The CloudApp community is very excited to announce our new integration with Mattermost, helping to create a better communication experience for teams, enterprises and individuals. Mattermost centralizes communication with an easy-to-navigate enterprise messaging workspace that offers security, scalability and open source flexibility. CloudApp helps to enhance that messaging experience with the use of visual media like GIFs, screenshots and recordings.

Throughout this series we have been exploring how to use serverless architectures to our advantage. In this article I will show you: How to create a serverless slack command using Node.js & Up, Best Practices when developing serverless applications, A curated list of serverless resources.

In Part 2: Serverless Scales I briefly touched on how a serverless architecture can have a cost benefit. In this post, I will go over: How to approach and analyze the cost of serverless, Two detailed examples of a cost analysis.

In Part 1: What is Serverless? I talked about how one of the biggest pros to a serverless architecture is how well it scales and how high availability is baked in. In this post I’ll go over: How a traditional highly available scalable architecture works, How a scalable serverless architecture works, How you can benefit from a serverless architecture.

In this post we’ll answer the following questions: What is serverless architecture? (and what it’s not), What are the pros & cons of serverless?

After weeks of development with a lot of brainpower being invested we have finally finished the first stable release of our Graphite integration into Icinga Web 2. The new features include a searchable graphs dashboard, multi-client capability and much more – read on.

Not all websites are the same. From personal blogs to business websites, online shops to community forums, SaaS applications to video streaming services, websites come in all shapes, sizes and flavours. It follows that not all websites have the same uptime requirements. If a personal blog goes down for 20 minutes it might not be a big problem, but the same downtime for a popular online shop could be a major concern.