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Kubernetes can bring a wide collection of advantages to a development organization. Properly leveraging Kubernetes can greatly improve productivity, empower you to better utilize your cloud spend, improve application stability and reliability, and more. On the flip side, if you are not properly leveraging Kubernetes, your would-be benefits become drawbacks. As a developer, this can become especially frustrating when you are focused on delivering quality code, fast.

You’ve heard that old Chinese proverb that says a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. It’s sound advice … except if the journey you’re talking about is the one from the data center to the cloud. With cloud deployment at the center of virtually any digital transformation effort, the journey itself can have a profound impact on the successful outcomes you seek at the destination. So you have to get it right. But what does that actually mean?

Your application’s health depends on the performance of its underlying infrastructure. Unexpectedly heavy processes can deprive your services of the resources they need to run reliably and efficiently, and prevent other workloads from executing. If one of your applications is triggering a high CPU or RSS memory utilization alert, the issue has likely occurred before.