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The Hidden Costs of PaaS: Everything You Should Know

In the past decade, Platform as a Service (PaaS) has revolutionized the way companies deploy and manage applications. With promises of scalability, operational ease, and cost efficiency, PaaS attracted myriad businesses looking to leverage cloud technologies and reduce time to market. However, as these platforms have matured, many organizations have realized that PaaS, while powerful, is not without its pitfalls.

Core CI/CD Concepts: A Comprehensive Overview

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to quickly and reliably deliver software is paramount. This need has led to the evolution of CI/CD—Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment—practices that streamline and automate the development lifecycle. Below, we explore these core CI/CD concepts and related automation practices that are transforming the software industry.

Testing and Quality Assurance Within a CI/CD Pipeline

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, the need to deliver high-quality software rapidly and reliably is paramount. Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD) have emerged as essential practices that enable development teams to meet these demands. Central to the success of CI/CD pipelines is a robust framework for testing and quality assurance (QA).

AI Hazards for Product Teams Five problems you'll have to solve

How might we realize the value of AI without blowing up any businesses? Artificial intelligence can bring transformative potential. The AI/ML promise comes with risks, challenges and unknowns. This talk focuses on the potential blockers in privacy, accuracy, ethics, costs, and stability, and provides a framework to evaluate and mitigate these risks.

Shaping Tomorrow - Civo's Vision and the Future of Technology with Dinesh Majrekar

Join Civo CTO Dinesh Majrekar as he explores the future of technology and Civo's vision. His talk covers key industry trends, including the impact of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, and the rise of AI technologies like ChatGPT. Discover insights on sustainable growth, hybrid cloud environments, and the importance of sovereign clouds and green energy. Stay informed about the evolving tech landscape and how Civo is shaping tomorrow.

Rancher Live: Building for the edge

The rise of Edge deployments has changed the landscape of problems that enterprises face. The growing importance of zero-touch provisioning at the edge has caused a shift in how downstream workloads are deployed and configured. Low bandwidth and air-gapped scenarios have complicated the existing provisioning workflows, shifting the configuration burden from a post-deployment solution to the base image.

Mastering kubectl Scale Deployment: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers

Kubernetes has revolutionized how developers deploy, manage, and scale their applications. One of its key features is the ability to scale deployments seamlessly. This article explores various aspects of using the kubectl scale deployment command, including how to scale deployments up and down, scale all deployments in a namespace, managing replica sets, and more.

Bringing Real-time Ubuntu to Amazon EKS Anywhere customers with Ubuntu Pro

Earlier this year at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona, Canonical announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services Anywhere (EKS Anywhere). With this technology enablement, a telecom operator can confidently run its Open Radio Access Network (RAN) software workloads on Amazon EKS Anywhere, thanks to the necessary support for ultra low-latency data processing with high reliability in Real-time Ubuntu.

EKS vs Cycle: Comparing Worker Nodes

Over the last few weeks I've been talking about the key differences between Amazon EKS and Cycle. If you happened to miss it and want to catch up before diving into this post you can check it out here: This post will round out the series by taking a look at how worker nodes are added to a cluster and the major differences between EKS and Cycle there.

Building a DevOps Culture: Tips for Small Engineering Teams

DevOps is essential for engineering teams looking to enhance collaboration, speed up development cycles, and maintain high-quality software delivery. Building on our previous discussion of common DevOps mistakes startups make, let's move on to ten practical strategies small engineering teams can adopt to foster a robust DevOps culture.