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Cloud 66 Feature Highlight: Registered Servers

What are Registered Servers? Registered Servers are a simple way to create a pool of servers on private and public cloud that can be used on any stack and configuration. Applications can be deployed across a hybrid of cloud and registered servers, in this way you could have a dedicated server for your database and burst cloud servers for your front end.

Adding Search to Rails with MeiliSearch

There are many ways to add search functionality to a Rails application. While many Rails developers choose to use the native search functionality built into popular databases like MySQL and Postgres, others need more flexible or feature rich search functionality. ElasticSearch is probably the most well known option available but it has its own issues. Firstly, it is a resource hungry beast. To run ElasticSearch properly in production, you need a few beefy servers.

The Aftermath of the Facebook 6-Hour Outage

Less than 24 hours ago, the world came to a “social standstill” as Facebook, and its sister companies, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unavailable, leaving its 3.5 billion users in a flap. The outage, which lasted almost 6 hours, shut off access for users and businesses all over the world and caused ripple effects that we will likely continue to see in the immediate (and perhaps not-so-immediate) future.

The Future of AIOps Includes an ITOps Strategy

One of the questions I get asked a lot by customers, prospects, and partners is, “Will AIOps make them irrelevant?” To them, AIOps is often equivalent to automated remediation; an AIOps system automatically detects an incident and kicks off a remediation process in response to this incident, knowing exactly what process will solve the problem. IT is out of the loop, data centers and NOCs just keep humming along unattended, end users are none the wiser.

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Down for Over Five Hours

Did you unconsciously open Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp several times throughout the day on Monday, only to get a “Couldn’t refresh feed” message? Did you try again every 20 or so minutes? Did you maybe even restart your phone, not once thinking websites as large as Facebook could possibly go down and believing it must be your own technology? Rejoice: it’s not you, it’s them.