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Why Reliability Engineering Matters: an Analysis of Amazon's Dec 2021 US-East-1 Region Outage

In the field of Chaos Theory, there’s a concept called the Synchronization of Chaos—disparate systems filled with randomness will influence the disorder in other systems when coupled together. From a theoretical perspective, these influences can be surprising. It’s difficult to understand exactly how a butterfly flapping its wings could lead to a devastating tornado. But we often see the influences of seemingly unconnected systems play out in real life.

Bare-metal or Cloud? The cost of performance and traffic

Bare metal servers are a valuable option for all sizes of businesses, including small, medium, and startups companies. When designing infrastructure it is important to manage cost. However, the decision on whether to run your application on bare metal or cloud provider should not be driven by the size of your company but by your infrastructure needs. Each approach has its own tradeoffs and complexities, especially since it is difficult to find two clouds with the same parameters.

A guide to Google Cloud Platform regions

Google Cloud is underpinned by a global network of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions that help bring its services closer to users and improve reliability and speed. In this blog, we look at the rollout of GCP regions and locations worldwide, and explain the benefits of using a direct connection to access them.

Azure Communication Services - an overview

There are such cloud services that can drastically accelerate your innovation and reduce your time to market by providing you with functionalities that are simple, ready-to-use and that allow you to add a real added-value to your users. Azure Communication Services is one of those. In this article, we’ll have an overview of what Azure Communication Services (“ACS” for short) is, what functionalities it provides and what are some of the use cases in which it can be leveraged.

Qoddi vs Heroku and AWS: what to choose as a Startup

You have many options when it comes to choosing a platform to deploy your app. In this article, we will compare AWS, Heroku, and Qoddi. Heroku is hosted on AWS, making Heroku, like Qovery for instance, nothing more than a management platform for AWS services. You can do everything you do on Heroku (or Qovery) directly with AWS for a lesser price but Heroku removes all the infrastructure management layer (or DevOps) you still need to have with AWS or any other cloud providers.

Better Way To Write Async Function in Node/Express/Next - Handle catch(err) Only Once.

Avoid Writing a Lot of Try Catch by Catching The ‘catch()’ Just Once. How annoying it is to write a lot of try-catch for each async function in an express app? What if you never need to write a try catch block for all async functions and still be able to handle the errors?

Pepperdata Profiles: Maneesh Dhir Steps Up as New Pepperdata CEO

A change in leadership is an exciting phase for any organization. Here at Pepperdata, we are excited to announce that we have a new CEO at the helm: Maneesh Dhir. Our former CEO, Ash Munshi, will assume the role of Executive Chairman of the company’s board of directors, following five years of continued growth. We are thrilled to have Maneesh as our new chief executive and look forward to his extensive experience and expertise in the tech space helping us thrive in the coming months and years.

Grafana 8.4 release: new panels, better query caching, increased security, accessibility features, and more!

Grafana 8.4 is here! Get 8.4 This release includes a variety of updates focused on making Grafana easier to use, improving performance, and keeping your data secure. For a full list of new features and capabilities, check out our What’s New in Grafana 8.4 documentation. You can get started with Grafana in minutes with Grafana Cloud. We have free and paid Grafana Cloud plans to suit every use case — sign up for free now.

Auto-Scaling is now available for everyone!

Worried that your app will not have enough resources as you grow? All apps on Qoddi can scale at any time and as part of Qoddi's new interface launch early this week, we made auto-scaling available for everyone after more than 6 months in Beta. Auto-Scaling, like Auto-Heal (another feature included with all Qoddi apps), is the guardian angel of your apps and will make sure your app continues to run whatever happens.