Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Observability costs are exploding as businesses strive to deliver maximum customer satisfaction with high performance and 24/7 availability. Global annual spending on observability in 2024 is well over 2.4 billion USD and is expected to reach 4.1 billion USD by 2028. On an individual company basis, this is reflected by observability costs ranging from 10-30% of overall infrastructure spend. These costs will undoubtedly rise with digital environments expanding and becoming ever more complex.

I first started my career in IT support back in 2003 when VMs where something that was “coming” rather than mainstream, so I had the privilege of witnessing the birth of VMs first hand when my company made the switch from bare metal to VMware GSX running on top of Windows Server 2003.

In previous roles I have been both an Engineering Manager responsible for a team, and a Program Manager responsible for branching strategy and process around CICD pipelines. In both of those roles (but for very different reasons), my product's build quality has been critical to product success. The obvious "why" to this is no builds, no product, but the real why is much more nuanced.

Azure storage pricing can be complex, with multiple tiers, storage types, and payment options to consider. This complexity can lead to unexpected costs, ruining your Azure cloud budget. Additional fees for read/write transactions, metadata storage, snapshots, and early deletion fees can add up. The good thing is you can review and adjust your storage configurations to minimize unnecessary costs.

For security reasons, you generally want to uninstall talk, samba, and apache2 in your infrastructure. However, on your webservers, which have the webserver CFEngine class defined, you might want Apache to be installed. With the conditional-installer module, you can put talk,samba,apache2 in the list of packages to uninstall. And in the list of packages to install, you can put apache2 with the condition webserver. Hence, the module will install apache2 on your webservers and uninstall it everywhere else.

We're in 2024, and one thing has become clear: the future belongs to those who can harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI). At Qovery, we are at the forefront of this transformation, integrating AI into our internal developer platform to revolutionize how developers manage their application lifecycles. Our mission is to empower developers with autonomy, efficiency, and deep insights, ensuring they can focus on what they do best — building great software.

A vital aspect of working in IT is that you need to effectively monitor a broad range of KPIs and metrics to ensure the smooth operation of your IT infrastructure. IT dashboards streamline this process as they are specialized dashboards designed to offer insights and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to numerous aspects of IT operations and infrastructure.

This article explains how to show cron jobs for all users and the current user on a Linux system. It covers ways to list cron jobs as a root user, view system-wide cron jobs, and check user-specific cron tasks. The article also explains how to read cron job formats and gives examples of common cron job setups.

We've been there, done that, and we're here to help. Drawing from our extensive experience with customers managing thousands of projects, navigating diverse tech stacks in the open source world, and tackling the complexities of ecommerce, we've put together a list of essential requirements for your next website relaunch. Consider these fundamentals from the start to ensure you benefit from enhanced site speed and performance, making your project launch smoother and more successful.

Denis Gontcharov is a data consultant who helps aluminum smelters break down data barriers. For the past five years, he has supported the aluminum industry with IT and data services as an independent consultant. Denis also works as a Developer Advocate at the United Manufacturing Hub. Jeremy Theocharis is co-founder and CTO at United Manufacturing Hub. He is an expert in industrial IoT with over seven years of experience leading large-scale IIoT projects in various industries.