Late last year, during an engaging Twitch livestream by AWS Developer Advocate Darko Mesaroš, I was introduced to a new framework Id seen a few people talking about called Winglang. What really got my attention was this wasn’t just another entry in the list of cloud frameworks, Winglang was on a mission to redefine how we interact with cloud environments. Its ambition to serve as an expansive framework that could effortlessly connect different cloud platforms instantly caught my attention.

Organizations looking to win the market and drive great customer experiences need to deliver on the promise of exceptional service, meaning fewer interruptions and faster resolution. This can be done by embedding automation across the incident management lifecycle for major incidents, and bringing in humans where it makes sense.

For many years, BizTalk Server has been a popular Microsoft platform for streamlining business transactions by integrating backend systems. Microsoft BizTalk Server is flexible, scalable, and very customizable. Hence, for many organizations, it was a logical choice to use the product to integrate their internal systems, and by using cloud adapters, the product can even connect with branch offices and/or partners in different geographical locations.

Alert fatigue is a state of exhaustion caused by receiving too many alerts. This can happen when the alerts are not actionable, are irrelevant or too frequent. Misconfigurations or configurations with the wrong assumptions or that lack Service-level objectives (SLOs) can have a dual impact, leading to alert fatigue and, more alarmingly, the potential of overlooking critical alerts We spoke with more than 200 teams using Prometheus Alertmanager. Many face alert fatigue from trivial, nonactionable alerts.

Progressive delivery is an advanced deployment method that allows you to gradually shift production traffic to a new version with zero downtime. Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller that enables you to perform progressive deployments such as blue/green and canaries on your Kubernetes cluster. At Codefresh, we love Argo Rollouts and have covered several use cases so far such as smoke tests, metrics, config-maps and even performing deployments for multiple microservices.

Real Options Analysis (ROA) is a decision-making approach that originated in financial management but has since been applied in various fields, including technology and software vendor selection. ROA focuses on assessing the value of maintaining flexibility in decision-making under uncertainty.

You may have noticed that the banners asking you to accept “cookies” whenever you visit a website have gotten bigger and more annoying over time, especially if you browse the internet in Europe. This is in response to laws and regulations that are meant to protect users from being tracked unless they agree to be tracked. The requirement in Europe is that if you want to use cookies, subject to a few narrow exceptions, the purposes must be disclosed with granularity and agreed to in detail.

Welcome to the first SigNal of 2024! It is a year that we’re looking forward to accomplishing great things. We recently crossed 16,000+ GitHub stars as we continue to be amazed by the support of the developer community in our mission of open-source observability. Let’s see what humans of SigNoz were up to in January 2024.

This is part two of seven in our Frugal Architect blog series. Read part one here. In case you weren’t as giddy as CloudZero was at re:Invent this year, we wanted to recount the seven laws outlined by Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, which he’s bundled into a framework called “The Frugal Architect” (check out the whole framework here). What is “The Frugal Architect”? A constitution of sorts for how engineers can build high-functioning, cost-efficient cloud software.

The vast majority of IT infrastructure problems relate to the network. Afterall, most of IT infrastructure IS the network. Makes sense. But its immensity and complexity make the network a bear to troubleshoot and root cause analysis as tricky as finding the proverbial needle in the network haystack.