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Deploy Friday: E82 Enabling conversation - the design and linguistics of API documentation

APIs enable conversations, but how do you choose the right words for those conversations? We talk with three powerhouse technical writers and documentation managers, from Platform.sh, Splunk, and Sitecore, to get the best practices and frameworks behind world-class documentation.

Do you need a business case to migrate to the cloud? The answer is clear!

Summary The cloud is always innovating. One of the more recent and large breakthroughs has been the advancement and improvements in CPU architectures. Specifically with ARM CPU processors, where we are seeing adoption across all forms of computing, not only cloud, but also laptops with Apple’s M1, and of course in the past decade with mobile phones. The more recent availability in cloud computing therefore is not surprising, given the progress made in all other areas of technology.

Black Friday Requires Dynamic Integration Infrastructure Management

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.

How Kambi migrated from an in-house Graphite solution to Grafana Cloud

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.

Infrastructure as Code: All you need to know

Using Code to create and manage deployments is more time-efficient and less tedious when compared to using CLI or even UI. In this blog, we explore the buzz around the usage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and how Terraform can be used to implement IaC. In this blog post, we will explore the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of infrastructure as code so you can make an informed decision on how (and why) to incorporate it into your workflow.

Dashbird explained

Dashbird is an observability, debugging, and intelligence platform designed specifically to help serverless developers build, operate, improve, and scale their modern cloud applications on AWS environment fast, securely, and with ease. It’s free to use for up to 1M invocations and doesn’t require any code changes. Dashbird fills the gaps left by CloudWatch and other traditional monitoring tools by offering enhanced out-of-the-box monitoring, operations, and actionable insights tools for architectural improvements, all in one place.

Supervisors in xMatters - xMatters Support

Join Chris Patch, xMatters’ Senior eLearning Specialist, as he outlines the privileges of supervisors in xMatters. Supervisors can modify the user profile of any user they supervise, as well as can view their groups, change their login details, and sign out of the mobile app on their behalf if their account has been compromised.

Azure Security Tips & Tricks

In our very first episode, we have got Paul Stringfellow, the podcast enthusiast with proven ideas to help you enhance the security of your Azure infrastructure. This episode features an in-depth conversation of “why security” should be the top priority for any organization designing an infrastructure/application. Further, the expert shows how different it is to secure a cloud solution than an on-premise one, emphasizing that traditional security models are no longer the right way to protect complex cloud integrations.