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Most companies overspend on cloud services. Many factors contribute to this problem, and while organizations know that their cloud budgets are bloated, they still struggle to reel in those costs. Are they implementing the tools and processes to track their cloud costs effectively? And are they adopting controls to instill discipline and accountability in their cloud spending habits? We explored these questions in our latest State of Multi-Cloud Management research report.

Buildpacks and Docker are popular containerizations and modern software development tools that package and deploy applications that provide portable and reproducible containers. While providing similar end results, they have different approaches and use cases. In this article, I will expose our experience at Qovery dealing with Buildpacks and why we strongly advise you to move away from it as soon as your project gets any more serious.

Incident management is a team effort. While it's true that incident management should be seen as a company-wide effort, and you should empower all teams to declare incidents, this differs from the team effort I'm referring to here. No, incident management is a team effort in the sense that no one tool can do it all, not even incident.io. We covered as much when we discussed why we integrate with tools that can be seen as our competitors – and that’s OK!

DevOps has become the dominant software development and deployment methodology over the past decade. In Atlassian’s DevOps Trends Survey, over half of the respondents said that their organizations had a dedicated DevOps team and 99% of respondents indicated that DevOps had a positive impact on their organization. In addition to DevOps teams, many have implemented Platform Engineering as a discipline, or designing technology platforms as a foundation for developers to build and deploy applications.

Downtime can be a nightmare for any online business. As the digital landscape continues to expand, the importance of maintaining a reliable and stable online presence has never been greater. While most businesses recognize the direct costs associated with downtime, such as lost revenue and productivity, there are hidden costs that can have a lasting impact on your business.

Monitoring an enterprise network is challenging for two reasons: the size of the network and the distributed architecture it follows. In the distributed model, branches spread across the globe, requiring a centralized monitoring solution. As the business grows, more devices will be added to the network, meaning your enterprise monitoring tool must be able to scale to match the performance requirements.