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How to Tell if You're Overspending on NAT Gateway (and How to Fix It)

We’re often asked what are some of the top areas where we see customers overspending? Data transfer costs from misconfigured NAT Gateway definitely tops our list as one of the most common. In this article we’ll walk you through five steps to find which data transfers you’re overspending on and how to you can eliminate those excess charges.

Switching to the Cloud: Any Change Is Going to Be Challenging, Even If It's for the Better

At Skeddly we’re focused on bringing you the best in AWS help tutorials, AWS scheduler services, and AWS backup services. However, from time to time we like to reach out to other leaders in the AWS space to help you, our blog readers, stay on top of the latest developments and news within the AWS ecosystem. Today Skeddly had the opportunity to speak with a few of the bright minds behind Keyhole Software, a cutting edge technology company with an impressive amount of AWS experience.

Site reliability engineering- Predictions for 2020

As we head into 2020, it's clear that DevOps has finally crossed the divide and gone mainstream. With DevOps firmly ingrained as a standard practice, we now look at how it will evolve. DevOps is driving more overall alignment between development and operations teams than has ever existed in the past. For developers, that means building and delivering impeccable apps to market quickly.

Enable EBS Fast Snapshot Restores Action

A month ago, Skeddly added a Disable EBS Fast Snapshot Restores action. This action is a fantastic way to ensure you don’t leave EBS snapshots around with Fast Snapshot Restores enabled. That will just be a waste of money. Today, I’m happy to announce a new Skeddly action: Enable EBS Fast Snapshot Restores. This new action allows you to enable, and optionally disable Fast Snapshot Restores on your EBS snapshots.

Key metrics for monitoring Istio

Istio is an open source service mesh that was released in 2017 as a joint project from Google, IBM, and Lyft. By abstracting the network routes between services from your application logic, Istio allows you to manage your network architecture without altering your application code. Istio makes it easier to implement canary deployments, circuit breakers, load balancing, and other architectural changes, while also offering service discovery, built-in telemetry, and transport layer security.

Istio monitoring tools

In Part 1, we showed you the metrics that can give you visibility into your Istio service mesh and Istio’s internal components. Observability is baked into Istio’s design—Mixer extracts attributes from traffic through the mesh, and uses these to collect the mesh-based metrics we introduced in Part 1. On top of that, each Istio component exposes metrics for its own internal workings.

How to monitor Istio with Datadog

In Part 2, we showed you how to use Istio’s built-in features and integrations with third-party tools to visualize your service mesh, including the metrics that we introduced in Part 1. While Istio’s containerized architecture makes it straightforward to plug in different kinds of visualization software like Kiali and Grafana, you can get deeper visibility into your service mesh and reduce the time you spend troubleshooting by monitoring Istio with a single platform.

Programmatic Creation of Codefresh Pipelines - Part 2

At Codefresh, we know that any CI/CD solution must be attractive to both developers and operators (SREs). One of the major advantages of Codefresh is the graphical user interface that includes dashboards for Kubernetes and Helm deployments. These graphical dashboards are very useful to developers who are just getting started with deployments and pipelines.

The Simplest Way to Deploy NodeJS with PostgreSQL on AWS

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is an amazing and reliable cloud service provider. AWS, like Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, provides everything you need to host an application without having to worry about running the underlying servers and network configuration. Everything you need to quickly begin hosting is provided as a packaged services.