This week, I played at home as the rest of the DX team and I were at the AWS Summit London. 🇬🇧 The event was buzzing with excitement and overflowing with great talks and impressive exhibition stands. It didn't disappoint in terms of attendance either! Despite covering a wide range of subjects, I couldn't help but notice three super-hot tech trends that were everywhere throughout the day. So, without further ado, let's dive right in and explore these topics!

What is the current reality for teams embracing CloudOps? Has the cloud fulfilled its promise of organizational transformation? Or has it produced more chaos, out-of-control expenses, and unforeseen challenges?

Imagine your popular website or app suddenly slowing down significantly or even stopping altogether. You scramble to find the root cause while losing customers and income every minute. This stressful situation is all too familiar, but you can avoid it. Proactively monitoring MySQL databases can help prevent these issues and keep your performance at its best.

Kubernetes was designed by Google in 2014 and has been maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation since 2015. It has become the de facto standard for running containers in production at scale, including in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Kubernetes is a modern framework for managing and scaling containerized applications. There have been over 2.8 million contributions to Kubernetes made by companies.

It seems like we can’t escape the burden of uncertainty. From the countless things we were uncertain about during the Covid-19 pandemic to the current state of the economy, financial circumstances and trends, and fear of unemployment. For many of today’s businesses of all sizes, predicting the future might appear nearly impossible. IT teams at the start of the pandemic in 2020 shifted without notice to supporting remote employees.

If you’re going through a merger or an acquisition, you’ll soon have to assemble all the cloud account data from two or more organizations and blend it together to fit your new, larger organization. You may be bringing the companies together to form a new entity or simply absorbing one company into the other; the details don’t matter, because the solution is the same either way.

Welcome to the fifth and last part of this series of blog posts on How to throw custom exceptions inside Logic Apps. In all those posts, we talk about the following: The last approach we want to address in this series is another out-of-the-box idea: using an API exposed in API Management to throw back the exception. This approach is similar to the previous one.

When deploying a mission-critical Kubernetes infrastructure, the support you receive from your vendor is as important as the product. This is why we at D2iQ are especially pleased and proud that our D2iQ Customer Operations Team has won the Gold Stevie Award for Support Team of the Year for 2023. The American Business Awards, also known as the Stevie Awards, are billed as the “world’s premier business awards” and are judged by a panel of more than 200 industry experts.

Canonical announced the general availability of Ubuntu’s real-time kernel earlier this year. Since then, our community raised several questions regarding the workings of the kernel and tuning guidelines. We aim to provide answers in this and an upcoming follow-up post. Depending on your background knowledge, you may wish to start with the basics of preemption and a real-time system. In that case, this introductory webinar or our blog series on what is real-time Linux, is for you.