Learn how to implement effective Kubernetes observability with metrics, logs, and traces to monitor and optimize your clusters at scale.

Let’s face it—today’s IT environments are messy, complicated beasts. Between hybrid clouds, sprawling networks, legacy systems, and digital transformation demands, the need for intelligent automation and orchestration has never been greater. That’s where Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs) come in. Think of them as the conductors of your IT symphony, ensuring all the instruments (tools, teams, and systems) play together harmoniously.

What is the future of software development and deployment? DevOps processes have helped take developers and operations folks out of their silos and share responsibilities. But is it enough to succeed long term? Many companies have yet to embrace DevOps completely across their teams. Clearly, the culture of sharing tools, a key aspect of DevOps, is not enough.

DCIM software consolidates all critical information into a single dashboard, giving you a bird’s-eye view of your entire infrastructure. Centralized monitoring minimizes blind spots and ensures real-time visibility of key metrics like power usage, cooling efficiency, and server health.

Back in the spotlight, HAProxy 3.1 builds on its history of innovation, delivering improvements that ensure it remains the go-to open source load balancer! As usual, all the features announced in this release will be incorporated into the next enterprise release (HAProxy Enterprise 3.1). HAProxy 3.1 brings improvements to observability, reliability, performance, and flexibility. So everything we love about HAProxy is now even better!

In the landscape of cloud cost optimization, Azure’s discounted Reservations and Savings Plans stand out for their flexibility. On June 6th, 2024 Azure postponed its decision to limit reservation exchangeson its major compute services for an unlimited “grace period”. As a result, commitments on all of Azure’s compute and other services remain highly flexible to modify or exchange.

With automation spanning virtually every sector of society, real-time capable operating systems (OS) are becoming critical across industries, from automotive and telecommunications, to industrial manufacturing. A real-time operating system (RTOS) ensures precise and deterministic responses, meeting strict timing requirements essential for safety and performance.

FP&A tools can help your business assess, plan, and budget business activities effectively. The tools automate much of the work involved, help you tell where you could be losing money, and reveal additional revenue streams you can capitalize on. At a time when SaaS competition is at an all-time high, you need all the advantages at your disposal to deliver the most value at the least cost. This can help you improve your margins, attract more investors, and generate enough profits to fund your growth.

After spending hours or even days manually testing your software, you may be wondering whether or not there’s a better way. The good news? There is.

Crontab logs help you keep your cron jobs in check. Learn how to track, debug, and optimize your cron jobs with crontab logs.