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A practical guide to container networking

An important part of any Kubernetes cluster is the underlying containers. Containers are the workloads that your business relies on, what your customers engage with, and what shapes your networking infrastructure. Long story short, containers are arguably the soul of any containerized environment. One of the most popular open-source container orchestration systems, Kubernetes, has a modular architecture.

5 Common Step Function Issues

Step Functions, the serverless finite state machine service from AWS. With DynamoDB, Lambda, and API Gateway, it forms the core of serverless AWS services. If you have tasks with multiple steps and you want to ensure they will get executed in the proper order, Step Functions is your service of choice. It offers direct integrations with many AWS services, so you don’t need to use Lambda Functions as glue. This can improve the performance of your state machine and lower its costs.

Driving Business Efficiency with Endpoint Management

Endpoint management solutions enable businesses to manage their entire IT portfolio more efficiently and effectively. Combining monitoring, management, patching, remote support, and automation functionality in a single-pane-of-glass, endpoint management solutions like NinjaOne give you full visibility and control over your IT assets.

You want to know whether a dangerous stranger has your passwords?

We already live in a post-apocalyptic future that has nothing to envy to great franchises like Mad Max or Blade Runner. Proof of this are pollution, pandemics and the fact that your most intimate secrets can be violated because your most impenetrable slogans are in a database of leaked passwords. Do you feel that pinch? It’s fear and cruel reality knocking at your door at the same time. But, well, let’s stand by. Just as Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford would do in their sci-fi plots.

Ask Miss O11y: Pls ELI5 TLAs like PRO, SRE, and SLOs!

Dear Acronymically, I'll try to answer without using a single (new) acronym! First things first—"PRO" refers to our Pro plan, rather than being an acronym in and of itself. Honeycomb Pro is our cost-effective offering for professionals like you who are running a few production workloads! And we're hoping that folks will get even more benefit now that they have access to our SLO feature!

AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Which Cloud Provider is Best?

Over the last two decades, we have seen companies move to the cloud in hordes and presently, the cloud is often the default option for almost all new enterprises. Only companies in a very narrow niche are sticking to on-premise solutions. And the trend is expected to continue. In 2021 alone, the end-user spending in cloud computing was around 482 bn USD.

Simplifying Cloud Database Migration Journeys

COVID-19 was a significant driving force for organisational change. Businesses had to quickly transition to remote working almost overnight, and digital transformation became crucial for companies to survive. Because of this, the pandemic notably accelerated a swift move to the cloud, with cloud-first organisations now outnumbering on-premises companies by a ratio of three-to-one. A whopping 81% of organisations said they had accelerated their cloud timelines and plans due to the pandemic.

Troubleshoot end-to-end tests with CI Visibility and RUM

Adding automated testing to your CI/CD pipelines can help you ensure that you deploy changes safely. But as you continue to shift left, the number and complexity of tests are likely to increase, making them slower to run and harder to troubleshoot. Datadog CI Visibility can help you track the performance of your CI/CD pipelines and tests—and now you can also use Real User Monitoring (RUM) to monitor end-to-end (E2E) Cypress tests.