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Azcopy: A Comprehensive Guide

In the vast universe of cloud computing, data transfer operations serve as the lifeline of your day-to-day tasks. Whether it’s migrating data to the cloud or distributing data across various storage accounts, data transfer plays a vital role. Microsoft’s Azcopy is a lifeline for those who require a robust, reliable, and efficient tool for their data transfer needs, particularly to and from Azure Storage.

Azure Logic App Standard Monitoring on key metrics

Azure Logic Apps have revolutionized how organizations automate their workflows and integrate various applications and services. They provide a robust and scalable platform for designing, orchestrating, and automating business processes and workflows. With Azure Logic Apps, organizations can harness the full potential of integration and achieve unparalleled efficiency in their operations.

Managing Compliance: Tips + Strategies for Breaking the Vicious Scan-Fix-Drift Cycle

Managing compliance can seem like a losing game. It seems like you'll never be ahead – like you'll always be fixing drift after it happens, only for your configurations to inevitably slip again. Managing compliance becomes a vicious cycle of scanning to hunt down drift, fixing it as best you can, and waiting for it to happen again.

Netdata Parents (Streaming and Replication)

A “Parent” is a Netdata Agent, like the ones we install on all our systems, but is configured as a central node that receives, stores and processes metrics data from other Netdata “Child” nodes in our infrastructure. Netdata Parents are flexible. You can have one big active-active cluster of Netdata Parents, or you can spread a lot of independent Parents across the infrastructure. This “distributed still centralized” setup provides a lot of benefits.

Qovery Demo Day June 2023

Qovery is a platform delivering Environments as a Service in your Cloud, where you can build, deploy and test in production-like environments. Qovery turns app deployment and environment provisioning on AWS a breeze. Developers can instantly spin up production-like environments and start shipping in seconds. Join Albane (Product Marketing at Qovery), Romaric (CEO at Qovery) and Hamza (Senior Solution Engineer at Doppler) to see in action what we worked on last month and what's next.

Monitoring Android Data with MetricFire

Understanding the performance of Android applications, user interactions, and problem-solving is significantly reliant on data monitoring. As the realm of mobile technology continues to expand, developers are tasked with managing an increasingly large amount of data. When this data is correctly harvested and scrutinized, it can yield valuable insights that inform strategic choices and lead to improvements in the app.

How to Successfully Transition from DevOps to Platform Engineering

Are you thinking about switching from platform engineering to DevOps? You're not alone. In order to remain competitive, many organizations are making this crucial change as the world of software development and operations continues to change. This article will discuss the reasons behind the transition, what it implies, and most importantly, how your organization may successfully manage the change.

Graphite Metrics Delay: Why it Happens and What to Do

To understand why Graphite metrics delay occurs, we must first know what Graphite is. Graphite is an open-source tool used to track the performance of websites, applications, and network servers. It makes it simple to monitor, store, retrieve, and visualize numeric time-series data. While Graphite does make it easier to render graphs on-demand, the struggle of dealing with large amounts of data with minimum delay is real.

Blackfire is now even closer to home!

As you probably already know, Blackfire and Upsun joined forces back in June 2021. And since then our collective teams have been working together to provide a seamless integration for a complete Git workflow and Observability solution. Blackfire was already part of the Upsun product experience for Enterprise and Elite users for quite some time now thanks to the Upsun Observability suite.