Feature announcement: You can now cancel Platform.sh activities through the CLI and management console. Last year we released activity scripts, custom scripts that you can upload to your projects to run in response to any project or environment activity. In March we announced parallel activities, a queue that allows two simultaneous processes across your environments. Today we’re announcing another change to your activities—you can now cancel them.

Since our inception, Sumo Logic has been laser-focused on delivering real-time machine data analytics to accelerate digital transformation, while helping businesses effectively build, run, and secure their modern applications and infrastructure—in the cloud or in hybrid environments.

Today, cloud native technologies empower a number of organizations to build and run scalable applications in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Developer and operation teams can build and deploy applications, APIs and microservices architectures with the speed and immutability of containers. Gartner predicts that by 2024, more than 75% of large enterprises in mature economies will be using containers in production.

Business leaders and team members face countless decisions every day, some of which are certain to have an impact on the future of a company. Perhaps the most impactful to a SaaS company’s bottom line are financial decisions related to the cloud. Engineers and team leads need to know which cloud architecture choices are worthwhile and which should be scrapped in favor of a more cost effective model.

The global footprint of Microsoft Azure is made up of physical infrastructure of over 200 data centres and connective network components, arranged into regions, and linked by a large interconnected network. Each of the Azure data centres provides high availability, low latency, scalable cloud services close to users to improve reliability and speed. In this blog, we look at the Azure Regions, and explain the benefits of using a direct connection to access Azure infrastructure.

This blog post discusses some of the best practices for balancing the costs of cloud traffic monitoring while maintaining a reasonable level of visibility. Progress Flowmon 12 has introduced the processing of native flow logs from Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, plus it has enhanced support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) flow logs.

Kubernetes has become the most widely adopted and popular container orchestrator and, with the help of CNCF and the surrounding community, its reach is increasing every day. The orchestrator currently boasts 140k+ members on its Slack and continues to grow in popularity.

Many of the world’s top DevOps teams at leading companies like Microsoft, SpaceX, CoreLogic, and many others, choose Uptrends Synthetic Monitoring because of its reliability and ease at which it simulates end-user experiences accurately and transparently.