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6 steps we took to regain control of our Azure spend at SquaredUp

In this write-up of our special webinar, we'll give you an insider’s look into how we took control of our Azure costs, and how you can do the same. We’ll take you through how we identified the problems and implemented lasting solutions to keep things under control. You’ll get to hear from our key stakeholders involved - Finance, Management, IT, Engineering.

Building Highly Effective DevOps Teams: Structure, Roles & Responsibilities You Need to Succeed

When it started to really get traction as a concept, almost 10 years ago, DevOps was primarily used to push rapid changes to web environments with minimal impact for the users. That might still be true today but DevOps as a concept evolved. A lot. We now rely on DevOps models to move at high velocity, adapting and developing at speeds that are light years away from anything we’ve seen before. It’s the way we deliver, test, monitor, and release functionalities.

Cloud cost optimization with 2020 hindsight

The first half of 2020 has turned “business as usual” on its head, underscoring the criticality of both the cloud and cloud cost management in our digital era. For the last 16 years, the world of IT has been gradually moving from on-premise data centers to the public cloud, with SMBs and enterprises alike, drawn to the promise of scalability and potential cost-savings.

What's Next After Connectivity?

Across the world, many network operators, fiber network wholesalers, municipalities, and local authorities are in a race to put fiber in the ground. New techniques and specialized tools have reduced the time it takes to deploy optical fiber and increased the amount of fiber held in a single duct, this makes the dream of providing fiber to every premise a cost-effective reality.

6 Tips for Application Developers to Make Java Applications Faster

Application developers and application operations personnel are together responsible for ensuring that Java web applications perform well. In an earlier blog, we had discussed 7 configurations that Application Operations teams can use to make their Java applications high-performing. In this blog, we will focus on Application Developers and discuss 6 ways in which they can enhance the performance of their Java applications.

GitOps: Progressive Deployment and Security with D2iQ Dispatch and Alcide Advisor

GitOps has been around for quite some time now and continues to pique developer interest when it comes to driving operation tools. This technology-agnostic model embraces operations best practices, using Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications.The term GitOps for this operating model is now an industry standard and has rapidly made a name for itself among the Kubernetes and cloud-native communities.

How do you optimize your infrastructure in the midst of such reactive transformation?

The pandemic has heightened IT leaders’ need for efficiency in managing what we’re seeing more and more as a hybrid cloud world. We recently polled IT leaders across the US and EMEA on their current challenges, changes, and goals around hybrid cloud deployments, infrastructure visibility, use of AI/ML, and more.