Containers are nearly ubiquitous in software these days. Outside of abstractions like fully managed services (RDS, Dynamo, Cloud SQL), everything engineering teams are responsible for, mostly, land in containers. For many, deciding what platform to run those containers on is a burning question. Choosing the wrong container management solution can be a real headache.

Your status page (or lack thereof) has the opportunity to signal a lot about your brand — how transparent you are, how quickly you respond to incidents, how you communicate with your customers — and ultimately, this all seriously impacts your reliability. After all, as our CEO Robert put it in a recent interview on the SRE Path podcast, you don’t get to decide your reliability; your customers do.

This article was originally published in APM Digest here. Multicasting in this context refers to the process of directing data streams to two or more destinations. This might look like sending the same telemetry data to both an on-premises storage system and a cloud-based observability platform concurrently. The two principal benefits of this strategy are cost savings and service redundancy.

I spend a lot of time talking about marketing with MSPs. While I enjoy hearing their tales of what works for them, it’s also important to understand what doesn’t or hasn’t worked. The most frequent complaint I hear is from partners working with marketing or lead generation agencies that feel they’re paying out a lot and seeing very little reward. So I thought I’d put together my top five tips for helping ensure a successful marketing agency engagement.

HAProxy Fusion 1.2 is now available, making it even simpler to adopt modern, scalable application delivery. New efficiencies, workflows, and form factors enable you to be more productive, use familiar tools, and explore powerful new use cases.