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Using Træfik for internal tools at Bleemeo

At Bleemeo, as many geeks, we use a couple of tools on a day to day basis. Most of those tools are small Open Source web applications and, to be trendy, we deploy those tools with Docker. In the past, we used to create a virtual machine per service, deploy the tool and configure web server on each machine. Moreover if you are using https, you need to deploy certificates and private keys on each server.

Free Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure Designer Tool.

Design Amazon Web Services Infrastructure Diagrams For Free. Site24x7's Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure designer tool is a free, online design platform that helps you create and depict your Amazon Web Services architecture. Effortlessly create simple or complex cloud architecture diagrams in a matter of minutes, without even signing up. The Site24x7 AWS infrastructure designer tool has two views: the resource view on the left, and the canvas view in the center, where the action happens.

Fox Technologies Acquires IT Monitoring Pioneer GroundWork, Inc.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Wednesday, February 17, 2016 — Fox Technologies, Inc., a portfolio company of Parallax Capital Partners, today announced its acquisition of GroundWork Open Source Inc. Based in San Francisco, GroundWork provides unified monitoring solutions for IT operations management, performance analysis, and hybrid cloud monitoring.

SaaS Application Uptime- APM and DevOps

If you care about the uptime status of your website or SaaS application, there are two really great pieces of content shared last month that you should look into. One is an article on continuous testing from Parasoft Corporation, featured on DZone. The other is a recorded presentation on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) by Expected Behavior, from the Full Stack Toronto conference.

How to Setup Site24x7's Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Have you ever wondered if your end-users are truly satisfied with your web applications? Would you like to get accurate insight into end-user experience for better business decisions that will impact your bottom line? ~With Site24x7 Real User Monitoring you can! Get ready to gain real-time visibility into end-user experience ( for ALL users, browsers, devices and geographies) and behind-the-scenes performance for your web application.

Network Configuration Management Best Practices

One of the biggest responsibilities of system administrators and DevOps professionals is ensuring networks are always functioning properly. Network configuration management used to be a simple task. Watch resource usage and make the appropriate tweaks when the occasional traffic spike occurred. Since then, the rise of agile principles within the DevOps field has required system administrators to adapt to rapid shifts in their field.

Deploying a Django App with No Downtime

When healthchecks.io started to receive more than 1 request per second, it became clear I could not just go on carelessly restarting web servers after code deploys. For a monitoring service, it would be bad form to miss even a few HTTP requests. And, going forward, if the server gets busier, the problem only becomes bigger.