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How To Deploy WordPress as a Headless CMS on Cycle

With the release of the WordPress REST API (version 4.7 circa 2016), WordPress developers started deploying the application as a headless CMS. As the WordPress community started to embrace this architecture, more and more developers are starting to use it in production. Now thanks to the growing number of plugins, WordPress as a headless CMS is starting to become the go-to deployment strategy.

Achieve Better Accountability With Full-Service Ownership

Software teams seeking to provide better products and services must focus on faster release cycles. But running reliable systems at ever-increasing speeds presents a big challenge. Software teams can have both quality and speed by adjusting the policies around ongoing service ownership. While on-call plays a large part in this model, advancement in knowledge, more resilient code, increased collaboration, and practice also mean engineers don’t have to wake up to a nightmare.

What to expect from serverless tech in 2020?

There’s no sure-fire way to tell whether or not serverless tech is going to grow or even be around next year. Every post-apocalyptic movie has thought me that technology is the first thing to go after a catastrophic event happens. And if that happens we’ll have to return to some ancient tech like ** knock on wood ** containers.

How Serverless Applications Will Change Your Business

In 2008, Netflix was struck by a disaster. A fast-growing global streaming service was well on its way to transform the entertainment industry when the management faced a problem exposed by a data center failure. Even though it was a single issue, it shut the entire service down, depriving the company of millions in profits and effectively ending the shipments of DVDs (they were still a thing in 2008).

How to Monitor AWS S3

In the first part of our AWS S3 series, we discussed what AWS S3 buckets are, the difference between S3 and EC2s, advantages of AWS S3 object storage, and AWS S3 API integration. In this next post, we’ll be covering AWS S3 Monitoring, including the importance of leveraging data and monitoring metrics, and how Sumo Logic provides insight into your infrastructure with S3 logs.

Webcast: Is your Log and Event Data Growth Too Much for Elasticsearch?

Information and insight gathered from data delivers tremendous value. But data isn’t helpful if you’re drowning in it! For a while, three open source projects, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (together known as the ELK Stack), were touted as the fastest and most cost-efficient approach to managing log and event data.

List of .Net Profilers: 3 Different Types and Why You Need All of Them

.NET Profilers are a developer’s best friend when it comes to optimizing application performance. They are especially critical when doing low level CPU and memory optimizations. But did you know that there are three different types of profilers? All are very valuable but serve relatively different purposes and different types of performance profiling. Let’s explore the different types.

Log Indexing and Rotation for Optimized Archival in Graylog

You have Gigabytes or Terabytes of logs coming in on a daily basis, but now what do you do with them? Should I keep 10 days, 30 days or 1 year? How do I rotate around my logs and configure them in Graylog? Let's talk about the best practices around log retention and how to configure them in Graylog. Log rotation can be done for various reasons ranging from meeting a compliance goal, keeping the size of the index down for faster searches or to get rid of data after a set amount of time.