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GitKraken's DevEx Advance Partner Program Boosts Developer Productivity

Most companies prioritize developer productivity, yet inefficiencies continue to cost dev teams valuable time. In fact, Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience report reveals that nearly 70% of developers lose more than eight hours a week to workflow friction. Atlassian Solution Partners are uniquely positioned to address this challenge, and GitKraken’s new DevEx Advance Partner Program is designed to help them do exactly that.

What's new & what's coming to Bitbucket Cloud

As part of our strategy to build for scale, security, and performance, Bitbucket Cloud is continuing to deliver features that help enterprise teams operate at scale to build world-class software. We've made a lot of progress this year with new features across code review and CI/CD. We've added AI functionality, added features to help you scale your CI/CD workflows, and integrated with Forge, our cloud app development platform, to help you build customizations into Bitbucket to meet your specific needs.

Platform Engineering Roundtable: Building the Future of Digital Transformation

The industry is still asking more questions than its answering around #DevEx, Platform Engineering, and even (still!) #DevOps! Hear from Cortex's very own Head of Developer Relations, Justin Reock, get together and talk with other interested minds helps move us more collectively to answers and solutions that can improve the flow, productivity, and ultimately joy of our workforce! Full description.

Introducing Kosli's Logical Environments: Gain total visibility and control over complex systems

In today’s fast-paced development landscape, environments are no longer simple or isolated. You’re managing resources that span across development stages, geographies, and technologies. And as those environments grow more complex, so does the need for a more logical and efficient way to manage them.

The CIO Pocket Guide to Internal Developer Portals

As a CIO or IT leader, the need for speed and efficiency is always in tension with governance and compliance requirements. Sounds all too familiar – the frustration of slow incident resolution, outdated ownership records and resistance from engineering teams. You’ve sunk significant time and effort into implementing your ITSM platforms (such as ServiceNow), yet you struggle with buy-in and adoption from engineering teams. They can’t afford to be throttled any further.

Azure Cost Assessment

FinOps-certified practitioner Michael Stephenson introduces the cost assessment survey. He walks through the survey, explaining its importance and the types of questions it includes. The survey covers topics such as the frequency of cloud cost reviews, who is responsible for cost monitoring, methods for tracking spending, and much more! He also emphasizes the need for proactive cost management and highlights common practices like shutting down unused resources and right-sizing. The goal is to help organizations manage and optimize their cloud costs more effectively.

Boosting Kubernetes Developer Productivity: Top Tools and Strategies for Efficient Development

Developer productivity is not just about writing code faster—it’s about creating efficient, self-service environments that minimize friction and reduce the time from development to deployment. In the context of Kubernetes clusters, enhancing productivity means leveraging the right tools and workflows to streamline development, reduce errors, and speed up feature releases. This guide explores the key strategies and tools that can significantly boost productivity in Kubernetes environments.

Overcoming Challenges in Microsoft Integration Technologies: Expert insights

In this episode of the series "INTEGRATE expert voices—Unplugged" by Azure on Air, Andrew Rivers discusses the challenges that customers often face when getting started with integration technologies, such as understanding the various components and how they fit together, categorizing applications in terms of business criticality, and determining the appropriate infrastructure to support them. Links.

Best DevOps Automation Tools: Comprehensive Guide 2024

We all understand the significance of DevOps, defined here as the set of practices and processes that integrate software development and operations. By bridging the gap between traditionally siloed teams, DevOps accelerates software delivery processes, ensuring faster time-to-market for new features and updates. As you would expect at the intersection of software and operations, automation plays a central role.

What's new with Oracle Cloud for 2024

As we approach Oracle CloudWorld - a three-day event focused on cloud innovation, automation, and AI, where attendees can learn and network - we take a look at the innovation and growth Oracle Cloud has embarked on this year. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has experienced notable growth in fiscal year 2024. According to Oracle’s Q4 results, Cloud Revenue (IaaS plus SaaS) reached $5.3 billion, marking a 20% increase in both USD and constant currency.