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Understanding Apigee API Monitoring

Want to make sure the APIs you’ve launched on Apigee are performing as expected? In this video, we show how API Monitoring provides real-time insights into API traffic and performance, so you can solve problems as they happen. Watch to learn how you can stay informed and understand unusual events or patterns.

Facilitate DevOps Monitoring with Synthetics and RUM

DevOps is a common name in the technology household. Teams, small or big, are embracing this concept to deliver applications faster, improve software quality, and add efficiency in the development process from the very beginning. Shortening the feedback loop leads to a cost-effective way for businesses to find and fix defects earlier in the cycle process. Plus, it lowers the software failure rate in production and minimizes time wastage for the development team.

Cloud PaaS through the lens of open source - opinion

Open source software, as the name suggests, is developed in the open. The software can be freely inspected by anyone, and can be freely patched as required to suit the security requirements of the organisation running it. Any publicly identified security issues are centrally triaged and tracked.

Model-driven observability: Taming alert storms

In the first post of this series, we covered the general idea and benefits of model-driven observability with Juju. In the second post, we dived into the Juju topology and its benefits with respect to entity stability and metrics continuity. In this post, we discuss how the Juju topology enables grouping and management of alerts, helps prevent alert storms, and how that relates with SRE practices.

How the Pandemic Impacted the Government's Cloud Migration Plans

“Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped this strategy, making “cloud-now” a priority. The results have been transformational. The cloud made wide-scale government telework possible, but it’s also given agencies the opportunity to test drive new cloud applications and experience the scalability and security benefits first-hand.

DevOps' Problem with Speed-to-Market Explained: IBM MQ, Multi-Middleware Role in Deploying New Applications & Updates

If your organization is frustrated with how long it takes to roll out new applications and updates, they are not alone. Speed-to-market is an obsession at many companies today (see call-out box below), so anything that restricts or slows it down is a problem.

How Developers Can Benefit from Observability | IAmDevloper and Splunk's Mark Woods

DevOps teams have felt pressure from all sides to innovate faster and keep services reliable. The growing complexity of applications and cloud infrastructure create more challenges for everyone, but the tools that developers and SRE teams require have been disconnected - keeping everyone from working as an efficient team. IAmDevloper and Splunk’s Chief Technical Advisor EMEA, Mark Woods discuss how observability can help break down silos and promote agility.