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Cloud Monitoring: Troubleshoot misfired alerts

Dec 6, 2022 By Google Operations In Google Operations
Have you ever received an unexpected Cloud Alerting incident? Would you like to learn how to prevent unexpected alerts? In this video, we cover some key concepts related to Alert Policy configuring in Google Cloud Monitoring. We’ll show you how to troubleshoot two unexpected incidents one on Metric and one on Log based metric alerting policies and explore configuration improvements to prevent future false alerts.
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Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2022

Dec 6, 2022 By Jason Yee In Datadog

Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.

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Don't be held to ransom: Security awareness with Upsun

Dec 5, 2022 By Otilia Cosma In Upsun
Ransomware is an ever-evolving type of malicious software (a.k.a malware) in which an attacker encrypts the files on a victim’s device, rendering it inaccessible and unusable. Then - you guessed it - they demand a ransom from the target before they’ll fix it. Not something any organization ever wants to deal with, and not something any organization has to deal with if they have the right measures in place to minimize the risk. Let’s talk about how!
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5 Things Dimensions Can Do That Regular Tagging Can't

Dec 5, 2022 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
“Perfect tagging” is a little bit like perfectly tuning a piano. It takes an enormous amount of manual effort to get right, it’s never truly perfect, and the slightest change in the surrounding environment can throw it out of harmony. The closer an organization wants to get to perfect tagging, the more engineering resources they have to invest in it — frequently at the expense of more impactful, innovation- and product-oriented projects.
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Cloud 66

One Cloud 66, One Product

Dec 5, 2022 By Khash Sajadi In Cloud 66

We started Cloud 66 with a single product to deploy any Rails application to any cloud. Then, in 2014, we introduced Cloud 66 for Node; in 2015, Cloud 66 Maestro v1, 2016 Cloud 66 Maestro v2 (Kubernetes), 2019 Cloud 66 Skycap, and finally, Cloud 66 Prepress (Static Sites) was released in 2022. All these products exist to serve a single purpose: deployment of any application to any cloud. Today we are making it easier to do that: we are consolidating all our products into one: Cloud 66!

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Three Key Considerations for Deploying Best-of-Breed Observability | AWS reInvent 2022, Ed Walsh

Dec 5, 2022 By ChaosSearch In ChaosSearch
Organizations today need a broad set of cloud services to modernize their applications, keep their systems secure, and ultimately deliver for their customers. At the same time, application-generated operational data is complex, constantly growing, and coming from a variety of sources. This complexity requires a robust plan to ensure its availability for observability and analytics at scale. With today's solutions, TCO can vary wildly, which makes it critical to understand how costs are generated and quickly mount, including deploying your infrastructure, managing ongoing operations, managing data retention, scaling the stack, and building growth plans. Watch this lightning talk to learn about the three key considerations for success.
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Cloud Marketplaces: How to Move "Tail Spend" to "Strategic Spend"

Dec 5, 2022 By Christine Puccio In JFrog
As macroeconomic pressures increase, it’s common to hear more in corporate hallways about “Tail Spend.” But what is it, and how can companies move this sometimes-shadowy expenditure into a strategic advantage for IT and DevOps teams? TOC: Here are some answers to commonly asked questions.
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How Technological Advancements Rapidly Influence Our Internet Connections

Dec 4, 2022 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
It's hard to believe how much has changed in such a short amount of time when it comes to technology and the internet. Only a few years ago, we were using dial-up connections that were so slow, you could practically hear the modem screeching as it tried to make a connection. And now, we have high-speed broadband connections that can download large files in minutes! In this blog post, we will take a look at some of the technological advancements that have had the biggest impact on our internet connections.
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Kentik

Multi-cloud vs. hybrid cloud networks: What's the difference?

Dec 3, 2022 By Stephen Condon In Kentik

In today’s digital landscape, application demands such as scalability, performance, and reliability push many IT organizations toward cloud-based networks. Initially, cloud providers’ main offering was managed, virtualized data storage and services, or cloud computing. As cloud ecosystems have matured, so have the tools, services, and use cases available to their customers.

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