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Websites are a must-have for any business that wants to survive in a highly competitive environment. Many people mistakenly think that only e-commerce projects need a website, but this is not the case. Absolutely every company needs website performance monitoring and virtually every initiative should be armed with its own webpage. But this article is not about why you need a website, but about how to track and manage its performance.

With the widespread use of LTE (Long Term Evolution), we are seeing more IoT devices come online in remote regions of our planet. Picture this scenario: A country is currently experiencing a national emergency due to an electrical grid failure. To mitigate the power shortage the government has deployed generators in the remote regions of their country to power the most remote villages. The problem? The villages are still reporting outages due to the emergency generators running out of fuel.

A plethora of surveys has shown that there is significant growth in the digital data that enterprises generate every day and it is becoming difficult for traditional on-premise systems to cope up with the enormous amounts of data. Also, the old methods require huge capital and resources. Therefore, Cloud-based Data Warehouses are taking the place of traditional ones to collect, store and analyze data coming from multiple sources.

AWS S3 is a cloud storage service that saves data as an object associated with a key. Objects are like files and keys are like filenames. Objects are stored in a bucket. We will be auto-generating our object keys while uploading. In a free tier account, you get 5GB of free cloud storage with AWS S3. Note: This tutorial is made for AWS S3 but works as well with S3 compatible providers like Wasabi.com

Azure Government is a dedicated cloud for public sector organizations that want to leverage Azure’s suite of services in their highly regulated environments. As these organizations migrate their applications to Azure Government, they need to ensure that they can maintain visibility into the status and health of their entire infrastructure.

.NET 6 is finally here, giving us a new long term stable version of.NET Core. .NET 6 succeeds.NET 5, which was generally seen as a “skip version” by most of us, getting limited use compared to.NET Core 3.1. With this release, we get updates to both the runtime and the C# language. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at what we see as three of the most useful.NET 6 features.

Improving your influence over the company will help you deliver high quality work as your goals will be closely aligned with those of the company. In this blog piece, Ricardo has explained how to improve your influence as an SRE. Balancing fast-paced business requirements with the demands of keeping production services stable is not an easy task.