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Solr on Docker: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This talk was given during Lucene Revolution 2017 and has two goals: first, to discuss the tradeoffs for running Solr on Docker. For example, you get dynamic allocation of operating system caches, but you also get some CPU overhead. We'll keep in mind that Solr nodes tend to be different than your average container: Solr is usually long running, takes quite some RSS and a lot of virtual memory. This will imply, for example, that it makes more sense to use Docker on big physical boxes than on configurable-size VMs (like Amazon EC2).
Alerting webinar with HipChat integration
Webinar on integration of HipChat with LogicMonitor.
Deployment Tracking with Atatus
Now Deployment tracking is available for both APM and Browser products in Atatus. The deployment tracking is one of the most awaited feature in Atatus. It provides better visibility of your software releases for both back-end and front-end apps. When you deploy a new version of your app, you can notify Atatus with source revision or git SHA or application version. Then you will be able to see how new deployment affect your app performances from previous deployment.
User Story: The CloudSploit CloudFormation Scanning API
At CloudSploit, one of our biggest satisfactions is learning more about how our users actually use our product. While we can look at charts, graphs, and usage statistics, nothing beats an actual walkthrough by an enthusiastic user who has incorporated CloudSploit into his or her company’s architecture.
Autoscaling Swarm on AWS, with StackStorm
How to make Docker Swarm cluster scale in-and-out based on the container workload, stop over-provisioning, and pay per use when running dockerized workloads on AWS.
Nationwide Building Society - Building Legendary Service
How does the world’s largest building society protect IT service availability? As more and more of Nationwide Building Society’s 15 million members turn to online banking to manage their finances any downtime, at any time can be a major frustration. Nationwide’s Enterprise Command Centre (ECC) is the eyes and ears of the IT operation - at the front-line of protecting service availability.
Nationwide Building Society's Service Visualisation Journey
In real time, IT Service Visualisation Dashboards clearly display all the information Nationwide Building Society’s Enterprise Command Centre (ECC) need to efficiently protect the availability of the services their 15 million members need access to – day and night.
Nationwide Building Society - Workflow & Automation Tool
Nationwide Building Society’s Enterprise Command Centre discovered they had no clear, repeatable sequence of steps to recover service critical incidents. IT operations workflow and automation software offered the solution to a faster, more efficient means of executing a standard suite of operations - removing previously manual processes.
Nationwide Building Society - Service Visualisation Mobile App
Nationwide Building Society’s Enterprise Command Centre had been relying heavily on slower more traditional methods of sharing IT operations monitoring and analytics. Building on the success of their IT Service Visualisation dashboards deployment the next logical step was to deliver users with access to real time service status information on any device, on the go.