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The internet is inherently complex, and it can be difficult to understand all the various moving parts that make it work. But that doesn't mean you can learn a little more about what makes the World Wide Web tick. In this article, you'll learn what the internet is, how it's structured, and how information flows across the web.

Amid the first bear market in over a decade, the world’s largest companies are facing intense pressure to cut back. Layoffs have made headlines, but cutting workforce is not a silver-bullet solution to surviving in a down market. True, companies tend to spend the most on personnel, but using layoffs as a first line of recession defense has myriad negative consequences for survivors, including reduced job satisfaction, reduced organizational commitment, and declining job performance.

As of 2022, 49% of enterprise workloads and data are in a public cloud, and that number is expected to increase by 6-7% over the next year. Why? With big cloud moves come big benefits: optimized performance, reduced management overhead, and cost savings on data centers. However, it also comes with the struggle to get a handle over never-ending data growth. Customers are looking to Cribl to help route and process that data at scale and need a seamless way to get started within minutes.

In-context dashboards for Google cloud storage, customizable, create alert, view logs for better storage system insights at project level and bucket level.

With AWS re:Invent right around the corner, infrastructure has been top of mind at Cortex. Earlier this year, we launched our revolutionary Resource Catalog, which integrates with AWS accounts to automatically ingest all infrastructure components, from s3 buckets to lambdas. Through this process, Cortex allows you to track everything in a single place, while augmenting the information that already exists in AWS. The Resource Catalog surfaces live information about your infrastructure assets.

Your software development team has an enormous number of tools available to them. Some older tools are being used in new ways, which has inspired the creation of more new tools to choose from. For example, JavaScript has grown from a language used to add interactivity on websites to a full-stack language for both frontend and backend needs. JavaScript has paved the way for Express, Nest.js, and many others.

Cloud 66 turned ten this year! While this is a big deal for us, I understand that it is not important to you. After all, who cares if a company turns 10, right? So, why am I writing about it, and why do I think you might also be interested in this? Since we started Cloud 66 in 2012, we and the world around us have changed significantly. We are no longer a scrappy startup with only big dreams to keep us going. Today, hundreds of customers rely on us daily for critical parts of their business.

This blog will discuss running serverless containers in AWS EKS with Fargate. Why and how we can use this configuration and provides a working example of how to use AWS EKS with Fargate. Recently, a customer reached out with an interesting request. They wanted us to run containers in serverless mode with AWS EKS. Their intention was to use Kubernetes features and run containers in serverless mode. Side note: in EKS you should manage NodeGroups and pay for it.

Cloud costs can pile up quickly, and often behind the scenes. We explain how software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI) can help your business rein in a swelling budget.