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Monitoring multi-cloud environments

In today’s fast-growth, faster-results market, your customers expect your applications to be always available and up-to-date. Meeting that demand often involves migrating to the cloud, which offers increased scalability and flexibility, allowing engineering teams to innovate more quickly and produce the delightful user experiences customers are looking for.

Use SRE principles to monitor pipelines with Cloud Monitoring dashboards

Data pipelines provide the ability to operate on streams of real-time data and process large data volumes. Monitoring data pipelines can present a challenge because many of the important metrics are unique. For example, with data pipelines, you need to understand the throughput of the pipeline, how long it takes data to flow through it and whether your data pipeline is resource-constrained.

10 Essential Serverless Framework Plugins

To round out our series on the serverless open source community, Itay Herskovits, CTO of Funzing.com – a community marketplace for local experiences – picks 10 must-have Serverless Framework plugins. As serverless technology has evolved, a few early-movers have become staples of serverless development. One of these is Serverless Framework, an extensible serverless application management tool that helps you maintain, support, and deploy your serverless code.

Running Containers in AWS with Rancher

This blog will examine how Rancher improves the life of DevOps teams already invested in AWS’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) but looking to run workloads on-prem, with other cloud providers or, increasingly, at the edge. By reading this blog you will also discover how Rancher helps you escape the undeniable attractions of a vendor monoculture while lowering costs and mitigating risk.

How to visualize data with Azure Monitor

So far, we’ve learnt how to collect data (part 2) and pull it into Azure Log Analytics (part 3), as well as how to actually work with the data using Kusto (part 4). Now it’s time to explore how we can visualize this data, make dashboards, share them with other teams in our organizations and so on. Unfortunately, dashboarding in Azure is not very sophisticated, and neither is it centralized.

Announcing Unified IT Status Notifications from "Big 3" Cloud Providers

StatusCast helps corporations keep their employees happy by providing unified IT status notifications, which gives them the ability to communicate IT status updates with their employees from a single location. Having to check both a corporate IT status page and a separate one for the organization’s cloud provider to determine the extent of IT issues, lowers employee productivity and job satisfaction.

5 reasons why you should use EventBridge instead of SNS

SNS and SQS have been the goto options for AWS developers when it comes to service integration. However, since its (much needed!) rebranding, EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events) has become a popular alternative. If you’re still on the fence, then allow me to give you 5 reasons why you should consider using EventBridge instead of SNS.

Question the Current Dogma - Is Kubernetes Hyper-Scale Necessary for Everyone?

This article was originally published on The New Stack Kubernetes in 2020 has become synonymous with the term cloud native and is also often used as a vehicle for vendors and IT organizations alike to claim they are transforming or modernizing their workloads. But what are they actually transforming? What is Kubernetes itself actually providing?

Defer Mode in Azure Service Bus Queues and Topic Subscriptions

Azure Service Bus is a brokered messaging service offered by Azure that can be used to decouple the various applications forming the business integration solving the business problem. The Applications transfer messages between them to share the data between them. The messages can be in XML, JSON or simple text format.