While cloud is seen as the go-to environment for modernizing IT strategies, many security-conscious businesses are still hesitant to adopt a full cloud strategy. A logical middle ground has now emerged: the hybrid cloud. Hybrid cloud promotes the coupling of on-premises infrastructures with one or more public cloud services to meet both cost optimization and security compliancy. Despite its benefits, hybrid cloud computing can present technical and management challenges.

Dive into the article to learn how to monitor cloud server performance with Graphite and get started on your monitoring needs! Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a crucial part of the technological era. It refers to a methodological approach towards maintaining and sustaining a system’s health. It is extremely important to monitor an application’s health and performance upon launch, and then regularly afterwards.

When you are running cloud-based services as part of your overall business operations, it becomes necessary to monitor your cloud operations for evaluating the usage and efficiency of the cloud services, applications, and infrastructure. Cloud monitoring also lets you watch for threats and be mindful of cyber-attacks. Here is a brief rundown on how best to monitor cloud services and some tips to make it more efficient and useful.

With the newly added Cloud Services feature, you can define and monitor critical cloud services running in your network.

Keep track of various tasks and services of containers running within ECS instances.

When using services created by other people, it’s often neither obvious what they mean, let alone how to fix them. One of these error messages you might see when using Amazon API Gateway is “encoding not enabled”. The first question here is, what kind of encoding does this error message refer to? The first thought might go into the video or audio encoding direction and lead to a dead-end since you probably didn’t send any audio or video files.

With the exponential growth of FlashDrive, numbers of images built in the last weeks increased at the same time and we needed to find a better solution than regular docker building to reduce building and deployment time. Uber successfully migrated to Docker in 2017 and build hundreds of images a day for about 3000 micro-services services millions of customers worldwide.

When I first started building SaaS apps for side projects, it would take me a solid weekend solely to build the Stripe integration. These days, It's possible to build the whole SaaS app in one week.

Microsoft Azure provides a suite of cloud computing services that allow organizations across every industry to deploy, manage, and monitor full-scale web applications. As you expand your Azure-based applications, securing the full scope of your cloud resources becomes an increasingly complex task. Azure platform logs record the who, what, when, and where of all user-performed and service account activity within your Azure environment.

Many companies have adopted a multi-cloud environment for their services and many more plan to expand cloud usage in the future. As more VMs and workloads transition to public and private clouds, it is becoming clear that multi-cloud is becoming a standard or benchmark rather than something optional that businesses want to ‘try out’.