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Observability and SaaS Providers

SaaS is exploding and so it should; it takes commoditized work and infrastructure away from tech teams so that they can focus on differentiating features. But what happens when it goes wrong? How do SaaS platforms make sure they aren't letting their customers down and in turn, letting their customers down? Observability, bolstered with AI gives all the partners the best chance to optimize availability and customer experience. Here's how.

All-new Netdata Cloud Charts 2.0

Netdata excels in collecting, storing, and organizing metrics in out-of-the-box dashboards for powerful troubleshooting. We are now doubling down on this by transforming data into even more effective visualizations, helping you make the most sense out of all your metrics for increased observability. The new Netdata Charts provide a ton of useful information and we invite you to further explore our new charts from a design and development perspective.

New Ideas On How To Install Epinio

Epinio, the application development engine for Kubernetes, is meant to take you from app to URL in one step. It does that by either applying buildpacks to your app or using a pre-built docker image. Epinio installs into any Kubernetes cluster to bring your application from source code to deployment and allow for developers and operators to work better together.

Visibility, Assurance, Analytics Webinar

Find out how Ribbon Analytics enhances the capabilities of your fixed voice infrastructure, delivering powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use tools and dashboards for end-to-end traffic visibility, improved operational productivity, and faster identification and resolution of service issues, across your network. In this session, we’ll discuss and demonstrate: With cost-effective Ribbon Analytics’ applications, rural operators can monitor end-to-end service quality and quickly troubleshoot and resolve network problems over periods of time.

Eight new Puppet Practice Labs to make automation easier with Puppet

Have you heard about the Puppet Practice Labs? Our free, browser-based, hands-on labs cover a variety of topics for getting started with Puppet — everything from installing the primary server to identifying server roles using package data collection, and much, much more. You can read more about them in my previous blog post. We’ve designed Puppet Practice labs to make learning Puppet fun, engaging, and memorable for learners of all levels.

How to run Status Checks within your private network using private network integrations

With private network integrations, you can now run Status Checks and Webhooks within your private networks without having to expose endpoints to the public Internet. Integrate with your internal tools without leaving the security of your own private network!

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Itiel Shwartz, CTO and Co-founder of Komodor

Welcome back to another iteration of “Build Things on Purpose” where we talk with developers and engineers who are creating tools that help us build more reliable systems. Today Itiel Shwartz, CTO and Co-Founder of Komodor, has joined us to chat about what they’re doing to help tame the chaos of Kubernetes. Itiel talks about Komodor’s goal of making troubleshooting Kubernetes not only easy, but potentially even fun!

How to deploy multiple EC2 instances in one go using Terraform

Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform provides greater support for automation, especially when dealing with multiple resources in a complex cloud infrastructure. In this blog, learn how Terraform can make your life simple by launching multiple instances in one-go. If you are new to Amazon AWS and need to create or launch multiple resources in one go, then nothing is better than using Terraform count. The Terraform count argument allows you to launch as many resources as you wish, of the same kind.