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How to Deploy Mattermost on AWS Via Opta

A common denominator that Mattermost and most corporate applications share is the challenge users can face in successfully setting up a self-hosted instance in their own cloud account. Even with cloud-specific documentation, there’s almost always a hard requirement of understanding said documentation, resolving any errors encountered along the way, and maintaining the application.

The Hidden Magic Of Extensions

As serverless architectures start to grow, finding the right troubleshooting approach becomes a business-critical aspect. This talk will dive into "the instrumentation approach" - keep track of internal events on the lambda and export processed telemetry data. We should handle legacy code, multiple code owners, and a massive stack of serverless technologies as with any real-life project. Our goal is to write as least code as possible, avoid any existing code changes, be cross-runtime, and leave no latency impact.

Serverless in production, lessons learned after 5 years

Serverless has changed the way we build software for the better. But it’s also a paradigm shift that challenges many of our pre-existing practices and habits, like how we test our code and how we monitor their health. In this session, Yan Cui will share many of the lessons he has learned from running serverless in production over the last five years. Including tips on testing, observability, and how to keep your AWS cost in check.

7 CloudCheckr Alternatives And Competitors

With CloudCheckr, users can manage the cost, security, and compliance of their public cloud. It also offers a VMware-to-AWS migration service. But the platform's multi-level pricing structure can confuse some customers. Others feel CloudCheckr is overkill for their current cloud adoption stage. This quick guide walks you through cloud management tools like CloudCheckr.

Global Software Company Improves Spark Performance and Cuts Wastage

One of our clients is a software developer that specializes in design and manufacturing software solutions. This software firm caters to some of the biggest organizations operating in primary sectors like engineering, architecture, manufacturing, entertainment, and more. Every new software and update our client rolls out must meet stringent SLA requirements.

Serverless Heroes Discuss The Latest Trends in Serverless Development

***Please note that the audio turns on at the 45 second mark*** How Lumigo Monitors Its Production Monitoring your production is challenging. Lumigo processes more than 1.5B Lambda invocations per month and digests 25TB of data monthly. Many things can go wrong. In this session, I will explain how Lumigo operates its production from tools to processes.

Cycle Podcast | Episode 11 "Rising Cloud + Cycle.io" Featuring Sean Brown, Chief Product Officer

In this episode, Jake Warner chats with Sean Brown of Rising Cloud. Discussions include some background and an overview on Rising Cloud, Stateful vs. Stateless, and how both companies are coming together to solve developer-centric needs.

4 Tips To Improve Your Company's Cloud Visibility

The struggle for better cloud visibility is common amongst software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. SaaS applications are more complex than on-premise solutions by nature — there is a lot more surface area to consider. Distributed and multi-tenant systems are inherently more complex. Distributed systems, as often found in cloud architectures, are generally scaled out horizontally much more so than traditional single instance applications.