The demands on enterprise IT are set to grow exponentially. Edges. Many times, they represent an unknown—like the edge of space or a horizon for sea captains and pilots. And they give us mixed feelings—fear, anxiousness, direction, a sense of adventure. Most often, they represent a future state or location we are moving towards. For IT there is a new edge. The Edge of computing. The place where things and people are connecting with our networked digital world.

The insidious spread of COVID-19 across the globe has accelerated changes to our way of life. The reliance on the internet saw a prodigious increase in March 2020 as people started relying on digital means to work, buy groceries, order food, and basically ensure they could stay home and stay safe! More people doing things online means more opportunities for cyber-attacks.

Thank you so much to all who attended Raw & Real Ep. 5 “All Aboard! Bring Your Team Together,” and to any who take the time out of their busy days to watch the recording 🙂 This was a session for those who would describe yourselves as “internal champions” of Honeycomb and Observability.

As the world moves towards the “new normal” on account of the pandemic, numerous adjustments and recalibrations have been made in all aspects of our lives, including the organizations we are part of. As businesses base their operations on a dispersed workforce beyond the corporate perimeter, IT teams have been the ones largely enabling this successful migration to home workspaces and further sustaining the remote network to foster productivity.

You hear about APIs (application program interfaces) everywhere now, and even if you don’t know what one is, you’ve probably heard the term more than once. In this article, we cover a few API basics, and we talk a bit about why you should use API monitoring if you publish or have an API that is critical to your business.

In our 2019 Blameless Summit, Paul Osman spoke about how to take postmortems or incident retrospectives to a new level. ‍The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Slides from this talk are available here. Paul Osman: I lead the SRE team at Under Armour. Who here knows about Under Armour as a tech company? Does anybody think about Under Armour as a tech company? Under Armour makes athletic attire, shirts and shoes.

IT Pros Troubleshoot and Resolve Citrix and VMware End-User Experience Issues Quickly with Goliath Philadelphia, PA – Aug 5, 2020 – Goliath Technologies, a leader in end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting software, has been named a Top Virtualization Solutions Provider by Cloud Computing Outlook.

Gaining visibility into cloud cost and driving greater overall efficiency is an ongoing journey where you need a solid understanding of your organization’s cloud consumption before taking the necessary steps to optimize their spend.

In 2009 AWS (Amazon Web Services) introduced a new EC2 pricing model known as reserved instances. In exchange for an upfront commitment of 1 or 3 years, reserved instances offer significant cost savings (anywhere from ~29% up to 72%) on cloud compute resources compared with on demand instances. Today, other cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform also offer similar pricing constructs. In this article you will learn.

Nishant Singh is an SRE at LinkedIn based in Bangalore. Currently, he is working towards building and maintaining applications that improve the overall MTTD (Mean time to detect) and MTTR (Mean time to recover) of the site. He likes to build services and play with the latest technologies. Before LinkedIn, Nishant worked for a few companies in the security and e-commerce domain as a DevOps engineer where he was primarily responsible for building infrastructure, deployment pipelines and security.