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Announcing Honeycomb's extension for the AWS Lambda Runtime Logs API

Today, AWS announced the AWS Lambda Runtime Logs API, a new way to easily send logs from AWS Lambda functions directly to your destination of choice. AWS Lambda Extensions, announced in October, provide the ability to run code in parallel that is independent of your function’s lifecycle. We’ve created an extension that utilizes the Lambda Runtime Logs API to send your logs directly to Honeycomb.

AIOps: Beyond the Hype - It's Not Hollywood AI

Many AIOps initiatives experience difficulties due to unrealistic expectations and a lack of a clear AIOps strategy. What is the reality beyond the AI hype, and how do we make these initiatives a success? Join us in this CTO Perspective discussion with Jason Walker, Field CTO at BigPanda, to find out.

Measure Customer Value with Self-Service Observability

DevOps practices, and the teams that implement them, are becoming increasingly critical to the value which any company provides its customers. This was the key message throughout a recent fireside chat between DevOps Institute Chief Ambassador Helen Beal and Moogsoft VP of Product and Design Adam Frank. A great paradox of the digital era is that, once written, software is invisible to those who write it.

A 5 Minute Guide for Experimenting with Ambassador and Jaeger in a Kubernetes Sandbox

Implementing distributed tracing is fast becoming a fundamental expectation when building modern (distributed) systems. However, this is yet another thing for developers to learn, and configuring distributed tracing on Kubernetes is hard, right? Actually, no. Getting started with Jaeger on Kubernetes has never been easier.

Shipa Open Sources Ketch

Shipa, Corp., delivering a cloud native application management framework built to manage the full application lifecycle, today announced that it is open sourcing Ketch, Shipa’s deployment engine, under Apache License Version 2.0. This open source release is available on GitHub and follows the general availability launch of Shipa’s full application management framework in October.

Monolith to Microservices - A Thought Leadership Talk

On November 11, 2020, I had the pleasure of speaking with two incredible thought leaders in the DevOps space: Vivek Pandey, VP of Engineering at Shipa (https://www.shipa.io), and Patrick Deuley, Sr Product Manager at GitLab (https://www.gitlab.com). The topic of the discussion was “Monolith to Microservices,” and we covered three key areas: Starting out, Scaling and Developer Experience.

IT Operations Survey: What Leaders Are Doing To Get Ahead

As the Northern Hemisphere faces what could be a long, sepulchral winter, there’s no clear vision into the future. Here are some recent stats: Alright then. What is certain is that the private and public sector needs technology leaders who can direct investments strategically and cost-effectively, more than ever.

What is CI/CD?

CI/CD is a software development strategy which allows for faster development by introducing automation while still maintaining the quality of code deployed to production. Implementing a CI/CD pipeline not only promotes a safer deployment process but also improves the incident response process. CI/CD is broken down into multiple parts. The CI refers to continuous integration, meanwhile, the CD can refer to continuous delivery and/or continuous deployment.

How to use Lambda extensions with Sumo Logic to reduce operational overhead and improve performance

We are excited to partner with AWS to get real-time log data from AWS Lambda through the new AWS Lambda Runtime Log API and AWS Lambda Extensions. AWS Lambda Extensions enable us to more easily integrate into the AWS Lambda execution environment to control and participate in the AWS Lambda lifecycle and the AWS Lambda Logs API enables us to collect function, platform, and extension logs. Through this integration, Sumo Logic and AWS make it possible to reduce operational overhead and improve performance.

How to catch all exceptions in Python

One of the struggles developers face is how to catch all Python exceptions. Developers often categorize exceptions as coding mistakes that lead to errors when running the program. Some developers still fail to distinguish between errors and exceptions. In the case of Python application development, a python program terminates as soon as it encounters an unhandled error. So, to establish the difference between errors and exceptions, there are two types of errors.