Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

A headline in a recent Register article jumped off my screen with the claim: “No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too.” Well, that certainly got my attention…for a couple of reasons. First, the emphasis on an absolute claim was quite literally shouting at me. In my experience, absolutes are rare occurrences in software engineering. Second, it was nearly impossible to imagine what evidence this conclusion was based on.

Cloud Logging is a popular tool to help developers, operators, and other users identify and find the root cause of issues in their infrastructure. With features like the Logs Explorer, you can quickly and efficiently retrieve, view, and analyze logs. To help you get the most out of your logs, we’re excited to introduce suggested queries in Cloud Logging to help highlight important logs, so you can start analyzing and troubleshoot issues quickly.

In an ever-changing world, the future of work is changing as well, and it has accelerated some areas of automation that we were already moving toward. I sat down with our guest speaker, Leslie Joseph, Principal Analyst Serving Application Development and Delivery at Forrester Research, for a webinar to discuss these questions and get a better understanding around how automation plays an important role in supporting companies through crises and preparing them for an uncertain future.

Don’t wait for an incident to focus on reliability. Learn concrete steps for preventing incidents in the first place in our two-part series, Planning and Architecting for Reliability. It’s 3 a.m. You’re lying comfortably in bed when suddenly your phone starts screeching. It’s an automated high-severity alert telling you that your company’s web application is down. Exhausted, you open the website on your phone and do some basic tests.

IT operations are at the front and center of any enterprise in today’s world. With newer technologies, tools, and processes emerging every year, there is a proportionate increase in operational complexity. Adding to this, given the global remote work wave that we’re currently riding on, it is no surprise that IT operations are always kept on their toes. In fact, IT operations managers are one of the most sought after members of today’s modern IT enterprise.

A few days ago, our team released Calico v3.16. As part of that release, we have marked the eBPF dataplane as “GA”, signalling that it is now stable and ready for wider use by the community. In this blog post I want to take you through the process of moving from tech-preview to GA.

Application performance management (APM) involves managing the availability and efficiency of software applications by obtaining and translating IT metrics into business outcomes. Because application performance hiccups are inevitable, it’s crucial to have a robust APM solution in place so IT teams can resolve problems faster and more efficiently, lessening the impact on users and the bottom line. One factor muddling application performance optimization is the speed of change.

When it comes to delivering the very best services to your customers, consistency is essential! That’s why many businesses choose to implement a service monitoring tool that will enable them to get greater control over their services. As one of today’s leading network and server monitoring softwares, Pandora FMS is here to share some of the benefits of service monitoring.

Welcome to the Serverless world. One of the first things you’ll hear about is AWS Lambda - and you’ll continue to keep hearing about it! While architecture can be serverless without Lambdas involved, it’s very often the key component within a serverless application. In the first post of this 3-part AWS Lambda Handbook series, we run through what is AWS Lambda, dialling back to basics with the various terminology, how to create a Lambda function and how to run it.

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