Event-Driven CI/CD: Use Cases for Multi-Cluster Workflows
How to build secure, event-driven CI/CD across multiple clusters — architecture, orchestration, security, cost savings and compliance for UK organisations.
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Blog posts in the Cloud Optimization category
Top Tools for Deployment Cost Analysis
Compare tools and techniques to track deployment costs, integrate cost checks into CI/CD, and reduce cloud waste for UK businesses.
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Scaling Stateful Apps: Persistent Storage Explained
Guide to choosing and configuring persistent storage on Kubernetes - block, file, distributed and object tiers, performance trade-offs and cost controls.
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Forecasting Cloud Costs with What-If Models
AI-driven What-If models let UK businesses forecast cloud bills accurately, cut wasted spend and plan for seasonal spikes across multi-cloud environments.
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5 Steps to Build a Cloud-Native Governance Framework
Five practical steps to build a cloud-native governance framework that automates policy, enforces controls, reduces costs and ensures multi-cloud compliance.
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Managing Dependencies in Kubernetes CI/CD Pipelines
Reduce build time, prevent runtime failures and secure supply chains by locking dependencies, optimising caching, coordinating services and automating scans.
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Sharding in Cloud Environments: Best Practices
Sharding is the practical way to scale databases: pick a high‑cardinality shard key, design for resharding, and combine routing, observability and regional compliance.
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Golden Signals for Distributed Systems Monitoring
Monitor latency, traffic, errors and saturation with Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry; use SLO-driven alerts and dashboards to boost reliability and cut cloud costs.
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Dynamic Pod Scheduling: Cost vs Performance
Balance cost and performance in Kubernetes pod scheduling with rightsizing, autoscaling and workload tiering for reliable, cost-effective clusters.
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Top 7 CI/CD Tools for Kubernetes in 2025
Compare seven Kubernetes-first CI/CD tools in 2025, focusing on GitOps, multi-cluster scalability and cost-saving features for UK organisations.
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AI in Compliance Monitoring for Cloud Costs
AI enables continuous cloud cost compliance with real-time alerts, audit trails and savings, but needs accurate tagging, governance and setup.
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FOCUS vs Custom Solutions for Billing Data
Compare FOCUS and custom billing pipelines for multi-cloud cost reporting in the UK—benefits, maintenance trade-offs, GBP conversion, VAT and hybrid options.
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