DevOps is an organizational philosophy that enables continuous delivery and continuous deployment with a focus on continuous testing, automation and collaboration among dev teams, business, and operations teams. Consequently, continuous monitoring is also a key phase of the DevOps lifecycle, which is where application performance monitoring tools come into the picture. APM tools enable developers to monitor user experience in real-time with an eye on the health and stability of their applications.

It is no secret that it is not that hard to accidentally spend a boatload of money on AWS. This Twitter user told the story of his $77,000 mistake with a monkey emoji (because what’s funnier than spending the price of an entry level Tesla by accident.) The scary part is that many of us have been there. If you are not looking at your cloud bill every day, it is easy to let the costs run up quickly, then suffer from bill shock when it arrives a month later.

The future of software testing depends upon the amalgam of human ability and machine capability. Implementing automated software testing with native manual testing allows testers to easily replicate processes, resulting in more efficient and accurate testing.

Local prototyping has become de rigueur for most web stack developers in the last few years. Even complex web backends are generally assumed to be emulatable from a developer’s laptop. But this assumption breaks down a bit as we explore the AWS platform in general. More specifically, serverless architecture challenges the system of local prototyping.

AIOps helps DevOps teams in multiple ways, including by boosting developer productivity, improving the customer experience, and increasing the CI/CD cycle frequency.

Hiteshwar is an SRE based out of Mumbai, India. His area of specialization is in distributed systems. He works on Kubernetes, running his own custom clusters, maintaining them and creating tools to manage and monitor them. He likes to share his learnings by writing articles and blogs on Medium and Linkedin. He is an active speaker in meetups and developer groups and also teaches DevOps and SRE practices at learning centers.