As CEO and co-founder of IOpipe, Adam Johnson works with both individual developers and engineering teams at global enterprises to get real-time visibility into the detailed behaviors of their serverless applications. According to The New Stack’s 2018 ebook, serverless adoption has grown by 75 percent since 2017, but developers continue to cite concerns about application performance, risk, and monitoring as drawbacks to building on a serverless architecture.

Between Wednesday, April 17th and Friday, April 26th, Honeycomb had four separate periods of downtime affecting the Honeycomb API, resulting in approximately 38 minutes of total downtime. At Honeycomb, we believe that visibility into production services is important, especially when service outages are making your users unhappy. We take the impact of outages on our customers seriously, and believe that transparency is key to you trusting in and using our service.

The OpsRamp State of AIOps report confirms AIOps adoption, use cases and more. Artificial intelligence for IT operations, or AIOps, is still in its infancy. It’s only been a few years since Gartner coined the term, and yet, 30% of IT teams in large enterprises will roll out AIOps initiatives by 2023. Of course, like any new enterprise technology, the jury on measurable AIOps outcomes is still out.

Istio is a hot technology right now. Giants such as Google and IBM have devoted entire teams of engineers to the project to push it to production readiness. Since 1.0 has been released recently, I wanted to write down some of the things that confused me coming from a strictly Kubernetes only world where we have Ingress controllers and Service load balancers and how Istio takes these same concepts but on stimulants.

Docker Compose is a great tool to develop your Ruby on Rails application locally. It allows you to easily isolate your ruby environment, database, and even Redis if you use something like Sidekiq.

Writing Go applications in an isolated environment with Docker comes with some great advantages. You get a clean GOPATH, the bare essentials for developing, and you can easily change which Go version you’re developing against. In this quick tutorial, we’re going to show you how to structure a Go application with Docker Compose as your development environment.

FireHydrant.io has a changelog feature with a Kubernetes integration. Building this integration was challenging because the knowledge about creating an event oriented system with the Kubernetes client-go project was not as easy to understand as I would have hoped.

Find out how Cloudsmith + Cargo combine to provide you with world-class support for the Rust ecosystem. Get your own private Cargo repository today.

New Relic is one of the industry leaders for SaaS-based application performance management. However, many are starting to look for new relic alternatives. Probably about half of those alternatives are available as SaaS APM.

April was one of our busiest and exciting month of events so far. Here’s a recap of where we were, what we saw and where you can catch us next. While writing this, we are on the road at both DockerCon and Open Infrastructure Summit so if you are there, don’t hesitate to find our pink shirts to meet us and get a demo!