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Mastering Azure Networking

Microsoft’s Azure platform offers robust networking capabilities that aid businesses in creating efficient, secure, and highly customizable cloud environments. As such, a deep understanding of Azure Networking is crucial for IT professionals and organizations striving to harness the power of cloud computing. This guide will unpack the complexities of Azure Networking and provide a roadmap for mastering its various components.

Cloud Repatriation Explained: Is Bringing Your Data Home the Right Move?

The cloud is the future — or is it? While statistics show that the public cloud continues to grow, a small but loud group is proudly going in the other direction. David Heinemeier Hansson, the CTO of 37signals — the company behind Basecamp and HEY, among others — recently posted his controversial take on the subject, announcing that the organization would be leaving the cloud.

Get smarter about M&A IT infrastructure integration

That’s great news—your business is growing, and opportunities abound. It also means you will have to align the acquired company’s IT infrastructure with your own. What this looks like will vary depending on the specifics of any given merger. In some cases, where the acquired entity will continue to operate independently, you may simply look for opportunities to optimize and create economies of scale.

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring and Performance Management

Many organizations manage a hybrid infrastructure spread over on-premise and multiple public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google for specific business applications. The hybrid cloud approach has advantages but adds more complexity for IT teams responsible for keeping IT systems safe and secure. The monitoring tools system administrators use for on-premise infrastructure are often unsuitable for monitoring public cloud platforms.

Machine Learning CI/CD with AWS Sagemaker

There are many benefits of incorporating CI/CD into your ML pipeline, such as automating the deployment of ML models to production at scale. The focus of this article is to illustrate how to integrate AWS SageMaker model training and deployment into CircleCI CI/CD pipelines. The structure of this project is a monorepo containing multiple models. The monorepo approach has advantages over the polyrepo approach, including simplified dependency versioning and security vulnerability management.

GCP Monitoring with Graphite and Grafana

In this article, we are going to look at what are the possible options available to users in terms of monitoring their applications hosted in the Google Cloud Platform. Graphite and Grafana are examples of the great tools available for monitoring time-series metrics for your cloud-hosted applications. There are also hosted monitoring options available for Google Cloud users through MetricFire’s offering of Hosted Graphite and Hosted Grafana.