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Enhancing Service Reliability: Uniting Rootly's Incident Management and Backstage's Software Catalog

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the reliability of services is paramount for businesses aiming to deliver seamless user experiences. However, as the complexity of companies' environments grows, ensuring your services, infrastructure and applications are reliable and resilient to failure is challenging. It’s naive to think all services and infrastructure are operating 100% as designed.

Cloud Cost Incidents: Catching Cost Calamities on Time

Cloud cost management, also referred to as cloud cost optimization, is the process of managing and controlling a company’s spending on cloud services. This can be achieved through a variety of methods, such as usage monitoring, resource optimization, and cost forecasting. The first step in managing cloud costs is to understand how cloud resources are being used. This involves tracking the usage of each service and identifying any trends or patterns.

#017 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Nilesh Gule (DBS Bank)

Nilesh is a Vice President at DBS Bank, where he leads the design and implementation of scalable and innovative solutions using hybrid cloud, big data, and emerging technologies. He has over 2 decades of experience as a software developer, architect, and leader in various domains such as BFSI, healthcare, and retail. He is a Microsoft MVP for Azure since 2018 and the first Docker Captain in Singapore for his excellent contributions to technical communities.

Never miss an Outage: Improve your monitoring with Checkly's Parallel Scheduling

In this video, you will learn how to leverage Checkly's parallel scheduling feature to simultaneously monitor and test all your essential production targets. This knowledge will help you reduce your mean time to detect outages, assess whether production problems are regional or global, and enhance your monitoring data granularity.

GitKraken Workshop: Making Sense of Multi-Repo Madness

It's painful managing multiple repos. Whether you're a developer juggling between different app windows, or a manager looking to understand what's happening – GitKraken Workspaces and Insights provide an easy way to organize the chaos into something informative and actionable. (And don't worry. If you're working with a mono-repo, we'll have insights for your use case too.) In this workshop, Trevor Polidore and Kevin Bost explore ways to save time and reduce headaches when working with a large number of repos.

8 Powerful CLI Extensions on GitHub in 2024

The command line interface (CLI) has its roots embedded in the early eras of computing, back when storage was measured not in gigabytes, but in square feet of room space. Unlike today’s icon-filled screens, the CLI offers a text-only portal into the depths of a computer, using typed commands to perform operations. This simplicity masked an underlying robustness and efficiency, which has endeared it to generations of developers.

Zurich, a new low-carbon-powered public region, now available on Upsun

The new Upsun Swiss public region empowers organizations to meet sustainability, data localization, and compliance requirements in the Zurich Google Cloud region. Our new public region has been launched in response to increasing demand from Swiss businesses—and those with an international footprint doing business in Switzerland—that need to ensure their data is held locally.

Mastering the Cloud Migration: The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Migration Tools

Clouds aren’t magical data farms in the sky; they’re the backbone of modern infrastructure. Whether you’re using a public cloud, private cloud, or a mix of both, migrating to cloud-based infrastructure is not just a trend; it’s a strategic move for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Cloud migration—moving data, applications, and workloads to the cloud (or between clouds)—is a critical step in this transformation.