It might not be anywhere near springtime yet, but it’s still the perfect time to plant seeds for your brand new (or redesigned, or fine-tuned …) cost management strategy for 2025. To make sure your foundation is solid as you move forward, take advantage of these helpful resources for building and refining your FinOps practice: Think of brushing up on all this knowledge as the business version of hitting the gym for the new year.

How is DevOps going within your organization? If you need help measuring its success, we have prepared a list of key DevOps metrics such as MTTR MTBF, MTTA, and MTTF to track. These metrics can help you understand how your team is doing over time.

Docker is a helpful tool for application management. You can use Docker in various ways: in the standalone mode, using Docker Compose on a single host, or by deploying containers and connecting Docker engines across multiple hosts. The user can use Docker containers with the default network, the host network, or other more advanced networks like overlays. This depends on the use case and/or the adopted technologies.

Reliability testing is ongoing work, and tracking that work can be difficult in large organizations. Engineers run one-off experiments, scheduled Scenarios run in the background, and, for more mature teams, CI/CD workflows fire off automated tests on demand. According to our own product metrics, teams run an average of 200 to 500 tests each day! With so much happening, it’s hard to keep track of everything going on in Gremlin—until now.

Enterprise GenAI prototypes are everywhere. GenAI in production are far fewer. Why? Management consultancies have different success numbers – we’ve heard 3% or 5% going to prod across tens of thousands of AI proof of concepts. For obvious reasons, it’s not a number LLM enthusiasts want to talk about. But we probably should.

Enterprise organizations often spend a large portion of their IT budgets on database licensing—particularly Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server fees. Yet there is an often-overlooked strategy that can unlock significant cost savings: in-memory caching. By leveraging caching layers such as AWS ElastiCache, you can reduce the load on primary databases, shrink compute footprints, and ultimately lower your overall licensing spend.

Learn what SLOs are, how to set them effectively, best practices, and key metrics for optimal service reliability. Cortex|

Learn how to migrate from on-prem to the cloud with ease. Explore benefits, strategies, steps, and best practices for a seamless transition. Cortex|

SaaS tools enable companies of all sizes to get to market quickly, enhance their service delivery, and improve efficiency. By leveraging “ready-to-go” and “proven” platforms, SaaS companies can also avoid building systems from scratch, which is time-consuming and costly. Yet, 61% of companies have over 100 SaaS applications, which can be overwhelming to manage. Orphaned subscriptions are also common. Most companies regularly use only about half of their SaaS stack.