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Making Artificial Intelligence Real

“We need to be an AI-enabled company.” Replace the “AI” with any technology from history and this comment becomes a common refrain across businesses lured by the promises of new technology and fueled by FOMO (a fear of missing out). As enterprise strategists and former CXOs who have lived through many “technology is the solution, now what was the problem?” conversations, we talk extensively about this issue.

Monitoring network security with Aruba Clearpass, Grafana and Graphite

In this article, we will explore why it is imperative to constantly monitor network security metrics, what Aruba Clearpass is, and how it helps us manage network security. Then we will look at what Graphite and Grafana are and how to analyze metrics with their help. Finally, we will learn how MetricFire can make it easier for us to work with Graphite and Grafana.

AWS CloudWatch Alarms - A Startup Guide

While more businesses are moving their apps to the cloud, they must also ensure that cloud-based services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other resources remain available. So, how can you make sure these cloud services aren't turned off? You can accomplish this using a tool like Amazon CloudWatch, which monitors applications. What is AWS CloudWatch will be the subject of this article.

3 Ways Ops Teams Benefit From LM Logs

Sifting through logs in real-time or post-mortem to pinpoint the problem can take hours – and is often like trying to find the needle in the alert/log haystack. Further, keeping the troubleshooting process efficient can be a challenge due to context switching and relying on manual interpretation of events and technology-specific knowledge.

Testing an API with Cypress

Is it possible to use just one tool to test everything? Although it may sound like a developer’s daydream, it is almost possible with Cypress, a JavaScript frontend testing framework. Cypress is built specifically for JavaScript frontend developers, and they can use it to start writing tests quickly without needing to add third-party dependencies or packages. This is a benefit missing from other tools like Selenium. In this tutorial, I will guide you through using Cypress to test an API.

The eCommerce Holiday Calendar for DevOps

Seasonal spikes in consumer activity are expected, if not depended on, by online retailers throughout the calendar year. However, as shoppers rush to compete over door-buster deals and order holiday must-haves, web traffic escalates to levels standard resource allocation cannot easily sustain. This spike in traffic can lead to unresponsive checkouts, lost or abandoned carts, and slow-loading pages, ultimately resulting in thousands of dollars in lost revenue.

Updated ELK Stack Guide For 2022 (Installation, Tutorials & More)

The ELK Stack has millions of users globally due to its effectiveness for log management, SIEM, alerting, data analytics, e-commerce site search and data visualisation. In this extensive guide (updated for 2021) we cover all of the essential basics you need to know to get started with installing ELK, exploring its most popular use cases and the leading integrations you’ll want to start ingesting your logs and metrics data from.

How citizen developers help deliver transformation at scale

The pandemic created urgency for innovation and exposed us to what technology can do. But a shortage of developer skills left organizations grappling. Better integrations and low-code apps can help deliver transformation at scale, while citizen developers can ramp up automation. ServiceNow® Creator Workflows, including App Engine and IntegrationHub, offer a single, low-code platform that empowers citizen developers to deliver digital services fast without complexity.

AWS Fargate Monitoring

How do you perform AWS Fargate monitoring? Today, we’ll discuss the background of AWS Fargate and using Retrace to monitor your code. As companies evolve from a monolithic architecture to microservice architectures, some common challenges often surface that companies must address during the journey. In this post, we’ll discuss one of these challenges: observability and how to do it in AWS Fargate.