomaly detection and the importance of keeping an eye on costs in Azure. Using Turbo360's cost analyzer module, Mike shows us how to efficiently manage everyday expenses and save money. Mike shares a scenario where he manages a Data Gateway service on Azure within a limited budget. He then explains how changes in resource scheduling led to unexpected cost increases. Using the anomaly detection feature, he identifies the abnormal cost behavior and discusses the significance of promptly addressing such issues.

How eG Enterprise solves uncertainty and challenges in the world of hypervisors and virtualization migration

In a recent blog article, we covered how the license changes for VMware virtualization may impact many of our partners and customers and are driving uncertainty in the market and causing many to consider their virtualization migration strategy, see Will Broadcom’s plans for VMware affect you? | eG Innovations.

Top 9 Database Documentation Tools of 2024 - Free and Paid Options Unwrapped

Moreover, even to the developers in charge, the database structure may become unclear. Human memory has limitations, and creating clear database documentation is as essential as providing software documentation or adding concise comments within one’s code. It’s a way of making a database readable and easy to understand for everyone. In this article, we will compare nine database documentation tools available in 2024 to determine which are most helpful without requiring much integration effort.

Streamlining SharePoint with Squirrel

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, managing large volumes of documents in SharePoint Online can be a daunting task for any organization. As businesses grow, so does the need for efficient, cost-effective storage solutions that not only save space but also ensure compliance and ease of access. Enter Squirrel, an innovative SaaS product designed to automate the archiving of documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage, providing a seamless blend of efficiency and security.

Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS Lands on Google Cloud: Power Up Your Cloud Experience

Exciting news for cloud enthusiasts and developers! Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available on Google Cloud, bringing a robust and secure platform for your cloud workloads. This latest Long Term Support release from Canonical offers a wealth of features and enhancements, making it the perfect choice for building and deploying applications in the cloud.

Server Administrator's Guide to POP3 and IMAP Monitoring

Over 347 billion emails were sent and received every day in 2023, a number that is expected to increase to over 361 billion daily emails in 2024. With so much information always flowing, the reliability and efficiency of email servers have never been more important. So what happens when servers fail and emails don’t go through? Consider the financial repercussions — downtime can cost businesses as much as $5,600 per minute (a whopping $300,000 per hour).

Serverless Architecture Design Patterns For Cost Efficiency

Serverless architecture has emerged as a pivotal technology for developers seeking to build scalable, efficient applications without the overhead of managing servers. At the heart of this revolution are services like AWS Lambda and API Gateway, which have redefined how we deploy and scale applications, offering a truly pay-as-you-go model that aligns operational costs directly with actual usage.

How to choose your Software Defined Cloud Interconnect provider

With a growing number of enterprises adopting Software Defined Cloud Interconnects (SDCIs) to better support their hybrid- and multi-cloud architectures, what are the features, functions and capabilities you should look for when choosing your private connectivity partner?

Introducing A new Bitbucket pull request experience

Here at Bitbucket Cloud, we are focused on helping you and your teams have the best possible experience for code review. That's why we continue to add features like batched comments, marking files as viewed, AI-assisted pull request descriptions – and coming very soon, iterative reviews. We also want to give you the best possible experience navigating a pull request, which is why we're proud to be introducing a brand-new layout for pull requests.

Post-Incident Reviews: Turning Failures into Learning Opportunities

Incidents are inevitable. From software failures to service disruptions, unexpected events can disrupt the smooth functioning of systems and processes, causing frustration for users and impacting business operations. However, what separates successful organizations from the rest is not the absence of incidents, but rather their approach to handling and learning from them.

GitLens' Features to Better Understand Code History

When you’re working on a complex project, keeping track of all the who’s, what’s, and when’s of code changes can be a daunting task. From deciphering the origins of a specific line to understanding the entire journey your project has undergone through its various stages of development, the challenges can be numerous and nuanced – especially for devs working on large teams.

Navigating Unconscious Bias in Cloud Native Communities

Join Aakansha Priyaa at Civo Navigate as she delves into the topic of unconscious bias within cloud native communities. Through personal anecdotes and practical examples, this presentation sheds light on the subtle biases that permeate the tech industry and provides strategies for creating a more inclusive workplace.

What Is the Impact of Digital Operational Resilience Act (Dora) on My IT?

If you’re in banking, you know the drill. Adhering to stringent EU regulations is a standard practice. This involves undergoing extensive audits, closely managing IT assets, maintaining your CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) rating, conducting and responding to fire drills, and establishing continuity plans. So far, nothing new, and if you’re in other highly regulated environments, you know that these measures are commonplace.

An overview of machine learning security risks

Data is at the heart of all machine learning (ML) initiatives – and bad actors know it. As AI continues to occupy the limelight of modern tech discourse, ML systems are becoming increasingly attractive targets for attack. With the Identity Theft Resource Center reporting a 72% spike in data breaches in 2023, it’s critical to take the proper precautions to ensure your ML projects don’t provide a back door to your data.

How to Get the Database Size and Count All SQL Server Object Types in the Database

In our routine database management tasks, it’s often necessary to learn the size of the database and count the objects within all SQL Server tables. Fortunately, we have established methods and tools to swiftly provide this information. In this article, we will explore these methods and tools. Let’s get started.

How to run Chaos Engineering experiments in your CI/CD pipeline

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Ad-hoc Chaos Engineering experiments are great for learning more about how your systems work, but they don’t tell you how your systems behave over time. As new features get deployed, environments change, and regressions get introduced, even the most resilient systems can gain reliability risks. QA and performance testing are already built into CI/CD - why not reliability?

Windows on ARM: 5 tips to success

Windows on ARM refers to the version of the Windows operating system designed to run on devices powered by Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) architecture processors, instead of traditional x86 or x64 processors. This adaptation brings Windows to a variety of devices beyond traditional laptops and desktops, including tablets, and some smartphones.

Navigating the Complexity of IT Operations: A Guide for Startups

Startups are the pioneers forging new paths and disrupting industries. At the heart of every startup's success lies its ability to navigate the complexities of IT operations effectively. In this blog, we delve into the intricacies of IT operations for startups, offering insights, strategies, and best practices to steer through the maze of technology with finesse.

Elevate Your iPaaS Game with Native Images

In the age of modern cloud computing, native images have been gaining traction as a powerful tool for optimizing the performance and scalability of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions. These native images are pre-compiled executables directly available to the host operating system without needing an additional runtime environment. Unlike traditional container images that rely on runtime environments, native images are compiled to run directly on the target platform.

How to Create an S3 Bucket with AWS CLI

Managing an Elasticsearch cluster can be complex, costly, and time-consuming - especially for large organizations that need to index and analyze log data at scale. In this short guide, we’ll walk you through the process of creating an Amazon S3 bucket, configuring an IAM role that can write into that bucket, and attaching that IAM role to your Amazon S3 instance - all using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).

Turbo360 Welcomes Black Marble as a Partner in Excellence

We at Turbo360 are thrilled to announce our partnership with Black Marble, a renowned leader in high-quality software development and innovative solutions. With their extensive expertise across the Microsoft platform and commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences, Black Marble brings a wealth of knowledge and skill to our collaborative efforts.

Customizable Azure Rightsizing Recommendations - Expert Insights

In this video, Michael Stephenson introduces a feature in Turbo360 that allows users to configure customizable settings for Azure rightsizing recommendations. He demonstrates how users can access these settings in the Turbo360 portal and modify rules for rightsizing various resources such as VM scale sets and SQL databases.

How to build zone-redundant cloud instances and clusters

Redundancy is a core tenet of cloud computing. While major cloud platforms have high targets for reliability, they can still fail, and it’s important for teams to have a plan for when they do. But how can you build services that can withstand something as disruptive as a datacenter outage? In this blog, we’ll show you how to prepare for availability zone outages by proactively detecting services operating in a single zone.

Webinar - 2024 State of Software Production Readiness

98% of engineering leaders reported at least one major consequence of failing to meet production readiness standards. To better understand how teams are addressing new challenges in production readiness, Cortex recently conducted a survey of engineering leaders at companies with more than 500 employees in North America, Europe, and AsiaPac. The survey included questions pertaining to production readiness standards, tools, struggles, and desired future state.

Bring more context to your code with Compass

Understanding and interacting with code repositories can be frustrating: you often don't get all of the information you need to get your work done efficiently and effectively. Who owns the repository? What are its dependencies? Where do I ask for help about interacting with it? This lack of context around code, and the time it takes to find it somewhere in the bowels of your organization, slows everything down.

Setting up Infrastructure Alerts

When businesses experience a surge in activity, there's the potential for unforeseen infrastructure issues. This underscores the importance of establishing infrastructure alerts well in advance. We recognize the paramountcy of a smooth operational period for your business. In this article, we'll delve into the pivotal role of alerts in ensuring the resilience of your infrastructure and the satisfaction of your customers during high-demand periods.

Take Control of IaC Costs With env0

Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) significantly boosts operational agility and scalability. However, it can also lead to increased costs due to potential over-provisioning and inefficient resource usage. On top of that, many organizations find themselves lacking the necessary tools to effectively monitor and control IaC-related costs. At env0, we tackle these challenges with a comprehensive suite of cost management tools, tailored specifically for IaC environments.

Code Quality Metrics: Definition, Examples, & Tips

Developers are working to faster development cycles, having their productivity measured in embarrassing ways and facing burnout due to poor productivity metrics. Detecting and preventing bugs in this environment is challenging for developers, but code quality is too important to ignore or leave to chance. Improving code quality requires smart metrics, not just more measurement. The quality of your code is foundational to your software, and ultimately your products and company.

Leveraging Proxies for Scalable Cloud Operations

The cloud has become a fundamentally impactful feature of the business IT ecosystem, and it's the scalability that's innate to this tech which means it can accommodate the needs of all sorts of organizations - from startups with limited budgets to multinationals with few limits on their spending.

Strengthen Your Security in the Cloud: Privacy and Data Security

Managing security in the cloud and throughout hybrid environments is a challenge with high stakes — customer data, sensitive information, access privileges, and other cloud-based assets are all at risk when an organization uses the cloud. Let’s explore some common cloud-based security concerns and learn how to keep your cloud environment secure.

Transforming Kubernetes into an Internal Developer Platform in 10 Minutes

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a powerful tool for providing self-service infrastructure for developers. It allows developers to manage application lifecycles without the constant need for IT team involvement, streamlining the process from development to production. With its widespread adoption, Kubernetes has become the standard for running application workloads across various organizations.

Go fixes its 7th code execution bug in the same feature

If there’s one Go programming language feature that just doesn’t seem to catch a break when it comes to security, it’s the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS handling in cgo. This is a feature that lets parts of Go source code control the compiler and linker flags that are used to build that same code.

Potential causes of a collaboration platform data breach

Data is the lifeblood of modern organizations. Since data helps teams make better decisions and provide a competitive edge, it’s also a target of bad actors looking to steal sensitive information or launch ransomware attacks. From software vulnerabilities and weak authentication mechanisms to malware and inadequate access controls, there’s no shortage of ways for hackers to infiltrate networks and gain access to mission-critical data.

Mastering Cybersecurity: Essential OWASP Guidelines for Effective Protection

Join Dwayne McDaniel as he discusses the challenges and essentials of effective cybersecurity, highlighting the impact of bad security practices, the benefits of robust security measures, and the importance of community collaboration. This talk explores practical insights on improving security protocols, leveraging community knowledge, and the significant role of automation in ensuring safe, uninterrupted digital environments.

Your DevOps Checklist: 7 Software Deployment Best Practices

Failures and bugs are all too common during software deployment, even with the best development teams. Following software deployment best practices helps you increase efficiency, improve security, and bring products to market faster. This article combines the seven most valuable practices your team can start implementing today.

Console Connect recognised as gold-tier Google Verified Peering Provider

In the cloud-centric world of today, enterprises rely on highly available connectivity for access to public-facing Google Cloud apps, Google Workspace, or Google APIs. Some also need to access latency sensitive Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions, combining security and networking services on one cloud platform.

Manage incidents seamlessly with the Datadog Slack integration

Modern, distributed application architectures pose particular challenges when it comes to coordinating incident management. DevOps, SREs, and security teams—often spread out across separate locations and time zones, and equipped with limited knowledge of each other’s services—must work quickly to collaboratively triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate customer impact.

Three roles you need for reliability success

It’s one thing to say that reliability is a priority for your organization, and a whole other thing to make actual, demonstrable improvements in the availability of your applications. Sadly, it’s common for organizations to invest time, money, and effort into improving reliability only to barely nudge the needle on incidents and downtime. But there are hundreds of companies successfully improving their reliability posture—and doing it at enterprise scale.

What Can a Service Mesh Do for Your Kubernetes Environment? with Tony Pope-Cruz

Explore the essentials of Kubernetes management with Tony Pope-Cruz from @dynatrace in this detailed walkthrough. Understand how to avoid common pitfalls in Kubernetes deployments, such as mismanagement of resources that can lead to significant outages. Gain insights into how service meshes provide robust solutions for traffic management, service reliability, and observability.

The relationship between cloud FinOps and Security - Expert tips

In this episode, we delve into the relationship between Azure Cost Management and security in cloud computing with FinOps certified practitioner Michael Stephenson and Microsoft MVP for Security Nino Crudele. Learn how security measures impact cloud costs and explore strategies for balancing robust security with cost-effectiveness. Discover the crucial role of governance, policy enforcement, and FinOps in optimizing both cost and security postures.

Five ways Gremlin helps organizations meet DORA requirements

Enacted by the European Union, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) establishes new standards for digital operational resilience in the financial sector. DORA changes the financial sector's approach to digital security and resilience by imposing stringent Information and Communication Technology (ICT) risk management, incident reporting, third-party risk management, and regular testing.

Resolve Actions vs. DIY Automation: Which is Really Better?

When it comes to IT automation, the choice between a service orchestration and automation platform like Resolve Actions or building your own automation engine or workflow tool is a pivotal decision. While each option presents its own set of strengths and considerations, Resolve Actions emerges as a powerful solution for organizations looking to streamline their automation efforts. Here’s why.

Balancing AI Workloads and Energy Demands with DCIM Software

AI-driven processes, including machine learning models and data processing, require significant computational resources which can lead to increased energy consumption and heightened operational costs. The complexity of these workloads, which often involve real-time data analysis and continuous model training, exacerbates the need for robust data center management.

Network traffic analysis for today's IT

When there is a radical evolution of technologies that promise improved operational benefits, many challenges beyond a network administrator's typical scope emerge. Organizations need to determine effective strategies to manage the potential setbacks that can result from these complexities as well as address the evolution of cyberthreats. With network traffic analysis and awareness of the potential challenges these technologies pose, network admins can ensure their network remains resilient.

Get Ephemeral Environments on Kubernetes in Less than 10 Minutes

Qovery is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) designed to make Kubernetes developer-friendly. It offers self-service capabilities, allowing developers to efficiently manage and scale their applications. One of the standout features of Qovery is the ability to create Ephemeral Environments, which we will focus on in this guide. So keep reading to see how you can get a fully operational Ephemeral Environments system on your Kubernetes Cluster in less than 10 minutes.

10 Best Tools to Manage Kubernetes Clusters

Managing multiple Kubernetes clusters presents a significant challenge, primarily due to operational overheads, complexity, and the steep learning curve associated with Kubernetes' complex ecosystem. As organizations scale and deploy across various environments; production, staging, and development, the need for a robust tool to streamline management becomes crucial.

Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 2.9

HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 is now available and we’re quite excited about this one. This release includes next-generation web application firewall (WAF) and bot management capabilities, and extends HAProxy Enterprise’s legendary performance and flexibility to support applications using the UDP transport protocol. Supported by industry-leading benchmark results, these landmark features offer customers a powerful solution to the challenges of security, latency, and scale.

Speedrun to Signals: automated migrations are here

When we launched Signals to the world, we were excited to hear how our product resonated with many teams. But with that excitement came an understandable concern: how much time and effort will I have to put in to move from my existing provider to Signals? We hear you — that’s why we built the Signals Migrator tool. And we’re open sourcing it.

Densify Wins Intel 2024 Americas Partner Award

At Intel Vision April 2024, Densify won Intel Partner of the year for Cloud Solutions. This award recognizes the impact of our jointly developed offering: Intel® Cloud Optimizer. Densify – Cloud: For Densify’s collaboration with Intel to continuously fine-tune the Intel Cloud Optimizer software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, to include a sophisticated understanding of key Intel hardware features and how they benefit specific customer workloads.

Fast Easy Onboarding with GitLens

Dive into the power of GitLens in VS Code! Learn how to fast-track onboarding processes, from tracing code evolution and creating pull requests seamlessly to exploring advanced features like branch management and commit visualization. Gain valuable insights into branch management, commit visualization, integrating with Jira for enhanced project tracking, and more.

Mix-n-Match ANY combination of services from AWS, GCP and Azure

Say goodbye to cloud lock-in and hello to endless possibilities! In this walkthrough, you'll learn how to avoid vendor lock-in and optimize costs by mixing and matching services from AWS, GCP, Azure -- as if these clouds have merged. Control Plane's Universal Cloud Identity® makes it easy to consume any combination of cloud services and craft the ideal cloud environment while running apps on-premises or on any cloud, in any region.

Let's Do It All in Under an Hour with @kubefirst

Dive into the world of Kubernetes with the co-founders of @kubefirst John Dietz and Jared Edwards, as they provide an insightful live demonstration of their cutting-edge project. Watch as they navigate through real-time challenges, explain the integration of GitOps, and highlight the capabilities of KubeFirst using tools like k3d, Linkerd, and Argo CD. Don't miss out on learning from their vast experience in cloud and platform building.

Practical lessons for AI-enabled companies

We went live with our first set of AI-enabled features a few months ago. Needless to say, we learned a lot along the way, as this was the first time we had experimented with generative AI. Here, I'll share some of what we've learned as we’ve grappled with using LLMs to power new products at incident.io. This will be most applicable to the application layer, AI-enabled but not AI companies.

Scaling Kubernetes On A Budget: AKS Vs. EKS Cost-Saving Features

As of 2023, Kubernetes firmly holds the reins of the container orchestration market with a commanding 92% market share, underscoring its position as the unparalleled leader in this domain. Celebrated for its exceptional scalability, robustness, and flexibility, Kubernetes boasts widespread integration across numerous industries, supported by development efforts from more than 7,500 companies.

Cross-Platform Cloud Cost Optimization On AWS And Azure

Cloud cost optimization refers to reducing overall cloud spending by identifying mismanaged resources, eliminating waste, reserving capacity for higher discounts, and right-sizing computing services to scale. In the modern business environment, where agility and efficiency are paramount, mastering cloud cost optimization reduces expenses and strategically allocates resources to drive innovation and growth.

Track changes in your containerized infrastructure with Container Image Trends

Datadog’s Container Images view provides key insights into every container image used in your environment, helping you quickly detect and remediate security and performance problems that can affect multiple containers in your distributed system. In addition to having a snapshot of the performance of your container fleet, it’s also critical to understand large-scale trends in security posture and resource utilization over time.

How to Setup Cost Alert Notification in Azure?

How to Setup Cost Alert Notification in Azure? In this video, Azure MVP - Michael Stephenson explains how users can set up alerts for exceeding cost thresholds within their monitoring setup, specifically focusing on a product called Document360. Michael demonstrates how users can configure email alerts to be notified when a cost threshold is breached, and he walks through the process of receiving and managing these alerts. He also mentions the ability to view incidents and analyze cost data in more detail if necessary.

Azure Management Platform - Turbo360

Turbo360 (Formerly Serverless360) is an advanced Cloud Management platform that empowers you with significant Azure Cost savings and Infra Monitoring for complex Azure Environments. This tool has helped customers experience annual savings of up to 30% through advanced cost monitoring, granular analysis, optimization insights, and reduced incident resolution time by 80% through holistic infra monitoring across multiple Azure resources with business context.

Factors to Consider When Choosing a VPS Cloud Server for Hosting Game Servers

Are you eager to create a thriving online community for your favorite game? Choosing the right VPS cloud server is crucial for ensuring a smooth, lag-free experience for your players. You must generate a perfect base for your game server and foster a passionate online world. There has been tremendous growth in the gaming industry in the previous few years. Due to COVID-19, many people were locked in their homes, turning to digital paths of entertainment and searching new networks.

360° Observability Strategy Webinar

Catch our on-demand webinar, "360° Observability Strategy: Enhancing Reliability Across the Board," featuring Andreas Prins, CEO of StackState, and Meriem Ahmed. Originally held to guide IT professionals through the complexities of observability in today's diverse tech environments, this session is now available for you to access anytime.

How do I review Azure costs?

In this video, Azure MVP Michael Stephenson will walkthrough on how he uses Turbo360 to conduct cost reviews for a SaaS company. And then he explains the process of monitoring costs, analyzing trends, identifying spikes, and optimizing resources using the Turbo360. He also emphasizes the importance of maintaining efficiency and sustainability in cloud spending by regularly reviewing costs. The goal is to identify cost-saving opportunities and ensure accountability within the teams to take action on optimizing resources.

ServiceNow Integration products updates for Washington DC and OAUTH Support

Kelverion is pleased to announce the latest release of all our ServiceNow integrations, which now provide ServiceNow Washington DC release support and include OAUTH for authentication for our REST API-based products. This is our 22nd release of products for ServiceNow, stretching right back to Berlin, providing integrations for System Center Orchestrator 2016, 2019, 2022 and also for Azure Automation.

Securing Dashboards in a Command Line World with Marc Boorshtein

Join Marc Boorshtein, CTO of Tremolo Security and Kubernetes expert, as he explores how to secure Kubernetes dashboards effectively in a command line-centric setup. From discussing the advantages of dashboards to unveiling critical security practices, Marc offers a comprehensive guide to safeguarding your Kubernetes environment.

What Is Log Monitoring? It's Importance, Key Components and Open-Source Options

In its simplest terms, log monitoring is the process of systematically collecting, storing, analyzing, and alerting on log data generated by various systems, applications, and devices within a DevOps environment. Logs are essentially records of events, transactions, and activities that occur within these systems. They can contain valuable information about system errors, performance metrics, user activities, and security events.

PagerDuty Appoints Eduardo Crespo, Vice President of EMEA

PagerDuty, Inc announces the appointment of Eduardo Crespo as vice president of EMEA. Crespo will lead PagerDuty's next phase of growth in the EMEA region bringing the PagerDuty Operations Cloud to enterprise customers across EMEA to solve their biggest digital challenges.

Demystifying Azure Container Instance Pricing

Since containers revolutionized resources utilization and their cost by significantly increasing VM densities, understanding Azure Container Instance Pricing is key for making informed decisions about your containerized apps. ACI is the serverless option within Azure, to provision additional compute for demanding and highly scalable workloads. Knowing the ACI pricing, you can optimize costs while efficiently deploying your containers in a managed service that will optimize your operations.

How to build reliable services with unreliable dependencies

In an earlier blog, we looked at slow dependencies and how they can impact the reliability of other services. While we explored what happens when dependencies are degraded, what happens when dependencies outright fail? What can you do when your application or service sends a request to another service, and nothing comes back? We’ll answer this question by using Gremlin to proactively test a service with multiple dependencies.

IRL to IAC: Your Environment to PagerDuty via Terraform

Figuring out how to represent your as-built environment in PagerDuty can be confusing for new users. There are a lot of components to PagerDuty that will help your team be successful managing incidents, integrating with other systems in your environment, running workflows, and using automation. Your organization might have a lot of these components – users, teams, services, integrations, orchestrations, etc.

Live event recap: Humanizing the on-call experience

There’s no two ways about it: on-call is stressful. But with humans at the center, it’s especially important to find ways to make it as manageable and empathetic as possible. In this webinar with our friends at ELC, incident.io VP of Engineering, Noberto Lopes, and Intercom Staff Product Engineer, Andrej Blagojević, discuss their own experiences with on-call, and how the process can be better.

Why You Don't Need to Hire Kubernetes Experts

History has a tendency to repeat itself. This is because bad habits and anti-patterns are hard to break. And this remains the case with the latest sought-after engineering unicorn––the “Kubernetes expert”. These days, there is a veritable gold rush to hire the best and brightest Kubernetes wizards. Like all forms of expertise––this gold is rare, and as a result––is also costly. But this isn’t a new phenomenon in the technology world.

We need to talk about production readiness

On December 31, 2008, all the Microsoft Zunes around the world stopped working. The development team hadn’t properly accounted for the Leap Year, and when the year changed over, everything broke. On February 29, 2024, card payments in a Swedish grocery chain went down, payment terminals in New Zealand gas stations crashed, and an EA Sports racing game was rendered unplayable for the day.

Unlocking the Power of Cloud Native Transformation - A Beginner's Guide by Sully Martinez

Explore cloud native technologies with Sully Martinez at Civo Navigate NA 24. Learn why giants like Spotify and Netflix are switching to cloud native, understand its benefits over traditional architectures, and get insights into key components like microservices and Kubernetes. Perfect for those considering a shift or optimizing their cloud native strategies.

Best TeamViewer Competitors and Alternatives in 2024

With the digital world changing faster than ever, businesses are rushing to keep up, especially when it comes to supporting remote work. Interestingly, a report from 2023 highlighted that over 82% of businesses now support some form of remote work, underscoring the critical role of effective RMM solutions today. This makes choosing the right remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools more important than ever.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Frameworks and static site generators

In 2024, JavaScript is bigger than ever. The ecosystem is just as huge, and almost impossible to keep track of - so I've had a go at picking out 2024's most essential JS tools for you. In part 1 of this series, we reviewed runtimes and package managers, the foundational building blocks of your software project. So in part 2, we're analyzing the tools which form the walls and roof that give your software project its structure: frameworks and static site generators. For this installment of JS Toolbox 2024, we explore various frameworks & generators available in the JavaScript & TypeScript ecosystem, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases.

How Safe Is Your Kubernetes Environment? Discover ML-Driven API & Web App Security Solutions

Join @ChadMCrowell in this Navigate North America 2024 talk on enhancing Kubernetes security with machine learning-based API and web application security solutions. Discover the challenges and solutions of managing traffic through Kubernetes environments, the effectiveness of web application firewalls, and innovative ML techniques to combat zero-day vulnerabilities and other cyber threats.

DCIM Software: What Is the Risk of Not Making This Investment?

Investing in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is critical for modern businesses to efficiently manage their data center resources. Without DCIM software, organizations lack comprehensive visibility into their data center infrastructure, making it challenging to identify and address issues promptly, leading to potential service disruptions.

Kubernetes Cost Optimization: Tips and Best Practises

Kubernetes has become the go-to solution for container orchestration, but managing Kubernetes costs effectively is challenging for businesses aiming to optimize their IT expenditures. Let’s go through various types of costs associated with running Kubernetes and explore some key strategies and practical tips for Kubernetes cost optimization.

Canonical releases Landscape 24.04 LTS

London, 30 April 2024. Today Canonical announced the availability of Landscape’s first LTS release. Landscape 24.04 LTS features a new versioned API, a new web portal with accessibility and performance in mind, and intuitive controls for software distribution. Landscape 24.04 LTS comprises Landscape Server and Landscape Client. With a modernised backend and web portal in place, engineering teams can work efficiently, focusing on patches and new features.

Whose infrastructure is it anyway?

The recent McKinsey report, the state of cloud computing in Europe has exposed not only low returns, but also serious challenges for businesses embracing cloud as the basis of digital transformation. The first concern is that not only is the value of cloud ‘in isolated pockets and at subscale ’, but also that it is limited to the IT department. Whilst 75 percent of those surveyed reported either technology cost savings or productivity increases, only one-third have seen such savings beyond IT.

EBS Pricing Explained: A Guide For 2024

Understanding Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) pricing is fundamental for any organization using AWS to manage their cloud costs effectively. Amazon EBS provides the storage your cloud applications need to run smoothly. However, it’s equally important to understand its pricing to keep your cloud spending in check. This guide aims to simplify Amazon EBS pricing and offers practical tips on managing and reducing these costs. But first, what is it?

#026 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with BJ Badyk (Nexxen)

BJ Badyk is a human who desires an easier life. Nerd from birth, his curiosity led him down a path through the start of ISPs, Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble, the last few years of the Playboy brand, and into the world of Adtech. He currently runs the platform engineering team at Nexxen, where they work on unique ways of handling millions of requests per second with Kubernetes. The team was an early adopter of Talos Linux, which they now run at scale. He presented at TalosCon 2023 and continues to pursue simple solutions to complex problems.

Recurring 'Service Restart' Remediation with Resolve Actions

In this demonstration we break down Resolve's incident automation, which helps identify recurring IT issues by searching for previous incidents within a specific timeframe. If multiple incidents are detected, the automation flags the issue as chronic, updates the incident, and assigns it for further investigation to prevent endless retries. This system expedites resolving recurring IT issues. What you'll learn.