The rapid rate of change in data and analytics is only moving faster. So how can businesses make sense of it all to improve application performance and the bottom line?

Starting this week, we will do a series of four blogposts on the intersection of Spark with Kubernetes. The first blog post will delve into the reasons why both platforms should be integrated. The second will deep-dive into Spark/K8s integration. The third will discuss usecases for Serverless and Big Data Analytics. The last post will round off with insights on best practices.

Incidents happen all the time because of bad code deploys. You write some code that passes code review, it then is automatically shipped to production after a test suite passes, and BAM, an outage happens. This fairly common occurrence has ways to prevent it entirely. Using some simple ideas we can defend ourselves from the hidden mistakes that code reviews and chaos engineering sometimes won’t catch.

Now that you’re invited, here’s the lowdown: Starting this Wednesday, you get the unique chance to attend four weeks of live working sessions with some of the top minds in serverless. They’ll prepare you to build production-ready serverless applications with the best practices of AWS top-of-mind. Along the way, you’ll get the chance to earn awesome prizes as you unlock milestones like deploying a stack and finishing your app.

A recent report by Gartner casts light into the world of AIOps, and the need for deploying it in organizations today. AIOps is a modern approach to DevOps which is based on recent AI technology. Gartner’s vision of the AIOps platform is one that enables continuous insights across IT operations management.

“It’s very much clear that .NET Core is the way going forward. Certainly new features and very much performance rated features seem to be only going in one direction. So, there’s this added incentive to move over.” - Matt Warren, performance expert at Raygun. Today, our host Andre talks to Matt Warren, .NET (C#) Developer at Raygun and Microsoft MVP.

At Opsgenie, our highest priorities are uptime and performance; our product’s very purpose is to enable our customers to keep their always-on services on – always. The Opsgenie team has achieved 99.999% uptime over the last 12 months, during which we enhanced our platform with new features and integrations and joined the Atlassian family.

Team-focused research supported or executed by the military has yielded major insights into the nature of team performance Team allegiance features heavily in the oaths soldiers take when they swear their service to their country.

Universal Health Services runs more than 15,000 tests per day to ensure that patient-critical applications and records are available for physicians and clinicians. Universal Health Services is one of the 10 largest for-profit health systems in the United States, and it relies heavily on Cerner to deliver EHR application services to healthcare professionals all across the country.

Dear community, Kamon 2.0 is out and ready to roll! For this release we focused primarily on simplifying the installation proces and making sure that the core APIs are more solid and user friendly, since they will be the foundations upon which we will instrument the whole JVM world in the months to come!