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Lift-and-Shift Cloud Migrations: The Good, the Bad, and How To Avoid the Ugly

There are many paths to the cloud, and the one you choose depends on your particular digital transformation requirements and resources. About a decade ago, Gartner cleverly developed an alliterative nomenclature to describe five different migration strategies: the five Rs. That list has evolved over time and there a lot of 5-, 6-, and 7-strategy variations out there.

From lightweight to featherweight: MicroK8s memory optimisation

If you’re a developer, a DevOps engineer or just a person fascinated by the unprecedented growth of Kubernetes, you’ve probably scratched your head about how to get started. MicroK8s is the simplest way to do so. Canonical’s lightweight Kubernetes distribution started back in 2018 as a quick and simple way for people to consume K8s services and essential tools.

InfluxData releases InfluxDB Notebooks to enhance collaboration for teams working with time series data

SAN FRANCISCO — April 14, 2021 — InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database InfluxDB, today announced the general availability of InfluxDB Notebooks, a new capability that improves communication for software development teams, ultimately enhancing productivity within InfluxDB Cloud. InfluxDB Notebooks is the first of the company’s new capabilities designed to make it easier for developers to collaborate around time series data within the platform.

ServiceNow and Oracle Cloud Integrate for Cloud Optimization

Over the past year, companies have flocked to digital transformation more than ever to protect revenue, maintain business continuity, and pursue productivity in today’s distributed work environment. Having an effective cloud strategy is a key component to any company’s digital transformation journey. To build the best cloud strategy, IT departments need one data model and cross-enterprise integration system.

Rancher: Kubernetes Master Class: Installing RKE2 On an Air-gapped Network

Installing, securing and maintaining Kubernetes on an air-gapped network is no trivial task. We will endeavor to solve this problem with a new distribution from Rancher specifically designed to address this scenario. RKE2 aka RKE Government is a FIPS 140-2 certified, CIS hardened version of Kubernetes that blends the best of K3S with RKE resulting in lightweight, easy to install, secure-by-default distribution. You'll get hands-on with RKE2 and see why it is the distro of choice for Federal customers.

Catchpoint: SRE from Anywhere

It's been a whole century year since we hosted SRE from Home! While many of us may still be working from home, we're bringing the SRE community event back to explore how the year that changed everything is making us more resilient and how we're building the future. SRE from Anywhere is our follow-up event from SRE from Home. This annual Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) community event focuses on what it means to be an SRE.

Ten Ways to Improve WordPress Page Speed

Page Speed is a pretty big deal these days. As of May 2021, Google will start combining Core Web Vitals (how Google measures page speed) with other UX-related signals to rank your page. In other words, Page Speed impacts your SEO. Since Google changed Googlebot's algorithm to highly favour fast, mobile-friendly websites, it has become more important to have a fast website.