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Today's fast-paced digital landscape demands efficient and reliable web hosting solutions. As websites and applications become increasingly complex, businesses are constantly seeking ways to optimize their performance and ensure seamless user experiences. One crucial aspect of this optimization process is the effective monitoring and tracking of vital metrics.

Most modern infrastructure architectures are complex to deploy, involving many parts. Despite the benefits of automation, many teams still chose to configure their architecture manually, carried out by a deployment expert or, in some cases, teams of deployment engineers. Manual configurations open up the door for human error. While DevOps is very useful in developing and deploying software, using Git combined with CI/CD is useful beyond the world of software engineering.

InfluxData and Dremio have always been at the forefront of embracing open source solutions to enhance their product offerings. This post discusses how both companies currently leverage the Apache Ecosystem and describes the downstream impact these powerful technologies have on their offerings. InfluxData created and maintains InfluxDB, a time series platform.

Not sure which performance metric to use to measure your application performance? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. With a wide variety of options, the task of choosing the right metric can be daunting. This post will help you decide which metric is right for your monitoring needs by discussing the strengths and limitations of each metric.

Since inception in 2008, JFrog has hosted its own development environments on-prem. While this approach worked well for a time, the increasing need to deploy faster, while sustaining high quality and reducing hosting costs made us realize that we needed to leverage the JFrog SaaS Production environment. So in 2022, we started an effort to migrate our RnD environments from an on-prem solution to JFrog SaaS Production.

Observability continues to prove its worth. In The State of Observability 2023, the annual research report Splunk created in partnership with the Enterprise Strategy Group, we share the characteristics that set the observability leaders (those with a mature observability practice) apart from the rest.

The latest cloud cost news is primarily good news: Each of the major cloud providers released changes that could improve your bottom line: Dive into the details below.

Azure architecture diagrams are visual representations that illustrate the structure, components, and relationships of a solution or application deployed on Microsoft Azure. These diagrams provide a clear and concise overview of the various Azure resources and services used in a specific architecture. They are helpful for design discussions, documentation, and communication among team members and stakeholders.

This guest post is written by Ian Duncan, Staff Engineer - Stability Team at Mercury. To view the original post, go to Ian's website. At work, we use OpenTelemetry extensively to trace execution of our Haskell codebase. We struggled for several months with a mysterious tracing issue in our production environment wherein unrelated web requests were being linked together in the same trace, but we could never see the root trace span.

You’re probably all very familiar with the URLs we currently generate automatically for your environments on Upsun by now. And while they are very useful, they’re not the most friendly-looking as, we build them using the following pattern: This approach is important because it ensures that our URLs are unique for all projects and their environments but it also makes them pretty long, overly complicated, and let’s face it—not the prettiest. But this is the case no more!