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Cyber resilience: What it is & why it's important

In today’s age of high-profile data breaches, supply chain attacks, and aging legacy software, smart organizations understand it’s no longer a matter of whether their systems will be compromised but when it will happen next. In fact, one recent study found that 68% of organizations experienced a cyberattack within the last 12 months (experiencing an attack doesn’t necessarily mean it was successful).

AWS Vs. Azure Vs. Google Cloud: Which Is Right For Your Organization?

Here is the thing. You don’t need more than one cloud service provider unless you are considering a multi-cloud strategy. And even if you plan to work with all three cloud vendors, you’ll want to know which one is right for specific services. To help you decide, we’ll share the strengths, pricing, and other differences between Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) below. Let’s start from the very beginning.

Realistic Strategies for FinOps Driven K8s Optimization

Reduce node counts to drive down infrastructure costs (on-prem and in the cloud). Get an overview of common issues that drive excess cost and understanding the 3 core strategies for tackling them. Done right, you can reduce node counts, which in turn impacts infrastructure cost and potentially reduces expensive software licenses such as OpenShift. In this 20-min session we cover the 3 core strategies.

5 Strategies for Decreasing API Latency and Improving App Performance

Application performance can make the difference between retaining or losing customers, with delays beyond a few seconds leading to dropped conversions. Performance testing and monitoring are vital for improving the overall user experience, achieving a competitive advantage, enhancing resource efficiency, enabling scalability, and reducing costs.

Enhancing Marketing Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide to Connecting HubSpot and Power BI

Understanding the nuances of marketing data is no longer a luxury but a strategic necessity; and this is where the fusion of two powerful tools, HubSpot and Power BI, takes center stage, offering an integration that transforms raw data into meaningful intelligence.

Tips for Monitoring Kubernetes Applications

Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help optimize infrastructure usage, improve planning, and resolve incidents quickly. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to the extent that monitoring also has to evolve.

Monitoring Kubernetes with Hosted Graphite by MetricFire

In this article, we will be looking into Kubernetes monitoring with Graphite and Grafana. Specifically, we will look at how your whole Kubernetes set-up can be centrally monitored through Hosted Graphite and Hosted Grafana dashboards. This will allow Kubernetes Administrators to centrally manage all of their Kubernetes clusters without setting up any additional infrastructure for monitoring.

Top ten Git tips & tricks

Git is one of the most widely used collaboration tools in Software development. Even software developers working without teams often use Git as a version control system. Most people interact with Git through the command line, but many code editors and IDEs have Git integrations with built-in tools to make your workflow easier. Though Git is widely used, many developers only have a surface-level appreciation of all that Git has to offer.