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An Introduction to Big Data Concepts

Gigantic amounts of data are being generated at high speeds by a variety of sources such as mobile devices, social media, machine logs, and multiple sensors surrounding us. All around the world, we produce vast amount of data and the volume of generated data is growing exponentially at a unprecedented rate. The pace of data generation is even being accelerated by the growth of new technologies and paradigms such as Internet of Things (IoT).

Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters on GKE (Google Container Engine)

The Kubernetes ecosystem contains a number of logging and monitoring solutions. These tools address monitoring and logging at different layers in the Kubernetes Engine stack. This document describes some of these tools, what layer of the stack they address, as well as best practices for implementation including an example from the field, a quick start, and a demo project.

Logging Kubernetes on GKE with the ELK Stack and Logz.io

An important element of operating Kubernetes is monitoring. Hosted Kubernetes services simplify the deployment and management of clusters, but the task of setting up logging and monitoring is mostly up to us. Yes, Kubernetes offer built-in monitoring plumbing, making it easier to ship logs to either Stackdriver or the ELK Stack, but these two endpoints, as well as the data pipeline itself, still need to be set up and configured.

Monitoring StatsD: metric types, format & code examples

The StatsD stack is one of the most popular monitoring solutions to instrument your code using custom metrics. In this post we will describe the StatsD metrics architecture, metrics types and formats, proving code examples for the Golang, NodeJS/Javascript and Python programming languages.

What you need to know to successfully run databases in production on Kubernetes

The Kubernetes community has made significant progress when it comes to easily deploying stateful services like databases. But what happens on Day 2? Day 2 operations are all about managing an application when things go wrong: nodes fail, networks are partitioned, a CVE comes out requiring a new version of Kubernetes to be deployed and all running apps upgraded.