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Best Practices for Moving from a Monolith to Microservices

In the first post of this series, we looked at the state of your organization, how to tell if Microservices are right for you, and wrapped up with a few challenges this architecture brings to the table. In this article, we will look at organizational changes that will help you adopt a Microservice architecture. Additionally, we will touch on topics like how to bring change to your organization, how to embrace the primacy effect, and why you should embrace cross-functional teams.

How Roblox went from Windows to Ubuntu in 7 days for edge compute nodes

Roblox is a gaming platform for 100 million kids all over the world, and to serve them must deploy edge compute globally for low latency gaming experiences. This means imaging, managing and rebuilding thousands of servers. In this talk, Rob Cameron, Roblox Technical Director for Cloud Services, shares how they migrated servers from Windows to Linux for approximately 200k containerised workloads in a seven day timeframe, leveraging MAAS for the path to full orchestration.

Validating Change in O365

Before introducing new systems like #O365, or changes, like moving to the #Cloud, IT teams know it’s best practice to run through ‘what if’ scenarios and benchmark #performance to assess the potential impact on #userexperience. However incredibly, many still choose to skip these steps. The #consequences mean more time spent #troubleshooting, reduced service quality, poor app response time and #unhappyusers. Imagine if you could validate change quickly, but in a simple way that avoids #risk and business #disruption.

AI-Based remediation for cloud incidents? We are on our way there

“Today, maintaining a high performance and continuous availability of cloud production environments are some of the most significant pain points for technology organizations. Production availability is commonly measured and managed by evaluating some of the following dimension: Does the product or service work fast enough? Does its performance meet the expected metrics? Is it able to deliver the optimal customer experience?

Monitor ClickHouse with Datadog

ClickHouse is an open source database management system, and was originally developed as a backend for Yandex’s Metrica analytics platform. ClickHouse is column oriented, meaning that it can quickly scan through ranges of values in a single column without touching irrelevant values in other columns. This makes ClickHouse well suited for online analytical processing (OLAP).