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The Challenges Of Allocation: Why Your Cloud Cost Dashboards Fail When You Need Them Most

Your CFO just asked why cloud costs jumped 40% last quarter. You pull up your dashboards, confident in your tagging strategy, until you realize 30% of your spend is labeled ‘unallocated’. This is the moment every FinOps team dreads. It reveals a hidden complexity that even mature organizations struggle with: the challenge of accurately allocating cloud costs in a way that’s both granular enough to be actionable and trusted enough to drive decisions.

How image generation models are creating new infrastructure demands for DevOps teams

The rapid adoption of generative AI has moved far beyond research labs and creative studios. Image generation models, in particular, have become critical components in content production pipelines, marketing platforms, design workflows, and enterprise applications. What began as a novel way to create digital art has evolved into a class of workloads that behave very differently from traditional web services.

Is It Time to Ditch Your VPS? Here's What Nobody Tells You

Let's be honest - if you're reading this, you've probably been riding the VPS train for a while. It's been good to you. Affordable, flexible, not too demanding. Like that reliable hatchback you drove through college. But now your project's grown. Traffic's up, your app's more complex, and you're starting to feel those little hiccups - slow response times, random crashes, maybe even a few panicked server reboots at 3 a.m. Sound familiar?

Automating IT Configuration Monitoring with Puppet Enterprise

Discover how Puppet Enterprise simplifies configuration monitoring and ensures compliance with industry standards like NIST2, DORA, and ISO 27001. This video provides a quick overview on how to automate compliance checks, detect drifts, and maintain a secure IT infrastructure effortlessly.

#050 - Data Protection and Kubernetes Resilience with Michael Cade & Julia Furst Morgado (Veeam)

In this episode Itiel hosts Veeam experts Julia and Michael, to share their distinct paths into cloud-native technology. Julia discusses her transition from a background in law and marketing to becoming a CNCF ambassador and AWS container hero. Michael, a veteran who has been with Veeam for over 10 years, details his traditional CIS admin background (virtualization, storage) and the evolution of this role into platform engineering.

The Best Tools for Synthetic & Infrastructure Monitoring-A Comparative Guide

Both user and server-side monitoring are important to make your apps better. Tools that offer monitoring of just one side leave gaps in your diagnosis, causing negative experiences and reliability issues. Here are the top 10 tools you should consider based on their benefits and coverage.

Automating Expo app build delivery to QA with CircleCI and EAS webhooks

Manually sharing mobile app builds with Quality Assurance (QA) engineers can be a tedious and error-prone process. Developers often find themselves exporting.apk or.ipa files, uploading them to Google Drive or Dropbox, and then pinging the QA team on Slack to announce the upload, all while juggling deadline and code reviews. This manual process not only slows down feedback cycles but also leaves room for human error, miscommunication, or outdated builds being tested.

Enhancing JFrog Internal Operations with Near Zero Downtime Migration

Data migrations have long been a significant source of anxiety for businesses and IT teams alike. The thought of moving critical databases often conjures images of prolonged downtime, service interruptions, and the ever-present risk of data loss. Indeed, statistics show that “90% of businesses experience unexpected downtime during database migrations, leading to significant revenue loss and customer dissatisfaction”.