5 Technologies Powering Cloud Optimization
Cloud optimization is the process of improving the performance, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of cloud computing resources and services. It involves identifying and addressing inefficiencies in cloud architecture, application design and resource utilization, as well as implementing best practices for security, scalability and disaster recovery. The goal of cloud optimization is to maximize the benefits of […]
New Relic Bolsters Observability Platform
New Relic has updated its observability platform to include the ability to better detect and track errors in addition to monitoring vulnerabilities. At the same time, an instance of the New Relic observability platform that runs natively on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is now also generally available. Manav Khurana, general manager for observability product […]
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed.
Deploying a Service Mesh: Challenges and Solutions
A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that enables communication between microservices in a distributed application. It helps to abstract the underlying communication infrastructure, such as network protocols and load balancing and provides a consistent interface for microservices to communicate with each other. In a service mesh, each microservice in the application is represented […]
Devs Increasingly Rely on IaC to Manage Multiple Clouds
A survey of more than 300 DevOps professionals conducted by Firefly, a provider of a platform for automating cloud provisioning, found that more than a third of organizations (36%) have allocated the equivalent of two or more full-time engineers per month to writing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates. A full 82% are also deploying the templates within […]
Cloudflare Adds Digital Experience Monitoring to CDN Portfolio
At an online CIO Week event, Cloudflare today added a digital experience monitoring capability to a portfolio of services layered on top of its core content delivery network (CDN). Corey Mahan, director of product management for Cloudflare, said the Cloudflare Digital Experience Monitoring service extends a Cloudflare Zero Trust platform based on agent software dubbed […]
Survey Sheds Light On Cloud, API Expertise Skills Gap
Enterprise IT faces a three-pronged onslaught: Digital transformation, open APIs and security threats. First, most organizations are still navigating ongoing digital transformations and cloud migrations. Second, development teams continue to increase their use of open APIs, leading to sprawl concerns. And third, we’ve witnessed a slew of cybersecurity threats that appear to be growing in […]
Best of 2022: CI/CD is the New Lock-In
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Welcome to 2022! Let’s start this year’s blogging off with a bang, and point out that we are in the process of creating the biggest […]
Opvizor Extends Monitoring Reach to the Cloud
Opvizor, a unit of Codenotary, has extended its monitoring capabilities to cloud computing environments starting with support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Codenotary CTO Dennis Zimmer said Opvizor aggregates data to provide a more efficient approach to applying analytics to surface performance and risk issues. Previously, Opvizor was optimized for instances of […]
How Enterprise Software Architects can Design for Sustainability
Organizations of all sizes are feeling the pressure to introduce more aggressive sustainability measures to combat climate change. For example, most cloud service providers have announced significant climate pledges to either reduce or offset their carbon emissions. But these initiatives can only go far to move the needle—it’s up to individual companies and departments to […]
EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work.
Migration to AWS Cloud: Do’s and Don’ts
What if one day, you were told to migrate to AWS/GCP/Azure/any other cloud provider? It would likely introduce some stress, to understate the case, right? I’ve seen quite a few migrations in my career and, in this article, I would like to share some thoughts to help DevOps engineers, architects, managers or anyone else who […]
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option.
AWS Makes Economic Case for Graviton Processors
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making available in preview a C7gn instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) based on AWS Graviton processors. The C7gn instances provide up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and as much as 50% higher packet-processing performance compared to previous-generation C6gn instances. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, […]
GitLab Unfurls Dedicated SaaS Edition in the Cloud
GitLab today made available to a limited number of customers a single-tenant version of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. David DeSanto, vice president of product at GitLab, said the GitLab Dedicated option provides all the benefits of a cloud platform without running afoul of any potential compliance issues. Designed […]
Datadog Dives Into Universal Service Monitoring
Datadog, Inc. today made generally available a Universal Service Monitoring service that takes advantage of the extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) microkernel in a Linux operating system to automatically detect all the services that make up an application environment without changes to the code used to construct them. Yrieix Garnier, vice president of product at […]
IBM Adds Fully Managed VMware Service to Cloud Portfolio
At the VMware Explore 2022 Europe conference, IBM this week announced an IBM Cloud for VMware-as-a-Service offering that integrates instances of VMware Cloud with the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform managed by IBM in the cloud. Rohit Badlaney, vice president of product management and strategy for IBM Cloud, said now that VMware Cloud can be consumed as […]
A DevOps Reset for a Multi-Cloud World
In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter: To release applications and updates as quickly as possible To have access to resources (processing, storage, networks) able to run those apps, as cost-effectively as possible. The measures used to achieve these twin goals should work together seamlessly–otherwise, you’re inefficient. But software development and IT […]
VMware Extends Equinix Alliance to Drive Managed Hosting Service
VMware today announced it has extended its alliance with Equinix to launch a managed distributed cloud service that runs instances of its cloud computing platform in hosted IT environments. Announced at the VMware Explore 2022 Europe conference, the VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal service takes advantage of more than 240 Equinix data centers in 71 […]
Cloud Disaster Recovery Best Practices
It’s increasingly common for companies in all sectors to use the cloud to store their data. The cloud provides scalability, security and flexibility that was often inaccessible to businesses only a few years ago. But just like any other technology, it has its limits. What happens if a severe thunderstorm knocks out power to a […]
Momento Launches Elastic Cloud Caching Service
Momento this week emerged from stealth to launch an elastic Serverless Cache platform that promises to improve the performance of applications running on databases deployed in the cloud while simultaneously reducing costs. Fresh from raising $15 million in seed funding, Momento CEO and co-founder Khawaja Shams said Serverless Cache gives IT teams access to a […]
Gitpod Looks to Drive Application Development Into the Cloud
Gitpod today revealed it will add an application programming interface (API) to make cloud development environments (CDEs) more extensible. Gitpod also said Johannes Landgraf assumed the role of single CEO for Gitpod, as the previous co-CEO, Sven Efftinge, becomes the company’s first technical fellow. Fresh from raising an additional $25 million in funding, Gitpod’s Landgraf […]
Fermyon Adds Managed PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Fermyon Technologies this week launched a hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, dubbed Fermyon Cloud, that promises to make it simpler to build WebAssembly (Wasm) applications. Announced during the Cloud Native Wasm Day event during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Fermyon Cloud is now available in open beta. Fresh from raising $20 million in funding, […]