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Flask is a widely used Python framework for building simple web applications, as well as being popular for REST APIs. If your Flask application has a lot of requests and is sensitive to request delays, it is essential to keep track of its metrics. Monitoring Flask with Prometheus is the perfect tool for this. When used in combination with Grafana, it can help make your app’s metrics easier to understand.
vSphere with Tanzu brings together an integrated Kubernetes experience for VI admins and developers. Using vSphere as the infrastructure platform, managing the Kubernetes lifecycle becomes easier than ever. New features in vSphere with Tanzu U2 add more capabilities that make Kubernetes operations even more seamless. Let’s check it out. VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) provides a highly available and scalable load balancer and container ingress services.
CIS (Center for Internet Security) is a non-profit organization that aims to develop a best practice in relation to cyber security. The CIS benchmarks have been adopted by many organizations as the standard against which to measure their systems.
Bazel (pronounced like the tasty herb: “bay-zell”) is an universal build tool developed by Google. Some notable companies like Twitter and projects like the Android Open Source project have migrated to Bazel. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a Bazel Android project and set it up for continuous integration with CircleCI. We will wrap up by automatically running tests and producing a binary APK file. In addition to the written guide there is a working sample project.
As an on-call engineer, you might deal with the day-in, day-out occurrence of alerts. These alerts may come from your alerting provider (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, etc.), Slack notifications telling you the site is down, or the ever concerning text message "Hey, is the site down?". These alerts elicit reactions that range from "shit" to "again?" and in many cases, both.
One year ago this month, I wrote a post about how the COVID-19 pandemic was going to greatly accelerate the pace of global, digital transformation. How literally overnight we were being forced to find new ways of working, meeting, shopping, managing healthcare, and even staying entertained. And how there would be a tremendous surge in demand for video conferencing, home delivery services, online learning, eCommerce, media streaming, eSports, and telemedicine.
