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Tidal Migrations hearts FinOps - Welcome!

Tidal Migrations is proud to welcome Shana Cunha to the team as our Director of FinOps Strategy. Working in the cloud since 2015 at AWS and holding the FinOps Practitioner certification, Shana has worked with many Enterprises ensuring maximum return of their Cloud Investment and seeking opportunities to deliver value to customers around the globe. We asked Shana for her thoughts on FinOps and what it means to Tidal Migrations customers. Shana?

Monitor Windows hosts with Network Performance Monitoring

If you’re running a mix of Windows– and Linux–based hosts in hybrid or cloud environments, network monitoring is especially important—and especially difficult. As network topologies are becoming increasingly distributed and dynamic, you need a quick way to identify connectivity issues across regions, services, and operating systems.

Coveralls Code Coverage -- Codefresh Quick Bites

This is the third part of our new series -- Codefresh Quick Bites -- Integrate Coveralls into your Codefresh pipeline to receive coverage reports with every build.

Serverless - Is This Only a Buzzword?

There’s a lot of talk about serverless computing lately, especially with the big tech giants investing in the idea and offering exclusive products built on it. But is it just a buzzword, or does it have the potential to become the next big thing in technology? Cloud computing was once a buzzword, too, one may argue. But that buzzword ended up revolutionizing the whole industry, with 90 percent of companies now using cloud hosting.

HAProxy Enterprise Support Helps Ring Up Holiday Online Sales

With the second wave of coronavirus sweeping across the nation, experts predict a greater percentage of this year’s holiday shopping to be conducted online than ever before. In fact, a recent National Retail Federation Holiday 2020 survey predicts that “digital purchases will be the primary driver of growth this year” with 96% of respondents expecting more online-only holiday sales as consumers are less likely to visit actual stores.

Sips - "Monolith to Microservices: Scaling - AKA, Blowing things Up!"

Coffee and Containers "Sips" are short clips from the regular Coffee and Containers web series. Often times, teams get really excited once they start to see benefits from a microservices architecture, and they start migrating everything. But scaling brings in an entirely new set of challenges. Gone are the days of simply throwing more load balancers at the problem. What are some additional challenges that teams are going to encounter when they start to scale and what are some strategies that can help them address some of these things?

Introducing a New Pull Request Status in Bitbucket Cloud: Changes Requested

One of the most critical activities for a developer is reviewing code. Code review helps developers fix bugs before shipping, learn about the codebase, and pass along a team’s values to new (and longstanding) developers. To double down on these benefits, we’re releasing a new tool to facilitate communication between pull request reviewers and authors: PR Reviewer Status. Until now, Bitbucket has only had one reviewer status: Approved.

Industry 4.0 needs a complete automation solution - Bosch Rexroth

To fully benefit from Industry 4.0, boundaries between operational technology like machine controls, the IT world and IoT need to be overcome. This session will explain how Bosch Rexroth approaches this with its new complete automation solution ctrlX AUTOMATION which is based on Linux with real-time extension, open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering, and a comprehensive IoT connection.

How to Maximize Cost Savings with AWS Savings Plans

To allocate costs or maximize savings? That’s the question many AWS customers will have to answer when formulating their FinOps strategy relating to Savings Plans. If part of your daily routine is finding ways to cut cloud costs, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. Appropriate chargeback reporting is an undeniable necessity for any business, but in this world of uncontrolled rising cloud costs, so is capitalizing on any savings opportunities!