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Continuously Optimize Your AWS Resources with CloudFormation

If you have discovered that your application demand changes over time, you’re probably wondering how you can continuously adjust your cloud capacity in accordance to application demand. If you use CloudFormation, then you’re in luck! This article walks through how you can update your template code to automatically implement infrastructure adjustments, periodically.

Block Security Vulnerabilities from Entering Your Code

As continuous software deployments grow and become the accepted standard, security measures gain even more importance. From development and all the way through to production, security requirements should be adopted by all teams in an organization. JFrog IDE integrations provide security and compliance intelligence to the developer right from within their IDE.

10 Best DevOps Certifications in 2020 Ranked

Certifications are a great way to show industry knowledge of specific tools but also display your commitment and passion for the subject. Many big tech players such as Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft offer certifications to educate users on how to use their tools and services correctly. Besides sharing valuable knowledge, DevOps certification is a great way to onboard new developers and businesses to their platform. But why should you participate in exams to receive certifications?

Virtual Meetup: Running Elasticsearch on Kubernetes

Elasticsearch is the world's most popular open source search engine. Kubernetes (k8s) is the popular container orchestration engine giving developers the flexibility to run all sorts of workloads easily. Elastic launched Elasticsearch k8s operator sometime ago. With this, one can not only run Elasticsearch on k8s but also can launch other Elastic Stack projects like APM Server, help run rolling upgrades, manage data etc. This talk is a demo of all latest features.

Release 1.21: Introducing new collectors, faster exporters, and improved security

We’re in the middle of a scary, uncertain time, and we hope those of you reading are staying safe and healthy. Despite the current challenges, the 40+ members of the remote-first Netdata team have been hard at work on the next version of the Netdata Agent: v1.21.0. This release is foundational: While we do have fantastic new collectors and three new ways to export your metrics for long-term storage, many of the most significant changes aren’t even those you’ll notice.

The More You Monitor - 9 Steps to Prevent Alert Storms

Developing a monitoring and alert management strategy that reduces the frequency of alerts while increasing the effectiveness of the alerts you do receive is easier than you might think. Follow these 9 steps and not only will alert storms will be a thing of the past, but you and your IT team will be able to keep your systems and applications up and available. Or, e-mail us @ marketing@logicmonitor.com

Feedback: 6 benefits of Kotlin for building server-side applications

Kotlin is a programming language over the JVM (like Java). It is well known for being the official programming language for Android. But Kotlin is a reliable and powerful programming language that can also be used for server-side applications. I have been using Kotlin for 4 years to develop server-side applications. Here are the 6 reasons why it is a great choice for building your next backend: Java is one of the vastest ecosystems in the programming world.