Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In the context of businesses, the ultimate goal of innovation for technology companies is to drive a profit. This means that even though many software engineering problems can be solved with enough time and budget — just because a business can solve a problem doesn’t mean that they should. Sometimes, even once a team has figured out how to solve an engineering problem, it doesn’t make sense to deploy the solution — because it costs so much to operate.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a crowd favorite of both developers and large enterprise consumers. While some smaller GCP services occasionally shut down with little warning, the main GCP services continue to grow in both adoption and functionality. Monitoring and understanding GCP usage across an organization becomes more complex as the organization grows and functionality increases.

The first keynote is over, the talks have started, and the AWS Heroes all got to feel motion-sick but appreciated in their AWS-supplied VR helmets. Good one Tom Here are my week 1 thoughts: Throughout the keynote it was clear that serverless is here to stay. One detail stood out to me above all others: Nearly half of all new compute workloads in Amazon in 2020 were Lambda based. During Andy Jassy’s keynote, a veritable wall of major customers that use Lambda.

We are excited to partner with AWS and announce the availability of InfluxDB on the new Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public announced this week at AWS re:Invent. With this new registry, developers can now find their favorite open source products from within the AWS developer experience. At InfluxData, we believe it is important to bring our product — InfluxDB — to the platforms and ecosystems where our developers are building. And of course, many of our developers are building on AWS.

Every year, I look forward to the release of the annual State of DevOps report (that’s the kind of exciting life I lead!). The evolution and adoption of DevOps in the past decade has been incredible — and this report always helps show what’s the next big thing that high-performing teams are adopting. The 2020 State of DevOps report was just released a couple weeks ago and as usual, it was filled with all kinds of insights.