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5 Ways Bunnyshell Ephemeral Environments help you ship and deploy faster in the age of Gen Code AI

Apr 30, 2025 By Alin Dobra In Bunnyshell
The way we build software is evolving. Fast. AI-powered development tools like Cursor are transforming how developers write code, solve problems, and iterate on ideas. But as the pace accelerates, so do the challenges. Local machines can't keep up. Testing AI-generated code is time-consuming. Sharing work involves unnecessary friction. And moving from dev to production often means slowing down just when you want to speed up. Ephemeral environments are becoming essential infrastructure for modern development-and Bunnyshell helps teams keep pace without compromise.
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last9

AWS Centralized Logging: A Complete Implementation Guide

Apr 30, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In cloud environments, logs are often spread across numerous services, making it difficult to track down issues or gather meaningful insights. For AWS users, this challenge can become especially time-consuming. Centralized logging in AWS helps by bringing all your logs into a single platform, making management and analysis easier.
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last9

Simplifying Container Observability for DevOps Teams

Apr 30, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In modern microservices architectures, container observability is crucial for maintaining reliability and performance. It helps teams detect issues early and optimize distributed systems. This guide will walk you through the essentials of container observability, including advanced techniques and troubleshooting strategies to ensure your containerized applications run smoothly.
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cloudzero

CloudTrail Vs. CloudWatch: A Full Comparison Guide

Apr 30, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
One tracks what happened, who did it, and when it happened. The other monitors how your systems are performing so you can see why and do something about it. Knowing the difference between CloudTrail vs. CloudWatch isn’t just helpful for engineers. It’s essential for finance and leadership teams, too. That’s because the two services can quietly rack up costs in the background.
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circleci

Data governance frameworks for distributed microservices applications

Apr 30, 2025 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Implementing robust data governance in microservices architectures presents unique challenges and opportunities. As organizations decompose monolithic applications into distributed services, traditional centralized data management approaches no longer suffice. Each microservice may manage its own data store, creating potential inconsistencies, compliance risks, and security challenges.
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Microservices versus monoliths

Apr 30, 2025 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Monolithic and microservices architectures represent two fundamentally different approaches to software design. By understanding the benefits and drawbacks of each architectural style, developers can make informed decisions about which approach best fits their application needs. While monolithic architecture bundles all application functionality into a single deployable unit, microservices architecture breaks the application into smaller, independently deployable services.
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tidal

Modern Cloud IPAM: Save Up to 80% with LightMesh

Apr 30, 2025 By Amber Weaver In Tidal
Cloud adoption is at an all-time high but unified network views haven’t kept up. With 98% of organizations using cloud infrastructure and 95% supporting remote workers, what once lived in a controlled environment is now scattered across public clouds, hybrid setups, personal devices, and remote endpoints. The result? A visibility crisis and it’s hitting IP address management (IPAM) hard.
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last9

What Is a Logging Formatter and Why Use One?

Apr 30, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Logs play a crucial role in DevOps and software development, especially when troubleshooting issues. However, raw, unformatted logs can quickly become overwhelming and difficult to navigate. This is where logging formatters help by turning messy log entries into clear, structured data, making it easier to pinpoint problems. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about logging formatters—how they work, why they matter, and tips for implementing them effectively in your workflow.
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megaport

How Latitude.sh, Wasabi, and Megaport Unlock Cost-Effective Multicloud

Apr 30, 2025 By Dan Pfyl In Megaport
Learn how to reduce cloud costs without sacrificing performance by integrating Latitude.sh's compute, Wasabi's storage, and Megaport's private network into your multicloud architecture. IT teams are under increasing pressure to reduce costs without sacrificing performance or scalability in their cloud infrastructure. I’ve had several customers bring up a need for reducing compute cost and storage costs, the need for custom hardware specs, and the like.
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Sunbird

Data Center Digital Twin: Modeling, Planning, and Visualization of All Your Sites

Apr 30, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
To manage today’s complex and distributed data center environments, data center professionals need more than spreadsheets, static diagrams, and siloed monitoring tools. They need a real-time and interactive view of their infrastructure, a data center digital twin. Modern Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software makes this possible. Far beyond basic monitoring or asset tracking, DCIM software delivers a true digital twin.
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cloudsmith

Enterprise Policy Management with Cloudsmith

Apr 30, 2025 By Ian Taylor In Cloudsmith
Enterprise Policy Management (EPM) is a programmable policy-as-code layer that controls the security, compliance, and flow of artifacts across the software supply chain. Teams can codify rules once and apply them continuously across repositories. With Cloudsmith’s platform, organizations extend policy enforcement across teams, environments, and geographies without introducing friction, including the open source packages that the chain depends on.
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cloudsmith

Enterprise Policy Management Example: Quarantine Packages Using Policy as Code

Apr 30, 2025 By Ian Taylor In Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith built Enterprise Policy Management (EPM) on Open Policy Agent (OPA) and uses Rego to define policies as code. These policies control how packages move through your systems. They're versioned, reviewable, and enforceable. EPM is in early release, but it already draws on extensive metadata Cloudsmith collects from your artifacts: format, version, tags, license, vulnerability, malware scan results, and digital signatures.
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Incident Response Software: Master Operational Resilience

Apr 29, 2025 By Neeraj Kanoi In Squadcast
In the event that your business or work is highly dependent on technologies where reliability is a concern, you already know how critical a quick recovery from a technical crisis is for you. A robust incident response software and strategy is what really separates companies that swiftly recover from technical crises in today's fast-paced, ever-evolving digital environment from those that suffer prolonged outages.
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devart

NHibernate vs. Dapper: Which One Should You Choose for .NET Development?

Apr 29, 2025 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
Frameworks evolve, libraries change, and APIs get rewritten. But your ORM decision? That one sticks—it shapes your architecture, guides how your team writes queries, and affects how painful refactors become later on. In.NET, this choice often narrows to Dapper and NHibernate—two trusted tools with fundamentally different approaches. NHibernate offers deep abstraction, rich mappings, and built-in caching, while Dapper gives you raw speed, total SQL control, and zero overhead.
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devart

ADO.NET vs Dapper: Comparison Guide for .NET Developers

Apr 29, 2025 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
In.NET, data access has evolved, but finding the right tool still comes down to control vs. convenience. You have to decide: do you prefer to write every query or move faster with something easier to maintain? Can you manage the boilerplate, or would you rather work with leaner syntax? For many.NET developers, the answers point to one of two popular tools—ADO.NET or Dapper. ADO.NET gives you complete control but with boilerplate and manual overhead.
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speedscale

Easy Cross-Platform cgo Builds

Apr 29, 2025 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
When I first started writing Go software a little over a decade ago, one of the features I found particularly intriguing was the ability to build statically-linked binaries for multiple operating systems and architectures without a lot of headache. This build toolchain feature is widely relied upon by nearly all Go developers, especially when needing to build multi-arch container images destined to be run in a Kubernetes cluster consisting of amd64 and/or arm64 nodes.
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metricfire

From Logs to Metrics Part 1: Building an Open-Source Logs-to-Graphite Pipeline

Apr 29, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Monitoring doesn't always need to be complex. In this guide, we'll show you how to turn raw logs into usable metrics using a lightweight open-source setup with no ELK stack and no heavy lifting. We'll use Loki, Python, and Telegraf to convert logs into Graphite metrics you can easily monitor or alert on. This is perfect for system admins, DevOps beginners, or anyone curious about building more innovative monitoring pipelines from scratch.
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Cycle

Introducing Server Nicknames

Apr 29, 2025 By Konner Bemis In Cycle
This past week we released the simple yet widely requested feature Server Nicknames, the ability to easily track and manage various servers with unique custom names. At first glance this may seem like a non update but not when you consider that most Cycle users are connecting many servers from multiple providers and locations in the cloud and on premises. With long default server names, this is a huge quality of life improvement.
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Is There Really ROI for Moving Your Voice Network to Cloud Native?

Apr 29, 2025 By Ribbon In Ribbon
As an operations leader, you are constantly asked to do more with fewer resources. Join us on April 29th to learn how your peers are successfully leveraging cloud native and end-to-end automation to minimize manual labor and lower OpEx. Many of our customers have expressed their challenges in swiftly launching new services, maintaining compliance, or managing subscriber churn. How does one maintain business continuity in the face of expertise shortages and security concerns?
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cortex

Cortex Recognized by Gartner as Representative Vendor in the 2025 Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals

Apr 29, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Gartner Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals offers “Platform engineering teams are tasked with improving developer experience, ensuring consistent governance, and enabling discovery and access to software development and delivery capabilities. Platform engineering leaders can use internal developer portals to address these challenges.” Organizations with a current Gartner license can check out the report here.
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circleci

Strangler pattern implementation for safe microservices transition

Apr 29, 2025 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Moving from monolithic applications to microservices represents a significant architectural transformation. The Strangler Pattern offers a controlled, incremental approach to this migration, enabling organizations to gradually replace functionality while keeping systems operational throughout the transition. This methodology substantially reduces risk compared to complete rewrites, making it an invaluable strategy for organizations with business-critical applications.
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circleci

Measuring success in microservices migration projects

Apr 29, 2025 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Microservices migrations represent significant investments for organizations seeking greater agility, scalability, and development velocity. Yet without clear metrics to guide the journey and measure outcomes, these initiatives risk delivering technical change without meaningful business impact. Establishing appropriate success measures ensures that migration efforts stay aligned with organizational goals while providing visibility into progress and value delivery.
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opsverse

Agentic AI in DevOps: Why Aiden Beats ChatGPT for DevOps Cost Analysis

Apr 29, 2025 By Nikhil Ravindran In OpsVerse
One of the most common questions we receive is about the difference between Aiden (our DevOps Copilot) and general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT. The key distinction is that Aiden is an agentic AI platform that can directly connect to your DevOps tools and environments, while ChatGPT remains generic without real-world connections. This fundamental difference transforms Aiden from an advisor to an active participant in your DevOps workflows.
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cloudzero

10 Best Azure Alternatives To Compare

Apr 29, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Microsoft Azure offers over 150 cloud services across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. But for many teams, it can be expensive, complex, and hard to tailor to specific needs. If the platform feels like overkill or just isn’t the right fit, this guide covers the best Azure alternatives — and what makes each one worth considering.
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resolve

Industry Recognition Validates Resolve's Leadership in Agentic Automation

Apr 29, 2025 By Sean Heuer In Resolve
In the fast-moving world of IT operations, Gartner’s research provides critical insight into where the market is heading, and which vendors are leading the charge. In the past year, Resolve earned three powerful validations of its innovation and impact: These distinctions reflect more than technical capabilities. They reinforce Resolve’s mission to drive a new era of intelligent, autonomous IT orchestration through agentic automation.
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canonical

Extra Factor Authentication: how to create zero trust IAM with third-party IdPs

Apr 29, 2025 By Stephanie Domas In Canonical
Identity management is vitally important in cybersecurity. Every time someone tries to access your networks, systems, or resources, it’s critical that you are verifying that these attempts are valid and legitimate, and that they match a real, authenticated user. The way that this tends to be handled in cyber security is through Identity and Access Management (IAM), most commonly by using third-party Identity Providers (IdPs).
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last9

Apache Tomcat Performance Monitoring: Basics and Troubleshooting Tips

Apr 29, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
When Java web applications experience slowdowns or crashes, the culprit is often the Tomcat server. For DevOps engineers overseeing critical applications, proactive monitoring is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and reliability. In this guide, we'll explore the essential aspects of monitoring Apache Tomcat servers, focusing on the key metrics to track, setting up robust monitoring systems, and troubleshooting common performance issues that could impact your application’s stability.
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last9

A Guide to OpenTelemetry Tracing in Distributed Systems

Apr 29, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Understanding what’s happening inside your applications is key to keeping them performing well and reliably. OpenTelemetry tracing is an open-source, flexible solution that lets you monitor your distributed systems without locking you into a specific vendor. reliably This guide walks you through everything you need to know about OpenTelemetry tracing, from the basics to more advanced techniques, with practical tips for troubleshooting common issues along the way.
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onpage

DevOps - Roles and Responsibilities

Apr 29, 2025 By Zoe Collins In OnPage
As DevOps grows within the tech industry, it continues to play a vital role in modern software development by bridging the gap between development and operations. DevOps engineers juggle a wide range of tasks in their daily life, combining coding, automation, system management, and team collaboration. In this blog, we’ll explore their core responsibilities, highlight essential best practices, and show how solutions like OnPage can help streamline their workflows.
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spike

How We Built Internet's Largest Incident Response Glossary for the Wider Community

Apr 29, 2025 By Sreekar In Spike
Today, I’m excited to share the Internet’s Largest Incident Response Glossary. It’s a collection of over 500 terms covering on-call, alerting, monitoring, and system reliability. It took us over 2 weeks from ideation to completion of this project and in this post, I would like to share how we approached this beast!
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circleci

Find and fix CI build errors with AI

Apr 28, 2025 By Samba Tiyyagura In CircleCI
Software teams rely on CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy code quickly. But when a build fails, it can disrupt the entire workflow. Digging through logs, chasing down errors, and switching between dashboards takes time you don’t want to waste. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use your AI coding assistant — powered by structured data from your CI system — to diagnose and fix build failures faster.
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console connect

How Console Connect is empowering data centre partners with enhanced connectivity

Apr 28, 2025 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
The digital landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, and businesses are constantly seeking agile, high-performance connectivity solutions to stay ahead. Recognising this, data centres are shifting beyond their traditional role of offering just space and power. Today, they must deliver real-time access to clouds, other data centres, and applications.
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cloudzero

Announcing Amazon Q Developer's First And Only Cost Optimization Plugin

Apr 28, 2025 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero
Managing AWS costs just a whole lot more convenient. CloudZero now integrates with Amazon Q Developer, AWS’s AI-powered engineering assistant. A natural language processor, Amazon Q Developer helps engineers write, analyze, and debug code, accelerate workload transformations, and adopt AWS best practices, enhancing developer productivity by as much as 80%.
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last9

Prometheus Distributed Tracing: An Easy-to-Follow Guide for Engineers

Apr 28, 2025 By Preeti Dewani In Last9
When your microservices architecture starts growing, tracking requests as they bounce between services becomes a real headache. You know the feeling—a user reports a slow checkout process, and you're left wondering which of your twenty services is the bottleneck. That's where distributed tracing with Prometheus comes in.
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last9

What is API Monitoring and How to Build API Metrics Dashboards

Apr 28, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In today's connected world, APIs are the backbone of modern applications. Whether you're working on a microservices architecture, a mobile app, or a SaaS platform, APIs are what keep everything talking to each other. But how do you know if your APIs are healthy, performing well, and delivering what your users need? That's where API monitoring comes in. Let's break down what API monitoring is, why it matters, and how you can build effective API metrics dashboards to keep your systems running smoothly.
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The value of product thinking for platform teams | webinar

Apr 28, 2025 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Platform engineering can drive velocity, reduce risk, and increase value — but only if it's built with a product mindset. In this live event, Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI, hosts a panel of experts to explore how treating developers as customers helps platform teams deliver greater outcomes. Featuring Camille Fournier, Randy Shoup, Raju Gandhi, and Teresa Torres, this webinar covers practical strategies for building internal platforms that earn trust, abstract complexity, and fuel developer productivity.
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cloudzero

7 Cloudability Alternatives To Boost Cloud Control

Apr 28, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
If you are fine using a conventional cloud cost management tool, Apptio’s Cloudability can be a helpful tool. It promises to enable DevOps, IT, and finance to optimize cloud resources for quality, speed, and cost. A large business with a high cloud spend, a team of 5-10 engineers, and a budget for expert guidance is an ideal match for Cloudability.
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Faster Incident Resolution via Slack ChatOps

Apr 28, 2025 By Atlassian In Atlassian
Watch this video to learn more about how your team can effectively resolve incidents while collaborating on Slack. About Atlassian: Behind every great human achievement, there is a team. From medicine and space travel to disaster response and pizza deliveries, our products help teams all over the planet advance humanity through the power of software. Our mission is to help unleash the potential of every team.
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Efficient Alert Management via Slack ChatOps

Apr 28, 2025 By Atlassian In Atlassian
Watch this video to learn how on-call engineers can effectively manage alerts using Slack in Jira Service Management. About Atlassian: Behind every great human achievement, there is a team. From medicine and space travel to disaster response and pizza deliveries, our products help teams all over the planet advance humanity through the power of software. Our mission is to help unleash the potential of every team.
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Densify

Densify 3.0: Introducing Cloudex, Smarter K8s Automation, and Enhanced API Power

Apr 27, 2025 By Densify In Densify
We’re excited to announce the release of Densify 3.0, a major step forward in our mission to deliver precision-driven cloud optimization across Kubernetes and public cloud environments. This release brings to life a new user experience, powerful automation capabilities, richer data insights, and smarter APIs—all designed to simplify and scale your optimization journey.
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hyperping

Continuous testing in DevOps: The missing piece for reliable systems

Apr 26, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
Reliable, high-performing systems are the lifeblood of modern digital businesses. But it's hard to know where to start, especially when you're a startup with limited resources and a small DevOps or SRE team. Fortunately, effective continuous testing doesn't have to be overly complicated. In this guide, we'll break down the essential components of continuous testing in DevOps, with special attention to the often-overlooked monitoring aspect that can make or break your testing strategy.
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hyperping

DevOps project management: A comprehensive guide for startups

Apr 26, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
DevOps teams in startups face a unique challenge: delivering reliable systems with limited resources while keeping pace with rapid growth and change. But search for "DevOps project management," and you'll find yourself drowning in enterprise frameworks, complex methodologies, and expensive tools that seem disconnected from startup realities. It's hard to know which approaches actually work when you're operating with constraints on time, budget, and personnel.
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The Future of Cloud Data & AI/ML with Google's Engineering Lead

Apr 26, 2025 By Civo In Civo
Explore the future of AI and data analytics with Google Engineering Lead Samarth Shah. From Lakehouse architectures to Tiny Models at the edge, Samarth breaks down the key trends shaping cloud-native analytics. Gain insights into augmented analytics, data governance, and real-time intelligence in this forward-looking session from Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025.
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speedscale

Unlock Cheaper & Faster AI Testing: Mocking Claude and MCP

Apr 25, 2025 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
Generative AI is quickly becoming ubiquitous in the software development space, with tools like Anthropic’s Claude offering rapid methodologies for code iteration, testing, and deployment. As new solutions, such as MCP (Model Context Protocol), are created to make integration more seamless, enterprises are adopting these AI solutions to optimize their development processes, a familiar challenge repeatedly arises: cost.
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How to Configure OpenTelemetry as an Agent with the Carbon Exporter

Apr 25, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
If you're already using OpenTelemetry for tracing and logs, adding otelcol-contrib as an agent for system metrics just makes sense. It keeps everything in the same pipeline, so you're not juggling multiple monitoring tools or dealing with inconsistent data formats. Plus, with built-in support for host metrics, custom processing, and direct exports to Graphite, it's a solid way to ship performance data without extra overhead. In this article, we'll detail how to install the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution, and configure it to export system performance metrics to a Graphite datasource.
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redgate

Tracking Azure Elastic Jobs using Redgate Monitor

Apr 25, 2025 By Beca Parker In Redgate
Redgate Monitor has long helped data teams and DBAs keep track of SQL Agent Jobs. Now, with version 14.0.53, it extends that visibility to Azure Elastic Jobs, giving you a centralized view of all your scheduled tasks, whether they run on SQL Server, Azure SQL Managed Instances, or Azure SQL Databases.
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cloudzero

CloudTrail Pricing Guide: Save On AWS Logging

Apr 25, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Logging and auditing activity across your AWS environment is a must for security, governance, and compliance. Yet, between management events, data events, and optional insights, it’s easy to overspend on tracking activity without realizing it. In this guide, we’ll break down CloudTrail pricing in plain terms and see what impacts your final bill. We’ll also share immediately actionable ways to keep your CloudTrail costs in check without sacrificing full observability.
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Why are AI Agents Superior to LLM #speedscale #apitesting #mocks #ai #agents #llm #developers

Apr 25, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Matt LeRay explains the key difference: AI agents can perform multi-step processes to solve complex software tasks, unlike simple LLMs that mainly answer questions. Discover how agents go beyond chat to: What are your thoughts on AI agents in software development? Let us know in the comments below!
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Optimizing IoT and edge with Ubuntu: secure, simplify, scale

Apr 25, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
From IoT to edge computing, Ubuntu helps you secure, simplify, and scale device deployments with confidence. In this session, Gabriel Aguiar Noury (Product Manager) and Tabish Khan (Sales Director IoT) from Canonical explore how Ubuntu streamlines the deployment, management, and maintenance of embedded systems, without compromising on reliability or security. Whether you’re building next-gen hardware or optimizing existing infrastructure, this talk offers practical insights and tools to help you succeed.
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The Cloud Has Made Us Reckless! It's Time to Reclaim Control

Apr 25, 2025 By Civo In Civo
Tim Banks takes the stage at Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025 to explore the unintended consequences of cloud adoption. From runaway AWS bills to vendor lock-in and lost operational skills, Tim offers a thought-provoking look at how convenience in the cloud has come at a cost to resilience, privacy, and sustainability.
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last9

Everything You Need to Know About OpenTelemetry Histograms

Apr 25, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Modern systems throw off a lot of data—metrics, traces, logs—sometimes more than we know what to do with. When you're trying to understand how values spread out over time (like response times, memory usage, or queue lengths), averages alone don’t tell the full story. OpenTelemetry histograms help fill in those gaps. This guide walks through what they are, why they matter, and how DevOps engineers can use them to improve observability in real systems.
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last9

Correlation ID vs Trace ID: Understanding the Key Differences

Apr 25, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
You’re staring at logs, trying to figure out what caused that odd error in the middle of the night. Or maybe you're following a chain of requests across services, hoping to understand how one user action triggered a series of unexpected behaviors. That’s where distributed tracing and request tracking—specifically, correlation IDs and trace IDs—are invaluable. It’s the kind of detail that can make debugging faster and less painful.
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Incident.io

Pager fatigue: Making the invisible work visible

Apr 25, 2025 By Matilda Hultgren In Incident.io
As much as you try to prevent it, your product will break sometimes. While you hope it would have the decency to do so while you are awake and already working, sometimes the product is inconsiderate and decides to break outside your office hours. Being woken up from a page at 3 am sucks, and being woken up again two hours later (when you get pinged for a follow-up issue you missed the first time) sucks even more.
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jfrog

JFrog's Journey with AWS Graviton

Apr 25, 2025 By Shiran Melamed In JFrog
Every business strives to optimize operational costs and efficiency. In the DevOps world, where cloud-scale operations are the norm, this becomes even more critical. At JFrog, while delivering a robust and highly scalable SaaS solution to our customers, we are equally focused on optimizing operational costs and maximizing infrastructure efficiency.
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cloudsmith

OWASP CI/CD Top 10: Inadequate IAM

Apr 24, 2025 By Nigel Douglas In Cloudsmith
In the race to ship software faster, many teams have turned to automation, decentralised tools, and powerful pipelines. But lurking under the surface of these streamlined processes is a growing and often invisible Identity and Access Management (IAM) threat vector. — a core vulnerability in modern CI/CD security.
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haproxy

Lessons Learned in LLM Prompt Security: Securing AI with AI

Apr 24, 2025 By Jakub Suchy In HAProxy
AI is no longer just a buzzword. According to a 2024 McKinsey survey, 72% of companies now use AI in at least one area of their business. By 2027, nearly all executives expect their organizations to use generative AI for both internal and external purposes. However, with this rapid adoption comes significant security risks. As organizations rush to implement AI solutions, many overlook a critical vulnerability: prompt security.
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last9

How Does OpenTelemetry Logging Work?

Apr 24, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Modern systems throw off logs like confetti—and making sense of all that noise is half the battle. OpenTelemetry logging offers a way to bring some order to the chaos. It helps DevOps teams collect logs in a consistent format, no matter what language or framework they’re working with. In this guide, we’ll walk through what OpenTelemetry logging is, why it matters, and how to put it to work in your stack.
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last9

Why Should You Care About Endpoint Monitoring?

Apr 24, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Modern applications rely on numerous interconnected endpoints to function properly. Maintaining visibility into these critical connection points is fundamental to both system reliability and security. When endpoints fail, degrade, or become compromised, the impact cascades to users, teams, and ultimately affects your bottom line. Effective endpoint monitoring provides the visibility needed to prevent these issues.
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Super Mario & Platform Engineering? You'll Be Surprised!

Apr 24, 2025 By Civo In Civo
What can Super Mario teach us about platform engineering? More than you'd think! At Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, Ramiro Berrelleza, founder of Okteto, draws surprising parallels between one of gaming’s most iconic series and the world of platform engineering. Learn how building familiar, reliable foundations, just like Super Mario, can empower developers, foster innovation, and avoid constantly reinventing the wheel.
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circleci

Build a scalable internal developer portal with Backstage and CircleCI

Apr 24, 2025 By Derry Bradley In CircleCI
Internal developer portals (IDPs) have become essential tools in platform engineering, helping standardize developer workflows and reduce friction by providing self-service access to tools, APIs, and infrastructure. During my time on a platform team, I experienced firsthand the transformative power of IDPs. Our team implemented custom solutions that significantly reduced load on developers, allowing them to focus on writing code rather than navigating complex infrastructure.
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canonical

The hitchhiker's guide to infrastructure modernization

Apr 24, 2025 By Canonical In Canonical
One of my favourite authors, Douglas Adams, once said that “we are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” Whilst Adams is right about a lot of things, he got this one wrong – at least when it comes to infrastructure. As our Infra Masters 2025 event demonstrated, infrastructure is the technology that makes everything work – from managing a satellite in outer space, to, say, livestreaming an event.
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ribbon

How does observability enhance operations in cloud native voice networks?

Apr 24, 2025 By Rich Krizan In Ribbon
The 17th century saw the onset of the Scientific Revolution. It was a time of knowledge explosion. During this time, scientific practices were still evolving, with no universally accepted protocols for data collection and analysis. Individuals documented any observation, resulting in the collection of massive amounts of information, but much of it was hard to leverage to draw useful conclusions. The development of the scientific method provided a common approach to capturing and analyzing data.
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[Webinar] Drift Happens! 3 Kubernetes Drift Scenarios & How to Overcome Them

Apr 24, 2025 By Komodor In Komodor
Many organizations don’t realize the impact of Kubernetes drift until they’re managing multiple clusters and face skyrocketing costs, delayed fixes, and downtime. Drift can lead to inefficiencies and even critical security risks. That’s why it’s crucial to understand and proactively address drift at scale.
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The Role of Observability in Modern DevOps Pipelines

The Role of Observability in Modern DevOps Pipelines

Apr 24, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
DevOps has radically transformed how organizations build and deploy software, enabling faster delivery with greater reliability. Within this transformation, observability has emerged as a critical foundation for success. Unlike traditional monitoring that simply tracks known metrics, observability provides deep visibility into complex systems, allowing teams to understand and troubleshoot issues they couldn't anticipate. This shift represents much more than a technical evolution - it's a fundamental change in how organizations approach system health and performance.
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bunnyshell

Introducing BunnyHunt: The $1M Global Competition to Build, Ship, and Deploy Software at the speed of your creativity

Apr 23, 2025 By Alin Dobra In Bunnyshell
In 2025, building software is no longer just about writing code. It’s about how fast you can turn ideas into reality. It’s about leveraging AI tools, using ephemeral cloud environments, and deploying at the speed of creativity. And now, it’s also about unlocking your share of $1,000,000 pool.
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kosli

Generating and Tracking SBOMs with Kosli: Enhancing Software Security and Supply Chain Transparency

Apr 23, 2025 By Mike Long In Kosli
Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) are crucial for maintaining software security and supply chain transparency. They provide a detailed list of all components, libraries, and dependencies within a software application, enabling organizations to identify and address potential vulnerabilities, license compliance issues, and other risks. By generating and tracking SBOMs in Kosli, you can establish a centralized and auditable repository for your software’s supply chain information. This allows you to.
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Sunbird

How to Justify DCIM's ROI to Leadership

Apr 23, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
For those deep in the day-to-day operations of a data center, the value of a modern Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution is often clear. It helps improve capacity planning, uptime, energy efficiency, and the productivity of people. Data center professionals understand this, and most would love to have DCIM software that simplifies their jobs and helps them deliver better results. But for leadership who controls the budget, the benefits of DCIM software aren’t always so obvious.
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megaport

Four Ways to Connect Your Clouds

Apr 23, 2025 By David Sloan In Megaport
Learn how to connect your cloud environments without sacrificing speed, security, or cost efficiency. Businesses aren’t sticking to just one cloud provider anymore. Maybe you’re running apps on AWS, storing data in Google Cloud, and using Azure for AI workloads. It makes sense – each provider has its own strengths. But now you’ve got another challenge: How do you connect them all efficiently without running into performance issues, high costs, or security risks?
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jfrog

Now Available: Smart Archiving with the JFrog Platform

Apr 23, 2025 By Sean Pratt In JFrog
Every day development teams around the world release new software. But what happens to prior releases that are no longer in production? Most organizations save them, typically due to internal policies, external regulations, or simply the fear of losing data. Organizations typically take varied approaches to retaining their prior releases.
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last9

Traces & Spans: Observability Basics You Should Know

Apr 23, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In modern software architecture, applications aren't just getting bigger—they're getting more distributed. With microservices, serverless functions, and containers running across multiple environments, understanding what's happening inside your systems can feel like trying to track a single raindrop in a storm. That's where traces and spans come in. These observability tools aren't just buzzwords—they're your secret weapon for making sense of complex distributed systems.
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Metrics Monitoring: The Only Guide You'll Need

Apr 23, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
When major tech companies maintain high availability while others struggle with frequent outages, the difference often comes down to one thing: effective metrics monitoring. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about metrics monitoring, from fundamental concepts to advanced strategies.
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Teneo

Why IT Leaders Need to Think Like CFOs: The ROI of Elastic Acceleration

Apr 23, 2025 By Teneo In Teneo
I still get frustrated when I see organizations treating IT as a cost centre or an operational necessity rather than a strategic enabler. But the reality is, digital experiences are business-critical and performance is the new currency. Today’s IT leaders must adopt a CFO mindset, aligning technology investments with business outcomes, agility, and measurable return. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the realm of application acceleration.
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Test Locally & Improve Your CI with Proxy Mock #speedscale #testing #developers #cimocking #mocks

Apr 23, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Tired of costly cloud environments and unpredictable CI tests? Discover Proxy Mock, the free tool that lets you record your app's traffic locally and automatically generate mock services for realistic, reliable testing!
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Test Locally & Improve Your CI with Proxy Mock #speedscale #testing #developers #cimocking #mocks

Apr 23, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Tired of costly cloud environments and unpredictable CI tests? Discover Proxy Mock, the free tool that lets you record your app's traffic locally and automatically generate mock services for realistic, reliable testing!
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Transitioning to FIPS 140-3 on Azure with Ubuntu

Apr 23, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
Organizations that work with the US public sector or handle sensitive data currently have a FIPS 140-2 requirement. Currently, if an organization wants FIPS compliance while running on Azure, they are running Ubuntu Pro 20.04 or earlier. On September 21st, 2026, this will no longer be enough to achieve FIPS compliance because organizations will need to transition to FIPS 140-3.
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Canonical's open source portfolio

Apr 23, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
Canonical open source, explained in 2 minutes and 20 seconds. You know Canonical as the company behind Ubuntu. Today, we help you expand the Ubuntu philosophy to every layer of your stack with modular open source solutions - from infrastructure to apps. Start with Ubuntu, take control of your infrastructure, modernize your applications, get an optimized stack for data and AI, and deploy smart things at the edge - all on trusted open source.
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Preventing harmful LLM output with automated moderation

Apr 23, 2025 By Najia Gul In CircleCI
Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce impressive text responses, but they’re not immune to generating harmful or disallowed content. If you’re developing an LLM-powered application, you need a reliable way to detect and block risky outputs. Disallowed content – hate speech, explicit descriptions, harmful instructions – can damage your product’s reputation, endanger user safety, and potentially violate legal or platform guidelines.
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Vulnerability Remediation: Automate VR Workflows with Puppet

Apr 23, 2025 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Secure and resilient infrastructure is non-negotiable. Puppet Enterprise Advanced automates critical tasks like patching, configuration management, and compliance, strengthening your security posture and bridging the gap between security and operations. Deploy essential updates quickly, minimizing threats and maximizing efficiency.
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Top 5 AWS Reporting Tools To Track Usage And Spend

Apr 23, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
While modernizing IT infrastructure, securing data, and ensuring high availability are high priorities, optimizing AWS costs and utilization has consistently been the top priority for most companies in recent years. As a result, AWS introduced Cost and Usage Reports (CUR). AWS designed CUR to provide granular data on resource consumption and associated costs in the AWS environment.
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env0

What Is Cloud Orchestration and Which Tools to Use

Apr 23, 2025 By Anthony Critelli In env0
Cloud infrastructure management is a complicated task for organizations of all sizes. Infrastructure teams are increasingly asked to improve developer velocity, unlock access to different cloud platforms, and provide comprehensive visibility into cost and performance. Choosing the right cloud orchestration tool reduces the burden on infrastructure teams.
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speedscale

Getting Started with gRPC: A Developer's Guide

Apr 22, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Within the realms of microservices and distributed systems, gRPC has emerged as a cornerstone technology. Its adoption by tech giants like Google, Netflix, and Square underscores its capability to facilitate high-performance, scalable inter-service communication. Built as a modern take on the traditional Remote Procedure Call (RPC) paradigm, gRPC enables services, potentially written in different languages, to communicate efficiently and reliably across networks.
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civo

Going Green with GPUs: The Role of Sustainability in Cloud Computing

Apr 22, 2025 By Mark Boost In Civo
As businesses increasingly transition to cloud-based services, the demand for data center resources has surged, leading to higher electricity consumption. Currently, data centers contribute to about 3% of global carbon emissions and account for roughly 1-1.5% of global electricity demand. As a result, the need for sustainable solutions in cloud computing has never been more urgent.
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cloudzero

10 Google Cloud Alternatives Worth Exploring

Apr 22, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Over the last few years, Google Cloud has grown at the fastest rate of any cloud service provider today. From 2020 to 2021, Google Cloud’s IaaS offering, GCP, grew 64%, followed by Microsoft Azure (51%) and Alibaba Cloud (42%), according to Gartner. Yet Google Cloud isn’t flawless. Here’s what we mean and some of the top Google Cloud alternatives you’ll want to consider today.
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cloudzero

How Choosing The Right DLT Tier Can Reduce Databricks Costs

Apr 22, 2025 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
Databricks is a critical part of many organizations’ tech stacks, facilitating analytics, machine learning, and other leading-edge data engineering tasks. But when a service like Databricks becomes essential, it also tends to become a cost black hole, leading engineering teams to a quandary: How can you keep Databricks costs in check without hurting application performance? At CloudZero, we give organizations unparalleled visibility into their Databricks costs.
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The Top 4 Kubernetes Misconfigurations You Can Avoid on Cycle

Apr 22, 2025 By Chris Aubuchon In Cycle
Most cloud infrastructure and deployment misconfigurations start innocently enough: a dev under pressure to ship quickly tweaks a configuration file or adjusts a permission setting to make something work. It's not malicious and it might even be well thought out, but these small changes can cause a cascade of reactions that bring down production in seconds.
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puppet

Why Puppet Vulnerability Remediation is a Game-Changer for Enterprise Infrastructure Ops

Apr 22, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
Effective vulnerability management has become a growing priority for organizations. Aided in part by AI, threats and vulnerabilities grow in speed and sophistication while IT environments become more complex. The skill gap for cybersecurity keeps widening (further worsened by a sprawling toolkit), exposing critical systems to exploitation. Managing secure infrastructure manually just isn’t possible at the scale and speed today’s enterprises demand.
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jfrog

Introducing Support for Chocolatey and PowerShell Packages

Apr 22, 2025 By Brian Chang In JFrog
In February, we announced our support for Hex packages, which further solidified the JFrog Platform as the most universal package management solution. We’re excited to announce we’re continuing to build on our universality with our new official support of Chocolatey and PowerShell, which allows both technologies to be used with our NuGet repositories in JFrog Artifactory.
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last9

Distributed Network Monitoring: Guide to Getting Started & Troubleshooting

Apr 22, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When systems span clouds, containers, and regions, knowing what’s happening under the hood is more than a nice-to-have—it’s critical. Traditional monitoring tools often fall short in these complex setups. That’s where distributed network monitoring steps in. This guide cuts through the noise to offer a clear, practical approach to keeping tabs on distributed systems—without drowning in dashboards or alert fatigue.
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circleci

Automating vulnerability scanning for Gradle dependencies with CircleCI

Apr 22, 2025 By Hangga Aji Sayekti In CircleCI
Detecting dependency vulnerabilities in a Gradle-based project is crucial because it prevents applications from using libraries (dependencies) with security holes. Imagine an application as a house. Each dependency, or library used in the project, is like building material (such as wood, glass, or bricks). If there’s a flawed or easily penetrable material, the house can become unsafe, such as being more vulnerable to thieves or collapsing during an earthquake.
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App crash panic? #speedscale #developer #mocks #appcrashes #debugging #monitoring #tech #shorts

Apr 22, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
This video walks you through the first steps when your application goes down: check monitoring, validate alerts, rule out cache issues with incognito mode, and dive into your observability data to find the fix!
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resolve

Why Generative AI Isn't Enough: You Need Agents, Not Just Answers

Apr 22, 2025 By Ari Stowe In Resolve
At Resolve Systems, our mission has always been to simplify the complex. For over a decade, we’ve partnered with enterprises to tackle operational chaos through automation, orchestration, and intelligent workflows. Whether it’s accelerating incident resolution, eliminating repetitive tasks, or optimizing service delivery, we’ve consistently focused on delivering real outcomes, not just flashy features.
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Top Linode Alternatives for 2025: Why Kamatera Stands Out for DevOps Teams

Top Linode Alternatives for 2025: Why Kamatera Stands Out for DevOps Teams

Apr 22, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Businesses continuously explore alternatives to Linode to discover cloud hosting solutions that align perfectly with their diverse needs. Alternative platforms like AWS, Amazon, OVHcloud, and Kamatera offer varied options in terms of pricing, features, and performance capabilities. Shifting to these alternatives might provide better integration options, improved customer support, or pricing benefits suited for different business scales. This exploration enables organizations to secure a cloud platform that meets their specific requirements and supports their growth trajectory effectively.
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How to find Kubernetes reliability risks with Gremlin

Apr 21, 2025 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Most Kubernetes clusters have reliability risks lurking just below the surface. You could spend hours or even days manually finding these risks, but what if someone could find them for you? With Detected Risks, Gremlin automates the work involved in finding and tracking reliability risks across your Kubernetes clusters. Surface failed Pods, mismatched image versions, missing resource definitions, and single points of failure, all without having to run a single test.
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cloudzero

9 Continuous Delivery Tools For Reliable Releases

Apr 21, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Zoom has an interesting concept they call a “minimum version enforcement policy.” The video conferencing platform enforces a Quarterly Lifecycle Policy, meaning that every three months, specifically in February, May, August, and November, Zoom updates the minimum required versions of its apps and SDKs. All users, system admins, and developers must be on at least the specified version to continue using the platform. Why?
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resolve

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

Apr 21, 2025 By Brinda Sreedhar In Resolve
A Service Orchestration and Automation Platform brings together several core automation capabilities—workflow orchestration, workload scheduling, and resource provisioning—into a single, policy-driven platform. The goal is to provide end-to-end automation across hybrid infrastructure, applications, data pipelines, and services.
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last9

A Comprehensive Guide to Monitoring Disk I/O on Linux

Apr 21, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In a Linux environment, understanding how your storage devices perform can mean the difference between a system that flies and one that crawls. Whether you're troubleshooting performance issues or fine-tuning your server setup, getting familiar with Linux disk I/O statistics is an essential skill for any tech professional. This guide breaks down everything you need to know about Linux disk I/O stats - from basic concepts to practical monitoring techniques that you can implement today.
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last9

How to Use MySQL Performance Analyzer

Apr 21, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
If you're dealing with slow MySQL queries and wondering why your database performance is lagging, you're not alone. MySQL performance analyzers are key tools for pinpointing bottlenecks, optimizing queries, and ensuring your databases stay efficient and responsive. Let’s explore how these tools can help you keep things running smoothly.
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metricfire

Will it Monitor? Tracking the ISS in Real Time

Apr 18, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Tracking the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbits Earth is not just a captivating endeavor for space enthusiasts, it's also an excellent demonstration of how real-time data collection and visualization can be achieved using readily available open-source tools. To monitor the ISS location and trajectory, we'll demonstrate how to set up a simple cron job to fetch it's coordinates every five minutes, parse the data into a suitable format, and visualize it on a dashboard.
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cloudzero

50 Quick SaaS Statistics Every Business Should Know

Apr 18, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Getting the right information at the right time can dramatically change the direction of your business. Yet, you may not have enough time to keep up with everything. We get it. So, our team pulled a few all-nighters (so you don’t have to), and we bring you the key SaaS statistics every SaaS leader, team, and engineer should see right now. You can dig even deeper by checking out the sources we included.
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last9

Apache Cassandra Monitoring: Tools, Challenges & Best Practices

Apr 18, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When your distributed database architecture scales to handle massive workloads, keeping tabs on everything becomes critical and complex. With its masterless architecture and linear scalability, Apache Cassandra powers mission-critical applications across industries—but without proper monitoring, you might as well be flying blind through a storm.
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dbForge Edge - Your All-in-One Data Management Solution

Apr 18, 2025 By Devart In Devart
Managing multiple databases and cloud services can be challenging… but dbForge Edge makes it easy! Looking for a powerful data management tool to handle data across multiple databases and cloud services through a unified UI? dbForge Edge has you covered! View, edit, sort, and filter data directly in the gridFind the required data instantlyCompare & synchronize data with auto-generated scriptsMigrate data between different environmentsImport & export data using 14 popular formats.
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dbForge Edge: Your All-in-One Data Management Solution

Apr 18, 2025 By Devart In Devart
Managing multiple database systems can be tricky , especially when each one requires its own tool . But what if a single data management tool could simplify everything by providing a unified UI for every database? With dbForge Edge, you can easily manage, migrate, and synchronize data across various platforms , including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and many more.
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Incident.io

Incident management tool integration

Apr 18, 2025 By Kate Bernacchi-Sass In Incident.io
Picture the scene: a high‑severity alert fires, Slack lights up, and dashboards scream red. You’re juggling Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira, and status pages while trying to coordinate fixes. The problem isn’t a lack of tools; it’s that they aren’t talking to each other. This guide explains why incident management tool integration matters, how it cuts response times, and where to start.
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Colo is not dead. | Uplink Podcast | Episode 4

Apr 17, 2025 By Megaport In Megaport
Colo is not dead. Forget cloud-only strategies—AI is driving a resurgence in colocation and a rethink of what hybrid infrastructure really means. AI has flipped the script on how we think about digital infrastructure. In this episode, we’re joined by TierPoint SVP Don Schuett to explore how the surge in AI demand has fundamentally reshaped the data center industry—impacting everything from hardware design to real estate strategy.
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Simple Talks Podcast | S2 Episode 7 - Louis Flies Solo

Apr 17, 2025 By Redgate Software In Redgate
In this special solo episode, host Louis Davidson stays ‘full screen’ for the entire show and answers the very questions he asks of others! Where it all started, what tech he loves, the one obvious thing he loves to do outside of working with databases (which has been mentioned before)...it’s all covered here!
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last9

GDPR Log Management: A Practical Guide for Engineers

Apr 17, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
GDPR compliance for logs can be tricky—especially when you're trying to maintain system visibility and protect user data at the same time. For SREs and IT teams, it’s a balancing act between staying on the right side of privacy laws and not losing the context you need to troubleshoot. This guide walks through practical ways to handle personal data in logs, set up retention rules that make sense, and stay compliant without creating unnecessary friction.
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Meet the Cortex Founders

Apr 17, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
What’s it like to build the future at Cortex? In this video, our founders share what makes Cortex a unique place to work—from our builder-first culture to the high-impact problems we’re solving every day. We’re a team that moves fast, supports each other, and is deeply committed to raising the bar for developer experience across the industry. At Cortex, you’ll find a culture that values autonomy, creativity, and a shared drive to push boundaries. We’re building tools that help some of the world’s top engineering teams ship faster and more confidently—and we’re just getting started.
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cloudsmith

OWASP CI/CD Top 10: Inadequate Flow Control in CI/CD Pipelines

Apr 17, 2025 By Nigel Douglas In Cloudsmith
With the recent shake-up around CVE funding and broader questions about long-term support for cybersecurity infrastructure, one thing is clear: controlling what you can is more important than ever. This is abundantly clear in modern software development practices which rely heavily on CI/CD systems, which in turn serve as the primary conduit from a developer’s local environment to production.
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Why Reliability Starts with the Network, even in the AI era, with Marino Wijay

Apr 17, 2025 By Rootly In Rootly
In this episode, we explore how networking has shaped reliability as we know it. Marino Wijay cloud networking expert and Staff Solutions Architect at Kong shares how his journey began not as an SRE, but with cables, routers, and switches. Marino explains the evolution of the fabric holding systems together through virtualization, and how software-defined networking, which is now a key element to resilient applications.
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The New Rootly Ringtones: How Research-based On-Call Sounds

Apr 17, 2025 By Rootly In Rootly
We set out to create a ringtone that wasn’t just loud—but the sound of a modern pager. Something that wakes you up, but without triggering a full-blown adrenaline spike. In this video, go behind the scenes with sound engineer Gorjão as he crafts a how research-based on-call sound sounds like.
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circleci

CI/CD preprocessing pipelines in LLM applications

Apr 17, 2025 By Muhammad Arham In CircleCI
In Large Language Model (LLM) applications, the quality of the training data is paramount in determining the final model performance. One of the most important steps in preparing datasets is cleaning and transforming raw data into similar and usable formats. However, this process can be tedious and time-consuming when done manually. Automating these data cleaning workflows is essential to improve efficiency and maintain consistency across multiple datasets.
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tidal

Consolidate Cloud Environments at Scale with Tidal

Apr 17, 2025 By Amber Weaver In Tidal
Cloud environment cleanup is often overlooked but it’s one of the biggest blockers to efficient cloud transformation. Have you ever found yourself lost in a labyrinth of environment names? “Dev,” “development,” “dev-test” — sound familiar? What starts as a simple spreadsheet import can quickly spiral into a nightmare of duplicate records and data inconsistencies. One of our customers knows this pain all too well.
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Incident.io

How incident.io helps to reduce alert noise

Apr 17, 2025 By Chris Evans In Incident.io
We're often asked: "How does incident.io help reduce alert noise?" And it’s a fair question. It’s typically much easier to add new alerts than to remove existing ones, which means most organizations slow-march into a world where noisy, un-actionable alerts completely overshadow the high-signal ones that indicate a real problem.
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civo

Introducing relaxAI in India: Your Trusted AI Assistant

Apr 16, 2025 By Kunal Kushwaha In Civo
We're excited to announce that relaxAI, the AI assistant designed with a strong focus on privacy and data sovereignty, is now available in India. In a world where AI tools are becoming increasingly popular, concerns about data usage and security are at an all-time high. relaxAI is here to change that experience completely.
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Meet RelaxAI: India's Affordable & Secure AI Assistant

Apr 16, 2025 By Civo In Civo
Get ready to experience the power of AI in India with relaxAI! Our AI assistant is designed with a strong focus on data sovereignty, ensuring that your data stays confidential and under your control. With relaxAI, you can enjoy 100% Indian data sovereignty, compliance with Indian data protection laws (DPDPA), and complete control over your data. Learn more about relaxAI's features, pricing, and how it can help Indian businesses and individuals achieve their goals.
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cloudzero

DevOps Dashboard Ultimate Guide: Metrics And Use Cases

Apr 16, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
DevOps has become the backbone of modern software delivery. By breaking down the silos between development (dev) and operations (ops), DevOps teams can move faster, deploy more frequently, and maintain more reliable systems. But with this need for speed comes the necessity of visibility. And this is where DevOps dashboards impress. In this guide, we’ll cover the essentials of DevOps dashboards.
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Pulseway

How to Stop Malicious Code in Its Tracks

Apr 16, 2025 By Pulseway In Pulseway
Malware, Trojans, worms — you've likely heard these terms before. But can you tell the difference between them? More importantly, do you know how to protect your systems and data from these threats? These are malicious codes, and each serves a different purpose, whether it's infiltrating networks, disrupting operations or stealing sensitive data. While they vary in their methods, they all share a common goal — exploiting vulnerabilities to cause harm.
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Pulseway

Harnessing Automation and AI to Transform IT and Business Management

Apr 16, 2025 By Pulseway In Pulseway
The increasing use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) is finally giving IT professionals a chance to step back from the daily grind and breathe by significantly reducing human errors in their processes. With AI now built into modern IT tools like Pulseway RMM and Pulseway PSA, IT workload management is smarter, with more efficient processes.
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Pulseway

Make Billing Easy With Pulseway PSA's Automated Posting & Invoicing

Apr 16, 2025 By Pulseway In Pulseway
Let’s be honest — billing can be a real time-waster. It’s repetitive, tedious, and prone to mistakes, especially when you’re stuck manually posting line items, creating invoices, and generating PDFs. But what if you could automate all that and get back hours of your day?
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console connect

Simplifying cloud connectivity: Console Connect now available on OCI Marketplace

Apr 16, 2025 By Dorian Wilson-Debriano In Console Connect
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers can now seamlessly purchase Console Connect services directly from the OCI Marketplace using Oracle Universal Credits. As the first FastConnect partner to offer services on the Oracle Marketplace, Console Connect provides a suite of cloud connectivity solutions designed to enhance the speed, reliability, and performance of data connections to Oracle Cloud.
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resolve

How to Leverage CMDB Tools for Total IT Visibility

Apr 16, 2025 By Brinda Sreedhar In Resolve
Digital ecosystems are more complex and dynamic than ever before, and organizations often struggle with limited visibility into their IT assets and configurations. This opacity can lead to mismanaged resources, compliance risks, and prolonged incident resolution times, undermining overall business performance. Leveraging configuration management database (CMDB) tools helps with managing IT assets, configurations, and relationships.
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redgate

DB-Engines shares Q1 2025 database industry rankings and top climbers: Snowflake and PostgreSQL trending

Apr 16, 2025 By Hannah Stewart-Beattie In Redgate
Oracle maintains its top-ranking spot; persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake highlight Q1 2025 rankings analysis. DB-Engines is today sharing Q1 analysis of the database industry rankings and top climbers. While Oracle has maintained its top-ranking spot as the most popular database for several years, we are seeing persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake, which has broken through to sixth place for the first time this quarter, overtaking Redis.
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last9

A Closer Look at Docker Build Logs for Troubleshooting

Apr 16, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
In the world of containerization, understanding what's happening under the hood during image builds can mean the difference between smooth deployments and frustrating debugging sessions. Docker build logs are your window into this process, offering crucial insights that help you optimize builds, troubleshoot errors, and maintain robust container infrastructure.
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last9

How to Connect ELK Stack with Grafana

Apr 16, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In today’s distributed systems world, you need clear visibility into logs, metrics, and everything in between to keep systems healthy and reliable. That’s where the ELK Stack and Grafana work well together—each solving a different part of the observability puzzle. ELK handles the heavy lifting of log collection and processing. Grafana adds intuitive dashboards and powerful visualizations.
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circleci

Creating and testing a RAG-powered AI app with Gemini and CircleCI

Apr 16, 2025 By Bhavishya Pandit In CircleCI
Have you ever asked an AI model a question and received an outdated or completely off-base response? I’ve been there too. The problem is that most AI models rely solely on their pre-trained knowledge, which becomes obsolete over time. This is where RAG can help: RAG is a hybrid AI technique that combines the advantages of retrieval systems and generative models. It bridges the gap by bringing in real-time information from external knowledge sources to improve the generation quality.
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atlassian

Introducing token rotation for access tokens

Apr 16, 2025 By Hamreet Kaur In Atlassian
As part of Atlassian’s ongoing investment in security, we’re excited to introduce token rotation for access tokens in Bitbucket Cloud. Building on recent updates, like adding expiration dates to access tokens, this new capability allows you to rotate your tokens, which generates a new secret while maintaining the same access and scopes.
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Best VPS for Machine Learning

Best VPS for Machine Learning

Apr 16, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
When it comes to machine learning, choosing the right Virtual Private Server (VPS) can significantly impact your project's performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. A VPS provides dedicated resources that can handle the intensive computational tasks associated with training machine learning models. Here, we explore the best cheap GPU VPS options for machine learning, highlighting the importance of GPUs and introducing Cloudzy as a leading choice.
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speedscale

4 Tips for Developing Model Context Protocol Server

Apr 15, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly becoming the connective tissue for agentic AI systems and IDE tooling. Whether you’re building a dev tool that integrates with LLMs or enabling a context-aware API backend, standing up an MCP server is a rite of passage. But MCP is still in its early days and there are some sharp edges. Here are four practical shortcuts to fast-track your MCP server development so you can skip the boilerplate and get to the good stuff: intelligent tooling.
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cloudzero

10 AWS Alternatives To Consider When AWS Isn't The Right Fit

Apr 15, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still the largest cloud service provider today. With over 240 cloud products, this Amazon.com subsidiary offers cloud, on-premises, serverless, and edge computing services. But bigger isn’t always better, and we’ll share why, plus explore the top AWS alternatives to consider if you’re thinking about making a switch.
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last9

Everything You Need to Know to Start Monitoring Postgres

Apr 15, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Keeping your Postgres databases healthy is non-negotiable if you care about application performance and reliability. But monitoring Postgres the right way? That’s where things get tricky. Between the sheer volume of metrics and the noise that comes with them, it’s not always obvious what to pay attention to—or when. This guide breaks things down with a focus on what matters in real-world production setups.
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last9

Log Consolidation Made Easy for DevOps Teams

Apr 15, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Managing multiple systems that each generate their alerts and logs can quickly become overwhelming. The challenge of scattered logs is a real headache, especially in the fast-paced world of DevOps. Log consolidation is not just a convenience—it's an essential practice that can save you from chaos and improve your operational efficiency. This guide covers everything you need to know about log consolidation, from understanding what it is and why it matters, to practical steps for making it work.
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Teneo

Agent 2 Agent: A Giant Leap for AI Agents - And Why Enterprises Must Get Security Right

Apr 15, 2025 By Teneo In Teneo
At Google Cloud Next, one statement particularly caught the attention of innovators and cybersecurity professionals alike: Google’s introduction of Agent 2 Agent (A2A) marks a major evolution in AI architecture. It enables autonomous agents to collaborate across services, platforms, and domains—unlocking powerful use cases across virtually every industry.
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civo

What is Agentic AI? Understanding the Next Evolution of AI

Apr 15, 2025 By Mostafa Ibrahim In Civo
In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, a new frontier is emerging—Agentic AI. This revolutionary concept goes beyond the traditional models of AI that we’ve grown accustomed to. Instead of simply following explicit instructions, agentic AI systems are designed to act autonomously, make decisions, and adapt dynamically. In other words, they can “think” independently to achieve specific goals.
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cloudsmith

Scaling up to 1 Million Requests per Minute: How Cloudsmith Delivers Extreme Performance

Apr 15, 2025 By Lee Skillen In Cloudsmith
CI/CD pipelines don’t wait. When traffic surges and your artifact platform can’t keep up, it’s not just a few slow requests: builds fail, deploys become backlogged, and engineers lose confidence. We’ve seen it all: 502s from overloaded VMs, minutes-long pulls, and pipelines grinding to a halt. That’s why we built Cloudsmith to scale by default; no one should have to firefight with their registry at 2 a.m.
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last9

APM Observability: A Practical Guide for DevOps and SREs

Apr 15, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Modern application architectures have evolved from simple monoliths to complex distributed systems spanning multiple environments. This evolution has transformed how we approach monitoring and troubleshooting. Traditional monitoring methods that focus solely on uptime and basic health checks are no longer sufficient for understanding system behavior in cloud-native environments.
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devart

Meet Our Newly Updated ODBC Solutions

Apr 14, 2025 By DAC Team In Devart
Here we go with another update of ODBC, our reliable and high-performance tools for connecting to popular databases and cloud services from ODBC-compatible tools. This release features enhanced performance, essential new options, expanded capabilities, and much more. This time, the spotlight is on our ODBC Driver for Jira, which has been significantly optimized in terms of data retrieval.
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speedscale

Testing LLM backends for performance with Service Mocking

Apr 14, 2025 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
While incredibly powerful, one of the challenges when building an LLM application (large language model) is dealing with performance implications. However one of the first challenges you'll face when testing LLMs is that there are many evaluation metrics. For simplicity let's take a look at this through a few different test cases for testing LLMs.
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last9

Histogram Buckets in Prometheus Made Simple

Apr 14, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Staring at a monitoring dashboard and still feeling like you're missing half the picture? Happens more often than you'd think. Especially when you're dealing with metrics like request durations or payload sizes—data that doesn’t behave nicely or fit into neat little averages. This is where Prometheus' histogram buckets step in. They're not just another metric type; they're a better way to track the messy, uneven world of performance data.
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last9

Database Monitoring Metrics: What to Track & Why It Matters

Apr 14, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Let’s be honest—your database isn’t just another component. It’s the thing holding everything else together. When it slows down or fails, the ripple effects hit fast and hard. So keeping an eye on its performance? Non-negotiable. The challenge is, there’s no shortage of metrics you could monitor. But not all of them are useful.
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haproxy

Choosing the Right Transport Protocol: TCP vs. UDP vs. QUIC

Apr 14, 2025 By Ron Northcutt In HAProxy
A decision-making framework breaking down the strengths, weaknesses and ideal use cases to help users choose the proper protocol for their systems. Initially published in The New Stack We often think of protocol choice as a purely technical decision, but it's a critical factor in the user experience and how your application is consumed. This is a high-impact business decision, making it crucial for the technical team to first understand the business situation and priorities.
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cloudsmith

Full Support for Arbitrary Files in Maven Repositories with Cloudsmith

Apr 14, 2025 By Nigel Douglas In Cloudsmith
We're excited to announce a major enhancement to our Maven repository support at Cloudsmith. As a Java developer, you can now upload and distribute arbitrary files using Maven repositories, unlocking more flexible and powerful workflows for your projects. Arbitrary files are files that are ignored by Maven unless explicitly included in the Project Object Model (POM) / pom.xml configuration.
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Incident.io

Designing smarter on-call schedules for faster, calmer incident response

Apr 14, 2025 By Tom Wentworth In Incident.io
When an incident wakes your team early in the morning, the last thing you want is confusion about who’s responding or how help will arrive. An effective on-call schedule doesn’t just get the right person online. It helps them stay calm, confident, and capable of solving problems quickly. Done right, your on-call setup becomes a powerful lever for reducing Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA), Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR), and the overall stress that incidents place on your team.
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cloudzero

Financial Modeling Software: Features To Look For And Top Options

Apr 14, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Imagine navigating a cross-country road trip using nothing but a paper map from the 1980s. Sure, you might eventually reach your destination, but you’d likely miss faster routes, real-time traffic updates, and helpful insights along the way. That’s what it can feel like for modern finance teams to rely solely on spreadsheets for complex financial modeling.
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Sunbird

Unified Solution for IT and OT Asset Management: Equinix and Sunbird Integration

Apr 14, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
As businesses grow, the complexity of managing both physical and virtual assets across owned and leased data centers has become increasingly challenging. Traditionally, IT and Operational Technology (OT) teams have worked with siloed tools to manage their respective domains. On one hand, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) systems have focused on managing critical infrastructure like power, cooling, and in-rack devices.
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cloudsmith

Reproducible Builds, Fedora 43, and What It Means for the Software Supply Chain

Apr 12, 2025 By Nigel Douglas In Cloudsmith
April 2025 has brought some important news in the world of open source and software supply chain security: Fedora has announced a change proposal to make 99% of its package builds reproducible in its upcoming Fedora 43 release. At first glance, this might seem like a low-level Linux packaging detail. But in reality, this is part of a much bigger shift that touches anyone who builds, ships, or consumes software - including us at Cloudsmith and the developers and enterprises who rely on us.
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datadog

Making profiling visualizations accessible to engineers at all levels

Apr 11, 2025 By Pierre-Yves Bigourdan In Datadog
Modern code profilers gather performance data that is highly useful for developers, but the traditional presentation of that data can be challenging to interpret for engineers who are new to profiling. For the Continuous Profiler team at Datadog, our guiding mission is to make profiling a standard practice for all developers by flattening its learning curve and helping teams quickly gain insights into application performance.
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Keynote: transforming embedded systems with Ubuntu

Apr 11, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
Join Joe Dulin (VP, Devices Sales) and Tabish Khan (Sales Director IoT) from Canonical as they kick off Ubuntu Day with a powerful keynote on the future of embedded and edge computing. Discover how Canonical’s secure, scalable, and customizable solutions are reshaping the embedded landscape across industries, from manufacturing and robotics to AI and IoT. Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity.
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How to Connect .NET Console Application to SQLite using ADO.NET

Apr 11, 2025 By Devart In Devart
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to connect a.NET console application to a SQLite database using dotConnect for SQLite and ADO.NET. In this video, you'll learn: This step-by-step guide will give you a solid foundation to integrate SQLite databases into your.NET projects using Devart's dotConnect for SQLite.
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How to Connect .NET Console Application to Oracle using ADO.NET

Apr 11, 2025 By Devart In Devart
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to connect a.NET console application to an Oracle database using dotConnect for Oracle and ADO.NET. In this video, you'll learn: This step-by-step guide will give you a solid foundation to integrate Oracle databases into your.NET projects using Devart's dotConnect for Oracle.
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How to Connect .NET Console Application to PostgreSQL Database

Apr 11, 2025 By Devart In Devart
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to connect.NET console application to PostgreSQL database using dotConnect for PostgreSQL. In this video, you'll learn: This step-by-step guide will give you a solid foundation to integrate PostgreSQL databases into your.NET projects using Devart's dotConnect for PostgreSQL.
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circleci

Managing EKS deployments with CircleCI deploys

Apr 11, 2025 By Manu Chandrasekhar In CircleCI
Development teams managing Kubernetes-based applications face challenges in maintaining visibility and control over their deployment processes. Without a centralized interface, teams struggle to track, monitor, and manage releases across their Kubernetes clusters, leading to potential deployment errors, and difficulties in maintaining consistent deployment workflows.
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last9

Debug Logging: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers

Apr 11, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When an app breaks and there's no clear clue why, debug logs often hold the answers. They record what the code was doing at each step, making it easier to trace back and spot what went wrong. This guide covers what debug logging is, why it’s useful, and how to use it without turning logs into a wall of noise.
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last9

Observability vs APM: What's the Real Difference?

Apr 11, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Remember when monitoring your apps meant checking if they were up or down? Yeah, those days are long gone. As systems have gotten more complex—microservices talking to other microservices, containers spinning up and down, serverless functions doing their thing—the approach to understanding system health has had to level up too. APM tools have been the bread and butter for DevOps teams for years, but now everyone's talking about observability.
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last9

Logging vs Monitoring: What's the Real Difference?

Apr 11, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Let's talk about something central to DevOps work: logging vs monitoring. While both are essential components of maintaining system health and reliability, they serve distinct purposes and complement each other in different ways. The distinction between them isn't always clear-cut, especially as tooling continues to evolve. This guide talks about the practical applications, technical differences, and implementation strategies for both logging and monitoring in modern DevOps environments.
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cloudzero

AWS EventBridge Pricing: A Guide To Charges And Savings

Apr 11, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Amazon EventBridge is a powerful tool for building event-driven architectures. It’s built to connect and simplify real-time data processing and automation across your cloud stack (AWS services, customs apps, and SaaS applications). But when it comes to pricing, things can get a little tricky. Estimating EventBridge costs at scale is often daunting. There are just too many moving parts involved. That’s why in this guide, we’re breaking down what goes into an Amazon EventBridge bill.
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speedscale

Using Proxymock with AWS Services

Apr 10, 2025 By Kristopher Sandoval In Speedscale
Amazon Web Services, or AWS, offers a variety of cloud services ranging from AWS resources such as CDNs and data lakes to cloud computing and transformation services such as compute resources, virtual servers, and dynamic availability zones. For this reason, AWS cloud is one of the most broadly adopted cloud solutions, offering a global network of solutions at generally lower costs compared to on-premises solutions.
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resolve

A Comprehensive Guide to Process Orchestration in IT

Apr 10, 2025 By Brinda Sreedhar In Resolve
IT teams are under constant pressure to enhance operational efficiency, reduce downtime, and improve service delivery. This challenge is often met by implementing process orchestration. Process orchestration in IT involves the design, execution, and management of interconnected tasks across different IT systems and applications. By automating these processes, businesses can not only optimize workflows but also ensure consistency, scalability, and faster response times to incidents.
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last9

HAProxy vs NGINX Performance: A Comprehensive Analysis

Apr 10, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
When architecting high-performance infrastructure capable of handling substantial traffic loads, the choice of load balancer is a critical decision that can significantly impact system reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Among the leading contenders, HAProxy and NGINX stand out as mature, battle-tested solutions with distinct strengths and characteristics.
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How to Use Prometheus for APM

Apr 10, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Monitoring applications shouldn’t be a guessing game. But too often, DevOps engineers end up buried under a pile of metrics that don’t help when things go wrong. That’s where Prometheus APM comes in. It offers a straightforward way to make sense of your systems—especially when you're working with modern, distributed setups like microservices.
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haproxy

HAProxy goes big at KubeCon London 2025

Apr 10, 2025 By Iwan Price-Evans In HAProxy
Last week, the cloud-native jamboree that is KubeCon descended on London, UK (my home city), and HAProxy Technologies set out to be the life of the party. This year’s event was our biggest yet, so we brought our A-game – with a huge booth, a lot to show off, and thousands and thousands of T-shirts to fold and give away.
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#040 - Beyond Mere Penguins: Crafting Engaging Developer Communities with Jono Bacon (Stateshift)

Apr 10, 2025 By Komodor In Komodor
In this special KubeCon episode, Itiel sits down with Jono Bacon of CNCF fame to talk about his career in building developer and user engagement for open-source technologies. Jono shared his early experiences with Linux and how it sparked a passion for community building. They discuss their current coaching company, Stateshift, which helps various tech companies, including those in the CNCF ecosystem, improve their community outreach, brand building, and user adoption. Examples of successful community building, like GitLab and Dagger, are mentioned.
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#041 - Virtualizing Kubernetes with Lukas Gentele (Loft Labs)

Apr 10, 2025 By Komodor In Komodor
In this special KubeCon edition episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, Itiel meets with Lukas Gentele, CEO and co-founder of Loft Labs. Discover why Lukas believes multi-tenancy is a major obstacle in Kubernetes adoption and how Loft Labs is tackling this challenge through innovative projects like vCluster, a "super famous project" for running virtual Kubernetes clusters.
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gitkraken

GitKraken Desktop 11: Meet Your New Development Co-Pilot

Apr 10, 2025 By Jonathan Silva In GitKraken
Written by author, adapted by AI GitKraken Desktop 11.0 is here, and it’s more than just a version bump. We’re introducing AI-powered features designed to accompany your workflow and help you stay focused on what matters most. It’s changed how I approach commits, and I’m sure it will help y’all too!
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Cycle

Examining Network Architectures: Kubernetes and Cycle

Apr 10, 2025 By Chris Aubuchon In Cycle
In a world of managed services, details can often be skipped, overlooked, ignored, or just plain avoided. And in many cases, that's fine. But if you're here, reading this, then I will take it for granted that these things interest you, and I welcome you to join me on this journey of exploration, looking under the hood of two prominent container orchestration platforms on the market: Cycle and Kubernetes.
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canonical

Software development for the connected car: on the safe side with Anbox Cloud

Apr 10, 2025 By Matthieu Sarrazin In Canonical
Today, Android Automotive OS (AAOS) is the preferred operating system for in-vehicle infotainment among major carmakers. AAOS is a fully functional infotainment platform that supports various applications, features and services, similar to what people are used to on their Android phone. AAOS helps developers create new applications and features that enhance the driving experience, which has resulted in a rapidly growing ecosystem of compatible apps and services.
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7 tips for effective system prompting

Apr 10, 2025 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Looking to get the most out of AI tools? In this video, we walk through 7 practical tips for writing effective system prompts that lead to more accurate, helpful, and context-aware responses. Whether you're building with LLMs or just refining your workflows, these tips will help you structure your prompts for success. Watch the full walkthrough and start improving your prompting strategy today.
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Why You Need Remote Disk Management

Why You Need Remote Disk Management

Apr 10, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's increasingly distributed workforce, remote disk management has become a cornerstone of effective IT administration. With employees accessing corporate data from various locations and devices, ensuring the security and integrity of disk storage is more challenging-and more critical-than ever. Remote disk management allows IT admins to monitor, configure, and secure disk drives on endpoints, regardless of their physical location. This capability is essential for maintaining compliance, preventing data breaches, and mitigating vulnerabilities that could be exploited by cybercriminals.
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squadcast

Squadcast Strengthens Its Leadership in IT Alerting and Incident Management in the G2 Spring Report

Apr 9, 2025 By Sanjog Sandhu In Squadcast
2025 has already started out to be a remarkable year for Squadcast—with our key wins in the G2 Spring Reports, our acquisition by SolarWinds, and a series of impactful product releases and improvements. Our mission has always been clear: to deliver a unified platform that seamlessly integrates On-Call Management and Incident Response, empowering teams to boost service reliability and productivity—all without the burden of context switching.
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virtana

The Critical Role of Observability in Healthcare IT

Apr 9, 2025 By Amit Rathi In Virtana
Healthcare organizations are increasingly leading the charge in technology adoption, rapidly deploying advanced applications and digital tools to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. However, this acceleration is placing unprecedented pressure on existing IT infrastructure. Teams are being asked to support next-generation workloads, such as AI-powered diagnostics and real-time data platforms, on legacy systems, often without the benefit of increased budget or headcount.
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firehydrant

Opsgenie Is Sunsetting: What to Look for in an Alternative

Apr 9, 2025 By Jessica Abelson In FireHydrant
Atlassian is retiring Opsgenie, and if you're one of the teams relying on it to manage on-call and incidents, you're facing a tough question: Do you make the forced migration to Jira Service Management or Compass, scramble for a lookalike tool — or use this moment to upgrade your entire approach to incident response? If you’re facing that decision, we get it. Changing tools midstream isn’t ideal (to say the least). But it’s also a rare opportunity to take a meaningful step forward.
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cortex

Leveraging an IDP for Navigating Staff Changes: Onboarding and Layoffs

Apr 9, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Change is constant in engineering organizations. Whether you’re growing quickly and onboarding dozens of engineers—or navigating the difficult process of layoffs—your systems, services, and institutional knowledge don’t pause. That’s where an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) becomes indispensable.
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last9

Comparing ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus for Observability

Apr 9, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Monitoring and observability are cornerstones of modern infrastructure management. Three popular solutions that often come up in this space are the ELK Stack, Grafana, and Prometheus. This comparison breaks down the key differences, use cases, and integration capabilities to help you determine which tool or combination better suits your operational needs.
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Metrics That Matter: Measuring Developer Productivity in the AI Era

Apr 9, 2025 By Rootly In Rootly
In this episode, Ryan McDonald is joined by Mark Quigley, Head of Platform Engineering at Ninety.io, for a conversation that cuts through the noise around developer productivity metrics and AI. Mark dives deep into how teams can measure what matters—without falling into the trap of turning every measure into a target. He shares how tools like Developer NPS, DORA metrics, and balanced scorecards can help teams optimize for both output and well-being—but only when framed with the right intent.
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Incident.io

The timeline to fully automated incident response

Apr 9, 2025 By Ed Dean In Incident.io
We speak to engineering teams every day, and everybody knows AI is the future. Some tell us they’re massively accelerated by Claude, or that they’re rebuilding their product, team and ways of working. Cursor and Lovable have announced they’re building the last piece of software. Should we give in to the vibes? Embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists? The reality is that things will still go wrong. They always do, at least from time to time.
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canonical

SONiC: The open source network operating system for modern data centers

Apr 9, 2025 By Benjamin Ryzman In Canonical
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is an open-source network operating system that has revolutionized data center networking. Originating as a Microsoft-led initiative in the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2016, SONiC has rapidly gained traction among hyperscalers and switch hardware vendors, including Broadcom, Cisco, and NVIDIA. By building its services using containerized microservices, SONiC brings flexibility, scalability, and modularity to network infrastructure.
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circleci

CircleCI MCP server: Natural language CI for AI-driven workflows

Apr 9, 2025 By Michael Webster In CircleCI
The pace of software development has changed. With AI coding assistants now embedded into engineering workflows, developers are building faster, shipping sooner, and writing more code than ever before. But as velocity increases, so does the complexity of keeping that code running. When builds fail, developers need answers fast. They need clarity, context, and actionable feedback right where they’re working.
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hyperping

How top DevOps teams use feedback loops to crush reliability goals

Apr 9, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
Delivering reliable software is like trying to hit a moving target. As a DevOps professional, you're constantly balancing speed and stability, all while user expectations grow and technology landscapes shift. Without proper feedback mechanisms, you're essentially flying blind. The good news? DevOps feedback loops provide the visibility and insights needed to navigate this complex environment. They are the fundamental building blocks that enable continuous improvement in software delivery and operations.
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cloudzero

Understanding ElastiCache Pricing (And How To Cut Costs)

Apr 9, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
If you provide services such as live streaming, social media networking, and analytics, you need a robust platform to speed up your read/write operations per second. Caching reduces latency by storing frequently accessed objects in faster memory (RAM or in-memory data stores instead of slower disk-based storage). Amazon ElastiCache is a managed, in-memory data store and caching service in one.
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hyperping

The DevOps secret to 99.9% uptime: The ultimate Kubernetes monitoring guide

Apr 9, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
Monitoring your Kubernetes clusters is critical for maintaining reliable applications. But with so many metrics to track and tools to choose from, setting up effective monitoring can feel overwhelming. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) highlights record Kubernetes adoption, underscoring the growing need for robust monitoring solutions. Search for "Kubernetes monitoring" and you'll find a sea of contradicting information, countless tools, and complex setups.
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civo

The Coming Decentralization of Cloud

Apr 9, 2025 By Kendall Miller In Civo
This quote resonates deeply when considering the pendulum swings in technology. We’ve seen boom-and-bust cycles with various trends, from blockchain to AI. Some trends have more staying power than others, but the pendulum swings one way, only to swing back—sometimes with a vengeance, correcting the overreach of the previous swing. One of the most significant pendulum swings of the last few decades was the shift to cloud computing.
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hyperping

Stop drowning in alerts: 12 DevOps alert management strategies that actually work

Apr 9, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
System outages cost businesses an average of $5,600 per minute, according to Gartner. That's over $300,000 per hour of downtime. But beyond the financial impact, downtime destroys customer trust, damages your reputation, and creates a backlog of urgent work for your already busy technical teams. The key to minimizing downtime? A robust DevOps alert management system that notifies you of issues before they become full-blown disasters.
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metricfire

Step by Step Guide for Using the HG-CLI Agent Installation Tool

Apr 8, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Our latest project at MetricFire is a brand-new CLI tool! This tool makes agent installation on any OS a breeze, and we are quite proud of it. In this article, we'll share an overview of HG-CLI, and how to use it in Terminal User Interface (TUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI) mode. We'll also show you what to do with the metrics that are collected and forwarded to your Hosted Graphite account, giving you a full server monitoring setup in minutes!
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resolve

Choosing the Best End-to-End Process Automation Solution: A Strategic Playbook

Apr 8, 2025 By John Gorham In Resolve
Enterprise IT leaders are under growing pressure to streamline operations, reduce manual effort, and drive efficiency. End-to-end process automation solutions have emerged as a strategic priority, enabling businesses to connect disparate systems, remediate problems, and scale with agility. However, navigating the crowded automation marketplace—and understanding what a true end-to-end solution looks like—can be daunting without the right guidance.
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Cycle

Top 7 Kubernetes Alternatives in 2025

Apr 8, 2025 By Konner Bemis In Cycle
Gone are the days when scaling meant downtime, and introducing breaking fixes to production were more commonplace. In today's age of software development companies are adapting and quick to iterate, though we are still learning. The truth is Kubernetes has played a huge part in revolutionizing software development but it is not so straightforward as, 'adopt K8s and your organization will suddenly move in the right direction'.
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gremlin

Three key facts about serverless reliability

Apr 8, 2025 By Andre Newman In Gremlin
Serverless computing requires a significant shift in how organizations think about deploying and managing applications. No longer do Ops teams need to think about provisioning servers, installing operating system patches, and writing shell scripts to manage deployments. While serverless takes away much of this responsibility, one aspect still needs to be handled thoughtfully: reliability. In this blog, we’ll look at three important facts about serverless reliability that teams often overlook.
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last9

Java Util Logging Configuration: A Practical Guide for DevOps & SREs

Apr 8, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Setting up proper logging is like having a good navigation system when you're driving through unfamiliar territory. For DevOps engineers and SREs managing Java applications, understanding how to configure the built-in java.util.logging framework is essential knowledge that can save you hours of troubleshooting headaches. Let's break down java util logging configuration in a way that makes sense — no fancy jargon, we promise!
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Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Miriway: Worlds of Wayland

Apr 8, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
"Miri" (the plural of mir) derives from the Russian for "world"; and "way" is for Wayland, a protocol used by graphical shells (not the craftsman in European folklore). Together these make Miriway: an easy way to leverage the Mir compositor engine to build Wayland based desktop environments. There are many components to a desktop environment: backgrounds, panels, launchers, onscreen keyboards, notifications, etc. Miriway provides a Wayland compositor (which handles the display, input and window management) leaving the rest to be configured.
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gitkraken

Elevate Your Git Workflow with GitKraken AI & Enhanced Integrations

Apr 8, 2025 By Melese M In GitKraken
GitLens 17.0 delivers a transformative update that revolutionizes Git workflows directly within Visual Studio Code. This release introduces GitKraken AI, native Bitbucket integration, and advanced multi-commit capabilities designed to eliminate friction points throughout your development process.
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last9

How to View and Understand VPC Flow Logs

Apr 8, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
If you're running workloads in AWS, you've probably heard about VPC Flow Logs. These logs are your eyes and ears for network traffic in your Virtual Private Cloud, and knowing how to check them properly can save you hours of troubleshooting headaches. Whether you're tracking down connectivity issues or monitoring for suspicious activity, this guide will walk you through checking VPC flow logs step by step, with practical examples you can apply today.
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Benefits of Developers Using Service Mocks #speedscale #shorts #mocks #servicemocks #programming

Apr 8, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Nate Lee discusses the benefits of developers using service mocks, highlighting how they allow teams to simulate APIs and external services during development and testing. This approach enables developers to work independently of backend systems, reduce dependencies, and catch issues early, ultimately improving productivity and software quality.
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last9

Envoy vs HAProxy: Which Proxy Server Is Right for Your Infrastructure?

Apr 8, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Choosing between Envoy and HAProxy isn't just about picking a proxy server. It's about deciding which tool will handle your traffic, balance your loads, and keep your services running when everything else wants to crash. If you're a DevOps engineer or system admin weighing these options, you're in the right place.
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cloudsmith

Kubernetes 1.33 - What you need to know

Apr 8, 2025 By Nigel Douglas In Cloudsmith
Kubernetes 1.33 is right around the corner, and there are quite a lot of changes to unpack! Removing enhancements with the status of “Deferred” or “Removed from Milestone” we have 64 Enhancements in all listed within the official tracker. So, what’s new in 1.33? Kubernetes 1.33 brings a whole bunch of useful enhancements, including 35 changes tracked as ‘Graduating’ in this Kubernetes release.
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cloudzero

AI Feature Pricing: How To Monetize AI Without Losing Money

Apr 8, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
If you’re operating a SaaS company these days, chances are you’ve got at least some AI features already on the market and others in the pipeline. That also means you’ve likely encountered one of the top problems with AI in today’s market: It can be prohibitively expensive — to the point where you gamble with actually losing money rather than making a profit with the release of a new AI feature.
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Pulseway

What is an IT Report? A Comprehensive Guide for SysAdmins

Apr 8, 2025 By Pulseway In Pulseway
Businesses lean heavily on information technology (IT) to run smoothly and stay ahead of the competition. One vital tool for managing and optimizing IT resources is the IT report. But what exactly is an IT report and why is it so important for organizations? In this blog, we'll explore the concept of IT reports, their various types, key components and the benefits they offer businesses.
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Pulseway

How Much Are MSPs Charging in 2025? Understanding Trends and Pricing Strategies

Apr 8, 2025 By Pulseway In Pulseway
Outsourcing IT management to a managed service provider (MSP) has given countless organizations the freedom and confidence to make a real impact, even if they have little to no knowledge of IT. With experts keeping an eye on things and also looking out for cyberthreats, businesses are free to focus on what they do best.
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spike

OpsGenie vs. PagerDuty: Which Incident Management Tool Should You Choose in 2025

Apr 8, 2025 By Sreekar In Spike
If you’re comparing OpsGenie vs. PagerDuty, there’s something important you need to know right away: OpsGenie is shutting down. OpsGenie has been a trusted ally for incident teams for over a decade. In our Ode to OpsGenie, we celebrated its legacy—from simplifying on-call rotations to reducing alert noise effectively. Atlassian announced that OpsGenie sales will stop on June 4, 2025, with a complete shutdown by April 5, 2027.
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Incident.io

Incident management vs. problem management: A practical guide for SREs

Apr 8, 2025 By Tom Wentworth In Incident.io
In Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), distinguishing incident management from problem management is crucial. While both processes aim to maintain system reliability, they fulfill distinct roles: incident management focuses on quickly resolving immediate disruptions, whereas problem management identifies and rectifies root causes to prevent recurrence. Effectively combining these processes helps minimize downtime, enhances system resilience, and fosters a proactive operational approach.
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pulsant

Shift Right: The On-Premise to Private Cloud Evolution

Apr 8, 2025 By Pulsant In Pulsant
We're taking a look at our clients' journey to a hybrid-cloud architecture, exploring the benefits private cloud boasts over on-premise infrastructure and how this helps an organisation's digital transformation. The adoption of cloud technology is determined by where data originated and is held, and how it is used.
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civo

Meta's Llama 4 models now on relaxAI

Apr 8, 2025 By Ben Norris In Civo
Here at Civo, we’re proud to announce that we have become the first UK company to successfully host and operationalize Meta’s new Llama 4 model family on relaxAI, our AI assistant. This breakthrough positions relaxAI at the forefront of sovereign AI development, combining world-class capabilities with uncompromising data protection standards that UK businesses can trust.
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canonical

Announcing Charmed Kubeflow 1.10

Apr 8, 2025 By Stefano Fioravanzo In Canonical
We are thrilled to announce the release of Charmed Kubeflow 1.10, Canonical’s latest update to the widely-adopted open source MLOps platform. This release integrates significant improvements from the upstream Kubeflow 1.10 project, while also bringing a suite of additional capabilities targeted towards enterprise deployments. Charmed Kubeflow 1.10 empowers machine learning practitioners and teams to operationalize machine learning workflows more efficiently, securely, and seamlessly than ever.
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Teneo

AI Vibe Coding: Productivity Superpower or Security Nightmare?

Apr 8, 2025 By Teneo In Teneo
Imagine this: You’ve got a business problem to solve. Instead of waiting on dev cycles, planning sprints, and juggling priorities, you just ask an AI assistant to write the code for you. A few seconds later, it hands you the solution — and with your AI also providing a step-by-step deployment guide, what could be simpler? That’s the promise of AI Vibe coding — a future where anyone can build and deploy software just by describing what they want in natural language.
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Incident.io

Mastering incident routing: a critical component in incident management

Apr 8, 2025 By Tom Wentworth In Incident.io
Imagine this: a high-priority alert is triggered, but it’s routed to the wrong team, or delayed by manual triage. By the time the right person is notified, the issue has escalated, and users are starting to notice. Technical failures don’t always cause these kinds of incidents. More often, they stem from something simpler: poor alert routing.
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devart

dbForge Tools for SQL Server v7.1 Released: Extended Connectivity and Compatibility!

Apr 7, 2025 By dbForge Team In Devart
We are excited to announce the release of our ultimate tools for database management, administration, development, and deployment – dbForge SQL Tools and dbForge Studio for SQL Server. The new version, 7.1, mainly focuses on extended connectivity and compatibility. It allows SQL developers, database and system administrators to stay tuned and highly productive with the latest server features and quickly connect to databases without handling compatibility or connectivity issues.
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speedscale

Using Proxymock with GCP Services

Apr 7, 2025 By Kristopher Sandoval In Speedscale
Google Cloud Platform, or GCP, is a cloud resources collection offered by Google for enterprise and standard users. GCP offers a wide range of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, security, analytics, and even machine learning models. Google Cloud products are the backbone of many cloud applications. Google Cloud allows flexibility with the scalable and predictable cost management.
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cloudzero

Snowflake Vs. AWS Vs. Azure: How They Stack Up In 9 Key Areas

Apr 7, 2025 By CloudZero Team In CloudZero
Millions of organizations across industries use data to improve their strategies, products, and services. Yet, there are bucketloads of cloud data platforms on the market, and picking the right one for your needs can be challenging. This in-depth comparison guide will help you decide on the data clouds offered by Snowflake vs. AWS vs. Azure.
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Incident.io

Navigating the role of an incident commander

Apr 7, 2025 By Tom Wentworth In Incident.io
When critical services fail, every second counts. Teams scramble, information floods in, and clarity quickly dissolves into confusion. In these high-pressure moments, a single point of leadership, the incident commander, can mean the difference between a quick recovery and prolonged disruption.
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atlassian

Four reasons to explore a migration from Bitbucket Data Center to Bitbucket Cloud

Apr 7, 2025 By amoosa@atlassian.com In Atlassian
With built-in CI/CD, native security tools, integrated planning, and AI agents, Bitbucket Cloud helps organizations accelerate productivity, improve engineering standards, and enhance collaboration across developers, operations and business teams. Moving to the cloud also helps lower costs by freeing up hardware budgets and IT resources. And you can rest easy knowing developers will stay productive on a secure and reliable platform. Curious about exploring a migration to Cloud?
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last9

Java GC Logs: How to Read and Debug Fast

Apr 7, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When a Java application starts slowing down, garbage collection is often a good place to look. For engineers responsible for keeping systems stable and responsive, understanding GC logs can make a real difference. This guide walks through the basics—what to look for, what the logs mean, and how to troubleshoot common issues—so you can get ahead of problems before they impact performance.
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last9

Essential Unix Commands Cheat Sheet for DevOps Engineers

Apr 7, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
If you work in DevOps and spend time in the terminal, knowing Unix commands isn’t optional. It’s part of the job. Whether you're managing servers, setting up deployments, or fixing something that just broke in production, these commands help you move faster and work smarter. This cheat sheet keeps things simple. No filler. Just the commands you’ll use when you’re in the middle of real work.
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last9

An Easy Guide to Pausing Docker Containers

Apr 7, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Docker containers have become essential tools in modern development workflows. While most DevOps engineers are familiar with starting, stopping, and removing containers, the "pause docker container" functionality often flies under the radar. Yet, this feature can be incredibly useful in various scenarios, from testing to resource management.
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megaport

SD-WAN and MPLS: Weighing the Similarities, Differences, and Benefits

Apr 7, 2025 By Mark Austen In Megaport
Compare these two leading networking technologies so you can decide which is best for your organization. In 2025, Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is considered an essential part of many organizations’ network fabric. But what about Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)? Has this trusty routing technique been made redundant by the increasing uptake of SD-WAN? What are the differences and similarities between SD-WAN and MPLS? And are there valid reasons to use both?
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ribbon

Accelerate Your Network Automation with Muse Automation Platform

Apr 5, 2025 By Jonathan Homa In Ribbon
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, network automation has become a vital tool for service providers seeking to enhance efficiency, reduce operational costs, and improve customer satisfaction. Muse, a platform developed by Ribbon Communications, stands at the forefront of this transformation. This blog post summarizes how Muse leverages low-code platforms to streamline and automate network operations to drive profitability in IP Optical Networks.
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qovery

What's New in Qovery Q1 2025: Faster Deployments, Smarter Scaling, and More Control

Apr 5, 2025 By Romaric Philogène In Qovery
Over the last three months, we’ve focused on solving three core challenges our users face: delivering faster, improving resiliency, and gaining tighter control over cloud infrastructure. Today, we’re excited to share the new features we rolled out in Q1 2025 - all built to help teams ship faster, with more confidence, and lower operational overhead.
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Online Driver Update: Simplify Security & Performance

Online Driver Update: Simplify Security & Performance

Apr 4, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's quick-moving digital world, keeping your computer running smoothly is more important than ever. One way to ensure your system is performing at its best is through online driver updates. Drivers are essential pieces of software that allow your computer's hardware to communicate effectively with its operating system. When these drivers are outdated, it can lead to many problems, including decreased performance and possible security risks.
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cloudsmith

SLSA: A Route to Tamper-Proof Builds and Secure Software Provenance

Apr 4, 2025 By Ian Taylor In Cloudsmith
SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts, pronounced ‘salsa’) is a progressive, industry-backed software security framework that safeguards software integrity throughout the development and delivery lifecycle. SLSA adoption is ramping up in industries where trust isn’t optional. As dependencies proliferate and threats multiply, SLSA provides a solid, structured path to prove that software is secure by design.
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gitkraken

Reworking the GitKraken CLI

Apr 4, 2025 By Chris Griffing In GitKraken
We recently started the Public Preview for a ground up rewrite of the GitKraken CLI. You might be wondering, “why?” We needed to rapidly iterate on a brand new idea, the “Work Item”. We also learned a lot from the previous iterations and realized a fresh start could help us optimize the user experience around the most precious resource, time.
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last9

Pod Memory Usage: Tracking, Commands & Troubleshooting

Apr 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Your containers are running, nd your clusters seem fine, but then you get that dreaded alert – memory pressure. Whether you're scaling up your infrastructure or just trying to keep things running smoothly, understanding pod memory usage isn't just nice to have – it's essential knowledge for any DevOps engineer worth their salt. Let's cut through the noise and get straight to what matters: practical ways to track, analyze, and fix memory issues in your Kubernetes pods.
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last9

The Role of Log Shippers in Your Stack

Apr 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Log shippers are essential components in modern infrastructure, serving as the critical connection between the systems that generate logs and the platforms that store and analyze them. They operate behind the scenes to ensure that important system and application information reaches its destination reliably. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of log shippers, including their functionality, implementation considerations, and selection criteria for different environments.
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last9

API Latency: Definition, Measurement, and Optimization Techniques

Apr 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When applications experience performance issues, API latency is often a primary factor. For DevOps engineers, a clear understanding of API latency is essential for both resolving current performance problems and establishing preventative measures. This guide examines API latency from a technical perspective, covering its definition, measurement methodologies, and practical optimization techniques.
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cloudzero

Top Cloud Cost News From March 2025

Apr 4, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Spring is unfolding, and your event calendar is about to be overflowing with new FinOps get-togethers. Plus, we’ve got some cloud cost announcements from a couple of the major providers that could affect your bill and your FinOps strategy. Here’s the top news from March 2025 and upcoming events you won’t want to miss.
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cloudzero

Is FinOps Certification Worth It? Here's Your Handy Breakdown

Apr 4, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
At its core, FinOps is a cultural practice that brings together finance, technology, and business teams to manage and optimize cloud spending. For SaaS companies, where cloud infrastructure is integral to operations, FinOps practices directly impact the bottom line. But as with any emerging discipline, the big question is: Is a FinOps certification truly worth the time and financial investment?
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Unlock the Secret to IT Efficiency: How Proactive Maintenance Saves You Time, Money, and Headaches

Unlock the Secret to IT Efficiency: How Proactive Maintenance Saves You Time, Money, and Headaches

Apr 4, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's fast-paced business environment, the role of IT has never been more critical. Whether it's keeping your systems secure, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations, or enabling innovative solutions, technology underpins almost every aspect of business performance. However, as essential as IT is, it's also susceptible to breakdowns, inefficiencies, and unexpected challenges. These issues can disrupt operations, drain resources, and lead to expensive downtimes.
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site24x7

How to master the SGA and PGA in Oracle databases

Apr 3, 2025 By Grace Nalini In Site24x7
If you have a car or a motorcycle, you frequently tune it to have top-notch performance. Similarly, while using Oracle Database, you need to manage memory effectively. When you get it right, everything runs smoothly; when you get it wrong, you face slow queries and frustrated users. As we are talking about Oracle databases here, you are probably aware of the system global area (SGA) and program global area (PGA) in Oracle, which play a crucial role in database memory management.
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The Future of AI Consumption with Chris Sharp, CTO of Digital Realty | Uplink Podcast | Episode 1

Apr 3, 2025 By Megaport In Megaport
What powers the AI revolution? Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp joins us to explore the evolution of data centers—from invisible infrastructure to the epicenter of next-gen compute. How did data centers transform from invisible infrastructure to the epicenter of the AI revolution? In this fascinating conversation with Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty, we explore the remarkable evolution of digital infrastructure over the past two decades.
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Data Center Boom: Navigating the Hottest Industry in the World | Uplink Podcast | Episode 2

Apr 3, 2025 By Megaport In Megaport
How did data centers become one of the hottest industries on the planet? DataBank CEO Raul Martynek joins us to break down the explosive growth of digital infrastructure—and what it really takes to scale in the AI era. The data center industry stands at the epicenter of today's technology revolution, experiencing what industry veterans call "the best market ever seen." In this revealing conversation with DataBank's CEO, we dive deep into the forces driving unprecedented growth in digital infrastructure and why this sector has become perhaps the hottest industry globally.
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jfrog

Building a Software Data Retention Strategy and Why You Need One

Apr 3, 2025 By Sean Pratt In JFrog
Every day, your developers are pushing software. Some of that software will make it to production, but many of those incremental builds will not. While you shouldn’t remove those incremental builds and old release versions haphazardly, if left unchecked, they can clog up your software repositories as well as the workflows and systems they serve.
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Incident.io

Why we're hiring AI Engineers

Apr 3, 2025 By Pete Hamilton In Incident.io
Over the last 9 months, we’ve been building some of the most ambitious AI-native features in our product. Agents that can investigate incidents in real time. Systems that identify likely root causes. AI that writes exec-ready summaries without being prompted. Natural language interfaces that let engineers ask questions like “what changed before this broke?” and get useful answers. To do this, we had to fundamentally re-evaluate how we built AI products at incident.io.
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resolve

Process Orchestration For IT: Definitions, Differences, and Examples

Apr 3, 2025 By Crystal Mistretta In Resolve
From automating complex workflows to streamlining cross-functional operations, process orchestration plays a vital role in IT, enabling scalable, reliable, and responsive systems. But with so many related terms floating around—automation, BPM, ETL, SOAR—it’s easy to get lost in the jargon. What does ‘orchestrate process’ mean? Is it the same as automation? How does it compare to Business Process Management?
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circleci

How to use LLMs to generate test data (and why it matters more than ever)

Apr 3, 2025 By Ryan E. Hamilton In CircleCI
The way software is written is changing fast. In the past few years, AI coding assistants and large language models (LLMs) have gone from novelty to necessity for many developers. Tools like Cursor, ChatGPT, and custom in-house models are helping teams generate boilerplate, scaffold features, and even build entire apps within minutes. It’s exciting. But it also raises the stakes. When code is written faster, it’s deployed faster.
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last9

How to Configure ContainerPort in Kubernetes (The Easy Way)

Apr 3, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
This guide covers container port configurations in Kubernetes, explaining key concepts and practical setups. If you're setting up ports for the first time or troubleshooting connectivity issues, you'll find clear explanations and useful examples to help you navigate container networking effectively.
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Mastering MetricFire's Hosted Graphite CLI | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Apr 3, 2025 By MetricFire In MetricFire
Learn how to efficiently use MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite CLI to manage your monitoring setup like a pro! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through: Installing and setting up the CLI Sending and querying metrics with ease Managing dashboards and alerts from the command line Pro tips for automation and efficiency Whether you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer looking to streamline your monitoring workflow, this video will help you get started quickly.
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last9

How to Master Log Management with Logrotate in Docker Containers

Apr 3, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Docker containers continuously generate logs during operation, and without proper management, these logs can consume significant disk space, impact system performance, and create operational issues. Logrotate offers an effective solution for managing these logs in containerized environments. This guide covers the implementation of logrotate in Docker containers – from initial setup through advanced configurations that ensure stable, maintainable container deployments.
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last9

Best 6 AWS EC2 Alternatives for DevOps Teams in 2025

Apr 3, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Looking for AWS EC2 alternatives? While EC2 is a popular choice for cloud computing, many DevOps teams are exploring options that better suit their needs, budget, or technical requirements. This guide breaks down the top alternatives, focusing on what matters most—features, performance, pricing, and real-world use cases. We’ll cover the technical details, performance benchmarks, and key considerations to help you make the right choice.
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Simple Talks Podcast | S2, Episode 6 - Redgate Advocates: Their Origin Stories

Apr 3, 2025 By Redgate Software In Redgate
The Redgate Advocates (Kellyn Gorman, Ryan Booz, Steve Jones, and Grant Fritchey) sat down at the PASS Summit last year and spent some time telling how they went from working directly in tech, to helping others work with tech - both inside and outside of Redgate and their products. Connect with the hosts.
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smikar

SharePoint Analytics

Apr 3, 2025 By Mark In SmiKar Software
Managing SharePoint storage can be a complex task, especially as your organization’s data continues to grow. Keeping track of how much space each site or user is consuming, identifying trends, and ensuring your storage stays within allocated limits are crucial for effective SharePoint management. This is where SharePoint analytics tools can make a significant difference, and SharePoint Storage Explorer stands out as an essential free tool to simplify the process.
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Incident.io

Reducing alert fatigue in incident management

Apr 3, 2025 By Tom Wentworth In Incident.io
Picture this scenario: It's 2 AM. Your phone starts ringing. There's an incident in staging. You grumble, wake up, check your notifications, only to realize it does not require your immediate attention. After twenty minutes of lost sleep, you're back to bed, only for the cycle to repeat itself a few days later. Sound familiar? For many SREs and on-call engineers, incidents and alerts are unavoidable realities.
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Incident.io

How Port helps supercharge incident.io workflows

Apr 3, 2025 By incident.io In Incident.io
Great incident response starts with structure, speed, and the right context. At incident.io, we make it easy for teams to declare incidents, follow battle-tested workflows, and communicate clearly from the moment something breaks to the moment it's fixed. But resolving incidents isn’t just about what happens in the heat of the moment: it’s about having the right metadata and service information at your fingertips. That’s where Port comes in.
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Observability and IT Monitoring for Federal, State, and Local Government | LogicMonitor

Apr 2, 2025 By LogicMonitor, Inc. In LogicMonitor
If you work in public sector IT—whether at the federal, state, or local level—you know how complex things have gotten. Keeping everything running smoothly is a daily challenge between aging infrastructure, hybrid cloud environments, and growing cybersecurity demands. LogicMonitor's hybrid observability platform powered by AI helps government IT teams simplify monitoring, reduce alert noise, and avoid issues with AI-powered insights. You’ll see how observability helps agencies.
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Getting the most out of Flyway Code Analysis | The Tony and Tonie Show

Apr 2, 2025 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Flyway will automatically check pending migration files for code smells using built-in and customizable rules. In this episode, Tony and Tonie discuss not one but two Phil Factor articles! One explains how to get started, and the other provides a starter pack of custom regex rules to help teams implement their own coding standards and describes how to maintain your rule library efficiently as it grows.
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manageengine

Understanding Docker monitoring: A comprehensive list of key Docker metrics

Apr 2, 2025 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
In today’s fast-paced development landscape, containerization has become a cornerstone for deploying scalable and efficient applications. Docker, as one of the most popular container platforms, offers a robust environment for building and running containers. However, with great power comes the need for greater scrutiny, i.e., Docker monitoring or observability. Understanding Docker metrics is key to maintaining optimal performance and ensuring your containerized applications run smoothly.
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spike

An Ode to OpsGenie: A Look Back at One of Ops' Most Loved Tools

Apr 2, 2025 By Kaushik In Spike
With the news of OpsGenie shutting down and everyone looking for possible alternatives, we wanted to take a moment—not just to acknowledge the end, but to rewind and revisit the journey that brought them here. Over the years, it carved out a meaningful place in a competitive market, and in the workflows of thousands of teams. This is a look back at where it all began, what made OpsGenie different, and the mark it leaves behind.
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cloudzero

25+ AWS Monitoring Solutions And Best Practices You Need In 2025

Apr 2, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
AWS is one of the most popular public cloud platforms, offering over 240 cloud services. Despite the cloud provider’s efforts to make its tools easy to use, managing the vast array of AWS resources and services can be challenging. For example, AWS environments require continuous monitoring to determine what changes need to be made to reduce costs, improve performance, and secure your systems. This is where AWS monitoring tools, services, and best practices can help.
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puppet

How DevSecOps Automation Should (and Will) Change Your DevOps Security Practices in 2025

Apr 2, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
Learn how to use automation to combat this year's emerging DevSecOps trends. The dream of DevSecOps has always been resilience. To focus on proactive strategies rather than reactive firefighting; to learn from failures and build something stronger and more flexible in their wake. DevSecOps adoption may have grown, but implementation remains uneven: Many teams struggle to align their security and development workflows into a cohesive system.
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canonical

How does MongoDB work?

Apr 2, 2025 By Michelle Anne Tabirao In Canonical
Data is essential for gaining a competitive advantage in business. It has the power to reveal new insights that offer opportunities for profit, efficiency, and operational scaling. This is why organizations of all sizes and industries are eager to leverage data for an edge in the marketplace. However, working with data can be challenging for many businesses due to various obstacles like database storage scalability, security, and compliance.
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canonical

The future of Kubernetes networking: Cilium and other CNIs with Canonical Kubernetes

Apr 2, 2025 By Benjamin Ryzman In Canonical
Choosing the right Container Network Interface (CNI) for Kubernetes is critical to achieving optimal performance, security, and scalability. With the launch of Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support) last month, Canonical decided to integrate Cilium as the default CNI in order to reflect our commitment to delivering a modern, security-maintained, high-performance Kubernetes experience.
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last9

When Should You Enable Trace-Level Logging?

Apr 2, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
There’s nothing like debugging a broken system at 2 AM, running on caffeine and frustration. When everything’s on fire, logs are your lifeline. That’s where trace-level logging comes in. Unlike standard logs, it captures the step-by-step execution of your code—think of it as the difference between a crime report and full CCTV footage. But more logs don’t always mean better debugging. Too much detail, and you’re drowning; too little, and you’re guessing.
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last9

Why Do You Need a Redis Monitor in Place?

Apr 2, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Redis Monitor is a simple yet powerful command-line tool that displays every command processed by a Redis server in real-time. It provides visibility into exactly what’s happening inside a Redis instance as it happens. Running a single command can uncover hidden performance issues: The output reveals thousands of unexpected HGETALL operations on a key that should be accessed infrequently. This exposes a Redis call inside a loop, causing unnecessary database strain.
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cloudsmith

Cloudsmith introduces EPSS Scoring in Enterprise Policy Management (EPM)

Apr 2, 2025 By Nigel Douglas In Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith’s Enterprise Policy Management (EPM) now supports the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), a data-driven metric designed to estimate the probability of a software vulnerability being exploited in the wild. Using EPM in Cloudsmith, you can now use a package’s EPSS score to inform your package workflows, including those around Package Promotion and Package Quarantine.
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Incident.io

Why clear success criteria are critical when evaluating incident management tools

Apr 2, 2025 By Tom Wentworth In Incident.io
Choosing the right incident management tool is more than feature matching. For site reliability engineers, it’s about providing your team with efficient workflows, clarity around roles during incidents, and integrations that match your operational realities, especially when things inevitably go wrong. We've helped hundreds of companies migrate from their existing tooling over to a modern incident management platform.
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gremlin

Ensuring your AI systems can scale to meet demand

Apr 1, 2025 By Andre Newman In Gremlin
The amount of traffic handled by AI systems can’t be overstated. Over half of all organizations in India, the UAE, Singapore, and China use AI, and traffic from generative AI sources jumped by 1,200% since July 2024. While demand for AI-powered workloads is steadily increasing overall, traffic to individual AI providers is much more unpredictable. User demand spikes and wanes unexpectedly, but like any service, users expect you to always be available and responsive.
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Infra Masters with Canonical

Apr 1, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
Whether you’re looking to migrate from proprietary solutions (like VMware), repatriate your workloads, or modernize your infrastructure with a cloud-native approach, Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions give you efficiency and choice. Join us for live stream where you will learn how we jointly partner with our customers to build infrastructure platforms that are transforming the industry.
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rancher

SUSE and RKE2 are introducing KubeSleep: Smart Kubernetes Scaling Based on Developer Inactivity

Apr 1, 2025 By Andreas Prins In Rancher
We’re excited to announce Kubesleep, a smart Kubernetes operator developed by SUSE that optimizes cluster efficiency and significantly reduces infrastructure costs. Kubesleep automatically scales workloads based on actual developer activity, intelligently detecting periods of inactivity and scaling down resources to save energy and expenses. Best of all, your clusters smoothly scale back up before developers even notice.
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cortex

When Readiness Really Matters: How Seasonal Spikes Become the Catalyst for Long-Term Discipline

Apr 1, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Every engineering leader knows the stress of an upcoming seasonal spike. Whether it’s tax season, open enrollment, or Black Friday, there’s always that moment where someone says, “Are we actually ready?” It’s usually followed by a scramble: auditing services, chasing down owners, updating spreadsheets, running perf tests, checking alerting thresholds, verifying infra configs—much of it manual, fragmented, and slightly different every time. It’s exhausting.
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rancher

Ending the IngressNightmare: How SUSE Secures Your Kubernetes Clusters from External and Internal Threats

Apr 1, 2025 By Jeroen van Erp In Rancher
In March 2025, Wiz researchers disclosed a set of critical vulnerabilities in the popular ingress-nginx controller for Kubernetes. Collectively referred to as IngressNightmare, these issues (CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514, and CVE-2025-1974) allow unauthenticated attackers to exploit the Ingress admission controller, potentially achieving remote code execution or escalating privileges in the cluster.
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spike

PagerDuty Pricing Breakdown 2025 (And How To Save 85%)

Apr 1, 2025 By Sreekar In Spike
This in-depth analysis examines PagerDuty’s pricing structure for 2025, going far beyond the advertised rates to uncover the true total cost of ownership. We break down the additional fees, essential add-ons, implementation timelines, and ongoing maintenance costs that most organizations discover only after committing.
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Cycle

Back to the Metal

Apr 1, 2025 By Chris Aubuchon In Cycle
Bare metal is BACK! For years virtualization has absolutely dominated the cloud market. The market for virtualization is still 10x larger than bare metal ($8B USD vs$100B USD). But now consumers are demanding MORE for their workloads. … and the signal from the data suggest that this trend isn't going away anytime soon. If we look a bit deeper, we might see another story enabling the avalanche of (re) adoption in bare metal.
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spike

OpsGenie Shutdown: What You Need to Know and Your Next Steps

Apr 1, 2025 By Sreekar In Spike
Atlassian recently dropped a bombshell: OpsGenie is shutting down. If you’re an OpsGenie user, this news probably hit hard. After investing time setting up your alerts, configuring oncall schedules, and training your team on OpsGenie, you’re now faced with finding and migrating to a new incident management solution. We understand the frustration and uncertainty you’re feeling right now. The reactions on Hacker News show you’re not alone in this challenge: Take a deep breath.
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CircleCI deploys: Enterprise-scale deployment automation with zero downtime

Apr 1, 2025 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Discover how CircleCI enables enterprises to safely manage thousands of daily deployments at scale. In this short demo, we showcase: Learn how CircleCI Deploys eliminates manual intervention while ensuring production stability. Perfect for DevOps teams looking to automate deployment workflows and implement progressive delivery strategies in enterprise environments.
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Incident.io

Introducing Agentic CTO: executive oversight in every incident

Apr 1, 2025 By Chris Evans In Incident.io
At incident.io, we've always focused on empowering your team to manage incidents calmly, confidently, and effectively. Today, we’re introducing a powerful new addition to our suite of AI incident responders — one designed to bring a new layer of strategic oversight to your engineering organization: Agentic CTO.
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resolve

Empowering IT Ops with Low-Code Automation: Simplify, Scale, Succeed

Apr 1, 2025 By Ari Stowe In Resolve
A common misconception surrounding IT automation is that it always requires in-depth technical expertise. That certainly helps, but it’s by no means a requirement anymore. There are a few developments powering this shift, but the advent of low-code automation tools is one of the most important.
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last9

9 Best Container Monitoring Tools You Should Know in 2025

Apr 1, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In a world where containers power everything from startup MVPs to enterprise applications, keeping tabs on your containerized environment isn't just good practice—it's survival. Container environments are notoriously dynamic and ephemeral, creating unique monitoring challenges that traditional tools simply can't handle. We've sorted through the noise to bring you the nine tools that deliver.
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cloudzero

Drinking Our Own Champagne: How CloudZero Saved $470,000 With More Performant Infrastructure

Apr 1, 2025 By Phil Pergola In CloudZero
At CloudZero, we drink deeply of our own champagne. We consider ourselves customer zero, and use our product to its maximum potential, to reduce wasteful spending and improve our unit economics. We even use our software to drive meaningful board discussions (with help from a slide template you can download here).
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Migrating and Optimizing Data Pipelines from Snowflake to Azure Databricks

Apr 1, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
This episode features a discussion between Lex and Henry Clavo, focusing on data migration and automation processes, particularly involving Snowflake and Azure Databricks. Henry shares his background in data analytics and consulting, detailing his experience with large-scale data migrations and the challenges faced in the industry. Timestamps.
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Teneo

Don't Let Agentic AI Become the Next Windows Paperclip

Apr 1, 2025 By Teneo In Teneo
Microsoft’s recent trials of Co-Pilot Vision are paving the way for Agentic AI, a proactive and context-aware assistant that can enhance productivity by intelligently responding to user needs. By having visibility into what you’re working on, such AI can anticipate tasks, offer relevant suggestions, and reduce the friction of daily workflows. However, history has shown us that AI assistance, if not executed correctly, can become more of a nuisance than an asset.
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circleci

Benchmarking Kotlin Coroutines performance with CircleCI

Apr 1, 2025 By Hangga Aji Sayekti In CircleCI
A benchmark can be interpreted as a standard of comparison used to assess something. In everyday life, for example, when we want to buy a new cellphone and want to know which one is faster, we can see the speed test (benchmark) by measuring how fast the cellphone opens applications or runs games. From there, we can compare which cellphone is better based on the numbers produced.
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