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Migration Path to Linux Container Orchestration Keynote Sizzle - Ubuntu Masters

Roblox moved its game servers from Windows to Linux to reduce costs and create a better player experience, including the migration to containerised workloads. Rob Cameron, Technical Director for Cloud Services at Roblox, gives an overview of his keynote discussion from Ubuntu Masters.

Automating the install of Elastic Cloud Enterprise on AWS with Ansible

So you want to install Elastic Cloud Enterprise (you know, the orchestration solution for the Elastic Stack that simplifies and standardizes how you deploy, upgrade, resize, configure, and monitor one to many clusters from a single UI/API) Installing ECE on one host isn’t tough. Installing it on two isn’t much harder. However, when you start dealing with 3, 5, 7, 11, etc., the complexity grows, as does the work involved in operating and maintaining (upgrading!) it all.

Monitor Druid with Datadog

Apache Druid is a data warehouse and analytics platform that can capture streaming data from message queues like Apache Kafka and batch data from static files. Druid can be a valuable component in your technology stack if you need to collect real-time data for online analytical processing (OLAP) tasks like reporting, ad-hoc querying, and dashboarding.

Introducing Datadog Real User Monitoring

The performance of your website is a key element in the success of your business—slow page load times and errors can degrade the user experience, leading to customer churn, fewer ad impressions, or abandoned shopping carts. To give you end-to-end visibility into the real-time activity and experience of individual users, we’re excited to add Real User Monitoring (RUM) to Datadog.

Notes From The Road: Virtana Accelerates Time to Value for the Channel

I set out on the road to Boston a few weeks ago to meet with our ever-growing ecosystem of partners and customers. I’m always looking to have interesting conversations in the field that will help drive our go-to-market strategy and engage our partners in driving value to their own bottom line. My energy was uniquely high during this trip due to our recent rebrand from “Virtual Instruments” to “Virtana” and the launch of our latest product offering, CloudWisdom.

How to Go Serverless With AWS Lambda

Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, servers had to be built. A development team requested an environment for their code to run in, and a system administrator or infrastructure engineer plugged in a server and spent hours or days getting it ready to run code. Oh, and by the way, that was only one server of many required to run a web application—and this only happened after budgets were decided and forms were filled out.