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Kubernetes in 2021: Where does the industry go next?

Ever since Google made Kubernetes open-source in 2014, it has enjoyed incredible growth, helping businesses of all sizes to successfully manage their containers and ultimately make the most of all that our cloud native world has to offer. Individual users certainly initially led the charge with Kubernetes, identifying issues, and generally exploring the best ways to intelligently test, manage, and deploy workloads.

DORA Metrics Explained: the four DORA metrics and how to improve them

DORA metrics come from an organization called DevOps Research and Assessment. This was a team put together by Google to survey thousands of development teams across multiple industries, to try to understand what makes a high performing team different than a low performing team. What they ended up settling on are these four metrics.

Civo reviewed by respected Kubernetes guru Viktor Farcic

A couple of days ago, I was pleasantly surprised to suddenly see a tweet come in from Viktor Farcic. Viktor now works at upbound.io who developed Crossplane, and he also runs his own popular YouTube channel and co-hosts DevOps Paradox podcast. He’s well respected in the cloud native community. When I saw the tweet and noticed that Viktor had recorded a review of Civo on YouTube, I was just hoping he was kind to us...and I am pleased to say he was!

Monitoring and Improving Employee Experience In Virtual Desktop (DaaS/VDI) Environments (Part 2)

In our last blog post on monitoring employee experience, we discussed the challenges most organizations face when trying to ensure optimal end user experience in Daas/VDI environments. We also discussed how the Catchpoint platform is uniquely positioned to help our customers monitor employee experience efficiently - In the second part of the series, we discuss a real customer use case.

Testing strategies for Step Functions

AWS Step Functions is a powerful orchestration service that lets you model even the most complex business workflows. It packs a great visualization tool (which you can also use to design your workflows visually now!) and can integrate with many AWS services directly, including Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway. It’s one of my favorite AWS services and I often use it to model complex or business-critical workflows.

Enabling Faster Incident Response and Mitigating Security Risks in Financial Services

Software is eating the world. Digital Transformation is top of mind for companies looking to meet ever-growing consumer demands and digitize manual processes. This isn’t unique to the technology industry. Ecommerce, finance, healthcare, and other industries are all moving in this direction.

BigPanda's Event Enrichment Engine: The secret ingredient for AIOps

James Beard, the pioneer of television cooking shows, once asked, “Where would we be without salt?”. Salt is often underrated, even though it is the ingredient that has the greatest impact on food and flavor in the modern world. It has its own taste, but also balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients. Salt boosts sweetness and blocks bitterness, it has scientifically proven capabilities to intensify flavor compounds that are too subtle to detect (i.e.

Monthly Moo Update | July 2021

We hope June was as good to you as it was to us. Our latest updates, available now, will keep you relaxing poolside this summer knowing that your monitoring, event correlation, and incident workflows are all connected and automated through the cloud. If you’re not relaxing with a little cloud coverage keeping you cool, then come check out Moogsoft to see how you can keep your services available and your customers happy, so you can get to relax with a little more time in your day.

Real User Monitoring: Past, Present and Future

Most front-end developers and practitioners are familiar with real user monitoring (RUM) tools as a means to understand how end-users are perceiving the performance of applications. Few people, however, are aware of the history of the RUM market, going back more than two decades. Over the years, as the internet has evolved with new technologies, RUM tools have evolved in lock-step to cater to the ever changing needs and use cases of engineering teams.

New Microsoft Cloud PC integration optimizes hybrid work

As more and more companies settle into the new reality of hybrid work at scale, the ease of making desktops accessible from anywhere—along with the adoption of workflow technologies and processes all from a single platform—will be critical. To enable the best employee experience, companies need to be able to transition seamlessly between remote and in-person work environments.