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The Limitations of Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams has emerged as a cornerstone of modern workplace collaboration, offering a suite of tools designed to streamline communication and project management. Despite its widespread adoption, it’s crucial to acknowledge that no platform is without its limitations. Understanding these constraints is essential for organizations to navigate potential roadblocks effectively and make informed decisions about their communication infrastructure.

Orchestration as a Data Management Challenge-Part 2

In Part 1 of this blog series, I proposed that closed-loop orchestration (CLO) is a data management problem. Data extends beyond your medical history, social media, and other PII in the digital world. Configurations, inventories, and monitoring systems are based on managing, interpreting, and actioning data. CLO is a workflow about manipulating the data around the target environments. Even the policies and constraints need to be expressed as data.

5 Elasticsearch Disadvantages You Should Know

Since its initial release in 2010, Elasticsearch has grown into the most popular enterprise search engine with use cases that range from web crawling and website search to application performance monitoring and security log analytics. But despite its widespread adoption and success, Elasticsearch does have some notable disadvantages that you should consider - especially if you’re envisioning a high-scale deployment with a large amount of daily ingestion.

Recapping KubeCon North America 2023

If you missed KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, or you were there and spent more time in the “hallway tracks,” you may have missed some of the big news that came out of the show. We covered the big happenings in the open source cloud native and observability realm in the latest episode of OpenObservability Talks!

Optimize your MLOps pipelines with inbound webhooks

In a traditional DevOps implementation, you automate the build, test, release, and deploy process by setting up a CI/CD workflow that runs whenever a change is committed to a code repository. This approach is also useful in MLOps: If you make changes to your machine learning logic in your code, it can trigger your workflow. But what about changes that happen outside of your code repository?

Deploy and manage AI workloads on Scaleway infrastructure with CircleCI

With automation and CI/CD practices, the entire AI workflow can be run and monitored efficiently, often by a single expert. Still, running AI/ML on GPU instances has its challenges. This tutorial shows you how to meet those challenges using the control and flexibility of CircleCI runners combined with Scaleway, a powerful cloud ecosystem for building, training, and deploying applications at scale.

Product Release Notes October 2023

The 2023 CloudZero Makeover (Rebrand) Role-Based Access Control: New Editor Role Usage Data In Analytics View Your Data By GCP Tags CostFormation® Proportional Allocation Improvements Small Bites If you’ve visited CloudZero lately, you’ve probably seen a few changes. New logo, new app, new website, new look and feel — okay, more than a few changes. What provoked the rebrand?

Introducing Responsive Pipelines from Mezmo

The ability to swiftly resolve incidents is central to SREs responsible for a service's reliability and its users' satisfaction. Mezmo has recognized this need and, at Kubecon, unveiled an innovative solution: Mezmo Responsive Pipelines. Responsive Pipelines enable users to pre-configure a Pipeline to respond automatically in the case of an incident.

Aggregating Logs From Microservices-Best Practices

Depending on where you are on your journey with microservices, you may have noticed visibility into the system can be a bit tricky at times. Well, there’s good news. Not knowing what’s going on in the system is a solvable problem. One of the first things you can do is get your logs in order. And one of the best ways of doing so is aggregating your logs into a single logging service.