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Putting Cloud Cost Optimization On Autopilot

When I co-founded CloudZero, I set out to change the way the world thinks about cloud cost optimization and management. For too long, I had watched cloud cost optimization vendors neglect to help companies build better, more cost-effective software. Instead, everything focused on buying better, by optimizing prices and discounts.

Reducing False Positives in Capped Campaigns

As the adtech industry continues to expand and the volume of ads sold and served grows exponentially, the only way to manage the business is through programmatic advertising. This approach utilizes data insights and algorithms to automatically serve ads to the right user, at the right time, on the right platform, and at the right price. The speed and scale of online advertising means that adtech companies need to collect, analyze, and act upon immense datasets instantaneously, 24 hours a day.

GitOps your WordPress with ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Shipa

WordPress is a popular platform for editing and publishing content for the web. This tutorial will walk you through how to build out a WordPress deployment using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Shipa. WordPress consists of two major components: the WordPress PHP server and a database to store user information, posts, and site data. We will define these two components and store them in a Git repository.

CLI Installer

While new cloud native architectures are incredibly feature-rich, they can come with a high barrier to entry. Many getting started tutorials are pages long and can take forever to complete. But these always start with the first step of performing an installation. In the spirit of making the installation of Speedscale as simple as possible, we have designed a new interactive installer as part of the speedctl command line interface.

The new Check Overview is now live!

Today, I'm excited to share the release of a long-planned and requested feature - our new Check Overview Page. Until now, Checkly enabled you to troubleshoot single alerts, but a deep dive into the long-term performance trends was limited. That is not the case anymore. In the new Check Overview, we’re introducing the enhanced analytics in four distinct categories: The update is focused on two important outcomes.

The Future is Continuous: Integration, Packaging and Delivery - DevOps Institute SKILup Day CI/CD

With the increased focus on software supply chain security, the question arises- what implications does that have for CI/CD processes and DevOps pipelines? Join Dan McKinney, Developer Relations at Cloudsmith for an introduction to Continuous Packaging, and to discuss what it takes to secure build and deployment pipelines at The 2022 DevOps Institute SKILup Day CI/CD.

Set up and observe a Spring Boot application with Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry

Spring Boot is a very popular microservice framework that significantly simplifies web application development by providing Java developers with a platform to get started with an auto-configurable, production-grade Spring application. In this blog, we will walk through detailed steps on how you can observe a Spring Boot application, by instrumenting it with Prometheus and OpenTelementry and by collecting and correlating logs, metrics, and traces from the application in Grafana Cloud.

Peering, edge computing, and community with Grant Kirkwood | Network AF Episode 16

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Unitas Global, Grant Kirkwood, joins Network AF to discuss motivations for starting the company and where they're at currently. Avi and Grant talk about what it is like to be a service provider and a solution provider (MSP) in one, and how it plays into what Avi calls the APIfication of networks and IT strategy.