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What is platform engineering and when should you invest in it?

As application platforms grow larger, the idea of DevOps teams where developers support the software development lifecycle, but also manage infrastructure and the platform, is beginning to reach the limits of what these teams can support. Rather than taking their best application developers and making them work on infrastructure problems, more organizations are coming to the conclusion that a centralized platform team specialized in that area is a better use of their developers’ skill sets.

Why Storage Monitoring and Management is More Important Than Ever

In today's data-driven world, the importance of storage monitoring and management cannot be overstated. With the explosive growth of digital information, effective storage solutions and vigilant monitoring have become imperative for businesses to maintain agility, efficiency, security, and scalability. In this blog post, we’ll delve into why storage monitoring and management are crucial and explore practical methods for effective implementation.

Automating Ephemeral Environments with Kubernetes: A Quick Guide

Ephemeral environments are temporary, isolated, but self-contained deployment environments crucial for development and testing within software projects. While I already discussed the basics and benefits of Ephemeral Environments, today I will go through the practical steps of implementing ephemeral environments in your CI/CD pipeline using Kubernetes. I will start with how you can do it with Kubernetes native tools, and how you can automate the ephemeral environments in your CI/CD.

Optimizing IT Operations: Health System Drives Efficiency and Cost Savings

In the critical world of healthcare services, efficiency and accuracy are indispensable. For a leading American health services company catering to the healthcare needs of over 100 million individuals and managing a workforce of more than 100,000 associates, a strategic approach to optimizing IT operations is necessary.

OpsVerse Engineers Discuss Their Favorite Talks from KubeCon 2024

As a company built with open-source, community, and cloud-native technologies at its core, OpsVerse loves attending (and speaking at) CNCF events. And with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe ending a couple of weeks ago, we figured now’s the perfect time to ask some of our engineers which talks they enjoyed the most across KubeCon and in the parallel co-located community days. Here’s what they said.

Secure Connections with Environment-Level VPNs

At Cycle, we've taken a distinctive approach to VPN services, integrating them at the environment level of our platform. In a landscape where complexity can escalate quickly, anchoring each VPN to an environment–a VPC spanning the nodes of a cluster– simplifies management and maintains a high level of isolation.

Kubernetes 1.30 aka Uwubernetes: What's New?

Kubernetes 1.30, the latest release from the Kubernetes project, introduces several significant updates that enhance the orchestration capabilities of the platform. This release continues the trend of evolving Kubernetes into a more robust, scalable, and secure system for managing containerized applications across diverse environments. Below, we delve into the key updates in Kubernetes 1.30.

Early development programmes have a strong part to play in the current data centre skills shortage

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the demand for skilled professionals in the data centre industry has never been higher. And it's not just in our sector, sourcing technical talent and strategies to attract and retain them continues to be an issue in most sectors as a recent Deloitte article highlighted.

How Proper Infrastructure Design Impacts Network Reliability

In the digital age, network reliability is paramount for businesses of all sizes. A robust and dependable network infrastructure ensures seamless operations, uninterrupted communication, and efficient data transfer. However, achieving this level of reliability hinges on a well-designed infrastructure that accounts for factors like redundancy, security, and performance optimization. Proper infrastructure design plays a critical role in reducing downtime, mitigating disruptions, and ultimately improving an organization's bottom line.