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The SaaS Revenue Model: 5 Types To Consider

Most people still remember the days when software applications were distributed mostly through CD-ROMs and floppy disks. While some companies still maintain CD distribution methods, it’s safe to say that the SaaS distribution or “SaaS revenue model” has taken over. In this guide, we’ll explore what this SaaS Revenue Model is, why it’s so popular now, and some tips to help you make the most of it.

What is Cloudwatch Metrics? Detailed 101 Guide

CloudWatch metrics play a critical role in monitoring AWS resources and facilitating effective troubleshooting during system failures. It allows for continuous monitoring of AWS resources like EC2 instances, Lambda functions, and RDS databases. Using Cloudwatch metrics, DevOps teams can monitor and manage their AWS infrastructure easily. Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

What Is A Cloud Engineer? Here's a Quick Breakdown

As you’ve probably realized by now, cloud computing isn’t the future. It is here and now. According to Gartner, global spending on public cloud services alone will surpass $725 billion by 2024. This rise in cloud computing is a great career opportunity for you. And what better way to immensely benefit from this shift than becoming a cloud engineer?

Managed GCP GKE Autopilot Released in Public Beta

I am thrilled to announce a significant milestone for Qovery: the public beta release of our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) GKE Autopilot support. This marks a new chapter in our journey, following the successful integration with AWS EKS, Scaleway Kapsule, and Kubernetes. In this announcement article I'll explain what you can get out of GCP GKE Autopilot and what is coming next 👇

How to optimize your cloud infrastructure management

As on-premises infrastructure and workloads increasingly migrate to the cloud, you’ve undoubtedly encountered many challenges in managing complex cloud architectures. These hurdles include juggling cost-efficiency and security to maintain a seamless, high-performance infrastructure. Navigating your cloud infrastructure landscape requires thoroughly understanding its virtualized elements—servers, software, network devices, and storage.

Choosing the Right Observability Tools for Developers

This is the third and final blog post in a series about shifting Observability left. If you have not yet read the first two, you can find the first post here and the second post here. Observability is fundamental to modern software development, enabling developers to gain deep insights into their application’s behavior and performance.

Video analytics at the edge: How video processing benefits from edge computing

Computer vision: digital understanding of the physical world From face recognition to fire prevention, autonomous cars to medical diagnosis, the promise of video analytics has enticed technology innovators for years. Video analytics, the processing and analysing of visual data through machine learning and artificial intelligence, is perceived as a significant opportunity for edge computing.

Monitor Amazon EC2: key metrics for instances, regions, and more in one view

Amazon EC2 was one of the first services available on AWS, helping propel the cloud platform into the mainstream of IT. And while EC2 instances come in a wide range of sizes and flavors to address all sorts of use cases, keeping tabs on those instances isn’t always easy. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our new EC2 monitoring solution in Grafana Cloud.

How To Set Up Monitoring for Your Hybrid Environment

The modern IT landscape consists of many distributed systems, which can pose a challenge if you are responsible for the end-to-end performance of these systems. As a platform engineer today, that is exactly what the job requires. You must juggle between dozens of tools to meet SLAs. This is why a modern solution is needed to bridge the gap between disjointed infrastructure and application stacks…and this is why the Splunk Observability platform was born.