DevOps

Paying to Ping? We Switched to Uptime Kuma and Saved Big

Introduction We used to rely on Pingdom for uptime monitoring. It worked well with simple checks, nice UI, and reliable and clean alerts. But one day, someone on our DevOps team casually said: "Hey, why are we paying for something that only pings URLs?" And that kicked off a big conversation. The Cost Wake-Up Pingdom wasn’t...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: AWSEC2
07-Aug-2025

DevOps

Optimizing CI/CD Efficiency: Managing Long-Running Jobs in Jenkins for Better Resource Utilization

[caption id="attachment_64541" align="aligncenter" width="968"] Jenkins[/caption] Introduction In the Jenkins pipeline, long-running jobs can be a significant bottleneck, leading to resource inefficiencies and potentially delaying project timelines. Jenkins, a widely used automation server, offers powerful tools to manage and optimize...

by Shradha Gupta
Tag: AWSEC2
29-Aug-2024