These days, it is quite hard to find a person who does not use the Internet. Even older people have already got a web connection for communication and mastering the most popular apps. This makes the Net such a useful tool. However, certain dangers lay under this cross-functionality that can be avoided using Virtual Private Networks or VPNs for short.
Establishing a performance budget early in the development cycle for websites and APIs is the optimum choice for keeping your websites and web services fast for all users. However, it is never too late to set a web performance budget to improve your user experience. Keeping your users in mind, a web performance budget allows you to make decisions based on your preferred page speed.
Grafana Labs has 8+ clusters in GKE running 270 nodes of various sizes, and all the hosted metrics and hosted log Grafana Cloud offerings are run on 16-core, 64-gig machines. At the recent All Systems Go! conference in Berlin, David Kaltschmidt, Director, User Experience, gave a talk about what monitoring these clusters and servers looks like at Grafana Labs and shared some best practices.
Let us first agree on a couple of things before we start: One, Android is the most affordable platform for enterprises with a mobile-first/mobile-only workforce, and it has the smallest learning curve of any mobile OS. Two, due to its very open-source nature, Android is easy for malicious actors to pray on, with the Google Play Store being the breeding ground for many attacks.
The team at Chrome has announced their plans for handling mixed content last week on their blog. We'll highlight the most important details and what the potential impact is.
AppDynamics is excited to be named The Independent Software Vendor, Agile Partner of the Year, 2019, by Pivotal Software.
When you look at an X-Ray trace for a Lambda cold start, you will see an Initialization subsegment. This subsegment represents “the function’s initialization code that is run before the handler”. This is where the runtime would resolve any dependencies, or initialize global variables. These are executed only once, so they don’t have to run on every invocation. The more dependencies you have, the longer this initialization step takes.
Digital Enterprise Journal’s (DEJ) research shows that organizations view cloud strategies as key areas for using technology to create business value. Organizations are seeing the importance of cloud deployments in each of the following areas of digital transformation - agility (71%), innovation (65%) and cost optimization (61%). The majority of cloud deployments are being conducted in a hybrid model where parts of IT services are being managed on-premises and in private and public cloud(s).
One of the most common complaints we hear from operations and site reliability engineers is about the quality of life impacts and the resulting stress imposed by their on-call responsibilities. Most of us are already aware that a proper on-call rotation is critical to our engineering organization’s health in terms of both immediate incident response and long-term sustainable growth.
In the first post of our three-part Amazon Redshift series, we covered what Redshift is and how it works. For the second installment, we’ll discuss how Amazon Redshift queries are analyzed and monitored. Before we go deep into gauging query performance on Redshift, let’s take a quick refresher on what Amazon Redshift is and what it does.
