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Cloud Cost Management: A Compendium of 49 Stats, Benefits, Hard Truths, Tips, and Requirements

Cloud computing has many benefits. But there are also challenges, and cloud cost management may be one of the biggest. Here are 49 stats, benefits, and hard truths you need to know about cloud cost management, along with tips and requirements to help you take control and keep your spending in check while delivering on all the value you’re looking for.

Deploy Container on Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

Since I wrote Launch Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud last week, I kept thinking about putting Ubuntu Desktop into containers. A container is an independent unit of software packages and their dependencies so that the application on the container can run reliably in different computing environments. Docker, an open-source project launched in 2013, made Container technology popular all over the world in just a few years. Why? Let’s compare Containers and Virtual Machines.

Canonical Data Platform 2021 winter roundup

It’s that time of the year again: many folks are panic buying cans of windscreen de-icer spray and thermal underwear, bringing pine trees into the front room and preparing to enjoy an extended break with the family. So we thought to ourselves, what better time than now to take a look back at the year gone by on the Canonical Data Platform?

Announcing MAAS 3.1: bare-metal cloud gets easier

We are happy to announce that MAAS 3.1 has been released. Bare-metal provisioning just got even easier! MAAS 3.1 brings some of the most frequently-requested features into the product. A lot of this is serendipity — or maybe you could say that it’s about like minds tracking the same problem. Either way, we’re doing our best to provide features that match our users’ needs, as soon as we possibly can.

Getting Started with the InfluxDB 2.0 API and Postman

Whether you’re using InfluxDB Cloud or InfluxDB OSS, the InfluxDB API provides a simple way to interact with your InfluxDB instance. The InfluxDB v2.0 API offers a unified approach to querying, writing data to, and assessing the health of your InfluxDB instances. Today we want to share a Postman project to help you use the API easily. Postman is “an API platform for building and using APIs”.

Get alerts on metrics that matter to you with SigNoz - SigNal 07

Welcome to SigNal 07! We sipped coffee, shipped code, fixed bugs, and made commits! The highlight of November was the alerts feature release 🔔. We also expanded our team and got our first community-led tutorial on how to monitor Ruby on Rails app with SigNoz. Let's dive in to see what humans of SigNoz have been up to in the month of November.

The Impact of AI and ML in ITSM with 10 Real World Use Cases

Artificial intelligence (AI) was highlighted as a key IT service management (ITSM) trend in 2021. IT organizations are beginning to employ various AI and machine learning techniques to enhance and improve IT service management processes. Because of the abundance of data generated by ITSM systems, applying machine learning to ITSM processes makes a lot of sense as it can provide IT professionals with a deeper understanding of their infrastructure and procedures.

4 Steps to Making Observability Real for Your Team

Without unified observability, it’s stressful not having complete visibility into your application. Plus, it contributes to risky deployments. Yet we hear that many developers have poor visibility into what powers production code. Without transparency into their apps, developers cannot see: You can try navigating tickets, permissions, and dashboards that don’t tell the right story, but there are ways to solve this problem.