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How to set up Prometheus monitoring for your services

When you run applications in production, you need to monitor the infrastructure they run on - and collect important signals about application health like error rates and latency. In this episode of Engineering for Reliability with Google Cloud, Yuri will demonstrate how to instrument your service to expose application-specific telemetry with Prometheus and how to configure Google's managed service for Prometheus to collect those metrics.

AWS Migration Checklist For Startups

Suppose you are going to adopt AWS as your cloud provider. Whether you are migrating from some other cloud providers or it is your first time setting up your application’s infrastructure on the cloud, This article will be immensely beneficial for you. AWS is an industry leader in cloud innovation technologies and carries the largest market share among cloud providers.

Getting started with Juju and Charmed Operators: three awesome videos

Getting started with software can be confusing – depending on the complexity of the software, of course. Despite the extensive documentation available for Charmed Operator SDK and Juju some just prefer to watch video material to start with. So, let’s take the opportunity to have a look at available tutorials and presentations available on the Internet.

CloudZero Achieves SOC 1 Compliance: Here's Why We Did It

For most companies it’s difficult to organize cloud spend because it relies on manual effort, like tagging. At CloudZero, we’re dedicated to helping customers make sense of their cloud investment without manual and repetitive work. Our code-driven approach to cost allocation makes it easy for customers to organize spend even if they have poor tagging, shared resources, or containerized infrastructure. Quite simply, we organize cloud spend better than anyone else in the world.

Scheduling load tests and persisting output with k6

In this k6 series I have covered HTTP request testing with k6 and performance testing with k6. I designed these tutorials to introduce you to k6 and to show you how to use k6 for performance testing of microservices. As the third tutorial in the k6 series, this will cover how you can store your k6 test results locally and also how to schedule your load tests using CircleCI’s scheduled pipelines feature.

How Lightspeed optimized iOS test runs with parallelism and caching

At Lightspeed, we maintain multiple large iOS projects as well as their modularized dependencies. The last year of acquisitions brought together many different approaches to CI/CD at our company. I recently led the initiative to bring these projects and practices into alignment. In this post, I will explain the goals we had for our continuous integration pipeline and the implementations we used to achieve them.

How to Migrate from BIND to AWS Route53 Safely in 3 Commands

Migrating your DNS to a cloud provider like Amazon’s Route53 service can be a daunting task. Thankfully, with dns-tools you can test your DNS records before and after the migration to ensure that everything made it across in one-piece. This is the three steps we follow when migrating to Route 53: Follow along below and in just 10 minutes you’ll know if everything will migrate smoothly for you.

Difference between Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery

Continuous integration is a DevOps practice, where developers continuously integrate the code changes into a central repository. It most often refers to the build or the integration stage of the software release process.A continuous integration service helps to automatically build and run unit tests on the new code changes to find any errors instantly.