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The 2020 SolarWinds® IT Pro Day survey looked at the changing roles and responsibilities of IT pros throughout the pandemic. Overall, nearly two-thirds of surveyed IT pros discovered a new sense of confidence, despite contending with challenges such as reduced budgets, greater decision-making responsibilities, and longer hours caused by their organizations’ response to the pandemic.

Like any SaaS organization, CloudZero cares about our COGS, margin, and unit cost. As you can imagine, we have a fair amount of insight into how those numbers are changing every day thanks to being “customer zero” on our cloud cost intelligence platform. Talking with other companies, I often find that the best organizations understand that measuring the cost implications of new products and features once you’ve deployed them can be too late.

Canary deployment is a risk mitigation strategy for software releases. it allows applications developers to limit the damage caused by the release of faulty software updates and roll back such faulty updates quickly and safely without compromising the entire software assets.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is one of the fastest growing jobs in tech, with Linkedin reporting 34% growth YoY in 2020 and over 9000 openings in their Emerging Jobs Report. If you’re new to SRE and exploring it as a career path, understand that it can be a challenging but rewarding experience. Here are some quick tips on how you can get started with SRE and jump-start a rewarding career.

Do you frequently find yourself typing a long command on the command line or checking the bash history for a command you've already typed? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, bash aliases will come in helpful. You can use aliases in Bash to create a shortcut command for a longer command. When working on the command line, bash aliases are essentially shortcuts that can save you time and effort by eliminating the need to remember long commands.

12 years ago, when I started to work as a Developer, I would not have bet that I will write software and manage infrastructure right from my browser one day. At the time, web IDE did not exist. And managing infrastructure from the browser was super early. Today, it is all possible, and the future looks bright! I am proud to announce that you can edit your code via GitHub Codespaces right from Qovery. Take a look at this short introduction video. Happy coding!

The Four Golden Signals of monitoring and observability get a lot of things right. But they could be even better.

Microservices are an accelerating trend thanks to rousing endorsements from the likes of Google, Netflix, and Amazon. The microservice architecture is advantageous for it’s scalability, agility and flexibility. In contrast, the monolithic approach is the traditional tried-and-true model for building software. It’s much easier to debug and test. But how do you know which approach is best for your organization?