AWS DynamoDB changed the database game in Serverless and continues to do so, as its design repeatedly proves its huge value. This guide takes you through everything there is to know about DynamoDB so you can rest assured you’re using the service in its best way and reaping all of the benefits.
Google Cloud has been gaining some noticeable traction in recent months: 43% growth in Q2 is nothing to sniff about, especially during a global recession. Masaf Dawood is director of Google Cloud services with SpringML, a premier Google Cloud partner with specialties in application development, data analytics, machine learning and marketing analytics. SpringML works exclusively with Google Cloud and has worked on 200 engagements with Google since the consultancy was founded in 2015.
If you’ve deployed an application or service to the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud, you’ve probably made use of an EC2 instance. One of the decisions that you had to make before you could start a new instance, was which instance type to use. Choosing an EC2 instance type can be a complicated process. AWS organizes their instance types into instance families, and within an instance family, there are varying sizes from micro to 32xlarge.
Our release of conditions in FireHydrant Runbooks has made it easier for teams who rely on email to communicate with key stakeholders or a distribution list. 💡If your team uses Slack, and you haven’t already installed our Slack integration, you should definitely check it out as it’s the easiest way to automate updates to channels when the status of an incident changes.
Real User Monitoring, also known as End User Monitoring or RUM, is a way of monitoring the client side portions of an application. Real User Monitoring for JavaScript allows developers to have access to key metrics for load times and user paths being used in production as part of their application performance management (APM).
In environments with large numbers of client machines, configuration management tools are often used to simplify and standardize the target state of each host in a seamless, automated and consistent manner. Software like CFEngine, Chef, Ansible, and others offer a high degree of granular control over software packaging and system configurations.
When I joined ServiceNow, IT Operations had what I’d call a “best effort” strategy—push hard, keep things running, meet your SLAs, and so on. This worked well enough, but that was hardly a formula for long-term success at scale. We needed a new way of thinking that would move us from our traditional role as incident firefighter to that
In this post, you’ll learn what causes high series cardinality in a time series database and how to locate and eliminate the culprits. First, for those of you just encountering this concept, let’s define it: The number of unique database, measurement, tag set, and field key combinations in an InfluxDB instance. Because high series cardinality is a primary driver of high memory usage for many database workloads, it is important to understand what causes it and how to resolve it.
Have you ever had to saw through a board by hand? I had to finish a partial cut by hand the other day while building a new mantle for my fireplace. It’s slow and difficult, and it often results in a lesser quality cut than one done with a power tool. It’s good exercise, though! We should all have to do it at least once so we appreciate our power tools more.
