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How to gain holistic visibility and continuous optimization for AWS with Spot by NetApp

In today’s fast-paced business world, the best way to get a handle on your organization’s cloud costs is by using automation to optimize cloud cost and resource utilization. Today, this can be achieved through Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps). FinOps is an operational practice that enables data-driven decision making around cloud costs and creates financial accountability through collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams.

Build vs Buy: When to Build or Buy an Internal Developer Platform

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is an ecosystem that empowers developers to manage the entire application lifecycle from development to deployment autonomously. As a vital component for organizations, the implementation of an IDP often presents a ‘Build vs. Buy’ dilemma: should you construct your own IDP, tailored to your unique needs, or would it be more efficient to purchase a pre-built solution?

15 Engineering KPIs to Improve Software Development

Software engineering key performance indicators (KPIs) help engineer leadings keep teams accountable while ensuring focus on highest leverage activities. They are essential for driving process improvement, managing risks, supporting data-driven decision making, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Without KPIs, teams may encounter challenges related to visibility, efficiency, decision-making, quality, and customer satisfaction, which can ultimately impact project success and organizational performance.

The Benefits of Using vSphere and Terraform Together

Terraform continues to be one of the biggest names in the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) field, but other players are also making their presence felt. One of the relatively new solutions currently seeing momentum in IaC is vSphere, a virtualization platform developed by VMware, Inc. It is intended for the virtualization of physical servers and the consolidation of the virtualized servers to enhance scalability, agility, and efficiency in IT infrastructure management.

Enhancing Application Performance With Open-Source Front-End Monitoring Tools

In a digital era where user experience is often a critical component of business success, understanding the need for front-end monitoring is crucial. We’ve all experienced the frustration of a slow-loading website or glitchy interface – it’s the online equivalent of waiting in a long line at a grocery store. However, these seemingly minor hiccups can have a profound impact on a company’s bottom line.

Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.11

HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.11 is now available. For our enterprise customers, HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.11 is coming soon and will incorporate the same features. In this release, we enhanced security through the adoption of rootless containers, graduated our custom resource definitions to v1, made them easier to manage, and introduced support for the QUIC protocol.

5 Easy Ways to Reduce Work-Related Stress for SRE Professionals

It's completely normal to feel a little overwhelmed and stressed out at work these days. Technology has collaboration moving at the speed of light, and time away from screens is at an all-time low, blurring the lines between work and personal time. Plus, it's hard to ignore the multitude of tech outages that have been making headlines lately, leaving teams anxiously on edge. When you are a professional with on-call cycles, the potential of outages adds another level of complexity to the mix.