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Stackdriver usage and costs: a guide to understand and optimize spending

Google Stackdriver is a cloud-based managed services platform designed to give you visibility into app and infrastructure services. Stackdriver’s monitoring, logging and APM tools make it easy to navigate between data sources to view performance details and find the root causes of any issues.

How to Uncover Deep-Dive Citrix Analytics for Effective Troubleshooting

Monitoring, observability and analytics have become common phraseology in the Citrix world. Alongside every Citrix project, whether it’s a new deployment, expansion, upgrade, or cloud migration, what is essentially needed in the IT toolkit is analytics. Analytics means not just data, but insights obtained through continuous monitoring; periodic measurements of critical performance metrics that convey a lot about the health and availability of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops session.

Postmortems Part 2: How to Adopt a Learning Culture

Culture is the way we do things together. It’s the secret sauce that results in happy, healthy teams that consistently meet their goals. It’s also the hardest thing to define, cultivate, and change in an organization. True cultural change requires more than creating and communicating policies. It takes collaboration, persistence, and experimentation.

Deep Packet Inspection: What's next?

Since all technology traffic analysers have evolved, and in order to answer the question of what the next step in this evolution is many experts suggest that the deep packet inspection is the point to which all will evolve. However, deep packet inspection is not a new concept; ISPs have been using it, not without controversy, for some years. Then why is it referred to as the next step?

A Beginner's Guide to Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

There’s no shortage of providers willing to host your containers. Many of the world’s biggest cloud platforms offer Kubernetes as a service, including features such as automatic scalability and high availability. However, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stands out as perhaps the best tool for building and hosting a Kubernetes cluster for a number of reasons. In this article, we’ll present these reasons and why GCP offers a better Kubernetes experience than other providers.