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One of the key attributes of DevOps and SRE engineers is their ability to meticulously observe and monitor all of their applications. A task which can be achieved more efficiently by centralizing all generated logs to a central endpoint. By centralizing logging, engineers can, at any time, have an accurate overview of all events which take place across their applications, from just one place. Storing logs in an external system also allows companies to ensure compliance with many certifications.

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” said Benjamin Franklin. These words cannot be overstated in most business fields, especially when it comes to automation. Process automation has the potential to enhance operations in most organizations, but problems can emerge when they don’t plan and strategize around their automation objectives.

The Serverless framework is an open-source framework written in Node.js that simplifies the development and deployment of AWS Lambda functions. It frees you from worrying about how to package and deploy the application to the cloud, so you can focus on your application logic. Serverless applications are distributed by design, so good code coverage is vital, and should include unit testing.

If you’re in IT, no doubt you’ve heard the age-old statistic that an average minute of downtime costs $5,600. It turns out that information is a bit outdated and does not reflect the real and nuanced costs of a modern IT outage. BigPanda suspected this and wanted to uncover the true numbers behind outage costs so ITOps can have a better understanding of costs, causes and “cures” of an IT outage.

The issue of losing assets affects everyone. For many firms, it’s also expensive because missing goods and equipment translate into missed sales. Asset tracking can help with this. The issue is that it can be challenging to select the best asset tracking system. You must make the most of every asset because doing so will enable you to save money. Firms can reduce their total cost of ownership and increase their asset return on investment by identifying their assets at the right moment.

Many businesses lose productivity because of failing to track work orders. In order to maintain constant efficiency, work order tracking is crucial for companies. Asset management software can be helpful for effective work order administration. The work order supervisors, managers, directors, and decision-makers can all benefit significantly from it. Service requests and work orders can be created and managed with work order software, a particular asset management software.

Almost everyone who’s used Amazon Web Services (AWS) has used Amazon simple storage service (S3). In the decade since it was first released, S3 storage has become essential to thousands of companies for file storage. While using S3 in simple ways is easy, at a larger scale it involves a lot of subtleties and potentially costly mistakes, especially when your data or team are scaling up. Here are the most important things about AWS S3 that will help you avoid costly mistakes.

Apache Airflow is an open-source orchestration platform that enables the development, scheduling and monitoring of tasks using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). Here at Sumo, our team has been using this technology for several years to manage various jobs relating to our organization’s Global Intelligence, Global Confidence, and other data science initiatives. We self-host the tool through Kubernetes.