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In the age of cloud, it's easier than ever to reap the benefits of remote work

High productivity. Low turnover. Satisfied workers. Less stress. A larger talent pool. Fewer office expenses. ADA compliance. And better work-life balance. When you list the benefits of remote work, there’s a lot to love – for both businesses and the people they employ – which is a huge reason why more and more companies are starting to embrace a remote workforce.

How we're using 'dogfooding' to serve up better alerting for Grafana Cloud

At Grafana Labs, we’re big fans of putting ourselves in the shoes of our customers. So when it comes to building a product, dogfooding is a term we throw around constantly. In short, what it means is that we actually use the products we create throughout their entire life cycle. And I really mean the whole life cycle.

Webinar: Debugging Lambda Performance Issues

One of the most common performance issues in serverless architectures, and specifically, AWS Lambda, is elevated latencies from external services, such as DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, or Stripe. In this webinar, we will focus on how to monitor, detect, and fix latency issues that arise when our Lambda functions need to talk to other services. Some of the topics we will cover include:

Serverless for Enterprises: Scale big or go home

We discuss quite a bit about going serverless for SMEs and startups, however it’s often those with an already huge infrastructure, such as enterprises, that can find the move and change daunting. We see many companies from the likes of Coca-Cola to Netflix managing it but what does it look like in action? In this article, we share some best practices and insights on the serverless designs that can scale massively and represent enterprise models.

An IT Exec Charts a New Path Amid New Realities

If you’re the chief IT executive of a Fortune 500 company right now, all eyes are on you. You need to be the hero, the light in the gloom, the one to deliver your company from the brink of economic disaster in a year like no other. If you’re Rob Carter, Executive VP of Information Services at FedEx, you’ve been working toward this moment for years. Carter was the keynote speaker at the Enterprise IT Virtual Event on July 23, hosted by Data Center Knowledge.

An easy button for AWS Spot Management? A conversation with Taloflow's new partner, Xosphere

At Taloflow, we’re proud to introduce to you our newest partner, Xosphere. The Xosphere™ Instance Orchestrator™ intelligently manages AWS Spot instances to give your applications 100% reliability at a fraction of the EC2 cost. Customers of Taloflow can use Xosphere in conjunction with Taloflow’s services to seamlessly identify candidates for Spot Management and monitor improvements in EC2 efficiency.

Using Cloud Logging on GKE

Looking to debug and troubleshoot your workloads that are on Google Kubernetes Engine? In this episode of Stack Doctor, Yuri Grinshteyn shows you how Cloud Logging ingests your GKE workloads, and what tools allow you greater observability over log data. Watch to learn how you can efficiently retrieve, view, and analyze logs from your queries with Cloud Logging!

Cloud logging

There’s no tool that can replace the best practices for DevOps or SRE, but there is a tool that can allow you greater observability over your logs in a distributed infrastructure involving multiple products. In this episode of Google Cloud Platform Essentials, we show you how logs are aggregated for all Google Cloud products, how to utilize them, and how to use them for tracking application errors.