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Accelerate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure monitoring with Datadog OCI QuickStart

Datadog’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration enables you to collect metrics and logs from your entire OCI stack and monitor them within a single platform alongside other third-party technologies. Datadog’s new OCI QuickStart is a fully managed, single-flow setup experience that helps you monitor your OCI infrastructure and applications in just a few clicks.

A Roadmap To AWS Savings Plans Vs. Reserved Instances

A decade after launching Reserved Instances (RIs), Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans as a more flexible alternative to RIs. AWS Savings Plans are not meant to replace Reserved Instances; they are complementary. SPs and RIs have some significant differences that make each better suited to specific uses. For example, while Savings Plans apply to both EC2 and Fargate instances, RIs only apply to EC2 instances. Let’s break down AWS Savings Plans vs.

Azure Budget Planning: Simplify Cost Management and Forecasting

The video introduces the new Turbo 360 feature designed to simplify Azure budget planning for teams. It highlights how team managers can easily manage and project costs, input monthly records, and adjust budgets based on upcoming projects, all while minimizing reliance on technical resources. The focus is on enhancing productivity and making financial management more accessible.

OWASP CI/CD Part 6: Insufficient Credential Hygiene

This post, part six of our OWASP CI/CD Top 10 series, looks at some of the common risks associated with Insufficient Credential Hygiene. By better understanding the flaws that affect credential hygiene, we can better understand how even the most sophisticated pipelines were compromised.

Apache Spark security: start with a solid foundation

Everyone agrees security matters – yet when it comes to big data analytics with Apache Spark, it’s not just another checkbox. Spark’s open source Java architecture introduces special security concerns that, if neglected, can quietly reveal sensitive information and interrupt vital functions.

The Future of IT Is Human + Agentic: How Zero Ticket IT Is Reshaping Tech Careers

Automation has always stirred up fears of job loss. For IT professionals, the conversation has only grown louder with the rise of AI. But the truth is that the future of IT is not about replacement—it’s about reinvention. For decades, IT has been defined by its firefighting: manually resolving tickets, managing endless alerts, and fielding repetitive service requests. These tasks are ripe for automation, but automation doesn’t eliminate the need for IT talent.

How to Monitor Kafka Producer Metrics

Your Kafka producer pushed a million messages yesterday. Nice. But can you tell if they all made it? Or why did latency spike at 2 PM? Producer metrics help you determine that. They expose how long messages take to send, whether messages are getting stuck, and whether retries are piling up. Let’s go over which ones help while debugging and how to monitor them.

Opsgenie Is Shutting Down: Why FireHydrant Is the Natural Evolution

Opsgenie set a high bar. For years, it helped teams respond faster and stay on top of incidents with reliable alerting and on-call management. At FireHydrant, we’ve always admired how Opsgenie modeled incident data and structured its workflows — it was one of the best in the game. But as Atlassian sunsets Opsgenie and teams face the pressure to migrate, there’s a real decision to make: move into Jira Service Management, or find a new solution that fits your team’s needs and scale.

DevEx Unpacked 001 - Scaling Secure Software with Alison Sickelka

Episode 001: In this inaugural episode of DevEx Unpacked, host Alan Carson sits down with Alison Sickelka, VP of Product at Cloudsmith, for a deep dive into the evolution of software supply chain security. Alison shares her journey from journalism to product leadership, the unique talent landscape in Belfast, and how Cloudsmith is pioneering secure artifact management. Learn how Cloudsmith's Enterprise Policy Management is shaping compliance strategies, why SBOMs are crucial, and where AI fits in a secure DevOps future.