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How Serverless is an emerging Software Architecture?

Software development has greatly evolved over the years. Serverless is an emerging software architecture that could resolve issues when it comes to developing software solutions. As software developers, you’re tasked with server setup, installing the software, operating systems requirements, server management and maintenance, designing an application with high fault tolerance and availability, as well as managing load balance and more.

Detect Ransomware in Your Data with the Machine Learning Cloud Service

While working with customers over the years, I've noticed a pattern with questions they have around operationalizing machine learning: “How can I use Machine Learning (ML) for threat detection with my data?”, “What are the best practices around model re-training and updates?”, and “Am I going to need to hire a data scientist to support this workflow in my security operations center (SOC)?” Well, we are excited to announce that the SplunkWorks team launched a new add-

Tales from the ups and downs of running a cloud

"A long time ago in a data centre far, far away.... Our first episode takes us back to the early days of launching Civo, where we had a fledgling Ceph cluster with a bunch of SSDs in each. Those were darker times, in the early days of OpenStack. As time went by the cluster grew, new bigger nodes were added along with bigger disks.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Deployment, Tools and Best Practices

Kubernetes (k8s) is an open source platform. You can use it to automate, scale, and manage container workload distribution. K8s is ranked amongst the most widely used container orchestration tools. Many Kubernetes users run it in a public cloud, such as Microsoft Azure. You can use Azure resources for Kubernetes without worrying about lock-in.

Introducing the AWS X-Ray integration with Grafana

In collaboration with the AWS team, we have just launched another AWS integration, the X-ray data source. Combined with the CloudWatch and Timestream integrations, the AWS X-Ray data source simplifies monitoring and triaging with one Grafana console. The addition of the AWS X-ray data source reflects Grafana’s commitment to becoming a full observability platform that supports distributed tracing as well as metrics and logs.

What is Google Cloud Operations?

Formerly known as Stackdriver, Google Cloud Operations Suite is a platform where you can monitor, troubleshoot, and improve application performance on your Google Cloud environment. In this episode of Google Cloud Drawing Board, we show you what Google Cloud Operations Suite is and how you can use it to gain greater observability over your applications.

How to Get Azure Blob Container Size

Something we get asked quite often is, how can I see the size of my Containers in each Storage Account? We know that Azure storage is one of the fastest growing aspects of Azure because it offers almost a limitless supply of storage, so companies are consuming more and more storage at an explosive rate. The question of being able to track this consumption is becoming more and more relevant. OK, so how can I get the size of my containers in a Storage Account?

Gauge the effectiveness of your DevOps organization running in Google Cloud

Many organizations aspire to become true, high-functioning DevOps shops, but it can be hard to know where you stand. According to DevOps Research and Assessment, or DORA, you can prioritize just four metrics to measure the effectiveness of your DevOps organization—two to measure speed, and two to measure stability.

Introducing The Amazon Connect App for Splunk

We’ve seen quite a bit of change this year as businesses have had to pivot to accelerating their digital transformation strategy, and placing even more emphasis on leveraging technology as a competitive differentiator. Most have continued to stress the importance of maintaining excellent customer relationships through their contact centers, but the playing field has changed as they now have to tap into data for insights that may have normally been gleaned through an analog approach.