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Securing Open Source Dependencies on Public Cloud

Aaron Whitehouse, Senior Director of Public Cloud Enablement at Canonical, explains why you need to be thinking about open source dependencies in your software pipelines. He covers three main areas of software dependency management: ESM is part of Canonical's Ubuntu Pro offering and gives developers access to approximately 30,000 packages that they can build on, confident in the knowledge that Canonical will patch high and critical vulnerabilities for up to 10 years while preserving API stability -- regardless of the upstream project's support lifecycle.

CapEx Vs. OpEx In The Cloud: 10 Key Differences

As many companies shift from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing, they are also rethinking how they handle cloud costs — from accounting to tax reporting. Computing costs are predictable and relatively fixed in traditional IT environments. An organization purchases computing capacity upfront and uses it over time. The total cost of ownership is fairly easier to calculate with this setup. By contrast, cloud computing operates on a pay-as-you-go basis, with no upfront payments.

Azure Integration Automates Asset Discovery on Tidal Accelerator

We’re excited to share an update on our Microsoft Azure integration that automates discovery and mapping of key cloud assets into Tidal Accelerator. Tidal has enabled a new integration that pulls information on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure App Service, and Azure Database instances, Elastic Pools and Servers, directly into Tidal Accelerator for further analysis.

The Ultimate RDS Instance Types Guide: What You Need To Know

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers a variety of database instances, which can be confusing at first. In this guide, we'll clarify what each RDS instance class, family, type, and size means in under 15 minutes. Let's start at the beginning.

Understanding Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Hello, and welcome to this deep dive into one of the most underappreciated yet profoundly useful technologies in the Windows operating system—Volume Shadow Copy Service, commonly known as VSS. Have you ever been caught in a situation where your computer crashes, and you lose hours, days, or even weeks of work? It’s a heart-stopping moment that most of us have unfortunately experienced. But here’s where VSS comes into play.

Real-Time Cost Optimization: Application Level FinOps for Spark on Amazon EMR and Amazon EKS

Pepperdata’s ability to halve cloud costs at top enterprises may seem radical and new, but it’s absolutely not. Pepperdata has been hardened and battle tested since 2012, and our software is currently deployed on about 100,000 instances and nodes across some of the largest and most complex cloud deployments in the world. We’re an AWS ISV Accelerate partner focused on helping customers save money running Spark on Amazon EMR and Spark and microservices on Amazon EKS.

Is Bun the Next Big Thing for AWS Lambda? A Thorough Investigation

It’s been only a few days since the Bun 1.0 announcement and it’s taken social media by storm! And rightly so. Bun promises better performance, and Node.js compatibility and comes with batteries included. It comes with a transpiler, bundler, package manager and testing library. You no longer have to install 15 packages before writing a single code line. It creates a standardised set of tools and addresses the fractured nature of the Node.js ecosystem.