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Why Unit Cost Must Be Your North Star Metric In The Cloud

You’re a savvy SaaS business leader, so you already know the importance of keeping costs low to maximize your margins. What you might not have considered, however, is how tracking unit cost in your cloud spend data can help you achieve optimizations far beyond what you’d get with traditional cost-cutting methods. Keep reading to learn how cloud spend unit costs can drive savings you never knew were possible.

Optimizing Workloads in Kubernetes: Understanding Requests and Limits

Kubernetes has emerged as a cornerstone of modern infrastructure orchestration in the ever-evolving landscape of containerized applications and dynamic workloads. One of the critical challenges Kubernetes addresses is efficient resource management – ensuring that applications receive the right amount of compute resources while preventing resource contention that can degrade performance and stability.

SharePoint Admin Guide for Beginners

SharePoint is a Microsoft-owned platform that provides an extensive range of solutions for content management and collaboration within and outside an organization. Built on a web-based technology stack, it integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office 365 and offers features like document libraries, team sites, intranets, extranets, and advanced search functionalities. It can be deployed both on-premises or in the cloud.

Webinar: Best Practices for Measuring and Growing Developer Productivity

Knowing how productive your development team is is essential to planning your software delivery timeline and releasing high-quality software to the end-user. However, there exist several misconceptions about what developer productivity is and how it can be increased. Developer productivity is not a single metric you can measure, like the number of pull requests each developer in the team is making in a given development time. Instead, it comprises a variety of interconnected aspects that can be measured by different metrics and improved over time.

Webinar: Still using spreadsheets to track your services? You need a developer portal.

Back by popular demand, Ganesh Datta will cover Developer Portals and why users look to Cortex for running efficient engineering teams. Developer portals have become increasingly important to run an efficient engineering team especially as the number of services or engineers scale. Learn more about why companies adopt developer portals, how to maximize their impact, and how they can help your team reduce the organizational complexity that comes with running a service oriented architecture.

Rescue Struggling Pods from Scratch

Containers are an amazing technology. They provide huge benefits and create useful constraints for distributing software. Golang-based software doesn’t need a container in the same way Ruby or Python would bundle the runtime and dependencies. For a statically compiled Go application, the container doesn’t need much beyond the binary.

Building a Forge app in Bitbucket Cloud | Atlassian

Atlassian’s product extensibility framework, Forge, enables customers to extend the native capabilities of Atlassian products, like Bitbucket Cloud, to perfectly meet the needs of their unique organisation. Using Forge, software teams can use the skills they already possess to enhance the native functionality of Bitbucket Cloud to create the perfect DevOps tools for their needs.