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You’re probably all very familiar with the URLs we currently generate automatically for your environments on Upsun by now. And while they are very useful, they’re not the most friendly-looking as, we build them using the following pattern: This approach is important because it ensures that our URLs are unique for all projects and their environments but it also makes them pretty long, overly complicated, and let’s face it—not the prettiest. But this is the case no more!

Azure architecture diagrams are visual representations that illustrate the structure, components, and relationships of a solution or application deployed on Microsoft Azure. These diagrams provide a clear and concise overview of the various Azure resources and services used in a specific architecture. They are helpful for design discussions, documentation, and communication among team members and stakeholders.

The latest cloud cost news is primarily good news: Each of the major cloud providers released changes that could improve your bottom line: Dive into the details below.

Since inception in 2008, JFrog has hosted its own development environments on-prem. While this approach worked well for a time, the increasing need to deploy faster, while sustaining high quality and reducing hosting costs made us realize that we needed to leverage the JFrog SaaS Production environment. So in 2022, we started an effort to migrate our RnD environments from an on-prem solution to JFrog SaaS Production.

CloudWatch and Sentry are two powerful tools that play crucial roles in monitoring and error tracking, making them essential for any organization that wants to ensure the smooth operation of its applications and systems. CloudWatch, developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities for AWS resources and applications, providing real-time insights into system performance and resource utilization.

RabbitMQ is a popular open-source message broker that facilitates communication between different components of a distributed system. Monitoring a RabbitMQ instance is crucial to ensure its health, performance, and reliability. Monitoring allows you to identify and address potential issues before they escalate, ensuring smooth communication between various parts of your application.

Azure SQL is a versatile and powerful database service, and it is an increasingly popular choice for storing and managing application data due to its scalability, high availability, security, and simplicity of integration. A common demand for cloud workloads is cost optimization. To maximize cloud savings, this article discusses Azure SQL Database Cost Optimization.

Today Bun 1.0 is being announced—one of our friends in the ‘.sh’ tld—so it’s an absolute pleasure to share a small celebration and our first thoughts on this fully-baked runtime.

Kubernetes v1.28 comes with multiple new enhancements this year and we’ve already covered an overview of those in our previous blog, Do check this out before diving into sidecar containers. We’re going to completely focus on the new sidecar feature for this post, which enables restartable init containers and is available in alpha in Kubernetes 1.28.