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Life for an IT architect in retail would be so much easier if people would just spread their shopping out across the year. Since 1941 American Thanksgiving has been a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November and most American companies and schools take the following day as a holiday too with major retailers offering price reductions on this day to kick start the Christmas shopping season. Since 2005 it has been the busiest shopping day of the year.

When you’re a sports betting technology company and you realize your in-house, on-prem Graphite solution for monitoring metrics is no longer a sure-thing, what do you do? That was the dilemma at Kambi, a quickly growing business – with a passion for using open source technology – that has about 500 different micro services in production and around 200,000 incoming metrics messages per second.

As we speak, there are likely thousands of organizations running some type of monitoring solution out there, each within unique operational structures, but the difference between those that that are successful and those that are not can be attributed to 4 root causes. Not surprisingly, these 4 root causes apply to any toolset or technology used. That’s largely due to the likelihood that the best tools in the world used poorly will deliver poor results.

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications with services such as Amazon ECS without needing to manage the underlying virtual machines. Deploying with Fargate removes operational overhead and lowers costs by enabling your infrastructure to dynamically scale to meet demand. We are proud to partner with AWS for its launch of support for AWS Fargate on Windows containers.