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Welcome to the concluding blog of this mini-series on tapping into the fourth industrial revolution. In Part I, we introduced and assessed the current status in the IT and OT domains. In Part II, we discussed the automation pyramid of modern factories and the need to adopt a more holistic approach toward closing the divide.

Kubernetes (K8s) packs a ton of benefits as a container orchestration platform. For instance, K8s is big on automation. This includes automating workload discovery, self-healing, and scaling containerized applications. Yet, Kubernetes isn't always production-ready after a few tweaks. This guide shares crucial Kubernetes best practices you'll want to start using immediately to improve your K8s security, performance, and costs. Let’s get to it!

Are you looking to build a Gatsby website with markdown? This post will take you through the Gatsby development process, from creating the project to deploying it in production on AWS. We will talk about the benefits of using Gatsby and show how to set up markdown, configure Gatsby, and build an article for your demo website.

In the fast-growing Azure space, it is essential to scale your business as Azure scales up. Azure is cost efficient by providing a pay-as-you-go model, but it is still necessary for enterprise users to undergo a Cost Analysis to keep their budget at stack. Let us consider a scenario, you’re a manager in your organization, and your team has been using Azure for the last several months. It has created multiple resources that cost money.

The health management APIs in Netdata allows teams to eliminate unnecessary alerting during scheduled maintenance, testing, auto scaling events, and instance reboots. For all SREs, it is absolutely crucial to filter out expected events during maintenance windows and quickly pinpoint critical issues in your infrastructure. Every minute is crucial while dealing with troubleshooting issues and any distractions that may hijack the troubleshooting process should be subdued.

Kubecon 2022 just concluded with plenty of exciting announcements, including our new open-source project, Helm-Dashboard, but we’ve got some more news to share on top of that.

If you’re embarking on a new project and evaluating public clouds, the cost involved will be one of your main considerations. You might decide to use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as your primary cloud platform. If so, you’ll want to estimate costs based on listed prices. But it might surprise you to find a higher bill than you originally expected.

I was recently joined for a live webinar by Tony Maddonna (Microsoft Platform Lead, Enterprise Architect & Operations Manager at BMW) and Hamish Watson (DevOps Alchemist at Morph iT) to discuss their experiences with digital transformation and the impact it had on them, their teams and the wider organization.