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GKE Cost Optimization: Best Practices To Help You Save

GKE is a powerful tool for managing and deploying containerized apps. As organizations expand and fully leverage its capabilities, managing costs becomes a significant challenge. Without a strategy for cutting GKE expenses, cloud spending can quickly spiral out of control. This guide aims to simplify the complexities of GKE pricing and offer actionable cost optimization tips to help you save on costs. We’ll cover insights for making your GKE usage efficient and cost-effective.

What to consider when introducing a new database platform

This is a guest post from Mri Pandit. With the rise in the quantity and the complexity of data organizations now need to handle, the nature of the data that you store is driving the reason for your database platform of choice. Sometimes you have a mix of data, where some is relational and some is heterogeneous, which cannot be contained in a relational format.

Can Developer Tools Transform Software Security? Unpacking the Shift Left Approach

Emre Baran, co-founder and CEO of Cerbos, joined us at Civo Navigate North America 2024 to speak about the transformative world of developer tools within the "shift left" security approach in software development. During this session, he explains the vital role of building effective authorization layers, enhancing developer experiences, and the pressing need to integrate security early in the development lifecycle.

DISA STIGs: Who Needs Them & How to Enforce DISA STIG Compliance

DISA STIGs are an important compliance standard. There’s a security technical implementation guide (STIG) for almost every kind of technology in an IT environment, and each STIG can include hundreds of individual settings, configurations, and recommendations for ensuring compliance and security.

Quality Engineering: Mastering quality control & assurance

We know speed to market matters—now more than ever. Bill Gates said in the nineties that “if you don’t meet customer demand quickly enough, without sacrificing quality, someone else will.” But software quality also matters, affecting everything from customer loyalty to developer experience. Poor quality causes immediate issues like bugs and crashes, as well as building technical debt and making updates needlessly hard.

Control multi-regional infrastructure in a monorepo with CircleCI

How can your organization leverage continuous integration (CI) to manage your infrastructure at scale in a reliable, secure, and repeatable fashion? If you are maintaining multiple projects, the monorepo strategy can be a useful approach that allows for a unified build and CI process and makes it easier to enforce coding standards and organizational practices. It can also help DevOps and platform teams streamline dependency management to reduce conflicts and compatibility issues.

Surfing the Argo CD Sync Waves with Frederic Harper

Join Frederic Harper from @kubefirst as he explores the dynamic capabilities of Argo CD in this enlightening presentation. Discover how Argo CD transforms Kubernetes and cloud-native application management through GitOps. From synchronization features to security enhancements, learn how this tool can streamline your development processes. Perfect for developers looking to deepen their understanding of continuous delivery within a GitOps framework.