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How hard is it to run your own Graphite?

How hard is it to run your own Graphite? Here’s one story of what someone had to go through! In this article, I want to share my story about what I went through to run my own Graphite and give some advice on how much you should be prepared both mentally and technically... ESPECIALLY if you are not a Graphite expert.

Key metrics for monitoring AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate provides a way to use AWS container orchestration services—Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)—without needing to provision and maintain the infrastructure that runs your containers. Fargate is similar to serverless container platforms from Google (Cloud Run) and Microsoft (AKS virtual nodes).

How to collect metrics and logs from AWS Fargate workloads

In Part 1 of this series, we showed you the key metrics you can monitor to understand the health of your Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS clusters running on AWS Fargate. In this post, we’ll show you how you can: You can use Amazon CloudWatch and related AWS services to gain visibility into your ECS clusters and the Fargate infrastructure that runs them.

AWS Fargate monitoring with Datadog

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the important metrics to monitor when you’re running ECS or EKS on AWS Fargate. In Part 2 we showed you how to use Amazon CloudWatch and other tools to collect those metrics plus logs from your application containers. Fargate’s serverless container platform helps users deploy and manage ECS and EKS applications, but the dynamic nature of containers makes them challenging to monitor.

Talking Shipa - "Developer Portal"

In this edition of Talking Shipa, CEO and Founder, Bruno Andrade, discusses the Shipa Developer Portal. One of the biggest challenges with applications deployed in Kubernetes is simply making sense of all of the micro services running in the cluster. It generally does not look or feel like an application in the traditional sense. Shipa helps with this by providing a developer-centric workflow and portal to manage and operate your Kubernetes applications in deployment.

Talking Shipa - "Application Policy Management"

In this edition of Talking Shipa, CEO and Founder, Bruno Andrade, discusses Application Policy Management in Shipa. Adding layers of security, management, and measurement capabilities to your apps can be challenging, but really are required in order to support your corporate mandates and to ultimately give your users the best experience possible. Things like resource consumption, RBAC, network policies, 3rd party services, container registry, vulnerability scans, and more.

Understanding the consumer side of Azure Event Hubs (Checkpoint, InitialOffsetProvider, EventProcessorHost)

Azure Event Hubs are cloud-scale telemetry ingestion from websites, apps, and devices. Because of the tremendous event handling capacities, IoT architectures also consume the Azure Event Hubs. Thus, we talk about handling millions of events per second. With the implementation of multiple partition architecture behind the scenes, Azure Event Hubs are highly scalable to receive events from hundreds of sources.