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Testing the mettle: All you need to know about evaluating data solutions for large-scale applications

Imagine your organization encounters a project where you have to switch storage vendors... What would you do? To begin with, you will need to evaluate and test the performance of the storage providers on your servers. At Civo, we faced a similar project, allowing us to test several storage providers on our bare metal servers. In this article, we will discuss what you should look for while migrating to a different provider and the ways you can test these providers.

How Sleuth measures Change Lead Time

Change Lead Time can be considered the most insightful of the four DORA metrics. But how do you measure it most accurately? In this video, Don Brown shows you how Sleuth measures Change Lead Time for code changes and how Sleuth breaks down that time into multiple buckets for the most detailed insight on what's slowing your team down. Check out these videos on how Sleuth measures other DORA metrics.

How Sleuth measures Change Failure Rate

Before you can measure the DORA metric for Change Failure Rate, you need to define what failure means. In this video, Sleuth's CTO Don Brown explains how Sleuth defines and measures Change Failure Rate, and how it ties failure back to deployments. Check out these videos on how Sleuth measures other DORA metrics: Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

How Sleuth measures Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)

The DORA metric Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) tracks how long on average your failure spans are. In this video, Sleuth CTO Don Brown explains how Sleuth calculates this measurement, which gives you insight on how quickly your team can respond to and recover from failure. Check out these videos on how Sleuth measures other DORA metrics: Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

Why a big bang approach is the wrong cloud strategy

Despite all the hype from the big cloud providers the truth is that most organisations rely on hybrid infrastructures now and will do so for the foreseeable future. Typically, this includes on-premises infrastructure and at least two public cloud providers. This is not a step on a journey to being 100 per cent cloud, it is the strategic destination many have chosen.

Migrating from VMware to an open-source private cloud in financial services

This is part one of a two part blog series on open source based private cloud for financial services. This blog describes the need for a cost-effective private cloud to execute a successful hybrid cloud strategy. It also shares a comparison between proprietary and open source based private cloud platforms.

3 Must-Use Strategies To Make Better SaaS Pricing Decisions

You work hard to deliver a great product to your target market. Yet, when it’s time to price your worth, it’s challenging to set a fair pricing strategy, model, or amount. This anxiety is understandable. If you charge too much, you could lose potential and existing customers. If you are a start-up, this bad first impression can be detrimental to your growth. For larger businesses, some customers may feel you are losing touch and switch to newer or veteran competitors.