You might wonder how companies using Amazon Web Services waste more than $10 billion annually. It’s easy to ask, “why don’t they just reduce their spending?” Well, it’s because there’s more to it than that. AWS offers many options — over 200 different services, for example. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides over 300 AWS instance types spread over five unique instance families.

In today’s fast-paced tech industry, CTOs of growing scaleups face the challenge of delivering products faster while maintaining high quality and controlling costs. One powerful way to tackle this challenge is by automating development environments, which can significantly improve productivity, reduce errors, and speed up the entire development process.

For growing companies, speed and agility are essential to staying competitive in today’s fast-paced market. One of the most critical factors in accelerating product development is creating faster feedback loops. The quicker your team can test, identify issues, and refine code, the faster you can ship high-quality features. One of the best tools to achieve this goal is ephemeral environments.

In the rapidly evolving world of cloud-native development, staying ahead of the competition requires more than just efficient coding—it demands streamlined infrastructure management, faster feedback loops, and optimized workflows. As development teams increasingly adopt cloud-native architectures, the need for tools that simplify complex environments and boost productivity is paramount.

Speedscale and Coder are two distinct tools that, while both aim to increase developer productivity, serve fundamentally different purposes. Both provide software development environments for enhancing productivity and collaboration in software development teams.

Incident management isn't just a buzzword—it's critical to keeping operations running smoothly. When systems fail, the ripple effects can be costly. For enterprises, maintaining service continuity and keeping customers satisfied depends on quick, efficient incident responses. That's where tools like Jira Service Management (JSM) and ServiceNow come in.

As your startup grows, infrastructure and deployment get more complex, raising a key question: “Do we need a DevOps engineer?” While automation tools can handle many tasks early on, there comes a point when manual intervention becomes necessary to scale efficiently and securely. This guide will help you assess when it’s time to hire your first DevOps engineer, the key responsibilities they bring, and alternatives that can delay the need for a full-time hire.

Measuring progress in software development is hard. Our industry is defined by complexity, entropy, shifting deadlines and priorities, and customer expectations that evolve almost as quickly as the technology that we use every day. The nature of this environment means that we need to apply continuous feedback loops, robust frameworks and structured approaches to do good work.

Cloud migration–often also referred to as digital transformation or cloud modernization–is a critical process organizations undertake to enhance their IT infrastructure. Whether moving from traditional data centers to the public cloud (“lift and shift”) or transitioning from public cloud VMs to PaaS services (“refactoring”), cloud migration presents a set of common challenges that can impact project success.

Get a quick overview of Day 1 at PromCon 2024, which featured significant announcements on Prometheus 3.0 and OpenTelemetry compatibility.