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How CloudZero Closed A $32M Series B Round In The Weakest Funding Environment In Years

CloudZero just closed at $32M Series B fundraising round in the weakest funding environment since the dawn of the pandemic. The round was led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures, with continued support from existing investors Matrix Partners, Underscore VC, and G20 Ventures. CloudZero is a SaaS product, a data-dense platform delivered via the cloud, mostly to other SaaS companies and digital native businesses (DNBs).

New related incidents functionality brings order to the chaos of highly complex incidents

We’ve all been there. You’re working through some rather frustrating blockers during an incident only to discover that you don’t own the dependency at fault. Or, you’ve been pounding away at an issue when a fellow engineer reaches out and asks if your service is affected by some particularly gnarly database failure they’re seeing. But then what? Do you merge efforts and work in parallel or head for a coffee break while the issue gets attacked upstream?

Workshop: 2023 Kubernetes Troubleshooting Challenge

In April, over 350 tech professionals (and a few pirates) participated in the 2023 StackState Kubernetes Troubleshooting Challenge at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Amsterdam. It was great to witness so many crewmates using StackState to overcome some of Kubernetes applications' toughest challenges. As a result, we decided to organize a live interactive troubleshooting event in collaboration with the StackState product team.

How we improved testing Ubuntu on WSL - and how you can too!

As the popularity of Windows Subsystem for Linux increases, the Ubuntu development team is committed to delivering a first class experience for Linux developers on Windows. To achieve this we’ve made improvements to our automated testing workflows via the creation of WSL-specific GitHub actions. In this post, Ubuntu WSL engineer Eduard Gómez Escandell talks us through the motivation for this approach and how you can implement these actions for your own CI workflows.

Evolution at the edge: what matters when developing an edge strategy?

The evolution of information technology is governed by how businesses adapt to ever-increasing amounts of data. Those businesses most able to exploit more data, win. Terms such as ‘speed’ and ‘agility’ refer to how a business handles and uses this data. Given the 2.5 quintillion bytes created every day, there is a huge opportunity for businesses to create unassailable leadership.

3 Tips to Improve Your Dockerfile Build time

Building Docker images efficiently is crucial for developers and organizations seeking streamlined development and deployment processes, and it’s a real topic for the 50k developers on Qovery; a few weeks ago, a topic was even open on our forum about it. In this article, we will explore three valuable tips gathered along the way to improve the build time of your Dockerfiles, allowing you to optimize your workflow and save valuable time.

IPoDWDM: Simplify and Save!

IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) can have a large impact on the total cost of ownership of a network. Disaggregating the transponder solution, and installing the Digital Coherent Optic (DCO) directly in the router can both simplify the design and provide significant cost savings. With the advent of ZR+ optics, and advances in silicon chip efficiency, IPoDWDM is poised to become the new standard.