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Platforms All The Way Up & Down

All businesses today are built on layers of platforms. The app running your business is built on top of the Kubernetes application deployment platform, running on the AWS cloud platform. AWS is built on top of platforms such as the Linux operating system and the Intel X86 processor architecture. Smartly managed, a good product evolves into a platform for users to extract value and for developers to create new products and platforms. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

Docker Performance Improvement: Tips and Tricks

Docker is now everywhere. Over the past few years, a lot of modern-day software has now moved to become packaged in a Docker container, and with good reason. One of the biggest benefits touted about Docker containers is their speed. You don’t get lightning-fast performance out of the box without Docker performance tuning.

Best Practices to Optimize the Cost of Cloud Infrastructure

Being elastic in nature, many of us think migrating to cloud will be a cost-effective solution to host infrastructure. But this is partly true, however, when your hosted infrastructure becomes fat the cost of the cloud increases rapidly. Moreover, managing cloud infra costs becomes difficult because of the growing infrastructure/teams. To curb the increasing costs, here are a few best practices which can be adhered to manage infrastructure efficiently.

Four OnPage Features You May Have Missed

OnPage is praised for its award-winning incident alert management platform, providing capabilities and integrations for IT and managed service providers (MSPs). Though known for its SSL encrypted messages, critical alerts and key integrations, OnPage is constantly adding new features to its trusted platform. To keep you up to date, I’ve highlighted four valuable OnPage features that you may not know about.

The Best Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Tools

The number of tools for IT Ops professionals to choose from is overwhelming. For this reason, we created the periodic table for IT Ops tools to better define, organize, and explain the IT Ops tooling landscape. It is our hope that it will help IT professionals find, explore, and choose tools for their future IT Ops stack.

8 Unbeatable Reasons to Choose NodeJS for Building Your Ecommerce Store

The increasing numbers of business are switching to e-commerce business to sell their products. As of now, there are more than 7,500,000 online stores operating around the world. Naturally, every online retailer is always in the lookout for the best possible ways to outlive their competition. E-commerce businesses cannot compromise on the performance, speed, usability, and scalability of their websites and this is why they need to choose the appropriate technologies diligently.

Apache Monitoring with Applicare

Because of its customizable modular architecture catering to a multitude of needs, Apache is a widely used cross-platform web server. Although it has highly stable nature, yet, performance bottlenecks in Apache web server lead to slowness in the web pages. Inability to see the number of web server requests and traffic spikes to the website makes server capacity management difficult.

Better Observability with New Container Agents

If you liked Sematext Docker Agent you’ll love our new agent for Docker monitoring that provides you with even more insight into your Docker, Kubernetes, and Swarm clusters. Because of its power, small footprint, and ease of installation the old Sematext Docker Agent enjoyed high adoption by the Docker DevOps community.