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Designing Your Cloud With Failure In Mind

Implementing any cloud development project can be tricky, and frustrating. Especially when you are pressured with time, reactive approaches, or cost-saving scenarios. However, there are some things you can do to implement solutions in your cloud architecture for long-term scalability and risk mitigation. Rather than short-term fixes until it arises again, consider designing your cloud with failure in mind, or speculating worst-case scenarios. It might sound counterintuitive or obvious.

Announcing Splunk Federated Search for Amazon S3 Now Generally Available in Splunk Cloud Platform

Splunk is pleased to announce the general availability of Federated Search for Amazon S3, a new capability that allows customers to search data from their Amazon S3 buckets directly from Splunk Cloud Platform without the need to ingest it. Enterprises rely heavily on cloud object storage services as the de facto destination for their new data to leverage the cost, compliance, security, scalability and manageability benefits that cloud platforms can offer.

Azure File Storage Best Practices

Azure File Share is a cutting-edge service offered by Microsoft’s Azure platform. This robust solution allows seamless integration of serverless file sharing capabilities accessible through industry-leading protocols such as SMB, NFS, and Azure Files REST API. When effectively utilized, Azure File Share can drastically improve the file-sharing experience for cloud-based and on-premises deployments. In the realm of Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, it has demonstrated unparalleled benefits.

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3 Ways FinTechs Can Improve Cloud Observability at Scale

Financial technology (FinTech) companies today are shaping how consumers will save, spend, invest, and borrow in the economy of the future. But with that innovation comes a critical need for scalable cloud observability solutions that can support FinTech application performance, security, and compliance objectives through periods of exponential customer growth. In this blog, we explore why cloud observability is becoming increasingly vital for FinTech companies and three ways that FinTechs can improve cloud observability at scale.

Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Next Gen: How Pepperdata Can Save 30% Off Your Cloud Bill

Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Next Gen is the only cost optimization solution for both Apache Spark and microservices that can save you between 30–47% on your cloud bill. No matter if you try to manually tune your applications on your own, an estimated one-third of what is spent every day on cloud computing resources is wasted. While you might have cost-optimized your infrastructure with things like savings plans, spot and reserved instances, that doesn’t address the waste inherent in your applications.

The Future of Cloud Native Data is Now

Struggling with data complexities in distributed apps? Watch our webinar with Google Cloud and TechCrunch on mastering cloud-native data! Join Aiven’s Matty Stratton and Google’s Kaslin Fields, as they guide you through the steps to manage the data on your distributed applications. By leveraging data’s inherent gravity, it can be used across all components of your applications.

How to configure API Management to use Business Activity Monitoring?

Want to troubleshoot your Azure integration solutions faster and easier? In this video, we'll show you how to configure API Management to use Business Activity Monitoring from Serverless360. This will give you and your team of business and IT support users enhanced visibility into how your APIs are being used, and provide you with features like advanced monitoring, message reprocessing, and the ability to trace business transactions across your entire architecture.

How to optimize cost of Logic Apps Consumption?

Our latest video on Logic App consumption and cost optimization! Are you looking to develop interfaces at minimal expense but worried about the potential money drain from unnecessary polling and checks? In this video, we've got you covered! See how Serverless360's powerful Cost Analyzer can help you trim down expenses, especially in non-production environments. Say goodbye to wasted funds and hello to smarter Logic App management.

How do log analytics and Business Activity Monitoring differ for business users?

It is considerably difficult for Business users & support operators to understand a business architecture built using App Insights and Log Analytics, the amount of Azure knowledge is insufficient to monitor the business process. In this video, we will focus on a real-world scenario where you might be using Logic Apps and compare the differences between using Log Analytics diagnostics data and Serverless360 BAM.