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Optimizing Azure Budgets: A Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring Sub-Threshold Alerts

Jan 31, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Optimizing Azure Budgets: A Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring Sub-Threshold Alerts This video explains how users can create sub-threshold alerts. Michael Stephenson (Product owner for Turbo360) demonstrates how users can set up alerts for different thresholds (like 50% and 75%) of their monthly budget. This enables users to receive notifications before hitting the overall budget limit.
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How Xero Scaled Engineering Excellence with Cortex

Jan 31, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Mark Dunlop, Head of Engineering Experience at Xero, shares how their team transitioned from managing service ownership in spreadsheets to building an internal portal—only to outgrow it. By adopting Cortex, Xero gained a centralized source of truth for ownership, compliance, and engineering standards across their globally distributed teams. With features like scorecards and workflows, Cortex is helping Xero drive engineering excellence, improve standardization, and elevate conversations beyond engineers to GMs and executive leaders. Watch to learn how Cortex is shaping the future of engineering at Xero!
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cloudzero

30 FP&A Interview Questions And How To Assess The Answers

Jan 31, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Finding trained financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals isn’t too much trouble for most companies. The tricky part is finding a candidate with the right technical and soft skills for your organization’s needs. The following interview questions will help you find a qualified FP&A professional for your company. Listen to their responses to gauge their reasoning, expertise, situational awareness, ambition, and individual attitude toward various aspects of the FP&A profession.
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cloudsmith

Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Automated Policy Checks

Jan 31, 2025 By Maia Livingstone In Cloudsmith
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines power modern DevOps. They enable teams to deliver software faster, with greater reliability and confidence. However, as development accelerates, ensuring security, compliance, and quality becomes increasingly complex. Automated policy checks streamline CI/CD pipelines by addressing these challenges directly.
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speedscale

Using Python MockServer for API Testing

Jan 30, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Using a mock server is a popular method of working around these limitations and realities, allowing you to test web server assets against specific requests, ensuring that your response data matches the expected outcome. Today, we’re going to look at a powerful solution for Python clients in the form of MockServer. We’ll walk through the tool’s basics and learn how to use it for your own testing.
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Komodor

Managing External-DNS & cert-manager with Komodor

Jan 30, 2025 By Itiel Shwartz In Komodor
Recently we’ve explored the evolving role of Kubernetes as a full ecosystem, rather than just a platform, diving into the power and complexity of add-ons. These tools, as highlighted previously, are key to augmenting Kubernetes core capabilities, and adding-on (as their name implies) essential capabilities not supported directly by Kubernetes itself.
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civo

DeepSeek vs Llama vs GPT-4 - Open-Source AI models compared

Jan 30, 2025 By Josh Mesout In Civo
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept—it is shaping how businesses operate, how researchers innovate, and how people interact with technology. Models like DeepSeek-R1 , a promising new entrant, alongside established players such as Llama 3 and GPT-4o, are at the forefront of this transformation. These tools are not just about technological advancement; they are about solving real-world problems and driving meaningful progress.
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resolve

Get One Step Closer to the Dark NOC with Incident Response Automation

Jan 30, 2025 By Graham McDonough In Resolve
Imagine a world where your Network Operations Center (NOC) runs so smoothly that it practically disappears into the background—no manual ticket triaging, no frantic war rooms, no all-nighters spent chasing false alarms. That’s the dream of a Dark NOC—a fully autonomous operations center where automation takes the wheel, reducing human intervention to a bare minimum.
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PagerDuty Runbook Automation 2024 Year in Review

Jan 30, 2025 By PagerDuty In PagerDuty
Special guest Jeff Hausman, PagerDuty’s Chief Product Development Officer kicks off our 2024 recap for PagerDuty Runbook Automation and Rundeck Open Source. Then Jake and Forrest take us through all of the amazing improvements and new features added to the product, including shout outs to the amazing folks contributing to the Open Source repos and a customer success story from Ryanair.
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