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Optimizing Cloud Spend in the New Era: Strategies and Frameworks for Cost Management

In today's cloud computing landscape, businesses are embracing the dynamic world of hybrid and multi-cloud environments and seamlessly integrating infrastructure and services from multiple cloud vendors. This shift from a single provider is driven by the need for greater flexibility, redundancy, and the freedom to leverage the best features from each provider and create tailored solutions. Furthermore, the rise of cloud-native technologies is reshaping how we interact with the cloud. Containerization, serverless, artificial intelligence (AI), and edge computing are pushing the boundaries of what's possible, unlocking a new era of innovation and efficiency.

But with these newfound solutions comes a new responsibility: cost optimization. The complexities of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, coupled with the dynamic nature of cloud-native deployments, require a strategic approach to managing cloud costs.

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A Roadmap to True Observability

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report.

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Observability is essential in any modern software development and production environment. It allows teams to better identify areas of improvement, enabling them to make informed decisions about their development processes. Telemetry, being a critical part of observability, refers to the continuous nature of data collection. This data enables organizations to paint a picture of the whole system's health and achieve a higher level of observability and responsiveness in managing their applications. 

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Deploy Like a Pro: Mastering the Best Practices for Code Deployment

As a developer, you know that deploying code can be a time-consuming and complex process. Streamlining production deployment is crucial for ensuring your code gets into the hands of users as quickly and efficiently as possible. But how do you achieve this? In this article, we'll discuss some essential tips and tricks for streamlining production deployments. 

From automating your build process to optimizing your release strategy, we'll cover everything you need to know to make the deployment process as smooth as possible. So whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, read on to learn how you can make your production deployment process smoother and more efficient. 

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A Beginner’s Guide to Infrastructure as Code

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of provisioning and managing infrastructure using code and software development techniques. The main idea behind IaC is to eliminate the need for manual infrastructure provisioning and configuration of resources such as servers, load balancers, or databases with every deployment. As infrastructure is now an integral part of the overall software development process and is becoming more tightly coupled with application delivery, it's important that we make it easier to deliver infrastructure changes. 

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Advancements in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes Observability

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In today's world, it's more important than ever to have visibility into your system's performance and health. Modern applications rely on complex microservices architectures and cloud-native technologies, like Kubernetes. Observability helps us understand not just application behavior, but also infrastructure configuration changes and dependencies, as they happen in real-time. 

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3 Steps to Developing a Successful GitOps Model

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What Is GitOps and Why Is it Important for an Organization?

GitOps is a model to automate and manage infrastructure and applications. This is done by using the same DevOps best practices that many teams already use, such as version control, code review, and CI/CD pipelines. While implementing DevOps, we've found ways to automate the software development lifecycle, but when it comes to infrastructure setup and deployments, it's still mostly a manual process. With GitOps, teams can automate the infrastructure provisioning process. This is due to the ability to write your Infrastructure as Code (IaC), version the code in a Git repository, and apply continuous deployment principles to your cloud delivery.  

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What Are The Key Challenges a Platform Team Experiences?

With the increased reliance on various technologies for software development, both software and hardware need to grow along with those technologies to provide reliable and secure services. However, this need has led to creating more complex solutions than ever. Thus, the importance of robust infrastructure has come to the forefront to deliver these solutions reliably at a global scale. Due to these facts, the platform team has to face different challenges to provide and maintain this infrastructure without affecting the software development lifecycle (SDLC) or end-users.

What Is a Platform Team?

We have Dev for development, QA for testing, and likewise, the platform team for managing the infrastructure of an organization. This infrastructure includes both internal SDLC resources like CI/CD pipelines, staging/testing environments, production resources, and in most cases, managing software deployments. The platform team will handle most operational aspects of an SDLC. They are the key component that manages most of DevOps tools and platforms, bringing the full benefits of DevOps.

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Unexpected AWS Charges You Should Be Monitoring Closely

Cloud adoption has many benefits, the most notable of which being the wide range of options and price models available. Your cloud charge, on the other hand, can get confusing. If you don’t keep track of it and review it on a daily basis, the expenses can easily escalate out of control. Fast scalability, pay-as-you-go pricing, and a vast array of options and updates can make things very complicated. 

Every company should actively monitor its cloud costs, which can drive up the overall cloud bill. However, if you handle them properly, this can be avoided. Here are some AWS charges you should keep an eye on.