Helm was born during the Pycon conference in 2013. Well, it wasn’t exactly Helm, it was Docker. It took Mr. Solomon Hykes a little over five minutes to completely change computing history. Ok, I admit that not everyone knows about -and uses- Docker and/or Kubernetes, but there is one fact that is undeniable: Helm in November 2019 had a million downloads and that is something important. We will see why.

After weeks of writing, researching and hopefully enough proofreading, we just launched a living collection of practical guides on leveraging headless browser tools (starting with Puppeteer and Playwright) for testing, monitoring, scraping, performance measuring and more. We called it theheadless.dev. This article is about the different approaches we tried in contributing ideas to the Puppeteer community, as well as the principles that guide our latest contribution.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 7.9. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built on the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

This is the second in my series on the cloud. I started writing about cloud visibility and in this article, we take a look at cloud costs. If we look at the evolution of computing over the past 30 or so years, it has always been about monumental shifts in technology, which drive further and further innovation, efficiencies and – seemingly – cost reduction.

Nowadays, having no strong internet presence means people not knowing about your brand. Fortunately, there are numerous online business tools available, which could help you set up and manage your website. From the design, website development to social media and everything in between managing your online presence is paramount. Having an internet presence means reinforcing your brand, boosting your marketing endeavor, and most of all help connect with customers.

Public sector organizations face a unique challenge when it comes to the cloud: how can they successfully migrate their operations while maintaining an air-tight, heavily regulated, massively distributed environment? To solve this problem, Amazon created the AWS GovCloud (US), two isolated Regions in the AWS ecosystem that are only accessible to US customers who meet strict security and compliance standards.

Monitoring trends in application performance helps you identify poor performance and visualize the impact of performance optimizations you’ve made. To help you better monitor performance trends, we’ve released a new line graph now available across all performance details pages in Real User Monitoring.

As applications evolve, we may start to lose visibility into why things are slow. Web apps often suffer in silence as customers are more likely to leave when they’re unsatisfied rather than reach out. Complex user flows, resource-intensive API calls, and an ever-growing codebase can all contribute to poor performance. This is why we don’t have scheduled performance days.

Enterprises continue to invest heavily in modernizing their IT infrastructure. That leaves network administrators and NOC analysts challenged with effectively monitoring an evolving digital landscape. The goal becomes to meet the service needs of customers and ensure the underlying infrastructure is resilient.

Pop quiz, hotshot. How much does it cost to build a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster? Quick, no conferring. If you thought the answer was “nothing”, go to the back of the class. According to distributed systems expert Cindy Sridharan, quoted in Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes, the answer is “one million dollars”: It takes well over a million dollars just in engineer salary to get Kubernetes up and running from scratch. And you still might not get there.