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Peering: How Local Is Local?

Optimize network performance by ensuring both you and your peers are locally connected. When it comes to Internet Exchanges (IXs), there are two types of peering: local peering and remote peering. And depending on your network setup and goals, the type you use can have a significant impact on your network performance. While remote peering has valuable use cases, we often see customers using it in scenarios where it is actually doing more harm than good to their network performance.

Integrating Open edX with AppSignal

Imagine stepping into the role of a DevOps engineer at an online learning company that utilizes Open edX as its core Learning Management System (LMS). As the platform scales to accommodate more learners, a myriad of challenges begin to surface: These are just the tip of the iceberg. It's pivotal that you provide timely reports on site performance and error tracking in real time, and fix any issues before they affect a significant user base.

5 Azure Optimizations That Make Cloud Cost Savings Simple

As both the State Of FinOps 2024 and the State Of Cloud Costs In 2024 indicate, reducing cloud waste remains a top priority for cloud-driven organizations. Cloud spenders care more than ever about cost efficiency — and CloudZero is working tirelessly to make cloud savings simpler. To this end, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added a suite of automated Azure optimizations to our already robust library of automated Insights.

Infrastructure and Observability as Code | An Introduction

In this video I will introduce you to the concept of Observability as Code and what that looks like in Splunk Observability Cloud. I’ll first discuss the issues you might encounter managing infrastructure manually, and then define Infrastructure as Code so that you have a better understanding of the motivation behind Observability as Code. We’ll briefly introduce Terraform and then I’ll discuss the benefits of implementing Observability as Code using Splunk’s Terraform provider in Splunk Observability Cloud.

PagerDuty Bolsters Leadership Team with Appointments of Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering

PagerDuty, Inc. announces the appointments of Pritesh Parekh as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Rukmini Reddy as Senior Vice President of Engineering. With these appointments, the company expands its senior leadership as it continues its commitment to innovating as the most trusted and resilient digital operations management platform for the enterprise.

Heroku Alternatives: Why Bunnyshell is the Best Choice for Modern Cloud Deployment

With Heroku announcing significant changes, such as the discontinuation of its free tier, developers are left seeking alternatives that offer similar ease of use but more robust and scalable options. While Heroku was once the go-to for rapid deployment and management of applications, several alternatives now stand out, each offering unique benefits on different cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner, Vultr, and Scaleway.

Enhance Incident Response with Squadcast's New AI-Powered Incident Summaries

Imagine having a concise, AI-generated report of any incident at your fingertips. That’s what Squadcast’s new Incident Summaries feature delivers—instant clarity on ongoing issues, saving precious time during critical moments. At any point in time, any stakeholder or a responder can simply generate and view the incident summary with all important details highlighted, essentially offering a single pane of glass.

Golang Wrapper: Dependency Wrapping, in Go

All but the simplest applications borrow code. You could write everything yourself from just core language features but who has time for that? Instead you take on dependencies, pieces of code written by others that usually give us 80% or more of what we need with 20% of the effort. Sometimes these dependencies are made to interact with a specific technology like a database, or perhaps it’s just a library providing some feature that would be onerous to write yourself.

Breaking the Myths About Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs)

In the ever-evolving IT landscape, new buzzwords and acronyms seem to emerge almost daily, each promising to revolutionize how we manage technology. One such term that’s gaining traction is Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs). You’ve probably seen the news by now: Gartner just released their latest Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms.