With most businesses finding it hard to achieve a 99.9% uptime throughout the year, achieving a goal of 99.999% uptime looks daunting to developers. Here’s how to reach 99.99% uptime for your business. It’s like asking someone to build a bridge that would never collapse or a machine that would never break down no matter what. In short, it is a hard goal to achieve but yes it is achievable.

NiCE IT Management Solutions is proud to serve global key-players in advanced VMware performance and health monitoring. Read the latest customer reference on how the NiCE VMware Management Pack is helping a US Federal Energy Agency in their VMware operations.

StatusGator notifies you when status pages change. But the most overlooked feature of it might just be the unified dashboard that displays the status of every service you depend on. This can save precious minutes during a frantic incident response.

Hiteshwar is an SRE based out of Mumbai, India. His area of specialization is in distributed systems. He works on Kubernetes, running his own custom clusters, maintaining them and creating tools to manage and monitor them. He likes to share his learnings by writing articles and blogs on Medium and Linkedin. He is an active speaker in meetups and developer groups and also teaches DevOps and SRE practices at learning centers.

What Wall Street does makes you listen. Netflix, Amazon and Google aren’t the only companies leading the charge for internal IT best practices. Nasdaq’s top IT dog, Brad Peterson, told The Wall Street Journal that serverless computing is a leading strategy in the financial-markets sector. This makes sense, as financial services organizations today must focus on the hefty task of data management, not server management.

Blackhawk Network may be the most omnipresent company you’ve never heard of. As the market leader in card-based financial solutions and the largest provider of 3rd party prepaid cards, you’ve probably purchased or used one of Blackhawk Network’s gift cards, without ever knowing it was them. That’s how they like it.

I think that a lot of people immediately associate the word “time series” with “forecasting”. After all, who doesn’t want to be able to predict the future? While we can’t do that quite yet, we can produce forecasts with confidence intervals. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to make a univariate time series prediction with Prophet and InfluxDB.

Elasticsearch cross-cluster replication (CCR) was released as a beta feature in Elasticsearch 6.5, and as a Generally Available (GA) feature in Elasticsearch 6.7. CCR allows multiple indices to be replicated to one or more Elasticsearch clusters. Replicating indices to additional Elasticsearch clusters solves several use cases, including high availability (HA) across datacenters, disaster recovery (DR), and CDN-like architectures to co-locate data closer to application servers (and users).

A new cyberattack occurs roughly every 39 seconds. Each of these attacks leaves behind a variety of evidence, including IP addresses, log events and malicious files. This evidence can be incredibly valuable to security teams but only if it’s analyzed and placed in context. There is simply too much attack data from too many sources to be useful when data is in a raw format. Threat intelligence is the solution for making raw data actionable.

In the first post of our Amazon EKS series, we went deep into what EKS is and how organizations that run Kubernetes can benefit from it. In this second installment, we’ll learn why it’s essential for organizations to monitor EKS logs, along with how to do it.