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Advanced Service Bus Dead lettering with BAM

In the real world, when we implement systems, there are often many kinds of users, such as super business users and some level 1 support technicians who understand the application domain and can support a lot of your applications. Still, due to limited skills and experience with Azure, they are constrained to how much of the application they can help. A great example of this is when you have a solution that uses Azure Service Bus.

Kubernetes and the Enterprise

As more organizations transition to cloud-native applications in the enterprise, Kubernetes and its APIs are laying the foundation for a next era of distributed computing. But despite its growing adoption in the enterprise, Kubernetes remains complex to implement and manage effectively. This topic spotlight highlights the most common challenges of Kubernetes in the enterprise and offers up some recommendations on how to make Kubernetes adoption smooth and effective to drive productivity and business value.

Avoid frostbite: Stop doing code freezes

As the holiday season aggressively approaches I want to perform a public service announcement for everyone toying with the idea of a code freeze for the holidays: please don't. It’s getting cold outside and the season of peppermint mochas is upon us, which might get you thinking about putting a code freeze in place for the holidays. A Word of warning: instituting a code freeze may have unintended consequences.

Store and retrieve static assets on AWS S3 with NodeJS on FlashDrive

AWS S3 is a cloud storage service that saves data as an object associated with a key. Objects are like files and keys are like filenames. Objects are stored in a bucket. We will be auto-generating our object keys while uploading. In a free tier account, you get 5GB of free cloud storage with AWS S3. Note: This tutorial is made for AWS S3 but works as well with S3 compatible providers like Wasabi.com

Discover VirtualMetric's Dashboard Playlists

VirtualMetric Real-time Monitoring Suite is supporting Dashboard Playlists, providing full visibility over your infrastructure and virtualization monitoring for your whole team. Monitoring a complex infrastructure is a hard task. We make it simple thanks to our Dashboard and a bunch of functionalities focused on your user experience, time-saving and improving the efficiency of your team.

Monitor Azure Government with Datadog

Azure Government is a dedicated cloud for public sector organizations that want to leverage Azure’s suite of services in their highly regulated environments. As these organizations migrate their applications to Azure Government, they need to ensure that they can maintain visibility into the status and health of their entire infrastructure.

How to improve your influence as an SRE

Improving your influence over the company will help you deliver high quality work as your goals will be closely aligned with those of the company. In this blog piece, Ricardo has explained how to improve your influence as an SRE. Balancing fast-paced business requirements with the demands of keeping production services stable is not an easy task.