Kinesis is a managed, high-performance and large-capacity service for real time processing of (live) streaming data. Prominent users include Netflix, Comcast and Major League Baseball. Its design to let it grab data from multiple sources at the same time and to scale processing within EC2 instances.
Kubernetes and containers are changing how applications are built, deployed and managed. Rancher makes application deployment simple and easily portable regardless of location or infrastructure. At Citrix, we operate on the same core principle. We provide application delivery and load balancing solutions for a high-quality user experience, to any device, across any network, for your web, traditional and cloud-native applications regardless of where they are hosted.
Remember that old commercial from the eighties of the actor Chris Robinson saying “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? (Yes, I know it’s an old commercial, but the catchphrase has definitely outshone the original product placement.) Well, I would like to start this blog post by changing things up and saying that “I’m not a Database Administrator, but I like to play one on TV!” Or, um, well, at least I like to pretend to be a DBA. Sometimes.
Since StatsD was introduced by Etsy in 2011, it has become a mainstay of infrastructure monitoring. But as dev and ops teams rely more and more on containerized microservices, they have pushed the limits of StatsD’s design. One major shortcoming is that StatsD has no built-in support for tagging your metrics with key-value pairs.
Your customers are messaging, ordering, watching on a mobile device and — without a pause — carrying that experience to the web, desktop, tv, smart speaker, etc. Their expectations are that your service provides one seamless experience that goes with them where ever they are. That’s why you need resolution tools that work across organizational and technical boundaries. Now, maybe you’re tired of using an additional mobile focused tool when Sentry can cover both cases.
Last week on Slack: Eldin: Hey Christine, do you remember the first time you viewed a log file? Christine: Oh yes. I used Splunk as a support engineer and I remember. You? Eldin: I believe it was early 2000s. I was installing Slackware and a few network cards for a DIY router, and logs were critical. Hello again! We are Eldin and Christine from Solutions Engineering – a team at Grafana that is passionate about connecting people to our products – reporting back for duty.
If you have ever used a search bar on a website, you've probably used Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is an open-source search and analytics engine used for full-text search as well as analyzing logs and metrics. It allows websites to use autocomplete in text fields, search suggestions, location or geospatial search. Tons of companies use Elasticsearch, including Nike, SportsEngine, Autodesk, and Expedia.
As a customer of StatusHub, you are aware that you can quickly and easily communicate with your customers when an incident occurs. With our partnership with Zendesk, you can display a number of events from your StatusHub directly inside the main ZenDesk Support interface.
Welcome to 2020, where Google Drive can fail for some of you but not others, you can’t access your passwords, and you can’t withdraw cash on vacation. This stranded on a desert isle dream was reality in the month of January, which saw drama in the financial services and internet infrastructure sectors. January’s downtime reinforces just how connected we have become, and how reliant we are on infrastructure that can seemingly fail on a whim.
