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Managing the hidden costs of cloud networking - Part I

Technologies like virtualization and containerization have gained significant traction over the last decade as foundational tools for modern application development. As companies like Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), and Google (Google Cloud) started to invest in the hardware and software infrastructure required to support access to these virtualized resources, “the cloud” was born.

Papertrail + Slack: Keeping On Top of Your Most Important Logs

One of the most important pieces of operating any application stack is making sure you’re aware of the logging events occurring on your running systems. If your development team is like most, then you collaborate with your colleagues using Slack. Being successful while building and operating software includes looking for ways to implement high-visibility operations within your team communication platform.

Engineering Building Blocks for a Digital Organization (Peter O'Donovan)

OneDigital started as a new organization within an existing enterprise, with an aggressive timeline to launch. Learn how they bootstrapped their engineering organization, set guidelines for communication and collaboration, and balanced the tradeoffs of their technology choices.

Analyze Pacemaker logs in Cloud Logging

As an SAP system administrator, you've probably asked yourself: why did my Compute Instance restart? Why did Pacemaker restart my instance? Why did/didn’t my SAP system failover? By streaming Pacemaker logs into Cloud Logging, you can now find the answers to these questions by using a Cloud Logging query template to filter out the noise generated by Pacemaker logs.

Sentry Performance Monitoring with Dynamic Sampling

This is a sneak peek of Sentry's new performance monitoring feature, Dynamic Sampling. With Dynamic Sampling, you can customize your sampling logic for different parts of your application without having to deploy a new release. These are actual videos submitted by Sentaurs for our monthly Show-N-Tell. We have not edited them except for obscuring personal information that may appear in screenshots. Some videos may include screenshots that contain fictitious usernames or email addresses for illustrative purposes.

Building Grafana dashboards for a large-scale deployment in a tight timeline: Inside Cisco Live

How many Marvel movies’ worth of Internet traffic do 28,000 conference goers create during a five-day Cisco Live event? There’s a Grafana dashboard for that. Cisco Live is the network industry’s largest annual event, delivering education and inspiration to technology innovators worldwide with a week’s worth of programming keynotes, product announcements, entertainment, and more.

How a Product Studio Mitigates User Friction with Performance Monitoring

Panenco is a Product as a Service studio with more than 50 software development, product management, data science, design, and marketing experts building and hosting applications spanning multiple industries, including healthcare, fintech and education. For them, customer success isn’t just a business function, teams focus heavily on providing a fast, frictionless app experience.

Monitoring and Debugging Python Apps on AWS Lambda

As a developer, Python for me is a heavy-lifting and versatile language. I’ve used it for building APIs, internet of things projects, file and data conversions, machine learning and (of course) web development. Like with any modern, commonly used language, the functionality behind the application is only as good as the infrastructure that it is deployed onto.