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Everything You Need to Know about K3s: Lightweight Kubernetes for IoT, Edge Computing, Embedded Systems & More

If you are a vivid traveler of the tech universe, you’ve likely come across this term: Kubernetes. Scratching your head? Let me make it clear: In simple terms, we know Kubernetes — or K8s — as a portable and extensible platform for managing containerized workloads and services. It can facilitate both declarative configurations as well as automation.

How I cut my AKS cluster costs by 82%

With our recent announcement regarding the general availability of Ocean for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), I decided to migrate one of our production services. The service was already running on AKS, but will now be managed by Spot’s Ocean for AKS. TL;DR: The results are pretty cool, as I was able to cut 82% out of the existing spending for this AKS cluster. You can see the results in the screen capture below.

Simplifying Cloud Database Migration Journeys

COVID-19 was a significant driving force for organisational change. Businesses had to quickly transition to remote working almost overnight, and digital transformation became crucial for companies to survive. Because of this, the pandemic notably accelerated a swift move to the cloud, with cloud-first organisations now outnumbering on-premises companies by a ratio of three-to-one. A whopping 81% of organisations said they had accelerated their cloud timelines and plans due to the pandemic.

Troubleshoot end-to-end tests with CI Visibility and RUM

Adding automated testing to your CI/CD pipelines can help you ensure that you deploy changes safely. But as you continue to shift left, the number and complexity of tests are likely to increase, making them slower to run and harder to troubleshoot. Datadog CI Visibility can help you track the performance of your CI/CD pipelines and tests—and now you can also use Real User Monitoring (RUM) to monitor end-to-end (E2E) Cypress tests.

The 5 Best AWS Reporting Tools For Monitoring Usage And Cost

While modernizing IT infrastructure, securing data, and ensuring high availability are high priorities, optimizing AWS costs and utilization has consistently been the top priority for most companies in recent years. As a result, AWS introduced Cost and Usage Reports (CUR). AWS designed CUR to provide granular data on resource consumption and associated costs in the AWS environment.

Making Go errors play nice with Sentry

Here at incident.io, we provide a Slack-based incident response tool. The product is powered by a monolithic Go backend service, serving an API that powers Slack interactions, serves an API for our web dashboard, and runs background jobs that help run our customers incidents. Incidents are high-stakes, and we want to know when something has gone wrong. One of the tools we use is Sentry, which is where our Go backend send its errors.