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Just as the cloud has enabled a highly customisable, subscription-based approach to almost everything consumers and businesses seek to consume, organisations are viewing the network as the next logical step for a consumption-based approach. The recently released Deloitte 2022 Technology Industry Outlook looks at how leaders across all industries are embracing service-based IT - delivered via cloud - for increased agility, new capabilities, and better management of capacity and costs.

It’s 2022: You’re good at your job, you’re maintaining modern systems, now you want to level up your team based on a solid foundation of their collective expertise. You want to standardize and centralize process documentation and make execution as easy and effective as possible so that everything runs smoothly, every time.

When Ticketmaster started their Kubernetes migration, they had to address a huge problem: whenever ticket sales opened for a popular event, as many as 150 million visitors flooded their website, effectively causing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. With new events happening every 20 minutes and $7.6 billion in revenue at stake, outages could mean hundreds of thousands in lost sales.

Recently we launched features to provide support for App Insights in Serverless360. App Insights is one of the coolest features on Azure because it can integrate so easily with many different features such as: In Serverless360 our core principle is to democratize the support experience for your application.

At a time when so much of business is digitized, it’s becoming critically important for organizations to have a way to transfer large files over the internet without compromising security. While it may seem like the importance of these transfers would lead to an abundance of great large file transfer options, finding a quality large file transfer tool can be tricky.

Ask anyone who’s managing any cloud environment of any size, and they will undoubtedly bring up the stress they experience on a regular basis over tags. Since the dawn of cloud, every cloud user has struggled with the challenge of tagging — essentially the only mechanism that exists for you to apply metadata to your cloud environment. The fact that tags themselves are an imperfect tool — both inflexible and hard to manage — makes no difference.

We are really excited today at Shipa to release version 1.6 of Shipa. If you are using Shipa Cloud, you will notice that your version of the SaaS product has incremented. Let’s dig into what is new with Shipa 1.6.0 and how you can get your hands on Shipa.

This is the fifth and final part of this FinOps series, The Operate Phase. If you have missed any of my previous blogs, here is a list of posts in the series: Note: I am ex-AWS, so you will notice a lot more focus on AWS tools and services as examples here, however we are cloud agnostic and all cloud providers have similar services and tools.

Let’s face it – Kubernetes can (and is) oftentimes very complex. This means that you’re bound to make a cluster configuration mistake along the way – apart from it impacting your cluster’s performance and security, it can also heavily affect your ability to enforce visibility and troubleshooting. There is, however, a light at the end of the tunnel.

When I first started out as an engineer I really leant in to the idea of what’s often called “being a hero”; I would get to the office a bit early to make sure I could fix anything that had gone wrong overnight. I loved the camaraderie of someone outside engineering bringing their laptop over with a critical process broken for me to fix (even if I’d been the one to break it!). Being a hero feels really good for a while, but over time, it loses its shine.