Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The Case for Kubernetes Alternatives and Why So Many are Choosing Cycle

Kubernetes has become quite the conundrum. It’s 2024 and more teams than ever are looking for an alternative to the self proclaimed “de-facto” container solution for reasons ranging from long term complexity to its absolutely massive cost to maintain. So here’s the scoop. Teams have been ditching Kubernetes faster than hipsters drop mainstream coffee chains for that obscure, single-origin brew. Why?

Broadcaster TV2 Norway Boosts Developer Productivity with Aiven Platform

Watch how TV2 Norway, the largest commercial TV station in Norway, partnered with Aiven to enhance its development environment, lower risks, and gain control over costs. From Aiven for Apache Kafka® to Aiven for PostgreSQL®, see how TV2 streamlined its data infrastructure and empowered teams to focus on innovation. Join us on this journey of transformation in the media and entertainment industry! Discover how TV2 revolutionized its data environment with Aiven across clouds.

The Role of APM in DevOps and SRE Practices

As the software development world becomes faster, enterprises must adapt to customer demands by increasing their application’s deployment frequency. They often rely on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) methodologies to achieve this. These approaches ensure high system availability amidst frequent deployments and prioritize delivering a seamless user experience.

Accelerate AIOps with Hollywood's Human-Friendly AI Insights

AI has emerged as a major inflection point in the technology industry, driving providers to rush to introduce AI-enhanced products and services. The remarkable momentum surrounding AI, fueled by its perceived value and excitement, is evident, with businesses reporting an average return on investment of 3.5 times or 250%, according to IDC. Consequently, it comes as no surprise that IDC anticipates a shift in IT spending toward AI.

Mastering FinOps: The 7 Essential KPIs

Navigating the complexities of cloud financial management requires more than just tracking costs – it demands a strategic approach to measure and optimize cloud spend. We have put together our top 7 KPIs, ranging from allocatable cloud spend and average hourly costs to sophisticated forecasting, to effectively gauge your FinOps solution success. Each KPI offers unique insights, helping businesses manage and maximize their cloud investments.

Creating visualizations with Grafana | Grafana for Beginners Ep. 9

Creating visualizations is one of the most effective ways to understand your data. Join Senior Developer Advocate, Lisa Jung to learn how to create gauge, time series line graph, stats, logs, and node graph visualizations using Grafana. The following are covered in this episode: ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and more. We have a generous forever-free tier and plans for every use case.

The Debrief: Introducing incident.io On-call

This is on-call as it should be. The secret's out. The world can finally know. incident.io On-call is here. Naturally, a lot of you may be wondering: why and why now. So to help answer those questions, we sat down with Chris and Pete, two of our co-founders here at incident.io to get a bit of background on this project: This episode will not only get you excited about this huge week, it'll get you pumped for what's ahead for on-call.