Erik Peterson, our CTO and Founder here at CloudZero, recently hosted a webinar-style interview with Matthew “MJ” Jackson, DevOps Lead at Drift. This interview took a deep dive into the methods Drift used to take control of their cloud spending. If you own, manage, or otherwise have any stake in a SaaS company that heavily utilizes the cloud, you’ll want to read on to see the highlights of this conversation.

"Summertime, and the livin’ is easy," say the lyrics to a much-loved song. And HAProxy’s user ratings on the quarterly G2 Grid Reports for Summer 2024 are hot indeed with a Satisfaction Score of 98! G2 Grid Reports are quarterly reports from G2.com, the world’s leading platform for real user reviews of business software. HAProxy’s press release describes the results in detail. For this summer, HAProxy achieved a record 18 Leader positions.

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Applications Manager now supports Azure security services, container services, integration services, storage sync services, app service plans, and more.

We believe in expanding our arsenal to accommodate your evolving needs. That’s why we are thrilled to announce that Applications Manager now provides wider performance monitoring support for Azure! The latest version of ManageEngine Applications Manager extends its monitoring support to 11 additional Azure services, empowering you to gain deeper insights into the health and performance of your entire cloud environment. Let’s take a look at the newly supported services.

dotConnect for Oracle from Devart, a high-performance.NET connector that provides direct access to the Oracle Database without the need for an Oracle Client, has won Silver at the 19th Annual 2024 Globee Awards for Technology in the Oracle Cloud Application Services category. This prestigious business award praises companies that excel at hard work and transform tech domains, empowering businesses worldwide.

82% of organizations plan to increase their use of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), with 95% reporting that SLO adoption drives better business decisions, according to the Nobl9 2023 State of SLOs report. The traditional manual management of SLOs often results in inefficiencies and human errors, hindering productivity. Automating SLO management transforms these processes, enhancing accuracy and operational efficiency.

Widespread adoption of containerized infrastructure has been closely followed by an explosion of container-native tools for each layer of the stack, including new solutions for managing CI/CD pipelines in container-based environments, such as the Argo suite, FluxCD, and Tekton. This is because these lightweight solutions make it easier to automate builds, testing, deployments, and more on Kubernetes, as well as other platforms that manage containerized workloads and services.