No matter their industry or profession, practically every business in the UK and around the world has concerns for the year ahead. Whether it’s employee retention, rising costs, or simply finding new customers, each and every business owner has to make crucial decisions around these fears in order to successfully lead their company forward. However, […]
Cloud-native environments are growing more complex and distributed. This growth makes security and performance observability even more critical to modern DevSecOps strategies. Enter eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter), a revolutionary technology that can run sandboxed programs in a privileged context such as the operating system kernel, which enables enhanced: Its ability to extend kernel capabilities […]
The very tools designed to streamline cloud operations can sometimes stretch budgets thin. One good example is managing the costs associated with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). While AWS MSK simplifies deploying and scaling Kafka clusters, the costs can stack up if not optimized. Here’s how you can rethink your AWS MSK deployment […]
Shared Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) have been a common workaround for reducing EC2 costs, but their value has always been limited. On average, these shared pools deliver only 25% savings on On-Demand costs—far below the 60% savings achievable with automated reservation tools. For IT and DevOps teams, the trade-offs include added complexity, […]
