How do you know if your engineering team is efficient at scale? Is modern CI/CD cloud tooling and DORA metrics enough? One of the best ways to find answers is by looking at successful open-source projects and how they operate, overcoming the challenges of remote work, asynchronous communication, and diverse global collaboration.

Optimizing Azure Cosmos DB Costs In this episode of FinOps on Azure, FinOps certified practitioner - Mike and Gary from the Microsoft Cosmos DB team discuss cost management challenges on Azure, specifically focusing on Cosmos DB. They begin by addressing the common challenges organizations face when managing costs on Azure, particularly with Cosmos DB. The conversation then shifts to practical strategies for cost optimization, including topics like provisioned throughput choices, API options, and factors affecting cost.

Resolving an incident before end users are impacted is the new standard, but managing separate observability and incident management solutions is tempting fate. You are at risk of an issue slipping through the cracks. It's time to consolidate, streamline, and decomplexify your operations. Hybrid Cloud Observability combined with SolarWinds Observability and SolarWinds Service Desk make all of this much, much easier.

Join Michael Yuan, CEO of @SecondStateInc, as he explores lightweight large language model (LLM) inference with WebAssembly (WASM). In this video, Michael demonstrates how to run full-scale LLMs like LLaMA on various platforms, from personal laptops to cloud servers, with the efficiency of WASM. He addresses the challenges of running LLMs in cloud environments, offers practical demos, and discusses future applications.

Made a mistake? Behold: the undo button! But remember, not every action in Git is reversible, so always double-check. Oh, and redo's always there if you ever need to "undo" an undo.