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The Current State of Workload Portability

Have you considered cloud portability, i.e., the ability to easily move workloads between on-premises systems and across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs)? The idea is that workloads should run in the environment that delivers the most value for your organization, but as that “optimal” environment can change over time, you need to be able to move your workloads accordingly.

Serverless Monitoring In The Cloud With The observIQ Distro for OpenTelemetry

In this part 1 of a blog series on serverless monitoring, we will learn how to run the observIQ Distro For OpenTelemetry Collector, referred to as “oiq-otel-collector”, in Google Cloud Run. There are many reasons that someone may want to run monitoring in a serverless state. In our example, we will be monitoring MongoDB Atlas, a cloud hosted version of MongoDB.

Conditional CircleCI pipeline execution

The DevOps practice of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) improves software delivery. CI/CD platforms monitor and automate the application development process ensuring a better application, faster. CI/CD pipelines build code, run tests, and deploy a production-ready version of an application that has passed all automated checks.

Cultural Adoption of Automation

You're convinced that automation of standard, basic tasks is the right way to go for your team. You want to get your teams """"out of the muck"""" and into more value-added tasks, such as the creation of new features, or launching new clients, or expansion into new territories. How do you build consensus with your teams? With your leadership? To convince your executive team that automation is the way to go, they'll insist on metrics to capture their return, whether through increased agility, improved service stability, and so on.