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canonical

Managed Apps on Public Cloud: Why Operations Matter, Part II

Jun 30, 2024 By agmatei In Canonical
In the first part of this blog journey (I’d call it a post, but it’s actually two posts) we explored what operational excellence looks like in public cloud deployments. And while I do not want to spoil it for you, the main takeaway was that it is not easy and can become resource-intensive. With this in mind, you might should be wondering what you can do to achieve excellence without focusing all your resources on operations.
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Incident.io

Using AI to understand what sets incident.io apart from the competition

Jun 30, 2024 By Chris Evans In Incident.io
Whenever a new customer joins incident.io, we make notes on what made them chose to buy our product and, if we were in a competitive process, why they chose us over other providers they were evaluating. It’s a lot of messy data and raw notes, but contained within is a veritable treasure trove of customer feedback. Summarising large amounts of data? Sounds like the perfect job for an LLM.
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opsmatters

Why a Well-Organized Server Rack is Crucial for IT Efficiency

Jun 28, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's digital age, the backbone of any successful business lies in its IT infrastructure. At the heart of this infrastructure lie server racks, the unsung heroes of data centers worldwide. But why is a well-organized server rack so crucial for IT efficiency? Let's explore the significant impact proper rack organization can have on your entire IT operation.
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squadcast

Practical Guide to Adopting Open-Source Software in Operations

Jun 28, 2024 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast
Businesses are constantly on the lookout for ways to optimize operations, reduce costs, and stay ahead of the competition. One of the most effective strategies for achieving these goals is adopting open-source software (OSS). Open-source tools offer a myriad of benefits, from cost savings to enhanced flexibility and innovation. However, transitioning to an open-source environment can be daunting without a clear roadmap.
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opsmatters

Understanding Network Management Services: Key Components and Benefits

Jun 28, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Network management plays a vital role in the modern IT structure, it is a range of toolkits and applications designed to maintain and improve the online community. Network management services ensure that the network operates smoothly and supports continuous data transmission and interchange within corporations.
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cloudzero

20 Cloud Migration Tools To Consider Before Your Migration

Jun 28, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Organizations are shifting to cloud computing to optimize operations and cut costs. Cloud migration involves transferring data, applications, and other elements to cloud infrastructure. This step is crucial for improving scalability, flexibility, and performance. Yet cloud migration comes with challenges. It needs careful planning, execution, and management to ensure a smooth transition to effective cloud use. Cloud migration tools address these challenges.
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virtana

The Five Challenges to Monitoring AI Data Fabric

Jun 28, 2024 By Shridhar Venkatraman In Virtana
As AI continues to evolve, it brings about a paradigm shift in how businesses handle data. The AI data fabric, a critical component of this transformation, acts as a cohesive layer that integrates data from various sources, facilitating seamless data access and management. However, monitoring this intricate system presents a unique set of challenges for business and IT leaders. Understanding these challenges is paramount to leveraging the full potential of AI data fabrics. Want to learn more?
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Logic Apps and AI - The Future of Integration

Jun 28, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In the first episode of the series "INTEGRATE expert voices - Unplugged" Kent Weare from Logic Apps team at Microsoft, discusses AI integration in Logic Apps. He highlights democratization of tech, AI's rapid evolution in integration, and potential for automating processes. Discover the potential of prompt-based integration, AI-driven data transformation, and how Logic Apps is leading this technological shift. Get insights on embracing AI in your organization and staying competitive to drive business value in the evolving Integration landscape.
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uptimia

How to Redirect www to Non-www with Nginx?

Jun 28, 2024 By Uptimia In Uptimia
Website owners often use a single version of their domain to improve SEO and user experience. Redirecting the www version of a domain to the non-www version (or vice versa) is common. For Nginx users, setting up this redirection needs specific configuration. This article explains how to redirect www to non-www using Nginx, helping you keep a consistent domain structure for your website.
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stackify

Container Orchestration: A Comprehensive Guide

Jun 28, 2024 By Stackify In Stackify
Containerization has deeply changed the way applications are built, deployed, and managed. Containers include both an application and its dependencies, enabling consistent and efficient deployment across diverse environments. However, as applications scale and become more complex, managing numerous containers manually becomes increasingly challenging. Container orchestration streamlines the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
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gremlin

Observability and incident response need resilience testing

Jun 28, 2024 By Gavin Cahill In Gremlin
There’s a reason why observability and incident response practices have become standard across modern software development. Anyone wanting to minimize downtime and deliver reliable, available applications needs to have fully instrumented systems and playbooks so they can respond quickly and effectively to outages or incidents. But there’s another piece to the reliability puzzle: resilience testing.
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gitkraken

10 Best VS Code Extensions for Web Development, According to Redditors

Jun 28, 2024 By Allison Wheeler In GitKraken
When it comes to improving your coding workflow, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions are a fan favorite among devs worldwide. Well-known extensions like Prettier for code formatting, ESLint for identifying and fixing problems, and Live Server for launching a local server are fantastic, but there are plenty of hidden gems offering unique features these popular tools don’t cover. We turned to Reddit to find out which lesser-known VS Code extensions the community’s talking about.
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opsverse

Understanding Traces and Spans: Span Filtering With ObserveNow and Grafana 10.4

Jun 28, 2024 By Divyarthini Rajender In OpsVerse
ObserveNow, the leading open source-based observability stack, has recently enhanced its capabilities with the introduction of Span Filtering – a key feature in its latest upgrade to Grafana 10.4. This advancement significantly improves the platform’s ability to dissect and analyze traces, which are crucial for understanding the behavior and performance of distributed systems.
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cortex

DevOps Automation: Unlock Efficiency, Improve Responsiveness

Jun 28, 2024 By Cortex In Cortex
DevOps uses software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) philosophies and practices to shorten the software development lifecycle (SDLC), provide continuous delivery of products, and maintain high software quality. Engineers who tackle slow deployment problems, communication bottlenecks between development and operations teams, and manual and error-prone engineering processes and tasks are doing DevOps work.
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datadog

Optimize PostgreSQL performance with Datadog Database Monitoring

Jun 28, 2024 By Jonathan Morin In Datadog
PostgreSQL is a widely used open source relational database that many organizations operate as a core part of their infrastructure stack. Because of their mission-critical nature, database-related issues can have outsize downstream impacts on user experience, service performance, and data retention, making it vital to identify and address problems quickly.
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pagerduty

Customer impacting incidents increased by 43% during the past year- each incident costs nearly $800,000

Jun 27, 2024 By PagerDuty In PagerDuty
PagerDuty, Inc. releases study of 500 IT leaders and decision-makers of companies with more than 1,000 employees responsible for IT operations from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, that highlights the growing impacts of customer-facing incidents and the ways automation can help mitigate.
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squadcast

All-in-One Incident Management: Why Squadcast Trumps Separate On-Call and Alerting Tools

Jun 27, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast
The pressure is on. Incidents happen, and resolving them quickly and efficiently is crucial for meeting your SLAs. But relying on a patchwork of tools for alerting, collaboration, and post-incident analysis can create confusion, delays, and frustration. They can work or may have been working perfect in your company but here are a few factors to consider: The list of questions can go on differing from organization to organization. These are just a few factors that can help you evaluate whether your current tools are truly effective for Incident Response, or if it's time to switch to a unified solution like Squadcast.
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bunnyshell

Streamline Your Development Workflow with Bunnyshell: Achieve Faster Time-to-Market

Jun 27, 2024 By Alin Dobra In Bunnyshell
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, maintaining consistent and reliable environments across all stages—whether it’s development, testing, or production—is crucial. The "works on my machine" problem is all too familiar, leading to inefficiencies and delays that can derail your projects. Enter Bunnyshell, a game-changer in the world of environment management that can transform your development workflow and drastically accelerate your journey from code to production.
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checkly

Monitoring as Code and Checkly Listed in the Gartner Hype Cycle for the Second Consecutive Year

Jun 27, 2024 By Hannes Lenke In Checkly
I'm excited to share that Gartner has included Monitoring as Code (MaC) as an emerging practice to their Hype Cycles for SREs again, the second year in a row. Since we founded Checkly, our vision has been that monitoring should sit in your repository, be codified, and scale with your software development. There is no alternative to MaC as it allows your engineering team(s) to work together, create and maintain checks, and ultimately own their monitoring.
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Reliability-Driven Fleet Management with Komodor

Jun 27, 2024 By Komodor In Komodor
Maintaining a few K8s clusters is hard enough. Maintaining 1000+ clusters is virtually impossible without embracing new tooling and paradigm shifts. Join us for an insightful LIVE workshop exploring the possibilities of Kubernetes Fleet Management with Komodor, lead by Itiel Shwartz* In this session, we will dive into the challenges of multi-cluster management and how Komodor's comprehensive platform simplifies operations. Discover how to gain real-time visibility into your clusters, automate routine tasks, and troubleshoot issues across your entire fleet efficiently.
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Teneo

Back to the Basics: The Foundational Role of DDI in Any Network

Jun 27, 2024 By Teneo In Teneo
In the ever-evolving landscape of networking, there are a plethora of three-letter acronyms that make up the wonderful alphabet soup that is a part of every engineer’s vocabulary. Whether it’s TCP, UDP, SSH, or one of the many other dozens, one acronym is commonly left out of the discussion: DDI. These seemingly simple letters are often overlooked or rarely thought of, but they are a crucial foundation for managing a stable, secure, and efficient network.
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Reward engineers who fix problems before they cause outages

Jun 27, 2024 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Are you recognizing the good work engineers do to prevent outages? "The people that are out there doing good work to prevent fires from ever occurring, we're not often recognizing them. We're not often rewarding them. And once things go wrong, someone comes in and fixes it. That's great. That's needed. But we're rewarding that behavior. And so it becomes a bit of people are motivated by what behavior you reward.
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gitkraken

Migrating from SVN to Git: Step-by-Step Guide

Jun 27, 2024 By Ryan Pinkus In GitKraken
Article updated June 2024 Is your current Subversion (SVN) version control system not meeting the needs of your development team? Perhaps you’ve heard of Git, but you’re so entrenched in SVN that converting to a new version control system seems like a daunting task. Fear not! No task is insurmountable when you have the power of the legendary GitKraken Desktop on your side.
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Komodor

The Definitive Guide to Kubernetes Cluster Upgrades

Jun 27, 2024 By Erez Rabih In Komodor
Kubernetes continues to play a pivotal role in orchestrating containerized applications with its cloud-native capabilities. Of course, capabilities like flexibility and scalability mean organizations must be extra vigilant, especially when it comes to maintaining the health and efficiency of Kubernetes clusters.
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Running ML/LLM models on Kubernetes Across Major Cloud Providers with Abhishek Choudhary

Jun 27, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Abhishek, co-founder and CTO of @truefoundry, explores the complexities of building a machine learning platform on Kubernetes. Discover solutions to challenges like handling diverse hardware, managing large Docker images, and optimizing costs. Learn how True Foundry uses tools like Argo CD, Keda, and Istio to create efficient abstractions for data scientists and streamline ML operations.
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canonical

Managed Apps on Public Cloud: Why Operations Matter, Part I

Jun 27, 2024 By agmatei In Canonical
You might be tempted to think that running an app on a public cloud means you don’t need to maintain it. While that would be wonderful, it would require help from the public cloud providers and app developers themselves, and possibly a range of mythological creatures with magic powers. This is because any app, regardless of the infrastructure on which it runs or its output, requires maintenance in order to yield accurate and reliable outputs.
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cloudzero

How Much Does AWS Fargate Cost?

Jun 26, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers Fargate, a serverless container service that eliminates the need to manage underlying infrastructure. Containers ensure applications run reliably across different computing environments without the overhead of server management. Fargate works with Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). It allows developers to focus on building their applications, offering enhanced security through isolation.
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Better multi-timezone support for On-call overrides

Jun 26, 2024 By Spike In Spike
Today, we are bringing enhancements to on-call overrides. For many remote teams using Spike, we are addressing the need to manage overrides across multiple time zones. This new design makes it easy to see override times in the local time of the person taking over. It adds clarity and helps you be mindful about on-call times. We also focus on clearly showing who is taking over on-call duties, enhancing overall management and coordination.
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megaport

Megaport's Latest Portal Features and Functionalities

Jun 26, 2024 By Megaport In Megaport
At Megaport, we’re always thinking about how to improve convenience, control, and user experience. And in response to feedback from you, our team is constantly adding and upgrading locations and features. After interacting with our customers and prioritizing this feedback, our Solution Architect and Engineering Product teams have been hard at work adding a range of features and upgrades to our Portal and solutions suite.
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metricfire

Guide to Monitoring Webhook Performance Using Telegraf

Jun 26, 2024 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Monitoring webhook performance is crucial to ensure reliable and efficient communication between your software/application and external services, as delays or failures in webhook processing can lead to significant data loss or service disruptions. Additionally, performance monitoring helps identify bottlenecks and optimize the system, ensuring a smooth and responsive user experience.
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How to Interactive Rebase in GitKraken Desktop #shorts

Jun 26, 2024 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Learn how to use GitKraken Desktop's interactive rebase editor! Whether you want to pick, reword, squash, or drop a commit, this handy feature makes it quick and intuitive. Rebase commits normally, edit commit messages, combine commits, or remove them entirely! Check out our latest GitKraken Desktop tutorial to see it in action.
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puppet

Stay Ahead of Known Vulnerabilities with Automated Patch Management

Jun 26, 2024 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
The consequences of not patching are everywhere: remember the Log4j vulnerability that grants hackers complete access to your devices? The best way to prevent this from happening is to use a patched version of Log4j — so why did this become a catastrophic and prolific security vulnerability event? A: Because people hate, forget, or simply dismiss patching as a labor-intensive part of managing their infrastructure.
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Galileo

Optimizing Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Health Insurance Provider Achieves Sustainable Cost Savings

Jun 25, 2024 By Galileo In Galileo
A leading American health insurance company was experiencing data inadequacy using native monitoring tools to monitor and optimize its hyperconverged infrastructure platform. By integrating Galileo’s advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, the company gained detailed insights into CPU, memory, and storage usage, empowering informed decision-making and enhancing operational efficiency.
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devart

Better Together: Experience Snowflake With Certified Devart Connectivity Solutions

Jun 25, 2024 By Victoria Collins In Devart
Devart’s joining Snowflake Partner Network Technology Select Tier is a highly anticipated milestone that will positively impact the experience of those who choose to work with Snowflake and look for extended connectivity solutions that perfectly sync with this platform. There are many connectivity solutions on the market, but only some of them provide full compatibility with Snowflake data types, support Snowflake standard SQL expressions, or are fit for ETL.
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metricfire

Moving from Netdata to MetricFire for Budget-Friendly Monitoring

Jun 25, 2024 By MetricFire Blogger In MetricFire
Netdata and MetricFire are commonly used monitoring tools, each offering unique features and capabilities for monitoring processes. Netdata provides a comprehensive solution for tracking system metrics and ensuring optimal performance. MetricFire stands out for its budget-friendly approach to monitoring, allowing organizations to efficiently manage their resources without compromising on quality.
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megaport

Automate Your Network Deployments With The New Megaport Terraform Provider

Jun 25, 2024 By Megaport In Megaport
For cloud architects and network engineers, Terraform needs no introduction. Long acclaimed as a leader in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) space, this tool is often used over vendors’ own automation tools, which tend to be an afterthought for most cloud services. For those with IaC skills, the rewards of using Terraform are plentiful. Users can provision and manage their cloud infrastructure with full customisation and rapid automation.
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2 steps

Differences between DevSecOps and DevOps

Jun 25, 2024 By 2 Steps In 2 Steps
Many businesses in the current market have integrated both DevOps and agile to stay ahead of the competition. A recent report showed that 97% of companies have now shifted to using agile development methods. By implementing the two concepts, businesses achieve higher customer satisfaction levels and more brand loyalty. One element that makes it possible to achieve these goals is process automation.
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Maximize Uptime & Minimize Stress: Powerful Monitoring Solutions

Jun 25, 2024 By netdata In netdata
Selecting the right observability solution is essential for maintaining the performance and reliability of your IT infrastructure. With countless options available, making an informed decision can be challenging. This webinar will provide you with a comprehensive guide to navigating this complex process. We'll explore the critical factors to consider, such as scalability, ease of use, integration capabilities, and cost-effectiveness. You'll gain insights into best practices for evaluating and implementing monitoring tools that align with your business goals and technical requirements.
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resolve

RPA Realities: How Investing in the Right Tech Actually Saves You Money

Jun 25, 2024 By Derek Pascarella In Resolve
Ah, RPA—the new-wave miracle cure for mundane tasks, cost-cutting, and boosting efficiency. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is hailed as a game changer for businesses looking to streamline operations and improve efficiency. By automating repetitive and mundane tasks, RPA allows employees to focus on more strategic, value-added activities. Yet, as anyone who’s ventured into its world knows, implementing RPA isn’t all sunshine and rainbows.
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jfrog

JFrog & Qwak: Accelerating Models Into Production - The DevOps Way

Jun 25, 2024 By Yuval Fernbach In JFrog
We are collectively thrilled to share some exciting news: Qwak will be joining the JFrog family! Nearly four years ago, Qwak was founded with the vision to empower Machine Learning (ML) engineers to drive real impact with their ML-based products and achieve meaningful business results. Our mission has always been to accelerate, scale, and secure the delivery of ML applications.
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Use the Gremlin API to add Chaos Engineering to your pipeline

Jun 25, 2024 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Did you know you can use the Gremlin API to integrate resiliency tests into your CI/CD pipeline? Our partner Nagarro has even made it part of their shift left package. "What we do is shift left and add a chaos stage to the pipeline. We have created the shift left accelerator package. It integrates with load tests and Gremlin APIs to set up the test scenario.
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hyperview

Patch or Perish: Secure Your Data Center with Firmware Management

Jun 25, 2024 By Rajan Sodhi In Hyperview
Firmware is the permanent software programmed into a device’s read-only memory. It provides the low-level control for the device’s specific hardware. In a data center, firmware is embedded in various components such as servers, storage devices, and networking equipment. Firmware management involves the processes and tools necessary to update, maintain, and monitor these firmware systems.
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circleci

DORA metrics: How to measure DevOps performance

Jun 25, 2024 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
DevOps accelerates modern software development by automating processes and breaking down silos between development and operations teams. This paradigm shift emphasizes continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to speed time to market, facilitate higher-quality releases, and improve customer satisfaction.
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kelverion

Why Have a Test Environment

Jun 25, 2024 By Rachel In Kelverion
As part of our best practices Kelverion always recommends having a test automation platform. There are several reasons explained below why Kelverion recommends customers have a test environment. We know it takes a little bit of time and resources, but it truly can be a safe zone that allows you to test and grow your IT automation processes. Let’s explore some of the most common reasons.
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atlassian

Scale your code review with custom merge checks

Jun 25, 2024 By Jeroen De Raedt In Atlassian
Pull requests are a core feature of Bitbucket Cloud, serving as the hub where code contributions are reviewed, discussed, and approved before being merged into the codebase. Initially, developers focused on ensuring that proposed changes were bug-free, adhered to correct code styling, and included appropriate tests. Over time, the role of pull requests has expanded to act as a checkpoint, ensuring that only high-quality and compliant code reaches production.
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auvik

How to Show Appreciation on Sysadmin Day 2024

Jun 25, 2024 By Justin Ong In Auvik
Before you know it, Sysadmin Day will be here again! As we all know, sysadmins (sometimes written SysAdmins) play a critical behind-the-scenes role in keeping technology up and running smoothly. However, they often go unappreciated until something goes wrong. That’s why System Administrator Appreciation Day serves as the perfect opportunity to recognize the sysadmins that work tirelessly day in and day out to support your organization.
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Incident.io

Managing your resources in Terraform can be literally easy and actually fun

Jun 25, 2024 By Lisa Karlin Curtis In Incident.io
We approached building a Terraform integration with a sense of trepidation. One of the things that motivates us is building features we think people are going to love using, and Terraform integrations are often not that. Terraform integrations have a number of common pitfalls. Building resources by hand is tedious, and requires deep understanding of their specification. Importing and managing existing resources is also often painful.
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haproxy

Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0

Jun 25, 2024 By Zlatko Bratkovic In HAProxy
HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0 is now available. For our enterprise customers, HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0 will arrive later this year and incorporate these same features. In this release, we've added TCP custom resource definitions (CRDs) to improve mapping, structuring, and validation for TCP services within HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. Say goodbye to messy service list management and "hello" to greater flexibility with HAProxy options for your K8s services.
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cloudzero

What Is Cloud Elasticity? (And How Does It Affect Cloud Spend?)

Jun 25, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Cloud computing provides significant benefits over on-premises computing, including the ability to expand operations without purchasing new hardware. But there’s more. With cloud computing, you can adjust compute resources to meet changing demands. For example, you can buy extra online storage for your chatbot system as you receive increasing customer inquiries over time. You’d pay for as much online storage as you use.
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Relationship Between DevOps and FinOps and Azure Cost Management

Jun 25, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this episode of "FinOps on Azure," Richard Fennell, CTO at Black Marble and FinOps certified practitioner Michael Stephenson MVP, discusses the relationship between DevOps, FinOps, and Azure Cost Management. The podcast discusses how integrating FinOps into DevOps practices enhances cost management and optimization. Richard emphasizes the challenges of implementation, the importance of senior management support, and the early involvement of FinOps in development cycles to improve decision-making and identify cost-saving opportunities.
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upsun

Faster. Smarter. Greener. Oris and Liip enhance their development workflow with a PaaS

Jun 25, 2024 By Upsun In Upsun
Celebrating over 120 years of mechanical excellence and beauty, Oris has been a pillar of sustainable, independent Swiss watchmaking since 1904. By forging its own path and sticking true to its values, Oris has built a renowned brand and a stunning product range which they have continued to innovate and expand over the last century. Expansion which today includes a sharp, intuitive web and ecommerce platform.
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opsmatters

How to Effectively Manage Your Website

Jun 24, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Your website is often the first interaction potential customers have with your brand. How well you manage it can make or break their experience. Whether you're a small business owner or a digital marketer, mastering website management is crucial. In this guide, we will walk you through everything you need to know to effectively manage your website, ensuring it is both engaging and efficient.
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datadog

Track the status of all your SLOs in Datadog

Jun 24, 2024 By Meghan Jordan In Datadog
Service level objectives, or SLOs, are a key part of the site reliability engineering toolkit. SLOs provide a framework for defining clear targets around application performance, which ultimately help teams provide a consistent customer experience, balance feature development with platform stability, and improve communication with internal and external users.
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datadog

Best practices for managing your SLOs with Datadog

Jun 24, 2024 By Mark Azer In Datadog
Collaboration and communication are critical to the successful implementation of service level objectives. Development and operational teams need to evaluate the impact of their work against established service reliability targets in order to improve their end user experience. Datadog simplifies cross-team collaboration by enabling everyone in your organization to track, manage, and monitor the status of all of their SLOs and error budgets in one place.
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datadog

SLOs 101: How to establish and define service level objectives

Jun 24, 2024 By Mark Azer In Datadog
In recent years, organizations have increasingly adopted service level objectives, or SLOs, as a fundamental part of their site reliability engineering (SRE) practice. Best practices around SLOs have been pioneered by Google—the Google SRE book and a webinar that we jointly hosted with Google both provide great introductions to this concept. In essence, SLOs are rooted in the idea that service reliability and user happiness go hand in hand.
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How to Update the Biz Daemon application?

Jun 24, 2024 By AirDroid In AirDroid
Welcome to this tutorial video where we walk you through how to update the Biz Daemon that is installed on the controlled device. Biz Daemon essentially is the required app to use AirDroid Business. It is installed on the device that allows you to monitor, manage, and control the device from your computer or mobile phone remotely.
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cloudzero

15 New Relic Alternatives To Evaluate In 2024

Jun 24, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
It’s no secret. Competition is more than fierce in SaaS; it’s also bitter. The competition will enter any market, area, and idea as long as there’s money to fund it — even if the margins are close to zero. Having an observability tool like New Relic or New Relic alternatives can be the key to protecting your margins. A few hours of service disruption, a software bug, or unoptimized code deployment can significantly impact customer experience.
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cloudsmith

Enhance Security with Chainguard and Cloudsmith

Jun 24, 2024 By Ciara Carey In Cloudsmith
At Cloudsmith, we are excited to announce our support for the Chainguard Registry as an upstream source. By consolidating all your artifacts, packages, and now Chainguard Images into Cloudsmith, your organization can: Integrating the Chainguard Registry as an upstream resource in your Cloudsmith account not only enhances security but also boosts efficiency in your artifact management workflow.
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atlassian

Focus on recent code changes with iterative review

Jun 24, 2024 By Dave Parrish In Atlassian
Hello, Bitbucket Cloud Community! We are incredibly excited to announce the introduction of Iterative review, a feature designed to help your team get pull requests completed faster by removing the need to re-review code you've already seen. Now when an author pushes new commits based on your pull request (PR) feedback, you'll have the option to focus on just those new changes.
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GitKraken Desktop Tutorial: How to INTERACTIVE REBASE

Jun 24, 2024 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Explore the interactive rebase editor in GitKraken Desktop for a seamless rebasing experience. Learn how to use drag-and-drop and context menus to pick, reword, squash, drop, and reorder commits. Discover how to resolve conflicts, reset, and abort rebase operations, ensuring a tidy commit history.
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CircleCI product roadmap | Summer update

Jun 24, 2024 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Join the CircleCI product team for an in-depth look at just-launched and upcoming features. This webinar starts with a quick overview of what we're building and why. Then we cover new features and upcoming changes across CI, CD and AI & LLMOps. We cover everything from config optimization recommendations to release tracking to testing config changes locally with the VS Code extension.
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Creating Branches and PRs from #Jira Issues #shorts

Jun 24, 2024 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Jira issue management slowing you down? ️ Learn more about creating branches and pull requests directly from the Jira issue view, plus deep linking to GitKraken Desktop and GitLens, in our upcoming Workshop! Mark your calendars for June 27th at 12pm CST to speed up your workflows & enter for a chance to win GitKraken swag!
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atlassian

Announcing our new CI/CD runtime, with up to 8x faster builds

Jun 24, 2024 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian
We recently gave you a preview of some exciting changes coming to Bitbucket Pipelines with the release of our next-generation CI/CD runtime. This new runtime will act as the foundation for a range of powerful new future capabilities like ARM and multi-arch builds in cloud, and we're excited to announce that this new runtime is available starting today.
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squadcast

Alert Intelligence - 11 Tips for Smarter Alert Management

Jun 21, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast
Alert fatigue is the enemy of effective Incident Response. Traditional alert management systems generate a constant stream of notifications, making it difficult for IT operations teams to distinguish critical issues from noise. This leads to: These challenges demand a new approach. Alert intelligence. Alert Intelligence offers a sophisticated solution that leverages machine learning and advanced algorithms to transform alert management.
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manageengine

Five worthy reads: Hyperautomation revolution-Harnessing the power for business success in 2024

Jun 21, 2024 By General In ManageEngine
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we are exploring the concept of hyperautomation and its role in driving your business towards success. In today’s dynamic business landscape, organizations are witnessing a profound shift as they redefine their operational strategies.
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NinjaOne

High Availability vs Fault Tolerance: Understanding the Main Differences

Jun 21, 2024 By Lauren Ballejos In NinjaOne
High availability vs fault tolerance – what are they? These are two IT concepts that are closely related, but have different requirements and outcomes. This article will explore the difference between high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) in regard to IT infrastructure, highlighting the key differences, use cases, and benefits of each so that you can ensure that your infrastructure meets its unique reliability and availability requirements.
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virtana

Understanding the Power of AI Data Fabric

Jun 21, 2024 By Shridhar Venkatraman In Virtana
The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, has transformed various sectors, including marketing, legal, and software development. However, this rapid integration brings challenges, such as managing critical data access, mitigating costs, and ensuring compliance. To address these complexities, enterprises need to upgrade their data center management with an AI Data Fabric Copilot.
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site24x7

What is DNS monitoring and why is it important

Jun 21, 2024 By Bela Susan Thomas In Site24x7
In the digital world, your website is like a house, and visitors access it through an address. But before they reach your doorstep, they need directions—that's where the domain name system (DNS) comes in. It acts like a phone book and translates user-friendly website names (like google.com) into machine-friendly numerical IP addresses. DNS server monitoring checks the health and performance of the DNS servers that translate website addresses into IP addresses.
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site24x7

Three reasons why your business needs infrastructure monitoring

Jun 21, 2024 By Mahalashmi Narayanan In Site24x7
A business's website or application might appear polished on the surface, but if the underlying infrastructure is struggling, the user experience also suffers. Users can only benefit from applications and services if the critical back-end infrastructure is functional. Here's where infrastructure monitoring comes in—it acts as a watchful eye in your IT environment, ensuring everything runs smoothly.
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cloudzero

AWS EKS Pricing Explained: A 2024 Guide

Jun 21, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Cloud computing demands efficient application deployment, management, and scaling. Amazon EKS offers a solid solution, simplifying cloud computing management for organizations. At its core, AWS EKS harnesses the power of Kubernetes to automate tasks within AWS’s secure cloud infrastructure. It supports smooth and reliable application performance, which is crucial for organizations scaling their operations. This guide details AWS EKS pricing and offers practical tips on reducing costs.
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What is Generative AI - Everything You Need to Know

Jun 21, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
This episode of Azure on Air with Azure MVP's Toon Vanhoutte and Lex Hegt provides a comprehensive introduction to generative AI and retrieval-augmented generation, highlighting the capabilities and potential applications of the technology. Toon's practical demonstration of the job matcher copilot showcases the power of Azure OpenAI Service and its ability to deliver accurate and contextually relevant answers to complex queries.
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hyperview

Vendor-Neutral Asset Auto-Discovery: The Cornerstone of DCIM Software

Jun 21, 2024 By Rajan Sodhi In Hyperview
Data centers today are dynamic ecosystems with heterogeneous infrastructures. They encompass a wide array of equipment including servers, storage systems, networking devices, power distribution units, and environmental controls. These assets often originate from multiple vendors and support various communication protocols. Traditional manual asset management methods are ill-equipped to handle this complexity, leading to inefficiencies, inaccuracies, and increased operational costs.
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Sunbird

Colo Vacancy Rates Near Record Low: What Can You Do?

Jun 21, 2024 By Sunbird In Sunbird
As the demand for digital services grows exponentially, so does the need for colocation data center space. However, colocation providers are unable to keep up with this rapidly growing need resulting in limited space available for rent and skyrocketing prices. According to CBRE, colocation rates have jumped from 14.5% in 2022 to 18.6% in 2023 to a record $163.44 per kW/month due to the restricted supply of colo space.
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Release 1.46.0 - Manage Netdata from the Dashboard, AWS marketplace, Native Windows support & more!

Jun 21, 2024 By netdata In netdata
The Netdata Team is very excited to introduce you to all the new features and improvements in the new version. Release HIGHLIGHTS: It's time for another Netdata release! Netdata team has been super busy cooking up some great new features we're sure you will enjoy. Users can now dynamically configure collectors and alerts from the UI, the long awaited Native Windows agent is almost here, AWS billing integration and so many more cool features.
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motadata

What is Patch Management? A Complete Guide

Jun 21, 2024 By Arpit Sharma In Motadata
Let us begin with an example that underlines the importance of patch management. Software vulnerabilities are real, irrespective of the business entity. One of the leading healthcare organizations providing data for more than 10 million people had an adverse situation in 2023. Their focus group revealed that while there was a nod to patch management, the prioritization was not taken seriously due to a lack of resources and perceived minimal risks.
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datadog

Troubleshoot infrastructure issues faster with Resource Changes

Jun 21, 2024 By Sriram Raman In Datadog
Infrastructure changes often trigger incidents, but troubleshooting these incidents is challenging when responders have to navigate through multiple tools to correlate telemetry with configuration changes. This lack of unified observability leads to longer mean time to resolution (MTTR), greater operational stress, and ultimately, negative business outcomes.
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gremlin

Introducing Gremlin for AWS

Jun 20, 2024 By Ryan Detwiller In Gremlin
Today, Gremlin is introducing Gremlin for AWS, a suite of tools to more easily find and fix the reliability risks that cause downtime on AWS. The cloud opens up a range of reliability challenges that didn’t exist before, especially for customers running distributed, mission-critical workloads. Teams experience the pain of failed migrations, frequent incidents, and reliability toil, but often struggle to modernize their approach to reliability as they modernize their infrastructure.
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Gremlin for AWS: Demo from Install to Testing

Jun 20, 2024 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Gremlin for AWS is a suite of tools to more easily find and fix the reliability risks that cause downtime on AWS. The cloud opens up a range of reliability challenges that didn’t exist before, especially for customers running distributed, mission-critical workloads. Teams experience the pain of failed migrations, frequent incidents, and reliability toil, but often struggle to modernize their approach to reliability as they modernize their infrastructure. That’s where Gremlin for AWS can help.
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Want more software reliability? It starts with leadership

Jun 20, 2024 By Gremlin In Gremlin
If you want to improve reliability, it has to be important from the top down. "As part of the CTO or leadership owning it, they need to tell folks that it's important in the product roadmap, in some of the development schedule, that we spend time on it, that the CEO is the person that holds people accountable, that they review the metrics, that they sit in the outages, that they understand the quality of the software.
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turbo360

Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations: Implementation Best Practices

Jun 20, 2024 By Nadeem Ahamed In Turbo360
Microsoft Azure offers a variety of solutions for cost management, with Azure Advisor being one of the core features. Azure Advisor provides insights into reservations and right-sizing for various Azure resources. While Microsoft Azure excels at building and deploying solutions, there is often a notable gap when it comes to operations and cost management.
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circleci

Test and deploy containerized PyTorch models to Heroku

Jun 20, 2024 By Vivek Maskara In CircleCI
PyTorch is an open source machine learning (ML) framework that makes it easy for researchers and developers to move their projects from prototyping to production. With PyTorch, you don’t have to learn complex C++ code - you can use regular Python for your ML projects. This makes it a great choice for anyone who wants to get started quickly and easily with ML.
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canonical

Navigating the cost of cloud storage in the public sector

Jun 20, 2024 By Philip Williams In Canonical
Like many other industries, organisations in the public sector have been keen to make use of the flexibility offered by cloud computing, but are now observing unpredictable and rising costs. Much of which can be mitigated through careful planning and on-premise infrastructure. Government guidance now recommends switching to a strategy of the most appropriate solution for a problem, rather than a one-size-fits-all or carte blanche approach of shifting all applications to the cloud.
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redgate

Marking deployments in Redgate Monitor 14

Jun 20, 2024 By Kathi Kellenberger In Redgate
Redgate Monitor is an essential tool for DBA teams worldwide, providing real-time monitoring of SQL Server and PostgreSQL performance. With RedgateMonitor, you can easily track deployments, errors, and other events on the timeline. This feature, called annotations, allows you to quickly identify the root cause of performance issues and take corrective action. Redgate Monitor’s timeline is a powerful tool that helps you stay on top of your database performance and keep your systems running smoothly.
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cortex

Cortex Catalogs: More than Microservices

Jun 20, 2024 By Lauren Craigie In Cortex
Cortex is an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) that reduces friction in developing software that stays aligned to standards of excellence. While all IDPs offer some cataloging functionality, the ability of that catalog to match existing business logic can mean the difference between a true system of record, and yet-another--tool.
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Greener region discount: the future of cloud computing l Platform.sh

Jun 20, 2024 By Upsun In Upsun
Bonnie Schneider speaks with Leah Goldfarb, the environmental impact officer at Platform.sh, about their initiative to impact business sustainability in 2024 with a PaaS sector first: a greener region discount. Learn how this innovative approach is shaping the future of cloud computing and environmental responsibility.
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manageengine

Achieve quick application deployments and container orchestration with proactive container monitoring

Jun 19, 2024 By Arshad Shariff In ManageEngine
Containers are self-contained units of software that include application code along with all necessary dependencies, libraries, and components needed for the code to run smoothly in any environment. They simplify distribution and deployment by packaging everything required for the application to function, without the need for extra infrastructure. While container infrastructure continues to grow and is used by organizations across the globe, it also poses a set of management challenges and can create unnecessary issues if left unattended.
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Teneo

Is Artificial Intelligence for Infrastructure and Operations really just Intelligent Automation?

Jun 19, 2024 By Teneo In Teneo
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have the potential to revolutionize IT infrastructure and operations (ITOps) by automating routine tasks, enhancing system reliability, and improving efficiency. However, the term “Artificial Intelligence” can sometimes be misleading in this context. A more accurate description might be “Automated Intelligence” because these tools often automate predefined tasks and processes rather than exhibit true cognitive intelligence.
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#028 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Chris Bailey (IBM Instana)

Jun 19, 2024 By Komodor In Komodor
Chris is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Instana, leading the technical strategy and development of Observability and IT Automation solutions at IBM. He is a recognized technology leader across programming languages, runtimes, platforms, observability, and automated IT operations. He has pioneered projects that fundamentally enhanced open-source communities and cloud-native platforms.
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cloudzero

What Is Cloud TCO? (Total Cost of Ownership)

Jun 19, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Investing in the right systems, assets, and infrastructure is critical to business success. It can be the difference between profitability and loss. Businesses employ several methods to determine the value of a product or service before purchase or adoption. One of those methods is the total cost of ownership. Total cost of ownership (TCO) is the sum of all costs involved in the purchase, operation, and maintenance of a given asset during its lifetime.
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3 Ways to Optimize your Kubernetes Clusters with Resource Control

Jun 19, 2024 By Densify In Densify
We cover some real world cases and provide valuable insights into how resources might be the source of future angst that you could avoid. With so many moving parts and so many settings it is nearly impossible to avoid resourcing issues and unnecessary cost in container environments.
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Managing Kubernetes Add Ons in a Fleet of Clusters with Gianluca Mardente

Jun 19, 2024 By Civo In Civo
In this Navigate video, Gianluca Mardente from Cisco's AppDynamics business unit introduces Project Sveltos, an open-source tool for managing add-ons in a fleet of Kubernetes clusters. Gianluca explains the features of Sveltos, including its cluster profile, modes of operation (continuous, one-time, and continuous with drift detection), and its ability to handle templates and scale efficiently. The session includes a live demo using Civo clusters to showcase the practical application of Sveltos.
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Galileo

Optimizing AIX Performance: Identifying and Resolving Common Misconfigurations with Galileo

Jun 18, 2024 By Galileo In Galileo
For decades, many of the world’s top enterprises have trusted IBM Power Systems to run their mission-critical applications. IBM’s proprietary Unix operating system, AIX, is widely used in enterprise IT environments for its reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). As a result, performance optimization of AIX infrastructure is crucial.
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squadcast

A Build vs. Buy Guide for Incident Management Software

Jun 18, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast
Would you rather have an Incident Management system custom-built to your exact specifications, potentially costing more time and resources, or an off-the-shelf solution that's ready to deploy but might not fit all your unique needs? Decision makers in companies often face this critical decision. And, that’s the debate of the day! Let’s explore and decode the decision of building vs. buying an Incident Management software.
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turbo360

Turbo and DATA Passion extend long-term partnership in Germany

Jun 18, 2024 By Mohan Nagaraj In Turbo360
We are delighted to announce the continuation of our successful partnership with DataPassion GmbH in Germany. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, DataPassion has been a trusted collaborator, providing smart application integration services for CRM, ERP, and multi-channel shopping. Their expertise in Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Integration Services, has consistently delivered reliable and scalable solutions to our clients.
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solarwinds

Dameware Mini Remote Control Guide: Overview, Pricing & Download

Jun 18, 2024 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
In today’s fast-paced IT environment, having robust and reliable remote support software is non-negotiable. That’s where SolarWinds Dameware Mini Remote Control (MRC) steps in. This comprehensive guide delves into what Dameware MRC is, how to use it, its pricing structure, and how to download it. Whether you’re an IT professional looking for an efficient way to support end users or an organization aiming to enhance its remote support capabilities, this article has got you covered.
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stackstate

Announcement: StackState Acquisition by SUSE

Jun 18, 2024 By Andreas Prins In StackState
Ever since I joined StackState almost three years ago, I knew we were onto something. Something that could change the way engineers observe, troubleshoot, and optimize their environments. Something that would transform your understanding of your entire infrastructure. As CEO for the last 18 months, I've seen our platform evolve into the next generation, making it truly powerful for our users.
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History of Web Components #GitKraken #shorts

Jun 18, 2024 By GitKraken In GitKraken
From Alex Russell's 2011 talk to Google's Polymer project and beyond, web components are crucial for creating modular, reusable web elements. That's why we use the Lit library to build powerful web components for GitKraken's DevEx platform! Check out our latest YouTube video to see how we harness the power of Lit to enhance development.
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Shaping a World Where Tech Empowers and Responsibility Leads with Mark & Isabella Boost

Jun 18, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Join us at Civo Navigate Local for "Igniting Tomorrow: Shaping a World Where Tech Empowers and Responsibility Leads" with Mark and Isabella Boost. Dive into the challenges and opportunities in cloud computing, hear from industry veterans about the evolving landscape, and learn about our commitment to sustainability and innovative solutions. Discover how Civo is working towards a fairer, more open, and community-driven tech environment.
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Install Netdata in under 1 minute!

Jun 18, 2024 By netdata In netdata
Netdata software engineer Fotis Voutsas demonstrates just how fast and easy it is to install Netdata. In under a minute, Netdata is up and running, monitoring your system's metrics. With Netdata, you can monitor your nodes, whether they are physical, virtual, containers, or IoT. All you need to do is: Sign in at app.netdata.cloud Copy the kick-start script, paste it into your node's terminal, and follow the directions, typing in your sudo password along the way. Watch your Netdata dashboard come to life and start monitoring your infrastructure with pre-configured dashboards.
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resolve

Streamline Your Retail Operations with Automated End-of-Day Processing

Jun 18, 2024 By Graham McDonough In Resolve
End-of-day (EOD) processing is a vital routine for retail businesses, encompassing a series of essential tasks that ensure seamless store operations. At the close of each business day, various systems must reconcile transactions, update inventory, process sales data, and generate reports. These activities are crucial for maintaining accurate financial records, optimizing stock levels, and preparing for the next business day.
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Cloud 66

Blue-Green and Canary Releases for Kubernetes

Jun 18, 2024 By Khash Sajadi In Cloud 66
Today I am very happy to announce the general availability of Blue Green and Canary releases for Kubernetes on Cloud 66. Allowing Blue Green and Canary releases for Kubernetes is the result of months of hard work by the team here at Cloud 66 and I am very pleased with the results. We wanted our Blue Green and Canary releases to be simple to use and I think we have found the sweet spot between flexibility and ease of use. Today we are also rolling out Preview deployments to GA for all our customers.
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canonical

A CISO's comprehensive breakdown of the Cyber Resilience Act

Jun 18, 2024 By Stephanie Domas In Canonical
Strong, wide-reaching regulation can bring safety to communities – but it can also bring uncertainty. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has proven no exception to this universal rule. Across the open source community and the wider tech landscape, people have been greeting the news with the whole spectrum of reactions: concern, anxiety, hope. But is there anything to fear? Does the CRA really change things in open source? And how should your teams be preparing for this legislation?
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puppet

The Secret to Enterprise Observability: Automation & Configuration Management

Jun 18, 2024 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
Computing environments are more dynamic, distributed, and complex than ever. Observability tools help collect, monitor, and interpret the data they generate — like logs, metrics, and traces — to give IT teams and leaders real-time insights that can help detect issues, troubleshoot solutions, and improve the reliability of their IT systems. But observability tools can’t do their job without a strong infrastructure foundation and the right tools to manage it.
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squadcast

Migrating From Your Tool to Squadcast

Jun 17, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast
In our recent blog we talked about how having separate tools for On-Call and for alerting sucks! And how Squadcast offers a lifeline with its all-in-one Incident Management and Reliability Automation platform by amalgamating multiple tool functionality under a single hood. This blog is all about how you can easily transition from your current Incident Management & alerting tool into a better and more reliable enterprise grade platform with Squadcast.
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hyperview

APIs: The Silent Heroes of Data Center Management

Jun 17, 2024 By Rajan Sodhi In Hyperview
Data centers typically operate a diverse array of systems including environmental controls, power management, IT service management (ITSM) platforms, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. DCIM software with well-documented, open APIs ensures these systems can communicate and function cohesively. Interoperability fosters.
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redgate

How the Financial Services sector is moving to the cloud, and what it means for monitoring

Jun 17, 2024 By Xanthe Saunders Martin In Redgate
Redgate recently published the 2024 State of the Database Landscape report, which explores how the challenges for data professionals now encompass a lot more than managing and monitoring their database estates for high availability and optimum performance. Database DevOps, multiple database platforms, the cloud, AI, and making data available for development and testing have now also become part of the daily conversation.
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cloudzero

Google VPS Pricing Explained: A 2024 Guide

Jun 17, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Organizations are turning to Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for scalable and cost-effective hosting solutions. Google offers a robust VPS option tailored to various organizational needs. Understanding Google VPS pricing can help you make informed decisions and optimize your cloud costs. This guide will explain Google VPS pricing, explore its uses, and provide tips for optimizing these costs with CloudZero.
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Better Jira Issue Management with JQL Filters #GitKraken #shorts

Jun 17, 2024 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Enhance your Jira issue management with GitKraken Desktop with custom JQL filters to tailor your view based on assignees, status, and more! Learn how to navigate these features and efficiently organize your Jira issues by registering for our Workshop on June 28th at 12pm CST.
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cortex

Metrics IDPs move: How to measure the impact of your Internal Developer Portal

Jun 17, 2024 By Lauren Craigie In Cortex
Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) have increasingly found their way to the center of engineering operations. As the new engineering system of record, IDPs make it possible to align and enforce standards while unlocking safe developer self-service. Of course, oft-cited benefits like removing friction and improving consistency might feel intangible or even duplicative to other tools in your stack. So how should engineering leaders think about evaluating IDPs?
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canonical

Top 5 reasons to use Ubuntu for your AI/ML projects

Jun 17, 2024 By Andreea Munteanu In Canonical
For 20 years, Ubuntu has been at the cutting edge of technology. Pioneers looking to innovate new technologies and ideas choose Ubuntu as the medium to do it, whether they’re building devices for space, deploying a fleet of robots or building up financial infrastructure. The rise of machine learning is no exception and has encouraged people to develop their models on Ubuntu at different scales.
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Why you NEED Runtime Security updated with Mike Coleman

Jun 17, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Join Mike Coleman, Developer Advocate at Sysdig, as he explores the critical need for runtime security in cloud-native environments. Learn how the open-source tool Falco can help detect and respond to suspicious activities in your Kubernetes and container setups. This session covers the evolution of security practices, practical implementation tips, and a live demo. Perfect for developers, platform administrators, and security professionals looking to enhance their security posture.
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canonical

Pair Programming: The Ubuntu Way

Jun 16, 2024 By Aaryan Porwal In Canonical
At our core, we believe in Ubuntu: “I am what I am because of who we all are.” This philosophy of interconnectedness is woven into everything we do, including how we approach software development. This belief in our interconnectedness extends to how we build software. Pair programming, a practice where two developers work side-by-side, isn’t just a reflection of our values—it’s a powerful driver of quality, innovation, and team cohesion.
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squadcast

Complete Incident Management Playbook for Enterprises

Jun 14, 2024 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast
Effective Incident Management is indispensable for maintaining the stability and reliability of enterprise operations. Modern businesses heavily depend on their IT infrastructure, making the swift and efficient management of incidents that disrupt normal operations a top priority. A robust Incident Management process can significantly reduce downtime, boost productivity, and uphold customer satisfaction.
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opsmatters

Managing IT Network Disruptions In Your Company Like A Pro

Jun 14, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Let's face it, tech meltdowns are the worst. In today's world, a healthy computer network is like the plumbing in your office-you barely notice it when it works, but when it goes kaput, everything grinds to a halt. Emails stop flowing, files disappear, and suddenly, your most productive employees are reduced to staring at useless screens. The good news? There are ways to be a hero and keep your business running smoothly even when the tech gremlins strike. This guide will show you how to be a network-disruption ninja, ready to tackle any tech trouble like a pro.
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cloudzero

AWS GP2 Vs. GP3 Volumes: A Side-By-Side Comparison

Jun 14, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is an efficient and durable block storage service. It is especially great for rapidly changing data on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Besides, Amazon EBS GP volumes promise a balance between performance and cost savings. In this guide, we see if that is the case. We’ll also tell if switching from your current EBS volume type is worth the while.
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How to select application from Managed Google Play Store on AirDroid Business

Jun 14, 2024 By AirDroid In AirDroid
Welcome to this tutorial video where we walk you through the steps to select Apps from Managed Google Play Store in AirDroid Business. AirDroid Business is a mobile device management (MDM) solution that helps you manage all your Android devices effectively and securely.
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Accelerating Business Innovations in Computer Vision with FilterBox with Zac Nickens & Kit Merker

Jun 14, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Discover how to accelerate business innovations in computer vision with FilterBox! Join Kit Merker and Zach Nickens of PL Side Technologies as they discuss the challenges of implementing computer vision and demonstrate how their innovative FilterBox solution makes it easier. This session includes practical applications, live demos, and interactive Q&A. Don't miss out on their engaging and insightful presentation.
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opsverse

IDP Benefits - Critical Developer Efficiency Features

Jun 14, 2024 By Divyarthini Rajender In OpsVerse
There’s no doubt about it: Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) are transforming the way organizations manage their development processes. Gartner defines an IDP as a tool designed to facilitate self-service discovery, automation, and access to various resources within modern software development environments. IDPs are bound to become the backbone of many engineering teams today, and the essential features that engineers seek in an IDP can significantly impact its overall effectiveness.
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opsmatters

Comprehensive Cloud Security Solutions in the Bay Area

Jun 14, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
As businesses increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, ensuring the security of cloud-based assets has become a top priority. In the tech-savvy Bay Area, where innovation meets enterprise, the demand for robust cloud security solutions is paramount. This article explores what cloud security solutions entail, their importance, and how businesses in the Bay Area can benefit from these services.
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How unified is your bandwidth monitoring: An ultimate checklist to choosing the right tool

Jun 13, 2024 By ManageEngine In ManageEngine
The IT technologies are evolving and challenging every network's agility with its powerful capabilities. Is your monitoring tool competitive enough to handle this radical change? Learn more about how to choose only the robust one.
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manageengine

Visibility made simple with OpUtils network IP scanner

Jun 13, 2024 By OpUtils In ManageEngine
OpUtils' network IP scanner empowers network administrators to seamlessly discover the entire network IPs spread across various subnets and supernets and manage them—all from a single console. This allows the administrators to have a single point of control over the entire IP infrastructure, map IPs to the corresponding devices and switch ports, and ensure network security by detecting and restricting access to rogue devices.
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A Rethinking of Ubiquitous Computing and Digital Economies with Dan Desjardins & Jeroen van Bemmel

Jun 13, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Join us as we explore the power of distributive computing, demonstrating how we can utilize idle computational resources across various devices. From reducing costs to enhancing sustainability, this presentation showcases the potential of a decentralized approach to computing. Watch to see live demos and learn about the future of compute infrastructure.
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smikar

Mastering Version Control in SharePoint

Jun 13, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In today’s fast-paced work environment, effective document collaboration is crucial for productivity and success. Teams often work simultaneously on projects, requiring seamless communication and coordination to ensure everyone is on the same page. However, managing multiple versions of documents can become a daunting task, leading to potential confusion and errors. Imagine working on an important document only to discover conflicting versions and lost edits.
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turbo360

Azure Budget Monitoring

Jun 13, 2024 By Sruthivika In Turbo360
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.
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Don't measure reliability with a lagging indicator like downtime or MTTR

Jun 13, 2024 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Your reliability measurement can't just be a lagging indicator. "How do you know your company is doing well at reliability? A lot of people will just look at how many outages have you had in the last year and how much customer pain have you caused? I think that's one side of the coin. That's the reactive lagging indicator of the health of our system. To really be good at this, we need a way to understand the risks and the sharp points so that we have an idea of what we're getting into.
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pulsant

How to figure out where: decoding the 'colocation versus on-premise' library

Jun 13, 2024 By Pulsant In Pulsant
For anyone researching ‘on-premise vs. colocation,’ the results soon become repetitive. Google, AI, and YouTube all return similar material on the pros and cons of each option. Some even include public cloud as a consideration. Yet they all reach exactly the same conclusion: that as a business, you need to figure out what is right for you. Whilst the advice is sound, it is also limited. How exactly can a business assess which infrastructure option is right for them?
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How to use Black Screen Mode to maintain the remote device during Remote Control

Jun 13, 2024 By AirDroid In AirDroid
Welcome to this tutorial video where we walk you through the process of using Black Screen Mode to prevent outside interference during device maintenance. AirDroid Business is a mobile device management (MDM) solution that helps you manage all your Android devices effectively and securely.
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datadog

State of Cloud Costs

Jun 13, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog
Organizations face significant challenges in increasing the efficiency of their growing cloud spending, even as the flexibility and variety of available cloud services offer many opportunities for optimization. Cloud environments are complex and dynamic due to the breadth of services and the drive to adopt new technologies, such as Arm-based processors and GPUs that enable AI capabilities.
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cortex

Best Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Tools (Updated 2024)

Jun 13, 2024 By Cortex In Cortex
Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools enable the automation of cloud infrastructure and IT infrastructure deployment and management. These configuration management tools allow DevOps teams and development teams to define computing infrastructure resources as code in configuration files, use version control systems like GitHub, and deploy infrastructure consistently across different environments, from on-premises data centers to cloud services.
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Office Hours: How to test zone redundancy using Gremlin

Jun 13, 2024 By Gremlin In Gremlin
•Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Zone failures are rare, but they still happen. When an entire zone fails, many of the most common redundancy techniques fail. How do you avoid outages like these, especially if they affect an entire datacenter?
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Easily View Git Activity in Jira #shorts #GitIntegrationforJira

Jun 13, 2024 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Git Integration for Jira lets team leads easily track development activities, view code diffs, and manage commits without ever leaving Jira. Tired of juggling multiple platforms? Now you can stay on top of your code in one place! Watch our full Getting Started guide here on YouTube for more details.
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razorops

Unlocking DevOps Strategies, Insights, and Best Practices for Seamless Software Delivery

Jun 13, 2024 By Shyam Mohan In Razorops
software quickly and reliably is crucial for staying competitive. DevOps, a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops), aims to shorten the development lifecycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. Here, we explore strategies, insights, and best practices to unlock the full potential of DevOps for seamless software delivery.
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manageengine

A comprehensive guide to enhance performance and reliability in your storage systems

Jun 13, 2024 By ManageEngine
The efficient management of storage infrastructure is paramount to the success of any IT organization. Dive into our e-book to elevate your knowledge of storage monitoring, and how OpManager streamlines the process, making storage monitoring hassle-free for network administrators like you. Download our e-book to learn about.
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Cloud 66

How to add feature flags to your Ruby on Rails applications

Jun 12, 2024 By Julian Rubisch In Cloud 66
Feature flags are a way to affect how your application behaves at runtime, without having to deploy new code. As the name suggests, they can be used to switch certain features on or off depending on a specified rule. A type of feature flag you have probably already encountered can be implemented as simple environment variables. Consider the following code you typically find in every Rails app’s production.rb.
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cloudzero

What Is AWS Sizing? 10+ Best Practices And Tips

Jun 12, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Organizations moving to the cloud often prioritize speed and performance, overlooking the importance of AWS sizing. At first, Amazon’s pay-as-you-go pricing seems manageable, but as companies grow and add more to the cloud, they see the downside of ignoring sizing. Overprovisioned instances lead to spending on resources that aren’t used. This guide focuses on AWS sizing, its benefits, and why it matters. It provides practical tips and best practices to help optimize costs effectively.
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megaport

Top 5 Cloud and Networking Announcements From Cisco Live 2024

Jun 12, 2024 By Megaport In Megaport
By Chuck Day, Strategic Alliances Manager, Megaport Amidst the dazzle of Las Vegas, Cisco Live 2024 was a whirlwind of innovation, technology, and camaraderie. Held from June 2-6, this year’s event hosted over 20,000 in-person attendees and nearly one million online viewers, numbers anyone would call a massive success. I was proud to attend on behalf of Megaport as this event was particularly special for us – we got to engage with more people than ever before.
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InvGate

Everything You Need to Know About IP Address Management (IPAM)

Jun 12, 2024 By Kimberly Yánez In InvGate
As networks continue to grow in complexity, investing in robust IP Address Management (IPAM) will help organizations manage their IP resources more effectively, minimizing risks and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. If that’s where your organization is heading, this article aims to provide IT professionals and network administrators with a comprehensive understanding of IPAM, its relevance, and how to implement it effectively within their network infrastructure. Let 's dig in.
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Broadband Design: The Intelligent Middle Mile

Jun 12, 2024 By Ribbon In Ribbon
With the surge in public funding for rural communities, smart investment in Middle Mile transport can not only enhance your investments in outside plant and access networks but can also provide new sources of revenue, and add OpEx improvements to your CapEx spend. During this webinar on June 12th, experts from Ribbon will discuss current trends in broadband network design, focusing on the technical and financial benefits of the Intelligent Middle Mile.
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Resolve Actions - Compute: Create new AWS Instance (via Slack)

Jun 12, 2024 By Resolve In Resolve
See how we use our the Resolve Actions automation platform internally to streamline the provisioning of new Resolve Actions Evaluation instances on AWS. Via a ChatBot integration with Slack, Resolve creates the new instance, configures the networking and firewall rules, and informs the Sales Team and Customer of the connection details.
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Kubernetes Unleashed: Mastering Installation, Configuration, and Cluster Management

Jun 12, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Join Colin Griffin & Dinesh Majrekar as they dive into Kubernetes Unleashed, exploring the setup and management of Kubernetes clusters using Terraform, IAC, and GitOps. We'll cover essential tools like Rancher, Argo CD, and Helm, providing a hands-on demo of how to automate deployments and maintain infrastructure as code.
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devart

Difference Between Views and Tables in SQL

Jun 11, 2024 By Nataly Smith In Devart
Businesses widely use relational databases because their ability to structure data makes it much easier to manage. Tables and views, among other database objects, can often be found within such a database. In this article, we will discover the fundamental differences between these two concepts in SQL databases, their characteristics, use cases, and how they impact data management and security in your database projects.
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squadcast

How Agile Leadership Transforms IT Operations

Jun 11, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast
Traditional IT operations, with their waterfall processes and lengthy release cycles, can feel sluggish in today's business environment. This constant state of "catch-up" can lead to frustration for developers, ops staff, and business leaders alike. Developers struggle to see their innovative ideas come to life quickly. Operations teams scramble to deploy code that feels outdated before it even hits production. Business leaders see their growth potential hampered by slow IT delivery.
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opsmatters

10 Reasons to Get a Proxy for Your Home Use

Jun 11, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
If you're passionate about maintaining privacy in your digital life, understanding the benefits of using a proxy server for home use is crucial. Proxies offer an extra layer of security and anonymity, which can be particularly appealing for those concerned with protecting their online activity. This article outlines ten compelling reasons why integrating a proxy into your home network is a smart move.
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cloudzero

Cloud Savings: 10 Strategies To Save In The Cloud

Jun 11, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
A common misconception around cloud computing is that it’s automatically cheaper than running on-premises infrastructure. Unfortunately, when businesses switch to (or consider switching to) the cloud, their cloud savings may not be immediately evident. In fact, some businesses accrue more monthly costs with the on-demand cloud model than they would with on-premise systems. This begs the question: Is cloud computing really cost-effective?
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puppet

Why You Need Continuous Compliance and Risk Management

Jun 11, 2024 By Claire McDyre In Puppet
Continuous compliance and risk management can help keep your organization safe as the threat landscape changes and expands each year. The IT operations team is no longer just responsible for a few machines; they are managing complex environments that span across technologies, across teams, and at scale. They're expected to work fast while simultaneously considering the often-conflicting requirements of cost, compliance, and even workforce skills gaps.
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honeybadger

Adding config to AWS ECS tasks

Jun 11, 2024 By Benjamin Curtis In Honeybadger
When deploying Docker containers to AWS ECS, you can encounter a situation where you want to run an image that requires some configuration. For example, let's say you wanted to run Vector1 as a sidecar to your main application so you can ship your application's metrics to a service like Honeybadger Insights. To run Vector, you only need to provide one configuration file (/etc/vector/vector.yaml) to the image available on Docker Hub.
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turbo360

INTEGRATE 2024 Day 2 Highlights

Jun 11, 2024 By Logeshwaran Rangarajan In Turbo360
Dan Toomey, Senior Integration Architect at Deloitte Australia, kicked off the session by highlighting the essential role of business rules in software development. He emphasized the significance of managing evolving and complex business rules, advocating for the use of effective tools like Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) to safeguard code and services.
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console connect

How NaaS is revolutionising network management

Jun 11, 2024 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is revolutionising network management by helping businesses take greater control of the provisioning, payment and management of network services. In our on-demand webinar, “Unlocking the power of network automation”, Lisa Wright took a deeper look at how network automation, SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NaaS are shaping the future of networking and delivering value for enterprises.
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canonical

Ubuntu Security Notices now available in OSV format

Jun 11, 2024 By Canonical In Canonical
Canonical is now issuing Ubuntu Security Notices (USNs) in the open source OSV format. Using the information provided, developers can identify known third-party, open source dependency vulnerabilities that pose a genuine risk to their application and its environment. This collaboration between Canonical and OSV aims to simplify vulnerability management and further enhance security for Ubuntu users.
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resolve

Automation Everywhere: How the Role of the CIO is Morphing as Costs Tighten

Jun 11, 2024 By Ari Stowe In Resolve
Ah, another blog about the “evolving” role of the CIO. Buckle up, because we’re about to dive into the world of “transformation,” “digital” this and “innovation” that. But instead of fluffing up the usual jargon, let’s get real about what it takes for a CIO not just to survive but to excel as costs tighten and automation takes over.
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Automated rollbacks and release orchestration on CircleCI

Jun 11, 2024 By CircleCI In CircleCI
CircleCI releases gives your development team greater confidence by bringing visibility, control and risk mitigation to the deploy and release process. In this video, we walk you through a typical deployment workflow to Kubernetes highlighting the powerful release orchestration capabilities designed to extend our platform into your staging and deployment environments including release and environment tracking, canary rollouts, and easy rollbacks directly from the CircleCI UI.
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stackstate

Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts for Navigating StackState

Jun 11, 2024 By Ovidiu Boc In StackState
When it comes to using (desktop) software, especially in tech, there's always that icebreaker you can use to determine whether a prospect is a more "visual" or a more "textual" user. It’s definitely not a black-or-white debate, but it's always interesting to see just how differently we’re wired as individuals at a cognitive level. In this blog post, we'll assume you lean towards being a more "visual" type of person.
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Implementing AI Technologies into Developer Tools with Tsavo Knott

Jun 11, 2024 By Civo In Civo
In this talk, Tsavo Knott, CEO and technical co-founder of @getpieces, discusses how AI technologies are transforming developer tools. From small task-specific models to large conversational and vision processing models, learn how Pieces has built a world-class product for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Tsavo and Chief AI Officer Sam reveal the challenges and breakthroughs in integrating AI into every aspect of the developer experience. Don't miss the live demos and insights into the future of AI in software development.
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circleci

What is OSS?

Jun 10, 2024 By Yuki Sakamoto In CircleCI
Open source software (OSS) is a type of software with source code that can be published, reused, modified, and redistributed free of charge. This approach to building, maintaining, and distributing software has benefits for businesses and end users alike. In this article, you will learn what OSS is, its benefits for the software community, and the differences between different open source licenses.
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cloudzero

The Role Of Finance Teams In Cloud Cost Management

Jun 10, 2024 By Alexander Ospina In CloudZero
As businesses increasingly migrate to cloud-based solutions to enhance their operational flexibility, the challenge of managing cloud expenses has become more pronounced. This development has highlighted the crucial role of finance teams, who are now integral in overseeing these complex cost structures.
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Getting Started with Git Integration for Jira

Jun 10, 2024 By GitKraken In GitKraken
In this step-by-step Git Integration for Jira tutorial, we'll show you how to connect GitHub to Jira, enabling efficient project management and improved team collaboration. You'll learn about authentication options, managing permissions, and connecting repositories, plus tips to track commit messages and using detailed commit insights within Jira. Whether you're using GitHub Cloud or Enterprise, this guide will help you get started quickly and easily!
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jfrog

Taking a GenAI Project to Production

Jun 10, 2024 By Shaked Zychlinski In JFrog
Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) are the new revolution of Artificial Intelligence, bringing the world capabilities that we could only dream about less than two years ago. Unlike previous milestones, such as Deep Learning, in the current AI revolution, everything is happening faster than ever before. Many feel that the train is about to leave the station, and since we are talking about bullet trains – every day matters.
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turbo360

INTEGRATE 2024 Day 1 Highlights

Jun 10, 2024 By Vijayaraj V In Turbo360
Slovo Koltovich, Principal GPM at Microsoft, delivered the keynote at Integrate 2024. He began by discussing Azure Integration Services (AIS), a comprehensive platform enabling the creation of tailored solutions to meet unique requirements. The primary advantage of AIS lies in its focus on security and compliance. With nearly 800 connectors, AIS facilitates connections to numerous data sources. Microsoft invests billions annually in security, with thousands of personnel dedicated to it.
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circleci

What is Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)?

Jun 9, 2024 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Mean time to repair (MTTR) is a metric used to measure the average time required to diagnose and fix a malfunctioning system or component, ensuring it returns to full operational status. In software development, downtime halts user access and disrupts operations, leading to customer dissatisfaction and financial losses. In manufacturing, it slows production, affecting supply chains and profitability. In healthcare, downtime can compromise patient care and safety.
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Incident.io

Our simple incident post-mortem template

Jun 8, 2024 By incident.io In Incident.io
Clean, clear, and ready to be customized to suit your needs. Google Docs Having a dedicated incident post-mortem is just as important as having a robust incident response plan. The post-mortem is key to understanding exactly what went wrong, why it happened in the first place, and what you can do to avoid it in the future.
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uptimia

Bitbucket vs GitHub - Which One Is Better?

Jun 8, 2024 By Uptimia In Uptimia
Bitbucket is a web-based version control repository hosting service owned by Atlassian, an Australian software company. It provides a platform for teams to work together on code and manage their software development projects. Bitbucket supports the popular Git version control system and offers both public and private repositories.
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devart

MySQL Tutorial

Jun 7, 2024 By dbForge Team In Devart
Welcome to our MySQL Tutorial, tailored for both beginners and seasoned professionals. Dive into the core of MySQL, a leading relational database management system that empowers users with SQL, the essential language for database operations. Our tutorial, endorsed by Oracle, offers an open-source learning experience under the GNU license. Embark on a journey through key MySQL topics, from basic database functions to advanced SQL data manipulation.
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How Test Data Management Improves Security & Efficiency - Kellyn Gorman | Redgate

Jun 7, 2024 By Redgate In Redgate
Kelly Gorman, Director of Data and AI at Silk, shares how Test Data Management improves security and efficiency. Test Data Management is the process of providing DevOps teams with test data to evaluate the performance and functionality of applications.
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opsverse

Grafana Provisioned Alerting for Effective Observability

Jun 7, 2024 By Shivtej Narake In OpsVerse
Implementing a consistent and reliable alerting system across a sprawling organization is a significant challenge for just about any engineering team. For example, diverse infrastructures across different teams and numerous team-specific customizations may not translate well when investigating specific incidents. Inconsistent alerting practices can eventually lead to fatigue, leading to triggering of alerts that may not be relevant or actionable.
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cortex

Developer Onboarding Checklist: Put DevEx First

Jun 7, 2024 By Cortex In Cortex
Anyone who has been reading this blog or who has worked at Cortex can tell you that we are quite passionate about Developer Experience (DevEx). But just what is DevEx, and how does it relate to onboarding new developers? It's a fair question, since the word can mean different things in different contexts. We are even on the record as saying that definitions are necessarily vague to allow for DevEx being inherently subjective to a given environment.
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smikar

How to use SharePoint Powershell

Jun 7, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
The SharePoint Online Management Shell (SPO Management Shell) is an indispensable tool for administrators seeking to harness the full potential of SharePoint Online. Unlike the standard user interface, the SPO Management Shell offers advanced users granular control over their SharePoint environments. Whether you’re managing a complex network of sites or automating routine tasks, the SPO Management Shell provides the flexibility and power to streamline your operations.
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uptimia

VPS vs Cloud Hosting - Which One is Better?

Jun 7, 2024 By Uptimia In Uptimia
When picking between VPS and cloud hosting for your website, you need to think about your site's particular needs and resources. VPS hosting gives you dedicated resources and more control, while cloud hosting provides scalability and flexibility. This article will look at the main differences between these two hosting types, helping you decide which one is the best choice for your website.
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cloudzero

10 Azure FinOps Tools To Consider In 2024

Jun 7, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
As Azure grows more complex, the need for Azure FinOps tools that simplify financial management increases. In this guide, we’ll explore the best Azure FinOps tools. These tools can turn your cloud spending into a strategic asset and help you tackle the common challenge of rising cloud costs.
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turbo360

Unleash superior workflow oversight for Power Automate Flows

Jun 7, 2024 By Praveena Jayanarayanan In Turbo360
Azure Power Automate is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft that allows users to create automated workflows between their favourite apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and much more. With Azure Power Automate, users can seamlessly integrate various Microsoft and third-party applications, such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Twitter, and Dropbox, among others.
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puppet

Software Change Impact Analysis: 3 Benefits of Knowing What Your Code Will Do Before You Merge

Jun 7, 2024 By Margaret Lee In Puppet
When’s the last time you did something without knowing how it could turn out? Surprises can add a little excitement to your day-to-day, but one place they’re not really welcome is in infrastructure code. That’s why we have change impact analysis, a method of predicting the effect one change can have on other parts of a system before you make it. Software change impact analysis, as you might imagine, assesses how changes to a piece of software can affect other parts of the same system.
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gitkraken

5 Tips to Set Up Your First Git Repository in GitKraken Desktop

Jun 7, 2024 By Allison Wheeler In GitKraken
Setting up your first Git repository is a bit like writing your first “Hello World” program – it’s a fundamental step in your development journey! And just like “Hello World” introduced you to the basics of coding, creating a Git repo is the first step towards effective collaboration and project management.
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datadog

Monitor AWS Batch on Fargate with Datadog

Jun 7, 2024 By Kennon Kwok In Datadog
AWS Batch on Fargate is an AWS offering that combines the benefits of AWS Fargate—a serverless compute engine for deploying and managing containers—with AWS Batch, a fully managed service for running batch workloads. Leveraging a pay-per-use pricing model and automatic scaling, AWS Batch on Fargate provides you with a cost-effective and scalable solution for running batch computing workloads without needing to worry about managing any underlying infrastructure.
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opsmatters

How UCaaS Can Simplify IT Management and Reduce Overheads

Jun 6, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Running a business efficiently requires smart decisions, especially when it comes to managing IT and communication systems. Traditional methods can be complex and costly, draining resources that could be better used elsewhere. Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) changes the game by offering a single, cloud-based solution that simplifies IT management and slashes overhead costs.
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Reliability is more important than ever-are you ready?

Jun 6, 2024 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Reliability and resiliency are getting more and more important. Is your organization ready? "Our digital infrastructure is going to be almost as important as our physical infrastructure. And when it fails, it's going to be a big deal. Like when a huge bank has a multi-day outage, when it impacts travel, safety, military, finance, government, those things are going to be much more important than they have been in the past.
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motadata

Devops Best Practices for Observability

Jun 6, 2024 By Motadata Team In Motadata
Imagine one night you receive a notification from your team member that a critical production problem has caused chaos in your application. There is a sudden drop in sales as customers are unable to access the application and reporting issues relating to the same. Now, when you reach the office to fix the issue, you demand the team to run through all the files.
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canonical

A look into Ubuntu Core 24: Your first Linux-powered Matter device

Jun 6, 2024 By Gabriel Aguiar Noury In Canonical
Welcome to this blog series which explores innovative uses of Ubuntu Core. Throughout this series, Canonical’s Engineers will show what you can build with this Core 24 release, highlighting the features and tools available to you. In this third blog, Farshid Tavakolizadeh, engineering manager from our Industrial team, will show you how to build a Matter lighting device with a Raspberry Pi.
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uptimia

Cloud Hosting vs Shared Hosting

Jun 6, 2024 By Uptimia In Uptimia
When you want to host your website, you have many choices. Two common choices are cloud hosting and shared hosting. In this article, we'll compare these two hosting types, looking at their performance, security, reliability, scalability, and flexibility. By understanding the differences between cloud hosting and shared hosting, you can choose the best option for your website's needs.
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lightrun

Application Observability And Its Role In Modern Software Development

Jun 6, 2024 By Tal Yitzhak In Lightrun
Over the last few decades, software systems have grown complex due to the emergence of cloud-native architectures and multi-cloud environments. On the one hand, this makes it difficult to detect issues faster in the deployed application. It also requires intricate coordination between development, DevOps, and SRE teams, as they are also expected to speed up the whole software delivery process.
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Effective Observability for MLOps Pipelines at Scale with Rishit Dagli

Jun 6, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Join Rishit Dagli as he explores effective observability for ML pipelines at scale. Learn about the critical differences between observability and monitoring in ML applications, common challenges like distribution shifts, and feedback loops. Rishit demonstrates practical methods for logging and interpreting various metrics to maintain model performance and reliability.
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Teneo

Harnessing AI for Cybersecurity: Beating AI Attackers at Their Own Game

Jun 6, 2024 By Teneo In Teneo
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, AI-powered attackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated. To counter these threats, organizations must adopt advanced security technologies that leverage AI technology as part of a multi-layered approach to security.
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atatus

Building a Docker Swarm on AWS EC2: A Step-by-Step Guide

Jun 6, 2024 By Aiswarya S In Atatus
In today's tutorial, we're diving into the world of container orchestration by setting up a Docker Swarm on AWS EC2 instances. Docker Swarm allows you to manage a cluster of Docker hosts as a single virtual system, making it easier to deploy and scale your containerized applications. By leveraging the power of AWS EC2, we'll walk through each step to get your Swarm up and running smoothly.
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Incident.io

Mastering the Sev0

Jun 6, 2024 By Chris Evans In Incident.io
Remind yourself of the worst incident your organization has faced. If you’re lucky it might have been your entire service being offline for a period of time. Less lucky, and perhaps you encountered something affecting the sensitive data your organization is the custodian of. Whilst uncommon, incidents of this severity happen to every organization at some point. This criticality of situation is what many refer to as a Sev0, the most severe of incidents.
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Cycle

The Top Three Technology Decisions Teams Make When Building a Platform

Jun 6, 2024 By Chris Aubuchon In Cycle
Creating a platform? You're in the right spot. Our mission at Cycle started with a clear purpose: to create the best platform for building platforms. Here's the thing, there's really no easy way to build a platform. It requires making a lot of tough technology decisions that can affect success, growth, and upkeep for years to come. There are however some ways to make things simpler. Here are the three technology decisions I've seen make the biggest impact and how to navigate them.
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opsmatters

How To Put A Website In Maintenance Mode In WordPress Without Losing Traffic

Jun 5, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
You're ready to revamp your website with a stunning redesign or critical updates. But there's a catch-you can't afford to lose valuable traffic during the process. But you don't have to lose website visitors every time you site is in maintenance mode.    With the right tools and strategies, you can seamlessly transition into maintenance mode while keeping your SEO intact and visitors informed. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to put your WordPress site into maintenance mode without losing any traffic.
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How We Build Serverless AI with Civo and Deep Green with Matt Butcher & Chris Matteson

Jun 5, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Join Matt Butcher and Chris Matteson from @fermyontech as hey explore how serverless AI is built using Civo and Deep Green. They discuss optimizing GPU usage, the advantages of WebAssembly, and demonstrate a practical application for sentiment analysis. Discover how Deep Green's sustainable technology is making a difference in AI performance and efficiency.
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cloudzero

CloudWatch Pricing: A Straightforward 2024 Guide

Jun 5, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
To ensure your company’s cloud-based resources remain continuously available, you need a way to monitor all your applications and quickly detect when something goes wrong — especially if you are running multiple instances and using various products. Amazon’s inbuilt tool, CloudWatch, allows you to do just this. In this article, we’ll cover what AWS CloudWatch is, how it works, and how much it costs.
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smikar

Mastering SharePoint Document Archiving

Jun 5, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In today’s digital age, businesses and organizations increasingly rely on SharePoint to manage their vast amounts of data and documents. However, this reliance often leads to an inevitable challenge: the overflow of document libraries. When left unchecked, these libraries can become overwhelming, cluttered, and inefficient, hampering productivity and making it difficult to locate crucial information.
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turbo360

Turbo360 is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Jun 5, 2024 By Mohan Nagaraj In Turbo360
We are thrilled to announce that Turbo360 is now available in the Azure Marketplace. This significant milestone underscores our commitment to helping you maximize your ROI on Azure investments. Turbo360 is an advanced Cloud Management platform designed to empower Azure users with significant Cost savings and Infra Monitoring capabilities for complex Azure Environments.
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logitio

Interview with Engineering Manager, Harsha Patil

Jun 5, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
In the next edition of our interview series that focuses on senior players in the global tech arena, we welcome Harsha Patil an Engineering Manager overseeing cloud compute infrastructure at an E-commerce company in California, USA. We will explore his career development, offer tips for aspiring engineers, and discuss the key lessons he has learned along the way in this feature.
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taloflow

Taloflow raises $1.3M to automate the soul-sucking software vendor selection process

Jun 5, 2024 By Taloflow In Taloflow
Taloflow, a Y Combinator W21-batch company, has raised $1.3 million in funding. This investment comes from Wonder Ventures, First Check Ventures, and many notable founders, including the founders of PEER 1, Sacra, and Hootsuite, who share our vision for software vendor selection. Today also marks the launch of our collaborative AI notebook – two years in the making – which automates the research to evaluate tech vendor capabilities for any use case in dozens of B2B categories.
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cloudzero

Product Release Notes May 2024

Jun 5, 2024 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
At CloudZero, we pride ourselves on developing a platform that provides an exceptional and engaging user experience across DevOps, Engineering, and Finance organizations. This month, we’re rolling out many enhancements that simplify business-critical processes across the platform, from user management to anomaly detection and remediation to integration setup and maintenance.
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cortex

The CTO Pocket Guide to Internal Developer Portals

Jun 5, 2024 By Lauren Craigie In Cortex
The engineering macro-climate is in crisis. Market dynamics have put increased pressure on teams to ship faster in order to stay competitive, while budgets are under significant scrutiny. At the same time, the advent of new tools and architectures promising high-velocity, collaborative development increasingly lack the implementation structure needed to preserve their benefits. As a result, onboarding is stalling out, incidents are up, and deployments are down.
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hyperview

Boost Data Center Efficiency: DCIM Meets ASHRAE Standards

Jun 5, 2024 By Rajan Sodhi In Hyperview
ASHRAE provides detailed recommendations for data center environmental conditions through its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. These guidelines specify temperature and humidity ranges that ensure the optimal performance and longevity of IT equipment. The latest guidelines define four classes (A1 to A4) for allowable and recommended temperature ranges, with the recommended range for Class A1 being 18°C to 27°C (64.4°F to 80.6°F).
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squadcast

Assessing DevOps Performance - DORA Metrics

Jun 4, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast
Feeling the pressure to constantly deliver new features? The struggle is real. But what if there was a way to measure your DevOps performance and transform your team into a release machine? This blog is all about DORA metrics, a data-driven framework to unlock DevOps agility. We'll explore what these metrics tell you, how to implement them, and ultimately, how to use them to turn your team into a release champion.
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Galileo

Migrating AIX to Linux

Jun 4, 2024 By Galileo In Galileo
Today, everyone lives in a hybrid, multi-cloud world. The combination of continuously changing business drivers and complex, heterogeneous tech stacks means that virtually every organization has production workloads on-prem, in co-lo facilities, in private clouds, and in multiple public clouds. Moreover, your stack is likely often in motion, which requires you to manage workload migrations from one environment to another (and sometimes back again) as your needs change.
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opsmatters

Elevating Your Active Directory with Routine Health Checks

Jun 4, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the realm of IT infrastructure management, Active Directory (AD) stands as the cornerstone for many organizations. It's the backbone, the central nervous system, connecting users, computers, printers, and other resources within a network. But like any critical system, AD requires regular maintenance to ensure it operates smoothly and securely. Enter routine health checks - the proactive measures that can take your AD environment from good to great.
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Best practices for scheduling security patching automations

Jun 4, 2024 By Canonical In Canonical
In this webinar, you’ll learn about Canonical's release schedule for Ubuntu and its security updates, and how you can use this information to set optimal manual and automated security patching maintenance intervals. There are a variety of tools, such as Livepatch, Landscape, Snaps, and command line utilities like unattended-upgrades that provide security patching automation capabilities. We’ll cover how each one works, and how you can combine them for maximum benefit. We’ll also cover the nuances between reboot recommended and reboot required.
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pulsant

Edge Data Centre - What is Edge and Why Use It?

Jun 4, 2024 By Pulsant In Pulsant
What is an Edge Computing Platform and Why Your Business Needs It Edge computing is a vital part of today's business function. With more people choosing to work remotely and office spaces dispersed across the nation, having edge network compatibility is an essential component of any digital infrastructure. Edge allows users in remote locations to access and manage data from the network's Edge, ensuring security and integrity for your data no matter where people choose to use it.
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cloudzero

15+ AWS Cost Management Best Practices (Updated 2024)

Jun 4, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
While there are many advantages to using Amazon Web Services (AWS), cost management can be complicated because so many factors impact your AWS bill. Account setup, savings plans, and a number of other factors can all affect your AWS charges and usage. In this article, we’ll introduce 15 AWS cost management best practices that promote optimization and how you can go beyond AWS cost management by using an advanced cloud cost intelligence tool.
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Google Cloud Logging 101 - How to manage log routing at scale

Jun 4, 2024 By Google Operations In Google Operations
Cloud logging’s log router is a power tool that gives you the flexibility to choose which logs are stored in Cloud Logging, sent to other Google Cloud products like Cloud Storage, or even sent to your favorite third-party product. In this video, we'll explore log sinks, aggregated sinks for centralized management, and the intercepting option to prevent duplicate log storage, equipping you with the knowledge to streamline your log management workflow in Google Cloud.
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canonical

Canonical launches Ubuntu Core 24

Jun 4, 2024 By Canonical In Canonical
London, 4 June 2024. Today, Canonical announced the general availability of Ubuntu Core 24, with a 12 year Long Term Support (LTS) commitment. This ‘immutable’ flavour of Ubuntu puts every system component, and the system itself, into a set of containers with strict kernel-enforced confinement, rich managed component integration, reliable over-the-air updates and failsafe rollbacks to enable intelligent edge and IoT applications.
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stackstate

Bringing ArchiMate Flow Diagrams to Life with End-to-End Observability

Jun 4, 2024 By Mohamed Elnemr In StackState
Aligning IT infrastructure with business processes is paramount in today's digital landscape. This article explores how organizations can elevate their architectural modeling by integrating ArchiMate's flow diagrams, which are initially manually created, with the dynamic, auto-discovered components from StackState's end-to-end observability.
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resolve

What Are SOAPs? De-Mystifying Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms

Jun 4, 2024 By Brinda Sreedhar In Resolve
Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs) represent a significant advancement in enterprise orchestration, integrating various applications and infrastructures. SOAPs enable Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders to design and implement business services by combining workflow orchestration, workload automation, and resource provisioning across an organization’s hybrid digital infrastructure.
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Cycle

Effortless DevOps Efficiency: How Cycle.io Gets You to 80% on Day One

Jun 4, 2024 By Matt Krauser In Cycle
In the world of DevOps, engineering organizations are constantly seeking solutions that can simplify operations, reduce overhead, and accelerate development. While a number of container orchestration platforms exist, their complexity and high maintenance demands often leave engineering leaders seeking alternatives. This is where Cycle comes in. Cycle’s LowOps container orchestration and infrastructure management platform is designed to get your team to 80% efficiency from day one.
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How to Skynet your Kubernetes Clusters with LocalAI with Engin Diri

Jun 4, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Join Engin Diri from Pulumi at Civo Navigate NA 24 as he explores "How to Skynet Your Kubernetes Clusters with Local AI." In this session, you'll discover the rapid advancements in AI, the truth behind common myths, and practical applications using LocalAI. Learn about the benefits and challenges of open-source large language models and see a live demonstration of embedding domain-specific knowledge using Pinecone.
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Ubuntu Core 24 | Run Your Devices on Ubuntu

Jun 4, 2024 By Canonical In Canonical
Secure and reliable open source IoT - everywhere. Introducing Ubuntu Core 24, the operating system optimised for IoT and Edge, allowing you to run your devices on Ubuntu. Ubuntu Core delivers high performance, ultra-low latency and workload predictability for time-sensitive industrial, telco, healthcare, and robotics use cases.
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How Datadog's Infrastructure team manages internal deployments using the Service Catalog and CI/CD Visibility

Jun 3, 2024 By Callan Lamb In Datadog
Managing the software development lifecycle of your applications is a complex task. Releasing software updates in a large and ever-changing ecosystem requires visibility into the state of your services and insight into how changes to these services impact the reliability, performance, security, and cost of your application. The stages of software delivery are often sharded across multiple tools, each purpose-built for a specific slice of your application lifecycle.
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Azure Files vs SharePoint Online

Jun 3, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In today’s digital era, efficient data storage and management are paramount for businesses of all sizes. With a myriad of cloud storage solutions available, choosing the right one can be daunting. Two popular options, Azure Files and SharePoint Online, offer distinct features tailored to different organizational needs. Understanding the strengths and limitations of each is crucial for making an informed decision.
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Pytest: Getting started with automated testing for Python

Jun 3, 2024 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Testing Python applications is critical to ensuring they function as intended in real-world scenarios. Among the numerous testing frameworks available for Python, pytest stands out as a primary choice for many developers. Renowned for its straightforward yet powerful features, pytest makes writing and running tests efficient and effective. In this guide, we’ll explore how to get started with pytest, from installation to writing your first tests.
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Vehicle cybersecurity: the journey towards ISO 21434 compliance

Jun 3, 2024 By Bertrand Boisseau In Canonical
Automotive is going through considerable technological advancement, centred around the software that vehicles and their manufacturers use. A large part of this software evolution is the move towards open source software. Ensuring the safety and security of critical systems is extremely important, especially in safety-critical use cases.
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How Forcepoint Uses CloudZero To Boost Its FinOps Strategy

Jun 3, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Nothing makes us prouder at CloudZero than hearing success stories from our long-term clients. Happily, we have another insightful story to share with you today about a company using the CloudZero platform to achieve their cloud finance goals. In the video below, Erik Peterson, founder and CTO of CloudZero, speaks with Mike Surma, director of cloud cost optimization for Forcepoint, to find out exactly which tools and features helped his company the most in its FinOps journey.
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The impact of emerging market trends on the edge data centre industry

Jun 3, 2024 By Pulsant In Pulsant
The edge data centre market (broadly defined as smaller, more distributed data centres, localising data storage and compute closer to end users) is experiencing 92% year on year growth. This growth is being driven by a combination of factors including: Three of the biggest trends impacting the edge data centre market today are.
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GitHub Actions with OpenID Connect (OIDC) and JFrog - UPDATED!

Jun 3, 2024 By JFrog In JFrog
JFrog’s integration of OpenID Connect (OIDC) with GitHub Actions enables users to establish a trust relationship between their GitHub Actions and the JFrog Platform. The result is a more efficient and secure token management system, eliminating the need for manual token creation for each GitHub Action. In this video, Yonatan Arbel, Developer Advocate at JFrog, provides a short intro and a how-to demonstration of this integration.
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Generative AI: A Boon with Hidden Burdens for IT

Jun 3, 2024 By Shridhar Venkatraman In Virtana
The landscape of artificial intelligence has undergone a seismic shift in recent times. The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT has sparked a revolution, with applications blossoming across various industries. According to recent estimates, 54% of companies had integrated GenAI into their business processes by November 2023. This level of adoption is remarkable, given the nascent stage of these technologies.
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Delivering Generative AI Solutions in the Enterprise with James Gress

Jun 3, 2024 By Civo In Civo
Join James Grass, Senior Technology Architect at @Accenture as he delves into the impact of generative AI on enterprise solutions. Learn about the latest advancements, challenges, and practical applications in the field, including insights on OCI, Coher, and ChatGPT. Discover how organizations are leveraging AI to transform their processes and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
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The Countries With The Best Cloud Technology In The World

Jun 3, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
In the past decade, cloud technology has revolutionized the way businesses operate. Offering invaluable benefits such as speed, flexibility, and security, cloud computing has become a necessity for countless companies around the world. Recent research says that more than 94% of organizations have a large portion of their workloads in the cloud. But with so many countries utilizing these systems, which countries around the globe currently have the best cloud technology of all?
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Hetzner Connectivity Issues Due to Sanction Busting Activities

Jun 3, 2024 By Khash Sajadi In Cloud 66
After AWS and DigitalOcean, Hetzner Cloud is the third popular cloud provider with our customers. At the time of writing, around 9% of our customers deploy their applications on Hetzner. Our customers love their simple and straight forward product and pricing as well as their affordable bare-metal options. Over the past few months, many of our Hetzner customers reached out to us with complains of deployment failures.
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11 Best Tools To Improve Your Developer Experience (DevEx)

Jun 3, 2024 By Morgan Perry In Qovery
Developer Experience (DevEx) refers to the various tools, practices, and environments that developers interact with to make their work more streamlined and productive. The value of DevEx is immense, as a better developer experience is directly tied to increased productivity and the production of higher-quality software. I have shortlisted 11 great tools that provide an outstanding developer experience by automating routine tasks, encouraging collaboration, and reducing hurdles in the development journey.
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GitKraken Workshops: Unblock Code Collaboration with GitKraken's Code Suggest & Launchpad

Jun 3, 2024 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Dive into the future of code reviews with GitKraken! Discover the power of Code Suggest and Launchpad in our latest workshop. From suggesting code changes anywhere in your project, to consolidating PRs, Issues, and WIPs, this workshop includes demos so you can seamlessly integrate these new features into your workflow. Gain valuable insights into overcoming traditional pull request challenges, improving collaboration, and enhancing workflow efficiency with GitKraken's DevEx platform.
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Deploy GenAI applications with Canonical's Charmed Kubeflow and NVIDIA NIM

Jun 2, 2024 By Andreea Munteanu In Canonical
It’s been over two years since generative AI (GenAI) took off with the launch of ChatGPT. From that moment on, a variety of applications, models and libraries were launched to address market needs and simplify enterprise activity. As Deloitte observes in its State of Generative AI Q2 2024 report, organisations are now at a stage where they are ready to move beyond pilots and proof of concepts and start creating value – but bringing AI models to production can prove highly complex.
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