Explore the top 5 observability and monitoring tools in 2025 — from Prometheus to Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Uptrace, and New Relic. Learn how they stack up, key features, challenges, and how Cycle makes integration simple for teams moving beyond Kubernetes.
Discover the top 5 CI/CD tools — GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI, TeamCity, and Buildkite. Learn more about how they integrate with Cycle to streamline your DevOps pipeline, reduce downtime, and simplify infrastructure deployment without Kubernetes or YAML.
Discover the top 7 DevOps news and thought leadership sources for 2025, handpicked to help you cut through the noise and stay ahead of meaningful trends. From industry staples like DevOps.com and InfoQ to community-driven platforms like Hacker News and Reddit's r/DevOps.
Explore the evolution of software delivery, through the lense of DevOps and platform engineering, highlighting insights from industry expert Ian Walker. We break down the benefits and challenges of both approaches, from the cultural philosophy of DevOps to the structured methodologies of Platform Engineering. While Kubernetes demands specialized expertise, Cycle's LowOps platform unifies Dev and Ops, reducing complexity and boosting efficiency. Whether you're embracing DevOps, transitioning to Platform Engineering, or seeking a Kubernetes alternative, Cycle provides the tools to streamline your journey.
Discover how Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) streamline software development by reducing friction, improving security, and enhancing collaboration. Learn why teams are adopting IDPs, the benefits and challenges, and how Cycle.io provides a powerful yet simple solution.
Learn about key DevOps trends for 2025, including the focus on developer experience, the shift to hybrid cloud models, and the practical applications of AI in operations.
Dive into the history of containers, from Unix's chroot and FreeBSD Jails to Docker, Kubernetes, and Cycle.io. Discover how containers evolved to become a key part of modern software development and deployment, as well as important milestones and how containers shape today's cloud.
Discover how to mitigate the risks of a low bus factor in your software engineering team with the Cycle platform. Learn about the implications of reduced productivity, increased risk, and onboarding challenges, and how Cycle's developer-centric container orchestration can allow your organization to distribute critical knowledge and skills across teams and individuals.
In today's tech world, saving money without losing performance is key. Cycle helps by automating DevOps tasks, using infrastructure more efficiently, and reducing vendor costs. Real users share how Cycle made their work easier and cut expenses. With Cycle, your team can focus on growth and innovation. Learn how Cycle's all-in-one platform saves money and improves your business.
Cycle is designed to streamline DevOps, reduce technical debt, and enable organizations to focus on what they do best—innovating and delivering value to their customers. While standardizing the 80% is something we believe is extremely important, we also understand that every organization is unique and has different needs. While we provide a highly opinionated platform, we also offer the flexibility and customization needed for you to take control of your DevOps journey and focus on the 20% that is most important to your company.
Cycle was recently featured in a breakout article on The New Stack talking about our mission to replace Kubernetes and the many issues that come from its operation.
Learn how Cycle's versatile platform streamlines development by managing technical debt, enhancing user experience, and adapting to project needs. A must-read for efficient and adaptable software solutions.
As we delve into the complex world of software engineering, it's apparent that navigating tradeoffs isn't about finding one-size-fits-all solutions. Rather, it's about understanding that each product will find itself on a spectrum, balancing tradeoffs.
The software engineering world has become a place where compute, storage, and availability have become the cornerstones of scale. As an industry and as individuals, we should stop to take a closer look at scaling the most important of all resources… our people.
With nearly half a decade of DevOps sales experience, Konner Bemis has been front-row to many organizations' successes and failures. He reflects on common issues in DevOps adoption and how LowOps can help your organization.
How do we enhance predictability and what might happen if a team of world-class systems engineers worked tirelessly to build a development platform that made infrastructure, networks, DNS, and deployments standardized and predictable?
In the dynamic landscape of software development, the terms DevOps and Platform Engineering have garnered attention. Both concepts, although distinct, aim at a shared goal: to build efficient, streamlined systems that simplify code deployment within organizations.
Simplifying the process for deploying and managing applications.
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Cycle now runs on two fully isolated control planes (EU and NA) giving teams stronger data sovereignty, lower latency to region-local servers, and timezone-aware updates that land during off-peak hours. This release also makes restart and power-off events more reliable under heavy load by switching them to acknowledgements, and fixes VM hostname resolution so updated hostnames resolve correctly via discovery.