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What is Serverless and AWS Lambda?

Serverless computing is a cloud-based application architecture where the application’s infrastructure and support services layer is completely abstracted from the software layer. Any computer program needs hardware to run on, so serverless applications are not really “serverless” - they do run on servers - it’s just that the servers are not exposed as physical or virtual machines to the developer running the code.

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Logging Kubernetes on GKE with the ELK Stack and Logz.io

An important element of operating Kubernetes is monitoring. Hosted Kubernetes services simplify the deployment and management of clusters, but the task of setting up logging and monitoring is mostly up to us. Yes, Kubernetes offer built-in monitoring plumbing, making it easier to ship logs to either Stackdriver or the ELK Stack, but these two endpoints, as well as the data pipeline itself, still need to be set up and configured.

Rethink Analytics: Don't be fooled by cloud washing

The choices facing today's enterprise executives are far more complex than whether to adopt cloud or not - that is mostly decided. The question is how to do it well. In particular, are the tools they are using to monitor performance and security truly built to run and scale in their cloud environment. Many vendors are "cloud washing" customers by simply adding the word "cloud" to their service offerings without truly being able to deliver on their promises.

How to debug your Logstash configuration file

Logstash plays an extremely important role in any ELK-based data pipeline but is still considered as one of the main pain points in the stack. Like any piece of software, Logstash has a lot of nooks and crannies that need to be mastered to be able to log with confidence. One super-important nook and cranny is the Logstash configuration file (not the software’s configuration file (/etc/logstash/logstash.yml), but the .conf file responsible for your data pipeline).