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Tech Talk: Galileo Cloud Compass

A video chat with the developers who bring right-sized cloud costing information in real-time. It all started with a casual conversation about the cloud and infrastructure monitoring among the team at Galileo and our parent company, The ATS Group. From there, it quickly evolved into a discussion on how we can alleviate a source of frustration for many of our customers.

July 2020 Online Meetup - Rancher + Azure Arc for Kubernetes

Join Rancher Labs and Microsoft this month to take a look at how Azure Arc for Kubernetes can integrate your Rancher clusters into the Azure portal. Organizations infrastructure is often a combination of on-premise and cloud-based solutions. Azure users now have the option to centralize their policy and compliance management through a single pane of glass in the Azure Resource Manager (check out our recent blog post here to learn more).

A Clear Path to Automated Optimization of Application Performance

Rancher has helped thousands of organizations manage their transitions to containerized applications and Kubernetes. With its innovative distribution and suite of services, Rancher has given IT and DevOps teams the roadmap they needed to drive Kubernetes success. Given the complexity of Kubernetes and the shortage of engineers with Kubernetes-specific skills, Rancher’s offerings meet a critical and growing market need.

Proactive Monitoring with AIOps Early Warning System

Boost your efficiency and eliminate manual efforts with actionable alerts that identify anomalies. With LogicMonitor's AIOps Early Warning System teams can proactively prevent problems instead of reacting to them and therefore minimize downtime and slow downs that may negatively affect their business.

Adam Frank Demos Moogsoft Express June 24, 2020

As part of a live launch event, Adam Frank, Moogsoft's VP of Product and Design, demoed the latest AIOps & Observability solution for cloud-first companies: Moogsoft Express. Moogsoft Express helps DevOps and SREs detect app performance problems, keep software pipelines humming and honor customer SLAs — all while being extremely simple to use.

Best Practices in Handling the Application Insights Custom Events

Application Insights is used to monitor your live applications. It automatically detects performance anomalies. It also helps you to diagnose issues with the help of powerful analytics tools and to understand what users do with your app. The aim of development team is to help you understand how your app is performing and how it is being used by the customers.

Gremlin User Newsletter: AWS App2Container, an update to the WAF, and what's new in Gremlin

As systems become increasingly complex, we’ve seen the growth of engineering tools to abstract away and manage the complexity. But often our tools are “opinionated” and the default actions or settings may not align with how our systems are intended to work or how we think they work. Chaos Engineering is a good way to not only test your applications, but also the tools you use to build them.

Ensuring reliability when modernizing financial applications

For decades, information technology in the financial services industry meant deploying bulky applications onto monolithic systems like mainframes. These systems have a proven track record of reliability, but don’t offer the flexibility and scalability of more modern architectures such as microservices and cloud computing. During periods of unexpectedly high demand, this inflexibility can cause technical issues for organizations ranging from personal trading platforms to major banks.