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The Future of Azure Messaging Services with Clemens Vasters

In this episode of Azure on Air from the INTEGRATE Summit, Clemens Vasters, Azure's messaging platform architect, shares exciting updates and insights. Highlights include geo-replication for Service Bus and Event Hubs, processing 10 trillion transactions daily, Event Grid enhancements, MQTT support expansion, and Microsoft Fabric integration. Clemens also discusses the role of AI in messaging and introduces new developer tools like the Event Hubs emulator. Don't miss his thoughts on the Azure Relay, a crucial yet often overlooked service.

Top 7 best practices for monitoring your OpenShift environment

Red Hat OpenShift is an open-source container platform that provides a complete environment for developers to create, launch, and manage applications in both cloud and on-premises settings, leveraging the potential of container technology. With increasing popularity in container orchestration, OpenShift's strong scalability and features attract developers and IT experts. Nonetheless, the intricacy and changing aspects of OpenShift setups demand a tailored strategy for monitoring and observation.

Building a DevOps Culture: Tips for Small Engineering Teams

DevOps is essential for engineering teams looking to enhance collaboration, speed up development cycles, and maintain high-quality software delivery. Building on our previous discussion of common DevOps mistakes startups make, let's move on to ten practical strategies small engineering teams can adopt to foster a robust DevOps culture.

EKS vs Cycle: Comparing Worker Nodes

Over the last few weeks I've been talking about the key differences between Amazon EKS and Cycle. If you happened to miss it and want to catch up before diving into this post you can check it out here: This post will round out the series by taking a look at how worker nodes are added to a cluster and the major differences between EKS and Cycle there.

How to load-balance across multiple availability zones for improved redundancy

Load balancers are some of the most important load-bearing (pun intended) components in cloud environments. They perform multiple critical tasks: network switching, packet inspection, and of course, routing. Most cloud-based load balancers focus on load balancing within a single zone, but what if you have resources spread across multiple zones?

Beyond RPA: Your Checklist to Unlocking the Full Potential of Automation

Robotic process automation (RPA) initiatives often falter because enterprise application leaders choose use cases that involve intricate business logic, extended workflows, and require significant orchestration or additional technologies to deliver business value. In essence, RPA is not well-suited for complex workflows, lengthy processes, and those requiring extensive coordination.

How to run fault injection tests on AWS managed services

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Fully-managed SaaS services offer incredible scalability and accessibility, but at a cost: they’re also single points of failure. If your application depends on a SaaS service and the service fails, guess who your customers will blame? We need to design applications to anticipate and work around managed service failures, but how do we do that without having to wait for the service to fail?