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February 2025

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speedscale

What Is Shadow Traffic? All You Need to Know

Feb 18, 2025 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
Production traffic can often be unpredictable, and distinguishing genuine user interactions from mere noise becomes a pivotal step in comprehensively grasping the types of requests and workflows occurring within your deployment. One important concept to explore in this context is shadow traffic, which plays a significant role in analytics and cybersecurity but is often misunderstood or rarely discussed.
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jfrog

Introducing Support for Hex Packages

Feb 18, 2025 By Brian Chang In JFrog
JFrog has always prioritized universality, ensuring software development teams have true freedom of choice. Core to the JFrog Platform, JFrog Artifactory is the world’s most versatile artifact manager, natively supporting nearly 40 package types. After taking in valuable feedback from the developer community, we’re thrilled to discuss how we’re further expanding our universe with the support of Hex packages.
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virtana

Self-Healing Infrastructure: Start Your Journey Now

Feb 18, 2025 By Meeta Lalwani In Virtana
Every CIO’s ultimate goal is to create a self-healing enterprise. Self-healing IT systems have the ability to proactively prevent issues within the IT environment, ensuring seamless and uninterrupted services that support business continuity. While automating every possible task seems like an obvious solution, implementing changes in a production environment can be challenging.
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resolve

Network Configuration and Change Management: Seven Best Practices for 2025 & Beyond

Feb 18, 2025 By Derek Pascarella In Resolve
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, networks are more complex than ever. With the expansion of multi-cloud environments, 5G rollouts, IoT adoption, and ever-evolving security threats, IT teams are under immense pressure to keep networks running smoothly while ensuring compliance and minimizing downtime. This is where Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM) comes in to play.
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Teneo

AI & Gartner's Strategic Roadmap Timeline for Cybersecurity - A Perspective from Teneo

Feb 18, 2025 By Teneo In Teneo
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) presents both unprecedented opportunities and emerging threats. Gartner’s Strategic Roadmap for Cybersecurity Leadership emphasizes the need for adaptive strategies that align with business objectives and technological advancements. Concurrently, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has highlighted the dual-edged nature of AI in its report on the impact of AI on cyber threats.
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last9

Helm vs Terraform: A Detailed Comparison for Developers

Feb 18, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When managing infrastructure and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment, two popular tools that developers often compare are Helm and Terraform. While both are used to automate deployments, they serve different purposes and operate in distinct ways. Understanding the differences can help you make the right choice for your use case.
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last9

A Quick Guide for OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation

Feb 18, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
OpenTelemetry is an open-source tool that helps you keep an eye on your application’s performance. Whether you’re building microservices, using serverless setups, or working with a traditional monolithic app, it’s crucial to monitor and trace your app’s behavior for debugging and optimization. OpenTelemetry's Python instrumentation is an excellent way to track traces, metrics, and logs across your entire app.
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last9

Tomcat Logs: Locations, Types, Configuration, and Best Practices

Feb 18, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Apache Tomcat logs are essential for monitoring, debugging, and maintaining Java applications running on Tomcat. These logs capture critical information such as server startup details, request handling, and application errors. They help developers and system administrators troubleshoot issues, analyze traffic, and ensure application stability. Tomcat generates multiple logs, each serving a distinct purpose.
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metricfire

Easiest Way to Monitor NGINX Performance with OpenTelemetry

Feb 18, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
If you're looking for a straightforward way to collect NGINX metrics via OpenTelemetry and send them to your Graphite-based monitoring setup, this article is for you! With minimal configuration you’ll be collecting key metrics from your NGINX connections within minutes. In this article, we'll explain how to install the OpenTelemetry Collector, and easily configure it to receive and export NGINX metrics to a Hosted Carbon endpoint.
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opsmatters

Affordable Bare Metal Servers From Vikhost: The Perfect Solution For Your Hosting Needs

Feb 18, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, finding the right hosting solution is essential for businesses and developers who need reliable, high-performance infrastructure. If you're looking for a hosting provider that offers affordable and powerful servers, Vikhost is here to provide the perfect solution with their Ukraine dedicated server.
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opsmatters

Maximize Uptime and Performance with Advanced Cloud Management

Feb 18, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's fast-paced digital era, ensuring maximum uptime is essential for business continuity and customer satisfaction. Organizations face constant pressure to maintain reliable IT operations while managing increasingly complex digital infrastructures. Downtime can lead to lost revenue, diminished customer trust, and operational inefficiencies. To combat these challenges, advanced cloud management strategies have emerged as a vital solution for optimizing performance and ensuring seamless service delivery.
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last9

What is DynamoDB Throttling and How to Fix It

Feb 17, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When you're working with DynamoDB, one of the most critical things you need to keep an eye on is throttling. If you're not careful, throttling can severely impact your database's performance. It’s not just about slower response times—throttling can lead to system failures or unexpected downtime if not addressed properly.
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last9

An Easy Guide to OpenFeature Flagging

Feb 17, 2025 By Ujjwal Goyal In Last9
In software development, feature flags have become an essential tool for teams looking to deploy code with more control and agility. OpenFeature flagging, in particular, stands out as an open-source standard that’s revolutionizing how teams manage feature rollouts, experiments, and toggling. In this guide, we’ll understand what OpenFeature flagging is, its key benefits, how to implement it, and best practices to help you get the most out of it.
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canonical

How Ubuntu Pro + Support keeps your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS secure and stable

Feb 17, 2025 By Lidia Luna Puerta In Canonical
Whether you plan to continue running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or upgrade to the latest LTS, keeping your infrastructure secure and stable is a top priority. Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) provides essential security updates to protect your systems from vulnerabilities, ensuring you stay compliant and up to date against the latest threats.
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canonical

7 considerations when building your ML architecture

Feb 17, 2025 By Andreea Munteanu In Canonical
As the number of organizations moving their ML projects to production is growing, the need to build reliable, scalable architecture has become a more pressing concern. According to BCG (Boston Consulting Group), only 6% of organizations are investing in upskilling their workforce in AI skills. For any organization seeking to reach AI maturity, this skills gap is likely to cause disruption.
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cloudzero

Maximizing Azure Savings Plans: Strategies, Best Practices, And Cost Optimization

Feb 17, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
When Azure Savings Plans for Compute were introduced in late 2022, many assumed they were designed to replace Azure Reservations (Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances). But that’s not the case — and it still isn’t. Instead, Azure Savings Plans and Reservations can work hand in hand and complement your other Azure cost optimization strategies. That said, maximizing the benefits of each option isn’t always straightforward.
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spot

The FinOps guide to DevOps | Part 1: Cloud infrastructure concepts

Feb 17, 2025 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
The rise of cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage applications. This led to the emergence of DevOps and FinOps as critical disciplines within modern IT environments. DevOps aims to streamline the development lifecycle and enable continuous, high-quality code delivery. To support that, DevOps engineers often own the cloud infrastructure – where cloud costs are generated.
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jfrog

Building Cloud Excellence: How JFrog Supports the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Feb 15, 2025 By Nitin Khanna In JFrog
In today’s hybrid infrastructure landscape, migrating applications to the cloud unlocks significant financial and technological benefits. Whether internal or external, these applications require robust, efficient infrastructure. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer frameworks to help organizations build better systems.
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last9

Understanding Syslog Formats: A Quick and Easy Guide

Feb 14, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Syslog is the backbone of logging in many Linux and Unix-based systems, playing a crucial role in monitoring, debugging, and auditing. But not all syslog messages are created equal. Depending on your system, software, and logging configuration, syslog messages may follow different formats. This guide walks you through the different syslog formats, why they matter, and how to work with them effectively.
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last9

Log Retention: Policies, Best Practices & Tools (With Examples)

Feb 14, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Logs are the backbone of debugging, security, compliance, and performance monitoring. But if you don’t manage retention properly, you’ll either drown in unnecessary data or lose critical insights too soon. Log retention is all about striking a balance between keeping what’s necessary and discarding what’s not.
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last9

High Cardinality Explained: The Basics Without the Jargon

Feb 14, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Cardinality refers to the number of unique values in a dataset column. A column with many distinct values—like a user ID or timestamp—has high cardinality, while a column with limited distinct values—like a boolean flag (true/false) or a category with a few possible options—has low cardinality. For example, consider a database of an e-commerce platform.
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InvGate

Top Picks: 8 Software Deployment Tools For 2025

Feb 14, 2025 By Natalí Valle In InvGate
Software deployment isn’t always as simple as it sounds. Keeping applications up to date, avoiding disruptions, and managing deployments efficiently requires the right approach. Some tools automate the process, making frequent releases easier, while others focus on security, compliance, and stability across different environments. The best software deployment tool depends on how you work.
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GitKraken Desktop: Visualize Git, Simplify Version Control

Feb 14, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Explore the future of version control with GitKraken Desktop on Windows, Linux, and Mac! Embrace a clear, user-friendly interface that simplifies Git and enhances developer collaboration. With intuitive features like the Commit Graph and Focus View, tracking changes and managing pull requests has never been easier.
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cortex

Guide: Assessing the ROI of an Internal Developer Portal (IDP)

Feb 14, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
When considering or advocating for an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) within your organization, assessing potential impact is an exciting, but sometimes challenging endeavor, especially considering the broad set of use cases IDPs support and the lack of context and visibility before the presence of an IDP. Maybe you understand the inherent value of an IDP, but need to quantify the estimated savings/impact to justify the spend.
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redgate

Redgate's new PostgreSQL book is now available for free download

Feb 14, 2025 By Fergus Reed In Redgate
Redgate's new book, 'Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional', is now available for free download. Hear from authors Ryan Booz & Grant Fritchey about their inspiration for the book and the challenges they faced along the way. While the documentation around PostgreSQL is detailed and technically rich, finding a simple, clear path to learning what it is, what it does, and how to use it can be challenging.
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metricfire

Logging vs. Metrics

Feb 14, 2025 By Lauren Barnes In MetricFire
When discussing observability, the “big 3” - logs, metrics, and traces, come to mind. But for some, the less they have to implement, the better. Our lead engineer, JJ, had some advice to share about how logs may not be necessary for everyone. Simplifying your stack isn’t difficult - you just need to be intentional with implementation. Check out more MetricFire blog posts below, and our hosted Graphite service! Get a free trial and start using MetricFire now!
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cloudzero

Top Cloud Deployment Tools And How To Choose The Right One

Feb 14, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
For DevOps teams, ideal cloud deployment tools mean automation, consistency, and operational reliability. For CTOs, they ensure faster time to market, scalability, and efficiency. And for CFOs, cost-effectiveness and healthy margins are the name of the game. This is our hand-picked list to help you choose the right cloud deployment tools for your organization’s specific needs.
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The biggest mistake by Devtool founders

Feb 14, 2025 By Zenduty In Zenduty
Key advice from Ramiro (CEO & Founder Okteto): Don't get attached to your solution - get attached to the problem you're solving! Watch how this mindset helped build a successful Kubernetes developer experience tool.#StartupAdvice#Observability Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast, which is made by SREs for SREs and hosted by Zenduty. Zenduty is a revolutionary incident management platform that gives you greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.
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manageengine

How to use APM data to improve your CI/CD pipeline performance

Feb 13, 2025 By Site24x7 In ManageEngine
Agile production has become the norm for software development cycles. The backbone for such a fast-paced landscape is the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. But merely depending on the CI/CD pipeline isn’t enough, even though the automated workflows give you a competitive edge. The pipeline needs to be optimized to function at its best. This is where monitoring your applications within the pipeline can be a game-changer.
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devart

SecureBridge 10.7 Now Available: Stronger Security and Optimized Performance

Feb 13, 2025 By DAC Team In Devart
We are excited to introduce a new version of SecureBridge 10.7 – a suite of client and server components for SSH, SFTP, FTPS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL, WebSocket, and SignalR protocols – packed with enhanced security, optimized performance, and extended functionality for secure data transmission.
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cloudzero

The 28 Best Cloud Cost Management Tools In 2025

Feb 13, 2025 By Natalie Jones In CloudZero
Managing and knowing where your cloud spend goes is nearly impossible without the right cloud cost management tools. Cloud-native, distributed technologies like microservices, containers, and Kubernetes can make it even more difficult to have full visibility into resource usage — and the associated costs. This cost information is also often buried in rows and columns of text on cloud providers’ bills. In addition, a lot of cloud cost management tools are clunky and inexact.
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site24x7

Simplifying Kubernetes architecture for DevOps

Feb 13, 2025 By Kirubanandan RA In Site24x7
Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for managing containerized applications, but its architecture can seem complex to DevOps teams. Let’s break it down into simple terms and explore how tools like Site24x7 can simplify the process of designing and monitoring Kubernetes architecture.
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last9

Types of Pods in Kubernetes: An In-depth Guide

Feb 13, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When working with Kubernetes, pods are the fundamental building blocks of deployment. But not all pods are created equal. Understanding the different types of pods and their use cases is crucial for optimizing workloads, ensuring reliability, and maintaining efficiency in your cluster. Let's break it all down.
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last9

Telemetry Data Platform: Everything You Need to Know

Feb 13, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
As systems grow more distributed and complex, having a reliable way to monitor and understand what's happening across your infrastructure becomes essential. Telemetry data provides the visibility needed to keep everything running smoothly, whether you're managing microservices, cloud environments, or sophisticated AI systems. In this guide, we’ll break down what a telemetry data platform is, why it’s so important, and how you can choose the right one to meet your needs.
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jfrog

JFrog's Release Lifecycle Promotion vs. Build Promotion

Feb 13, 2025 By Irena Guy In JFrog
We here at JFrog have long advocated for promoting – never rebuilding – release candidates as they advance across the stages of your SDLC. For many JFrog customers, that meant using JFrog’s “Build Promotion” capabilities. Now you can level up your CI/CD game with promotions using Release Lifecycle Management (RLM)! In this article we’ll show you why promotions with RLM are more simple, secure, and scalable than our legacy build promotion API.
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megaport

Building Production-Ready AI Infrastructure: How Megaport and Vultr Are Solving the Enterprise Challenge

Feb 13, 2025 By Kevin Dresser In Megaport
In bridging traditional enterprise environments with modern GPU resources, we're helping organizations build AI infrastructure that's truly ready for production workloads. Co-authored by Duncan Ng, Vice President Solutions Engineering, Vultr As enterprises move from AI experimentation to production deployment, most are realizing a fundamental truth: Successful AI adoption requires more than just access to GPU computing power.
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Sunbird

3 Companies That Repatriated Workloads from the Cloud and Their Results

Feb 13, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
In recent years, many businesses have begun a process known as cloud repatriation. Cloud repatriation is when companies migrate their applications, data, and workloads from the public cloud to on-premises infrastructure. According to IDC, 70-80% of companies are repatriating at least some of their data each year.
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resolve

Resolve Demo Express: From Alerts to AI

Feb 13, 2025 By Derek Pascarella In Resolve
The phrase “demo express” is no accident or exaggeration, because when it comes to IT process automation, it’s all aboard. Organizations across every vertical contend with a wide variety of IT challenges, such as: costly downtime, large ticket volumes, or a disjointed digital environment made up of many different apps and devices. The challenge is immense, and so too is the business success potential for teams that can harness process automation.
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GitKraken Workshop: Conquer Git Complexities With the New GitKraken CLI

Feb 13, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken
GitKraken is creating a reimagined CLI experience. Our goal? Conquer Git complexities by reducing repetitive repo management tasks. In this session, GitKraken Senior Cloud Architect, Louis Sivillo, will showcase how the CLI will create and manage repositories as a cohesive unit, execute cross-repository operations with a single command, and dramatically reduce context switching and manual overhead. We'll also dive into the future of the CLI and what we're building next to improve your workflows.
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metricfire

Scraping NGINX Metrics with OpenTelemetry & Exporting to Carbon

Feb 13, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Looking for a straightforward way to collect NGINX metrics with OpenTelemetry and send them to your Graphite-based monitoring setup? Unlike Prometheus, which requires configuring scrape jobs and query language nuances, Carbon/Graphite offers a simpler setup with minimal overhead—just send metrics as plain text and query them easily with familiar tools like Grafana. Whether you're setting up dashboards, alerts, or just keeping an eye on traffic, this guide will get you actionable insights in no time!
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How to find and test critical dependencies with Gremlin

Feb 13, 2025 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Pop quiz - what are all of the dependencies your services rely on? If you’re like most engineers, you probably struggled to come up with the answer. Modern applications are complex and rely on dozens (if not hundreds) of dependencies. Many teams rely on spreadsheets, but manual processes like these break down over time. What if you had a tool that found and tracked dependencies for you?
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hyperview

Energy Regulations Are Rising: Stay Ahead with Modern DCIM

Feb 13, 2025 By Rajan Sodhi In Hyperview
Across regions, the regulatory landscape is shifting dramatically: These regulations signal a new era where energy waste is no longer just an economic concern but a compliance risk. Failure to adhere can result in hefty penalties, restricted operations, and reputational damage.
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circleci

A comprehensive guide to container security

Feb 13, 2025 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
So much of our modern software runs on containers. Containerized applications offer great flexibility for developers, but they also come with security risks. Container security is a holistic approach to managing risk in containerized environments. Securing containers requires a broad approach incorporating different tools and policies that enforce security in the software supply chain, infrastructure, container runtime environments, and other potential container attack surfaces.
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metricfire

Server Monitoring with Graphite

Feb 12, 2025 By Elliot Langston In MetricFire
Server monitoring is crucial to learn these days to use your servers efficiently. It helps optimize the performance of a server and diagnose issues productively. One useful tool used these days is Graphite, which helps monitor a server’s performance and provides graphing solutions by gaining valuable insights into your server. You can explore MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite service today by signing up for a free trial or booking a demo session.
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New Announcements at swampUP 2024

Feb 12, 2025 By JFrog In JFrog
JFrog's VP of Product Marketing, Jens, discusses how the company is positioned at the crossroads of traditional and AI-driven software development. Learn how JFrog's platform acts as the crucial system of record, converging multiple code sources into a unified pipeline through strategic moves like the GitHub partnership and key acquisitions. Hear Jens' insights on JFrog's role in shaping the future of software delivery.
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canonical

AI in 2025: is it an agentic year?

Feb 12, 2025 By Andreea Munteanu In Canonical
2024 was the GenAI year. With new and more performant LLMs and a higher number of projects rolled out to production, adoption of GenAI doubled compared to the previous year (source: Gartner). In the same report, organizations answered that they are using AI in more than one part of their business, with 65% of respondents mentioning they use GenAI in one function.
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cloudzero

Understanding AWS SNS Pricing: Features, Benefits, And Cost-Saving Strategies

Feb 12, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
A reliable notifications system can send highly scalable, multi-protocol messages — via email, SMS, or apps — all from one platform. For example, you can send timely cost anomaly alerts directly to your developers on Slack to alert them to potential overspending before it becomes a board meeting emergency. So, what does this have to do with Amazon SNS pricing? Let’s start at the beginning to better understand what you’re paying for when you get that AWS SNS bill.
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zenduty

Incident Severity Levels: A Complete Technical Guide

Feb 12, 2025 By Rohan Taneja In Zenduty
Incidents are inevitable but how you react to them can make all the difference. Not all incidents are created equal but the main challenge that many SRE teams face is to find a way to react to the incidents properly. When an incident occurs, the major question you need to answer is "how severe is it?" We use incident severity levels that help determine the severity based on some predefined guidelines.
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last9

How to Filter Docker Logs with Grep

Feb 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Managing logs in Docker can quickly become overwhelming, especially when dealing with multiple containers. If you’ve ever tried to sift through a sea of log entries looking for a specific error or debugging message, you know the struggle. Fortunately, you can pipe docker logs output through grep to filter logs efficiently. This guide breaks down how to use docker logs grep it effectively, including practical examples to help you debug and monitor your containerized applications like a pro.
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last9

Ubuntu System Logs: How to Find and Use Them

Feb 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
System logs play a crucial role in debugging and monitoring in Ubuntu. When a service misbehaves or an unexpected crash happens, logs hold the answers. They’re also great for keeping an eye on system performance. Knowing how to access, read, and manage these logs can save you hours of troubleshooting. This guide covers everything you need to know about Ubuntu system logs—from where they’re stored to how to analyze them efficiently.
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cortex

Engineering Excellence vs. Developer Experience, and Why You Need Both to Thrive

Feb 12, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
The terms engineering excellence and developer experience are often used in ways that make them seem interchangeable. While these concepts do overlap, it’s important to understand that developer experience (DX) is just one subset of engineering excellence, not a one-to-one match. Below, we define engineering excellence, clarify what developer experience entails, and explore how improving developer experience supports—but does not replace—the broader objectives of engineering excellence.
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spot

The optimization imperative: Sustainably scale K8s in your IDP

Feb 12, 2025 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
It’s considered common practice for platform engineering teams to build their IDP to be a self-service product for developers. This means, among other things, building a dedicated team around it for upkeep and support, creating a roadmap for development, and coming up with metrics they can use to determine its success.
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tidal

From Vision to Value: Unlock Cloud Savings with Tidal Accelerator

Feb 12, 2025 By Amber Weaver In Tidal
1 year later… Technology leaders face a critical challenge that keeps them up at night: transforming their digital infrastructure without burning through budgets or risking operational disruption. In today’s hyper competitive business landscape, cloud migration isn’t just a technical upgrade, it’s a strategic imperative that can make or break an organization’s future. That’s where experience matters.
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squadcast

Essential Incident Management Tools for IT Teams: 2025 Comparison Guide

Feb 11, 2025 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast
In the ever-evolving landscape of IT operations, the ability to respond swiftly and effectively to incidents is critical. This is where Incident Management Tools come into play, empowering IT teams to detect, respond to, and resolve issues before they escalate into significant business disruptions. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the top Incident Management Tools of 2025, comparing their features, strengths, and pricing to help you make an informed choice for your organization.
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cloudzero

AWS Service Comparison: ECS Vs. EC2 Vs. S3 Vs. Lambda

Feb 11, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 fully-featured services. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Lambda, and the AWS Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are some of the most critical services you should become familiar with. We’ve previously covered Amazon ECS vs. EKS vs. Fargate for managing and deploying containers. This guide will explain how Amazon EC2, Lambda, ECS, and S3 compare and when you’ll want to use each.
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vmware tanzu

What is AI Middleware, and Why You Need It to Safely Deliver AI Applications

Feb 11, 2025 By Camille Crowell-Lee In VMware Tanzu
When it comes to infusing artificial intelligence (AI) into enterprise applications, developers, platform engineers and data scientists are facing a tremendous opportunity. However, in Tanzu, we are also hearing about their struggles to get to production, not to mention achieving positive return on investment (ROI).
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last9

Distributed Tracing 101: Definition, Working and Implementation

Feb 11, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Modern applications rely on microservices, making it tough to track issues across services. Distributed tracing helps by mapping a request’s journey and pinpointing latency, failures, and dependencies. Unlike traditional monitoring, tracing connects the dots between services, offering deeper visibility. But implementing it isn’t easy—it brings high data volumes, performance overhead, and complexity.
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last9

AWS CSPM Explained: How to Secure Your Cloud the Right Way

Feb 11, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
As organizations expand their AWS footprint, maintaining visibility and control over configurations can be challenging. Misconfigurations, unnoticed vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps can create serious security risks. AWS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) helps teams navigate these challenges by automating security checks, ensuring compliance, and providing continuous monitoring. Here’s what you need to know about AWS CSPM and why it’s essential for securing your cloud environment.
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last9

Monitoring Kubernetes Resource Usage with kubectl top

Feb 11, 2025 By Ujjwal Goyal In Last9
Efficient resource utilization is key to running Kubernetes workloads smoothly. Whether you're troubleshooting performance issues, optimizing resource requests and limits, or keeping an eye on cluster health, the kubectl top command is an essential tool. It provides real-time CPU and memory usage metrics for nodes and pods, helping you make informed decisions about scaling and resource allocation.
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Dynamic Alerting on Processor (CPU) utilization | The Tony and Tonie Show

Feb 11, 2025 By Redgate In Redgate
Tonie and Tony discuss a new article on dynamic alerts, which uses machine learning to adapt alert thresholds to normal patterns of behavior. They discuss how this works in Redgate Monitor, and how it helps increase alert relevance, allowing teams to focus on real performance issues.
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metricfire

How to Configure OpenTelemetry as an Agent with the Carbon Exporter

Feb 11, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
If you're already using OpenTelemetry for tracing and logs, adding otelcol-contrib as an agent for system metrics just makes sense. It keeps everything in the same pipeline, so you’re not juggling multiple monitoring tools or dealing with inconsistent data formats. Plus, with built-in support for host metrics, custom processing, and direct exports to Graphite, it’s a solid way to ship performance data without extra overhead.
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circleci

What is Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)?

Feb 11, 2025 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development methodology in which applications are built to match the behaviors a user would expect from the software. An evolution of Test-Driven Development (TDD), BDD gathers user stories about how users expect applications to behave, then creates software tests to validate that their applications match this behavior. The BDD methodology utilizes specific language and naming conventions.
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opsmatters

The Role of DevOps in Healthcare: Streamlining EHR Deployments and Updates

Feb 11, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
The healthcare industry is undergoing a digital transformation, with Electronic Health Records (EHR) at the forefront of this change. However, implementing and updating EHR systems remains a challenge for many healthcare providers, particularly due to complex regulatory requirements, data security concerns, and the need for uninterrupted patient care.
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megaport

Introducing Megaport NAT Gateway

Feb 10, 2025 By Cameron Daniel In Megaport
Cut your traditional NAT gateway costs by 70% or more with Megaport’s new software solution. For large businesses, Network Address Translation (NAT) is a must. But when speaking with our enterprise customers about the software side of their architecture, the complaint was always the same: The ballooning egress fees that come with moving massive amounts of data quickly become a major cost burden.
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eg innovations

What is Platform Engineering and Why is it Important?

Feb 10, 2025 By Wendy Howard In eG Innovations
Without the right frameworks in place, software development often feels like managing a project with too many moving parts and no cohesive plan. A good solution to this problem would be having a unified platform that streamlines processes, integrates tools, and provides consistency across the development lifecycle. That’s what platform engineering offers—it simplifies the complexities of software development by making it easier to build, deploy, and maintain digital infrastructure.
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redgate

Redgate Monitor Support for Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Feb 10, 2025 By Özkan Pakdil In Redgate
Azure Flexible Server joins the suite of PostgreSQL hosting platforms supported by Redgate Monitor, which also includes Linux hosts or VMs, Amazon RDS and Aurora. Our goal is to provide you with a single-pane-of-glass view of your entire PostgreSQL estate, whether it’s running in Azure, AWS, or on-prem, ensuring simpler troubleshooting, better insights, and faster performance tuning.
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cloudzero

Datadog Vs. New Relic: Comparing Observability Tools In 2025

Feb 10, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Datadog and New Relic didn’t become some of the best observability platforms today by accident. Unlike traditional monitoring tools, both are built from the ground up to be cloud-native. This design is crucial for tracking system health across hybrid cloud infrastructure, modern applications, and microservices/containerized architectures. Both platforms also offer more flexible pricing models than the traditional subscription-based pricing you’ll see elsewhere.
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last9

Log Levels: Answers to the Most Common Questions

Feb 10, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Logging is essential for understanding what’s happening inside your software. It helps developers and operators catch issues, monitor system health, and track application behavior. A big part of logging is log levels—these indicate how serious a message is, from routine updates to critical errors. In this post, we’ll break down everything you need to know about log levels, how they compare to Syslog log levels, and best practices for making the most of your logs.
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last9

The Ultimate Guide to OpenTelemetry Visualization

Feb 10, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Modern software systems are complex, with multiple services interacting across different environments. Understanding how they behave—tracking performance, identifying bottlenecks, and diagnosing failures—requires more than just collecting data. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized way to gather logs, metrics, and traces, but the real value comes from making that data easy to interpret through visualization.
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Incident.io

Automated incident response: Why it matters and where it's headed

Feb 10, 2025 By Tom Wentworth In Incident.io
Incidents happen. Whether it’s a service outage, degraded performance, or an unexpected spike in errors, things will go wrong. The question isn’t if incidents will occur—it’s how quickly and effectively you can respond when they do. For years, incident response has been a mostly manual process: someone gets paged, scrambles to investigate, loops in the right people, and after some firefighting, hopefully resolves the issue before too many customers notice.
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Komodor

The AI Model Showdown - LLaMA 3.3-70B vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2 vs. DeepSeek-R1/V3

Feb 10, 2025 By Itiel Shwartz, CTO & co-founder In Komodor
Following all the hype and bluster with DeepSeek’s arrival in the AI landscape––and its ability to crash the poster child of AI’s share value overnight (Nvidia), we wanted to conduct a rigorous evaluation at Komodor. We tested DeepSeek’s models head-to-head against industry leaders in solving real-world Kubernetes challenges.
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circleci

Guide to unit testing

Feb 10, 2025 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Unit testing is a software testing methodology that tests the behavior of individual functional units of code. Through unit testing, developers can verify that their code performs as intended. Providing an opportunity to catch bugs, validate the implementation of logic, and assess the quality of the code, unit testing enhances the quality of applications and preemptively identifies problems before they become major issues.
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site24x7

Strategic IP address management (IPAM): A must-have solution for high volume networks

Feb 9, 2025 By Rama Venkatesan In Site24x7
Managing enterprise IT infrastructure isn’t just about staying afloat—it’s about being one step ahead with strategic IP address management in modern enterprise IT. Each day, IT teams grapple with network sprawl, security challenges, and the constant demand for scalability. But here’s a question: how does your enterprise manage its IP address space? If your answer is “manually” or “through spreadsheets,” it’s time to rethink your approach.
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Sunbird

Traditional IT CMDB vs. Data Center CMDB: What's the Difference?

Feb 7, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
When it comes to managing IT and data center assets, organizations often rely on a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). But not all CMDBs are created equal. While a traditional IT CMDB helps track hardware, software, and configurations, a Data Center CMDB is specifically designed to manage the physical infrastructure, capacity, and dependencies within a data center. Understanding the differences between these two types of CMDBs is critical for optimizing operations and ensuring complete visibility.
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Teneo

Why Cybersecurity Asset Management is Crucial for Cyber Hygiene

Feb 7, 2025 By Teneo In Teneo
The concept of managing IT assets for security purposes has been around since the earliest days of computer networks in business. However, the term “Cybersecurity Asset Management (CAM)” itself is relatively new, however, Teneo have been opening minds to CAM for some time now, here is a summary of what it is and why it’s so important as part of maintaining good Cyber Hygiene.
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cloudsmith

Enterprise-Grade Software Security: Mastering Control Over Your Software IP

Feb 7, 2025 By Maia Livingstone In Cloudsmith
Enterprises should prioritize securing their software artifacts to protect intellectual property (IP), maintain compliance, and mitigate supply chain risks. A strong security posture requires a deep understanding of access management, distribution controls, compliance enforcement, and software lifecycle governance.
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canonical

Security in depth with Ubuntu: Mapping security primitives to attacker capabilities

Feb 7, 2025 By ijlal-loutfi In Canonical
Cybersecurity is not about perfection. In fact, it’s more like a game of chess: predicting your opponent’s moves and making the game unwinnable for your opponent. Like chess players, attackers are always looking for an opening, probing for weaknesses, or waiting for you to make a mistake. Therefore, the best defense isn’t a single unbreakable barrier, but instead a layered strategy that forces your adversary into a losing position at every turn.
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console connect

What's new with Google Cloud for 2025

Feb 7, 2025 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
Google Cloud remains the third-largest provider, holding a 13% share in the global cloud infrastructure services market. In Q3 2024, Google reported a 30% year-over-year revenue growth reaching $12 billion in sales. However, it is a competitive market so they are working hard to accelerate this momentum and drive future growth with developments in AI innovation and infrastructure investments.
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cloudzero

AWS Aurora Pricing In 2025: What Influences Costs And How To Save

Feb 7, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Amazon Aurora offers up to five times the throughput of standard MySQL and three times that of PostgreSQL. Its architecture combines the database engine with a cloud-native, SSD-based storage system built for high I/O operations to achieve this. That said, AWS Aurora pricing can be a real headscratcher for customers, with concerns about the cost structure, pricing components, and ways to cut expenses.
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last9

How Azure Observability Optimizes Performance and Monitoring

Feb 7, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Observability in Azure isn’t just about tracking metrics—it’s about truly understanding how your cloud infrastructure, applications, and services are performing. It helps you spot issues before they become problems, optimize performance, and ensure security. In this guide, we’ll break down Azure Observability in a way that’s easy to follow, covering key concepts, best practices, and some useful tricks to give you an edge.
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last9

Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Sentinel Pricing

Feb 7, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Keeping your organization secure is more important than ever. Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution, helps detect and respond to threats effectively. But to get the most out of it, it’s important to understand how the pricing works.
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puppet

Jekyll and Hyde: Taming AI Security with Automation

Feb 7, 2025 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
AI offers a world of promise for security teams, including potential for advanced threat detection, automated response capabilities, and enhanced data analysis for cybersecurity. But the same technology that supports cybersecurity teams can also be weaponized by threat actors — a true “Good vs. Evil", or “Jekyll and Hyde” scenario.
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bunnyshell

What Is Environment as Code (EaaC)?

Feb 6, 2025 By Alin Dobra In Bunnyshell
If you’re familiar with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), you already know how defining your infrastructure in declarative files can streamline deployments, reduce errors, and foster reproducibility. Environment as Code (EaaC) takes this concept further. Instead of just defining virtual machines, networks, and storage, EaaC encapsulates the entire environment—including services, configurations, and dependencies—so you can spin up, manage, and tear down complete environments easily.
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virtana

Virtana in Gartner Research 2024: A Mark of Excellence in Infrastructure Observability

Feb 6, 2025 By Virtana Insight In Virtana
Research and analysis by Gartner¹ carries significant weight in the technology industry, serving as a trusted source of insights for IT decision-makers worldwide. Their rigorous evaluation processes and comprehensive market analysis help organizations make informed technology investments. When a company is featured across multiple Gartner research publications, it demonstrates market relevance and solution maturity.
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canonical

Canonical achieves ISO 21434 certification, strengthening automotive cybersecurity standards

Feb 6, 2025 By Canonical In Canonical
Canonical is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO 21434 certification for its Security Management System, following an extensive assessment by TÜV SÜD, a globally respected certification provider. This milestone highlights Canonical’s leadership in providing trusted and reliable open source solutions for the automotive sector.
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InvGate

Top 9 Endpoint Management Software Solutions: Expert Picks

Feb 6, 2025 By Natalí Valle In InvGate
With cyber threats on the rise and IT environments growing more complex, organizations need reliable Endpoint Management software to ensure security, compliance, and operational efficiency. There are many endpoint solutions out there, so to help you out, we’ve put our extensive experience in IT Management and security into analyzing and narrowing down a list of the best platforms. We paired this with reviews and expert opinions to bring you the most informed recommendations.
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resolve

Use Cases for Incident Response Automation: From Triage to Full Remediation

Feb 6, 2025 By Derek Pascarilla In Resolve
In today’s fast-paced IT and network environments, incident response isn’t just about reacting—it’s about responding faster, smarter, and with greater efficiency. Manual processes are no longer enough to handle the complexity and volume of incidents organizations face. That’s where automation comes in. But automation doesn’t always have to mean full end-to-end remediation.
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cloudzero

Product Release Notes January 2025

Feb 6, 2025 By Anand Sundaram In CloudZero
In the last few weeks, industry headlines once again brought the need for businesses to have complete cost visibility and proactive cost management strategies to the forefront of the constantly accelerating cloud and AI landscape. That’s why we’re excited to announce our latest product releases, designed to supercharge your cloud cost intelligence with deeper integrations into industry leaders like AWS and OpenAI.
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last9

How to Monitor Error Logs in Real-Time: An In-Depth Guide

Feb 6, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
For system admins and developers, being able to track error logs in real time is crucial. It’s not just about fixing problems; it’s about keeping everything running smoothly, ensuring systems perform at their best, and catching issues before they snowball into bigger ones. This guide breaks down the tools and commands that make real-time log monitoring easier and more effective, offering more than just the basics.
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last9

NGINX Log Monitoring: What It Is, How to Get Started, and Fix Issues

Feb 6, 2025 By Ujjwal Goyal In Last9
Ensuring that your web applications run smoothly and securely is essential. NGINX, known for its high performance and scalability, plays a key role in delivering web content. But to keep everything running efficiently, you need to monitor and analyze its logs properly. This guide will walk you through how to configure, analyze, and make the most of NGINX logs to stay on top of your server’s health.
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Simple Talks Podcast | S2, Episode 2 - Introducing a new PostgreSQL book!

Feb 6, 2025 By Redgate In Redgate
In this week's podcast, we are doing our very first "special episode". Two of the Redgate Advocates (Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey) have written a book on PostgreSQL titled "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional". So Louis sat down when them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more.
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metricfire

Monitor Amazon Kinesis Firehose in Hosted Graphite

Feb 6, 2025 By Charlie von Metzradt In MetricFire
We’ve supported syncing your metrics from Kinesis Streams, Amazon’s streaming data platform, for several years. Kinesis Streams helps you gather and process streaming data which can then be monitored in your Hosted Graphite account. Recently, we’ve added support for Firehose, a fully managed and scalable service that allows users to stream data to destinations like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES).
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1st Live AMA with GitLens Creator Eric Amodio | Feb 13, 1pm EST

Feb 6, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken
What questions would you ask the creator of GitLens? Whether you’re a power user or new to GitLens and have basic questions, we’d love to hear from you. Join us for a live AMA with Eric Amodio, the creator of GitLens on February 13th at 1 PM EST. GitLens has evolved significantly since it began as a simple blame and annotations extension for VS Code. Now, we invite you to ask questions, gain insights, and hear Eric’s perspective on any topics you're curious about.
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opsmatters

Windows VPS vs. Linux VPS: which one should you choose?

Feb 6, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
When it comes to renting a virtual private server (VPS), one of the first decisions you'll face is choosing between Windows VPS and Linux VPS. Both operating systems have their pros and cons, and the right choice depends on your specific needs. So, let's consider a scenario: You've decided to rent a virtual server but are unsure which operating system is better. It's essential to take into account the technical characteristics, cost, and ease of use of each system. Let's delve into the intricacies of the choice.
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squadcast

Incident Management Process: Stages, Framework & Best Practices

Feb 5, 2025 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast
These days, organizations must be prepared to handle unexpected disruptions efficiently. Whether it’s a cybersecurity breach, system failure, or a natural disaster, having a structured Incident Management Process is essential. The Incident Management Team plays a crucial role in swiftly identifying, assessing, and resolving incidents, minimizing downtime, and ensuring business continuity.
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xMatters

4 Recommendations for Optimizing DevOps

Feb 5, 2025 By xMatters In xMatters
DevOps’s concept and development have significantly changed how IT teams work in the last decade. Small and large teams alike can see the difference when they switch from traditional software development cycles to a DevOps cycle: However, effectively embracing DevOps takes work. Thankfully, there are many ways to navigate this challenging journey, and this article will explore the four most effective ones.
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cloudzero

How AWS Savings Plans (And Other Strategies) Lower Your Cloud Spend

Feb 5, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans to offer customers a more flexible and discounted pricing model than Reserved Instances. Like Reserved Instances, AWS Savings Plans offer discounts for longer-term commitments. You can learn more about the differences between Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans here. In this post, we’ll quickly explain AWS Savings Plans, how they work, and what they can and cannot do for you.
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xMatters

How to Conduct A DevOps Maturity Assessment: Complete Guide

Feb 5, 2025 By xMatters In xMatters
A DevOps Self-Assessment provides 15 questions about your DevOps processes and practices and ranks the maturity of your DevOps initiative. Achieving better business outcomes hinges on the ability to release software faster and provide responsive support. DevOps maturity assessments play a critical role in this process by helping organizations pinpoint inefficiencies, identify gaps in collaboration, and refine their workflows.
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kosli

Kosli Joins FINOS to Collaborate on DevOps Controls and Change Compliance in Financial Services

Feb 5, 2025 By Mike Long In Kosli
We are thrilled to announce that Kosli has joined the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a Linux Foundation organization dedicated to fostering collaboration and innovation in financial services technology. Our goal is to engage the community establishing common standards and automation practices for DevOps controls and change management automation.
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last9

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry Java SDK

Feb 5, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Understanding how your applications perform is crucial. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful observability framework, offering a standardized approach to collecting telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces. For Java developers, the OpenTelemetry Java SDK provides the tools necessary to instrument applications effectively. This guide is all about the OpenTelemetry Java SDK, exploring its components, configuration, and advanced features to help you harness its full potential.
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last9

AWS CloudWatch Custom Metrics: Types & Setup Guide [With Examples]

Feb 5, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides real-time insights into AWS resources and applications. While CloudWatch provides many default metrics, sometimes you need custom metrics to monitor specific aspects of your infrastructure or applications. This guide covers everything you need to know about CloudWatch custom metrics, from basics to advanced use cases.
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Sunbird

Server Rack Best Practices for Tracking Assets and Space Utilization

Feb 5, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
Managing server racks effectively is one of the most critical aspects of running a successful data center. Accurate asset tracking and efficient space utilization can make or break your operations. Without proper processes in place, you risk issues like wasting resources and escalating costs.
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Teneo

How to Optimize Costs and Strengthen IT with Teneo's Deep Observability

Feb 5, 2025 By Teneo In Teneo
Teneo understands that it can be hard to balance cost and depth of observability in todays fast-paced digital landscape, where organizations face the challenge of managing increasingly complex IT infrastructures while keeping costs under control. Achieving this balance requires a new approach, this is why we have developed our Open Observability platform, a critical component of Teneo’s StreamlineX framework.
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pulsant

The carrot and the stick: the impact of data sovereignty on data centre buying decisions

Feb 5, 2025 By Pulsant In Pulsant
Data sovereignty is now one of the top concerns of those making data centre buying decisions. The principle that data is subject to the laws of the country where it is collected or stored, has been enshrined in two discrete, but connected pieces of legislation: The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). Whilst both these statutes enforce sovereignty as a minimum, they also cover the use of personal data, including how it is collected, stored, and processed.
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canonical

Ubuntu available in Microsoft's new WSL distribution format

Feb 5, 2025 By Jean-Baptiste Lallement In Canonical
We are happy to announce that Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distribution architecture. Ubuntu has been a widely used Linux distribution on WSL, offering a familiar development environment for many users. This new distribution architecture for WSL will make adoption easier in enterprise environments by enabling image customization and deployments at scale.
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metricfire

Monitoring coffee: Tales from Hosted Graphite's secret lab

Feb 5, 2025 By MetricFire Blogger In MetricFire
It has been said that software engineers are organisms that convert caffeine into code. Not all software engineers need coffee to get by, but it's popular enough that it'd be silly for us not to have an office coffee machine... …it'd also be sort of silly for a monitoring company not to monitor that coffee machine, which is so crucial that we could make a reasonable argument for it being part of the production infrastructure.
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metricfire

Locking Down PostgreSQL with SSL: Secure Remote Connections Like a Pro

Feb 5, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
PostgreSQL is a beast when it comes to handling data, but if you're running an instance that needs to be accessed remotely, securing it with SSL is non-negotiable. Without SSL, your database connection is essentially an open book for anyone snooping on the network. Let’s lock it down with properly signed certificates!
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#035 - Beyond Kubernetes: A Veteran of the Container Wars on the Past, Present, and Future of Clo...

Feb 5, 2025 By Komodor In Komodor
This episode of "Kubernetes for Humans" features Dan Ciruli, a Senior Director of Product Management at Nutanix, who shares his journey in tech and his perspective on the evolution of cloud-native technologies. Ciruli discusses his early career as an engineer and his transition to product management, noting that the role was not well-defined in the 1990s. He recounts his experiences with startups, Google, and D2IQ (formerly Mesosphere), highlighting the rise of Docker and projects like Mesos.
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cloudzero

Kubernetes Vs. Docker Vs. OpenShift: Understanding Their Roles And Differences

Feb 4, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Containers are a big deal today. They are software units that contain all the code, runtime, and dependencies required to run a distributed application. Thus, containers help engineers test and run apps without compatibility issues on any device and platform. Organizations can use containers to reduce engineering costs, speed up deployments, develop and test AI models, and automate more processes. You probably want those benefits as well.
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puppet

Struggling With Your Patch Management Process? Template, Essential Steps & Tips for a Stress-Free Patch Management Procedure

Feb 4, 2025 By Andrew Jones In Puppet
A patch management process lays out the steps associated with updating software and hardware. The typical patch management procedure includes things like prioritizing important patches, testing them, and eventually deploying them on an automated schedule — but with so many tools for managing patching in so many different kinds of setups, no two IT teams’ patch management processes look alike. What does your patch management process look like?
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resolve

How Proactive Incident Response Creates Transformative Success

Feb 4, 2025 By John Gorham In Resolve
Incident response has always been a vital function within IT and the organizations it supports. However, as technology landscapes become increasingly hybrid and IT environments grow more complex, the need for a fast, efficient, and adaptive incident response system has never been greater. Teams in this environment face many challenges, starting with overwhelming event noise. When systems generate too many alerts, critical warnings can get lost in the chaos, leading to missed issues and delayed responses.
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xMatters

Essential Software Deployment Best Practices for Success

Feb 4, 2025 By xMatters In xMatters
Smooth and efficient software deployment is critical to delivering high-quality applications that meet user expectations. Still, many software failures can be traced back to deployment issues. A well-structured deployment strategy can help DevOps & SREs teams prevent these errors, ensure system reliability, and enhance user satisfaction. This guide explores software deployment best practices, from planning and execution to post-deployment monitoring and incident management.
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canonical

The role of FIPS 140-3 in the latest FedRAMP guidance

Feb 4, 2025 By Henry Coggill In Canonical
There’s good news in the US federal compliance space. The latest FedRAMP policy on the use of cryptographic modules relaxes some of the past restrictions that prevented organizations from applying critical security updates. There has long been a tension between the requirements for strictly certified FIPS crypto modules and the need to keep software patched and up to date with the latest security vulnerability fixes.
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Platform.sh

Magento performance optimization-Actionable tips and strategies

Feb 4, 2025 By Ramanathan Ramakrishnamurthy In Platform.sh
Is your ecommerce store traffic resulting in enough conversions? If not, your store might be facing performance issues. Amazon loses 1% of its $141 billion online sales for every 100ms of latency. BBC risks 10% of its website visitors for every additional second of load time. As your business grows, the need to build new features, customize code, and integrate third-party systems grows.
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last9

SSHD Logs 101: Configuration, Security, and Troubleshooting Scenarios

Feb 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Secure Shell (SSH) is a fundamental tool for remote system administration, and its logs play a critical role in security monitoring, debugging, and compliance. SSHD logs provide insights into authentication attempts, connection successes, failures, and potential intrusions. This guide explores everything you need to know about SSHD logs, including their location, format, analysis, and lesser-known security practices to maximize their effectiveness.
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last9

Website Performance Benchmarks: What You Should Aim For [with Examples]

Feb 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When it comes to your website, speed is everything. A slow site frustrates users, drives up bounce rates, and even impacts your revenue. That’s where website performance benchmarks come in. They help you figure out how well your site is performing, where it needs improvement, and—most importantly—what you can do to make it faster. In this guide, we'll walk you through the key benchmarks, the tools you need, and a few tips that’ll help your site outshine the competition.
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last9

Top 11 API Monitoring Tools You Need to Know

Feb 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
APIs are the backbone of modern software, quietly powering everything we interact with. But just because they’re invisible doesn’t mean they can’t run into issues. From response times to uptime, keeping an eye on your APIs is key to making sure everything works smoothly. In this guide, we’ll explore 11 popular API monitoring tools to help you find the one that best fits your needs.
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last9

10 Kubernetes Monitoring Tools You Can't-Miss in 2025

Feb 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Monitoring a Kubernetes cluster isn’t just about keeping an eye on CPU and memory usage. It’s about understanding system health, detecting anomalies before they cause outages, and ensuring applications run smoothly. With so many tools available, choosing the right one can feel overwhelming. This guide covers the best Kubernetes monitoring tools, their use cases, and key factors to consider.
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Wireless Network Management with Site24x7

Feb 4, 2025 By ManageEngine Site24x7 In Site24x7
Struggling with Wi-Fi connectivity issues? Wireless LAN controllers (WLCs) are the backbone of enterprise networks, but they’re not without challenges. From access point disconnections to overloaded controllers, even small issues can disrupt your operations. With Site24x7, you can proactively monitor and optimize your wireless network. Get real-time insights, detailed analytics, and instant alerts to troubleshoot problems before they impact users.
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cloudzero

AWS Cloud Financial Management Explained: Everything You Need To Know

Feb 3, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Many companies migrate to the cloud and overlook costs in favor of innovation, speed, and flexibility. They assume that the cloud is inherently more cost-effective than on-premises infrastructure. However, the organizations soon realize that the same characteristics that make the cloud such an enticing and flexible resource can also lead to unexpectedly higher usage bills than expected. The challenge is to find the right balance between optimal system performance, engineering velocity, and cost.
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canonical

How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph

Feb 3, 2025 By Philip Williams In Canonical
In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’re talking data storage costs. Retaining and protecting data has an inherent cost based on the underlying architecture of the system used to store it.
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metricfire

How To Configure a PostgreSQL Datasource in Grafana

Feb 3, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
So, you’ve got a PostgreSQL database packed with juicy data, and you want to turn those raw numbers into slick, interactive Grafana dashboards? Good call! Grafana’s PostgreSQL datasource is like the secret handshake that lets you visualize your data in style—no extra ETL magic required. In this guide, we’ll walk through getting PostgreSQL and Grafana to play nice, covering everything from connection settings to query tuning.
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last9

The Basics of Log Parsing (Without the Jargon)

Feb 3, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Logs are crucial for understanding what's happening in your system, but they can often be hard to make sense of. Log parsing is the key to turning raw, unstructured data into something useful. In this blog, we'll explore the basics of log parsing, its importance, and how it helps you extract valuable insights from your logs without all the clutter.
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last9

OpenTelemetry Processors: Workflows, Configuration Tips, and Best Practices

Feb 3, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Most developers are familiar with Opentelemetry core components—Traces, Metrics, and Logs. But there’s one part of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem that doesn’t always get the spotlight: processors. These behind-the-scenes operators shape your data pipeline, helping you filter, enrich, and fine-tune telemetry data before it reaches your backend systems. Processors play a key role in making sure your data is cleaner, more useful, and just the way you need it.
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haproxy

Reviewing Every New Feature in HAProxy 3.1

Feb 3, 2025 By Nick Ramirez In HAProxy
HAProxy 3.1 makes significant gains in performance and usability, with better capabilities for troubleshooting. In this blog post, we list all of the new features and changes. All these improvements (and more) will be incorporated into HAProxy Enterprise 3.1, releasing Spring 2025. Watch our webinar HAProxy 3.1: Feature Roundup and listen to our experts as we examine new features and updates and participate in the live Q&A.
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kosli

How to make Kosli generic attestations using the kosli-attest-generic command

Feb 3, 2025 By Jon Jagger In Kosli
All but one of the kosli attest commands calculate the true/false compliance value for you based on their type. For example, kosli attest snyk can read the sarif output file produced by a snyk scan. The one that doesn’t is kosli attest generic which is “type-less”. It can attest anything, but Kosli cannot calculate a true/false compliance value for you. Often the tool you are using can generate the true/false value, which is then easy to capture.
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moovingon

Empowering NOC Teams - Enhanced Workload Insights

Feb 3, 2025 By Avi Shalisman In MoovingON
In the dynamic landscape of cloud operations, Network Operations Centers (NOCs) are crucial in ensuring service reliability and performance. However, managing the diverse workloads of NOC teams can be challenging. At MoovingON, we are dedicated to providing solutions that enhance operational efficiency and cultivate a positive work environment for our engineers. To this end, we are excited to introduce a powerful new feature in our moovingon.ai platform: Enhanced Dashboards for Workload Management.
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Top Azure App Insights Techniques You're Not Using for Querying Logs

Feb 3, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
The Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module's new feature allows seamless navigation directly to the Azure portal. This video provides an overview of how BAM enables the monitoring and querying of logs from Azure App Insights and Log Analytics. It also showcases a use case in the employee benefits scenario, where daily file processing data is visualized for business and support teams to track system activities.
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atlassian

Introducing step failure strategies in Bitbucket Pipelines

Feb 3, 2025 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian
We are excited to introduce a new capability in Bitbucket Pipelines – Step Failure Strategies. This is the first of a set of new features allowing developers to implement more comprehensive logic and control-flow inside their CI/CD pipelines. Failure Strategies are designed to give you explicit control over how your pipeline behaves in the event that an individual step within the pipeline fails.
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atlassian

Announcing ARM builds in cloud for Bitbucket Pipelines

Feb 3, 2025 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian
We are excited to announce the release of ARM builds in the Pipelines cloud runtime. Our release of Linux based ARM runners in cloud allows you to build and deploy software for ARM-based systems with all the benefits of our fully managed CI/CD platform. To use the new cloud ARM runners in your pipeline, make the following modifications to your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file.
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opsmatters

Linear Track Lighting for Data Centers to Optimize Maintenance Visibility

Feb 1, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Data centers are the backbone of modern technology, powering our digital lives. As these spaces get busier and more complex, keeping them running smoothly becomes even more important. Lighting is one key factor that's often overlooked. The right lighting helps technicians work efficiently around sensitive equipment and dense cable systems.
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