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Deploy Friday: E78 Highlights from the international PHP conference

This year's PHP Conference Munich is wrapping up, and we'll be taking a look at the state of PHP, as well as the synopsis of a few of the top sessions, including the keynote, "Coding against climate change – Sustainable software engineering". Speakers Carsten Windler and Stefan Priebsch join me to give a report from the ground, and to discuss the following topics.

How Power Apps Drives Innovation in App Development?

There are many areas where #powerapps help you to innovate in your app development journey. Watch the video in full to know what are they Over 2.5 million platform developers are now actively building apps, analyzing BI, and automating workflows in low code. 86% of the Fortune 500 are now using Microsoft Power Apps along with thousands of organizations of every size, sector, and geography. The number of monthly active Power Apps users has grown more than 250% since this time last year, and those users are accessing nearly 4 times as many applications in production.

Create a static version of your blog using WordPress and Gatsby

At FlashDrive.io we use every day and love modern static websites frameworks like Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, and more. Gatsby, for its huge community and user base, is the first framework to have a complete build add-on developed on FlashDrive and we love playing with Gatsby every day (some of us are even a little too more invested in the project... we love you E, but get back to work!!). What's also great with Gatsby is that it comes with a large set of plugins to connect with various CMS.

OpenStack vs AWS: which one is better for you?

OpenStack vs AWS is a discussion that almost every organisation must conduct when adopting a cloud strategy. This is because OpenStack and AWS are undoubtedly some of the most popular cloud technologies in both public and private cloud space. While AWS is the most popular commercial cloud platform, OpenStack remains its most popular open source equivalent. Both have their own pros and cons. But which one is better for you?

An Overview of Microsoft Azure Services

Microsoft Azure is the public cloud computing platform by Microsoft which offers software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It comprises more than 600 cloud services and supports varied operating systems, databases, and developer tools. And, even better, Splunk On-Call integrates with Microsoft Azure to help on-call teams improve incident response for Azure-based environments.

Will Serverless computing reshape big data and data science?

Serverless development has been turning heads in the market for quite some time now. But it has yet to be accepted by the majority in the development community. With AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and IBM’s Open Whisk, the market is poised to take a different route in this field. Most of these organizations are spending a lot of money to make the market accept this new paradigm using serverless computing.

What Is AWS Anomaly Detection? (And Is There A Better Option?)

To explain how cost anomaly detection works in AWS, let’s first look at an analogy. Imagine you strategically propagate, cultivate, harvest, and replenish trees for a thriving forest products company. In keeping with your eco-friendly policy, you only harvest the trees with straight and tall trunks. You leave irregularly shaped trees alone. Your company doesn’t harvest trees you won't use.

How to do serverless monitoring right #shorts

Monitoring CPU load and memory usage is common practice, but with serverless no action is required. In this video, we quickly explain that if your Cloud Run instances start hitting high CPU load, Google Cloud will automatically spin up new instances for you, and vice versa!