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Case Study: How did a leading ad-tech firm increase application quality & lower response time/AWS costs?

The firm runs hundreds of services which optimize online advertising. The company utilizes large amounts of data which is located both on-premise and on AWS. They wanted to: By using XpoLog the company created a single location that manages all the information from all the sources. The information is shipped to the XpoLog cluster and tagged to the relevant service/team. XpoLog is deployed and managed on AWS spot instances, reducing approximately 90% of the required hardware costs! Try XpoLog free.

Together, Mattermost and GitLab make ChatOps more secure than ever before

Modern IT organizations are increasingly using ChatOps to operate critical business systems and move forward faster. ChatOps is a new way of working that brings people, files, conversations and tools (via commands) together on a central enterprise messaging workspace, accelerating decision making and innovation while increasing agility.

Check configuration upgrades with the Sensu Go sandbox

As a followup to my previous post, I’d like to walk you through using the Sensu Go sandbox to test upgrading different parts of the event pipeline from Sensu 1.x to Sensu Go. First up we have a Sensu 1.x check configuration using the check_ssh command from Nagios Plugins. This walkthrough can be used as a pattern for converting existing Sensu 1.x check configurations into Sensu Go.

Wellington, have you seen us? Here's the story of the Raygun neon sign

In early November, at an event Raygun hosted at Dockside restaurant, we were interviewed and featured by Television New Zealand (TVNZ) about Wellington’s booming tech sector. As part of our contribution and commitment to the Wellington tech scene, we announced at the event that we’d be investing NZD $15 million into the local economy over the next two years.

Announcing Icinga Tour 2019

We’re happy to announce our Icinga Tour 2019! The Icinga Tour is a series of Icinga Camps on different dates spread all over the globe through the year. We’re organising this series of events in coorporation with our local partners. Through the past years we hosted various Icinga Camps, for this year we decided to start with defined dates to give everyone the chance to plan ahead.

Scalability Worst Practices - How Not to Design Applications

Scalability is a core requirement of modern applications. Applications need to be able to handle sudden changes in demand without losing resilience or performance. With the popularity of cloud computing and microservices, DevOps teams have a countless number of platforms and tools for deploying scalable applications. However, true scalability involves much more than just migrating an application to the cloud.