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So your organization has decided to move to the cloud. Smart move! Many companies today are either making the move to the cloud or have already made it. According to RightScale’s 2019 State of the Cloud Survey, 94% of IT professionals say their companies use the cloud. Over 90% is public cloud. Gartner predicts that public cloud revenue will increase by 17% in 2020. The biggest percentage increase is expected with IaaS. So, you’re clearly not alone.

Let’s start with a simple picture and a question. You are involved in the day-to-day running of a complex and hybrid cloud of IT systems and applications. These systems, technologies, applications, processes and other platforms perform a number of critical business functions.

This blog will brief on the distinction between Azure Service Bus Topics and Azure Event Grid. First let us see a short introduction of what these Azure services are, before getting deeper into their distinctions. It is important to note the difference between services that deliver an event and services that deliver a message. Service Bus topics handles messages whereas Azure Event Grid handles events.

As you read this, API Gateway HTTP API is now Generally Available. This is an important milestone, and kudos to the AWS API Gateway team for turning this around so quickly. As part of the GA announcement, they also introduced a number of features, including...

As more and more businesses move their servers to the cloud, it makes it more difficult to monitor the status of networks and other such events typically tracked and monitored in traditional in-house server environments. In recent years, companies have turned to a wide array of hybrid multi-cloud monitoring tools.

Stackery is pleased to announce its addition of support for the new AWS HTTP APIs service which is being introduced today alongside the existing API Gateway tooling. Our addition of such support, in parallel with the GA announcement of HTTP APIs, is an example of how we partner with AWS to accelerate serverless application development and delivery for customers.

Confronted with the global Coronavirus pandemic, IT and Network administrators now face the prospect of having large numbers of employees suddenly working from home. This change will likely require accelerated testing of network performance and digital experiences to ensure business-critical services operate smoothly.

Data pipelines provide the ability to operate on streams of real-time data and process large data volumes. Monitoring data pipelines can present a challenge because many of the important metrics are unique. For example, with data pipelines, you need to understand the throughput of the pipeline, how long it takes data to flow through it and whether your data pipeline is resource-constrained.