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How Our FinOps Account Management Team Helps You Achieve Your Cloud Savings Goals

At CloudZero, we’re in the business of driving positive business change. Whenever we work with a client, our goal is to share insights rooted in our FinOps perspective and platform expertise that helps customers save on cloud costs and build strategies for engineering-led optimizations. Each experience is curated for the clients FinOps maturity stage and unique business goals; that’s what personalized service is all about.

Getting started with Azure Integration Services - Stephen W. Thomas

Stephen W. Thomas takes center stage in this session, reflecting on past Integrate experiences and talking about the Azure Integration Services. Labeling himself a "drag-and-drop developer," Stephen emphasizes the timeliness of adopting Azure Integration, vital for seamless business operations in today's virtual landscapes. From Logic Apps to AI Tools like ChatGPT, get a pulse on current market trends, the rising demand for Azure resources, and insights on strategizing BizTalk migration.

Bare metal vs virtual machines vs containers: Which is the right infrastructure for me?

There are three main infrastructure types to consider when hosting and deploying applications: Bare Metal, Virtual Machines (VMs), and Containers, each with its own advantages and disadvantages depending on your use case. The three technologies are not mutually exclusive however, as both VMs and containers run on top of bare metal servers, while containers can also be deployed inside VMs.

Understanding Request Latency with Profiling

It can be hard to figure out why response times are high in Java applications. In my experience, when engineers investigate this type of issue, they typically use one of two methods: They either apply a process of elimination to find a recent commit that might have caused the problem, or they use profiles of the system to look for the cause of value changes in relevant metrics.

Testing GenAI: How to approach nondeterministic software development

Michael Webster, principal engineer at CircleCI, talks to Rob about testing AI-enabled applications. In this episode, learn how to face the unique challenges posed by the probabilistic and non-deterministic nature of AI output, as well as the importance of subjective evaluation criteria. Webster covers how model graded evals can be used to test AI applications, and the importance of caution in using this approach.