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7 Reasons Why Serverless Encourages Useful Engineering Practices

Serverless provides benefits far beyond the ease of management…it strongly encourages “useful” engineering practices. Here’s how. It’s hard to determine what can be considered a “good” or “bad” engineering practice. We often hear about best practices, but everything really boils down to a specific use case. Therefore, I deliberately chose the word “useful” rather than “good” in the title.

Talking Shipa - "What's New in 1.2?"

Shipa is excited to launch our new webcast series, Talking Shipa. To kick this series off, we sat down with Shipa Founder and CEO, Bruno Andrade, to discuss the release of Shipa Application Management Framework for Kubernetes, version 1.2. In this video, Bruno spends a few minutes with us to talk about the new features and improvements that are packed into this new release.

Hybrid cloud - everything you need to know

Hybrid cloud allows businesses to optimise their costs associated with cloud infrastructure maintenance. It also brings many other benefits, such as business continuity, compliance, better scalability and improved agility. According to the Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 2020, hybrid cloud is an essential technology that every modern organisation is looking for and its adoption is only expected to grow in the following years.

What is MEF 3.0 and why it matters

You may have spotted some news last week from PCCW Global that both its international network and the Console Connect digital platform have recently received MEF 3.0 certification. Besides demonstrating to our customers and partners that Console Connect is aligned with the latest and highest network standards, this news also highlights the work that we are doing behind-the-scenes to help advance network automation and on-demand services globally. Read more…

New year, New York, new CivoStack

When we first started our managed Kubernetes beta, we knew utilising K3s as the Kubernetes distribution of choice was the right move. Not only is it light-weight and quick to deploy, K3s has features ideally suited for the scenarios we envisioned our users would encounter. It’s important for us to make sure any service we offer is 100% compatible with industry standards, and K3s allows us to do just that but with simplicity and speed for our users.

How to get a phone call when your API fails

Learn how you can get a phone call alert when your API fails. Spike.sh sends you alerts via phone call, SMS message, email and Slack when you have any issues in production. Spike.sh integrates with your infrastructure, performance monitoring, error tracking, uptime monitoring, API monitoring and cron job monitoring tools. Our integrations include AWS, Google Cloud, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic and many more.

How to get a phone call when your cron job fails

Learn how you can get a phone call alert when your cron job fails. Spike.sh sends you alerts via phone call, SMS message, email and Slack when you have any issues in production. Spike.sh integrates with your infrastructure, performance monitoring, error tracking, uptime monitoring, API monitoring and cron job monitoring tools. Our integrations include AWS, Google Cloud, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic and many more.