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Top 10 AWS Services Explained With Use Cases

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud service providers in the industry, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. A large spectrum of clients across verticals uses AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. A recent survey estimates that AWS is the largest cloud service provider and accounts for 32% of the worldwide cloud services market.

Maintaining Operational Sanity Across 100+ AWS Accounts | Eric Mann / Ryan Tomac (Vacasa)

At Vacasa, AWS accounts represent the unit of isolation for distinct applications & services in our software ecosystem, providing security benefits and operational autonomy for our teams as we scale. Managing accounts at this scale requires strong DevOps practices to maintain security, operational sanity, and uniform observability across the system. In this talk, we’ll cover the benefits of such an approach, the practices that make it possible, and the important role Datadog plays.

Reverse Connect for Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD)

There’s something common between AVD and eG Enterprise. Can you take a wild guess? Listening on open TCP ports is an extremely bad practice for cloud architectures, as it exposes products and services to accepting incoming messages from malicious parties. This is something eG Innovations avoids in our own products (see details). This is also a best practice adopted by Microsoft for Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD).

11 Reasons Why You Should Migrate to Next-Generation DX APM

The current version of DX APM continues a long history of innovation for APM technology. More than two decades ago, the solution was the pioneer in byte code instrumentation. DX APM is now a next-generation solution for today’s complex and hybrid enterprise environments. Figure 1: Broadcom’s DX APM has evolved from Wily Technology’s invention of byte code instrumentation-based APM, which was introduced in 1998.

The Importance of Application Performance Monitoring.

In this digital era, applications are used on a daily basis to make our life easier. A lot of software applications are launched every day, continuously increasing competition in the market. There are thousands of applications available for a task. But, the success of any application highly depends on its performance. A good-performing application provides a flawless user experience to the customers.

An overview of key .NET 6 features

.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.

New Relic vs. Sentry vs. Scout

In the digital economy, software applications have become a primary product for a large number of companies. On top of that, customers expect a flawless user experience from the applications as it evolves. To provide such a great experience, companies need to have powerful performance monitoring across their applications. We will discuss APM tools that are popular in the market right now and compare them in different aspects. Feel free to use these links to navigate the guide.