Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we discuss whether NoOps is just a buzzword, a far-fetched reality, or simply the next evolutionary state of DevOps.
Early adopter enterprises across verticals such as Retail, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas are looking to incorporate containers and Kubernetes as a way of modernizing their applications. Choosing k8s as a standard ensures that these applications can be deployed these on different data center infrastructures (bare metal/VMware/KVM on OpenStack etc) or on public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP etc).
In the old days of pushing tin and cardboard -- i.e., servers and packaged software -- it was comparatively easy to land a deal, hand the account from sales executive to post-sales engineering/support, then move on to the next opportunity. Today, in the cloud-enabled world, there is no more tin (unless you are a cloud or platform provider) and no more software DVDs in boxes. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings require different customer engagement.
Would you know if your website went down? What would a potential customer think if they tried to access your website and found that it was offline? Would they return for a second time? Almost all businesses maintain some sort of online presence, and even for companies with large IT teams, it is simply infeasible for an individual or team to manually monitor the status of a particular website.
Affiliate Marketing has been around for over 20 years, with the first affiliate program set up in1994 by PC Flowers ; Gifts to sell flowers online. This was followed a couple of years laterby Amazon who set up their own affiliate marketing program in 1996. Since then a vastarray of affiliate programs have gone online across the world, and today the AffiliateMarketing industry is estimated to be worth over US$12 Billion a year according to theInternational Advertising Bureau.
Pune, India – June 21, 2019 – CloudHedge Technologies today announced it raised funding from NTT DATA Corporation, Japan. CloudHedge’s technology agnostic platform brings automation and intelligence to enterprises in their digital journey to modernize applications. In addition, CloudHedge has grown multi-fold in containers, Kubernetes and cloud ecosystems around the globe.
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Responsible for collecting various system and service metrics and forwarding them downstream to a backend storage system, the role metric collectors play in monitoring pipelines is crucial. Despite this fact, they often get left in the shadows cast by the beautiful frontend analysis tools like Kibana or Grafana. In the world of open source monitoring stacks, Metricbeat and Telegraf stand out as the most popular metric collectors. The truth is that they do much more than simply collect metrics.
Today we are announcing support for Istio with Rancher 2.3 in Preview mode. Istio, and service mesh generally, has developed a huge amount of excitement in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Istio promises to add fault tolerance, canary rollouts, A/B testing, monitoring and metrics, tracing and observability, and authentication and authorization, eliminating the need for developers to instrument or write specific code to enable these capabilities.
