Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

This question was raised at the recent Redgate Summit: How does the implementation of a microservices architecture affect the implementation of a database DevOps approach? I could even rephrase it a little: Does a microservices architecture affect a database DevOps approach?

When it comes to connecting to AWS, using a direct connect through a Software Defined Interconnection® platform like Console Connect can really help your business improve speed, security and control when accessing one of the world’s most popular cloud platforms.

Managing hardware assets, manually, from the time they are purchased to the time they are disposed of is a tedious, cumbersome task that is susceptible to many errors. These manual and scattered processes are often inaccurate and difficult to manage. Manual data keeping means that asset information is stored in silos, which raises the overhead expenses, increases the likelihood of asset theft and losses, and makes it hard to comply with the organization’s standards and regulations.

Prometheus’s remote write system has a lot of tunable knobs, and in the event of an issue, it can be unclear which ones to adjust. In this post, we’ll discuss some metrics that can help you diagnose remote write issues and decide which configuration parameters you may want to try changing. First, let’s discuss how remote write is implemented. In the past, remote write would duplicate samples coming into Prometheus via scrape.

In 2020, cloud migration sped up by a factor of 24, according to McKinsey. Would you be surprised to learn there were a lot of factors driving that shift? Due to COVID-19, companies needed to go remote fast and securely. They wanted to lift the maintenance burden off overworked IT teams. And, in the face of the year’s worldwide economic uncertainty, motivation to take advantage of cloud’s cost savings was running high.

Relay has a substantial library of external services and tools — as of March 2021 there are 60 integrations in our Github organization. Each integration repo can contain multiple triggers, containers that receive webhook payloads from other services, and steps, which Relay executes to get stuff done in your workflow.

Recently, Sentry converted 100% of its frontend React codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript. This year-long effort spanned over a dozen members of the engineering team, 1,100 files, and 95,000 lines of code. In this blog post, we share our process, techniques, challenges, and ultimately, what we learned along this journey.

Federal IT pros have tracked application performance for decades. Today’s environments are far more complex than they’ve ever been, particularly with the quick and steady rise of cloud computing, mobile devices, and remote work. This enhanced complexity demands an improved ability to collect and track application performance metrics to ensure things are operating as expected and needed. But not all federal IT pros have the time or knowledge to keep up with the demand.

Protect your brand, people and data with an end-to-end, zero trust approach At Ivanti, we make the Everywhere Workplace possible. Our solutions enable fundamental security controls based on zero trust principles and best practices from cloud to the edge. Translation: we secure all endpoints and help organizations move toward an end-to-end, passwordless access authentication experience. Plus, we make it simple.

“An adaptive business model that has employee experience at its core is the key to building business resilience, creating sustainable competitive advantage, and scaling effectively in times of disruption.” This is one of the key findings of a new commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, on behalf of Elastic.