I am thrilled to introduce to you our new billing analytics feature, now generally available to all our users. This feature is designed to empower you with insights into your Qovery usage, enabling you to monitor, control, and optimize your cloud expenses effectively.

In the world of modern businesses, where IT systems play a major role in all types of businesses, the role of the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has become central to managing the effectiveness and reliability of the entire business. SREs are the bridge between the rapid deployment of software and systems and the stable operation of those systems in a production environment. They ensure that reliability and performance criteria are defined and are met.

‘Manual deployment is (should be) a sin.’ Well, calling manual deployment a sin may sound strong, but consider this: building the ultimate development pipeline demands a focus on automation. Although the selection of a deployment method depends on the specific needs and requirements of a project or environment, can you really deny the power of automated deployment? There's a better way.

Phrases like “networks are the backbone of a business” are now ubiquitous, finding their way into many network-related blogs. We are not here to say the same thing again. Instead, we’re here to discuss managing your IP address space within OpManager. This blog explains how adding the IP address manager (IPAM) and switch port mapper (SPM) module within OpManager will enhance your monitoring game. Keep reading and we will tell you how to enable the add-on for free.

For developers working in the Windows environment, selecting the ideal Git client can boost your version control experience. Git clients help manage changes more efficiently, track the history of your projects with greater clarity, and facilitate easier collaboration with team members, regardless of their location. It should provide a tangible interface to navigate branches, review changes, and commit code, minimizing the learning curve for new team members and speeding up the development cycle.

It's important to monitor uWSGI instances to ensure their stability, performance, and availability, helping to identify and address issues promptly before they affect the overall application performance. Monitoring uWSGI instances also provides insights into resource utilization, request throughput, and potential bottlenecks, enabling proactive optimization and efficient scaling of the application infrastructure.

The capability of DCIM software to provide real-time monitoring is critical for timely issue detection and resolution. Considering that data center outages can cost more than $9,000 per minute, as highlighted in a Ponemon Institute study, the importance of immediate response facilitated by DCIM cannot be overstated.

In an era where cloud computing has become the backbone of global business operations, its impact on the environment cannot be overlooked. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, data centers’ energy consumption and carbon footprint have surged, highlighting a critical need for sustainable practices. One often underappreciated lever for environmental stewardship within this digital infrastructure is effective cloud cost management.

Everyone experiences stress at work—thankfully, it’s a topic folks aren’t shying away from anymore. But for on-call engineers, alert fatigue is a phenomenon closer to home. Unfortunately, like stress, it can be just as insidious and drastically impact those it affects. First discussed in the context of hospital settings, this phrase later entered engineering circles.

Around the world, organizations of all sizes rely on Microsoft Azure to bring modern services online—and deliver innovation at scale. Azure provides the flexibility to roll out cloud-based applications at breakneck speed. But running these applications and services in Azure can add complexity for already overworked IT teams, tasked with boosting performance and reducing costs in ever-evolving cloud environments.