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RESOLVE '22: How to get multi-cloud done right

Multi-cloud is inevitable. With AIOps, struggling in its complexity doesn’t need to be. Business technology stacks don’t appear out of a vacuum. For the modern cloud-enabled, cloud-dependent company (that is to say, most of them), the look from the inside looks more like an ongoing evolution than a monolithic choice.

Why Your Legacy Cloud Cost Tools Aren't Cutting It

In the beginning of cloud computing, before the earliest cost tools came along to give companies a glimpse into their spending, most businesses found it hard to determine where their cloud budget was going. The money disappeared into the black hole of the cloud service provider, and in exchange, the business received cloud services. Achieving any sort of granularity beyond that was next to impossible.

Quick Bytes - Lumigo Alerts

Lumigo Alerts allows you to create customized alerts for anything lumigo monitors, including event-based alert (e.g., timeout) and key metrics (e.g., error rate). The alerts can delivered via email or a multiple of platform integration options like slack, Microsoft teams and more. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any new livestreams and observability content! With one-click distributed tracing, Lumigo lets developers effortlessly find and fix issues in serverless and containerized environments

Lumigo for Colorcast: A Game of Metrics

At sports tech company Colorcast, debugging was running out the clock for their developers. They made a game-time decision to automate their tracing and monitoring, knocking out their average time to debug. Watch how they did it with Lumigo. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any new livestreams and observability content! With one-click distributed tracing, Lumigo lets developers effortlessly find and fix issues in serverless and containerized environments

Monitor Your AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs with Simplicity

TL;DR: Dashbird launched observability for AWS AppSync. Additionally to AWS Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, ECS, Kinesis, Step Functions, ELB, SNS, RDS, OpenSearch, and HTTP API Gateway you can now get detailed insights and metrics in the Dashbird app for AWS AppSync. Since Facebook released its previously internally used query language GraphQL in 2016, it has seen an outstanding increase in adoptions for all kinds of applications.

Why it makes sense to invest in a hybrid cloud future

A cloud-first strategy is increasingly seen as the standard way to achieve efficient business operations. As the favoured approach of new start-ups and expanding businesses wanting to benefit from the flexibility and resilience of the cloud, it’s little wonder that foundational cloud services saw a revenue growth of 38.5% in 2021 according to IDC. It looks like a fantastic package from the outside.

Technical debt does not disappear

Cloud is currently seen by some of the clients I speak with, as the answer to associated technical debt. Technical debt is like any other debt – growing year-on-year, month-by-month. Simply relocating a workload from your dated compute stack to someone else’s system or service is not a panacea to every business-led postponement.

What is AWS Kinesis?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Kinesis is a cloud-based service that can fully manage large distributed data streams in real-time. This serverless data service captures, processes, and stores large amounts of data. It is a functional and secure global cloud platform with millions of customers from nearly every industry. Companies from Comcast to the Hearst Corporation are using AWS Kinesis.

Using BAM from Azure Synapse Pipelines

Many organizations are investing heavily in the data space, and Azure Synapse is one of the technologies in the Microsoft stack which is very popular. Within Synapse, Data Flows are the component of Synapse used to orchestrate the movement of data into and out of your Data Lake and for orchestrating jobs within your Data Platform. The business heavily depends on your data platform for movements of data within the organization and the analytics-driven from data via Synapse.