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VirtualMetric: 2020 at a Glance

2020 was a year we all will remember. The whole world got an experience like never before. At VirtualMetric we have always believed in a global team with no borders. This year almost every company joined us in the remote work approach. Despite the challenges we were surrounded by, our team had a productive year. We not only saved our entire crew but hired more talented people to our VirtualMetric family, which helped us to achieve our ambitious goals.

Challenges to Database DevOps: Dealing With Drift

Sometimes, people start their DevOps journey by getting their database into source control, but then, they don’t deploy from source control. Instead, they continue their manual deployments to production. Quickly they find that the database code in their production instances and the database code in their source control system don’t match.

3 Times CloudZero Helped Real Companies Take Action With Cloud Cost Intelligence

One of the many aspects of CloudZero’s cloud cost intelligence is anomaly detection. Unlike solutions which require you to set budgets or thresholds, CloudZero uses machine learning to automatically detect and alert on anomalies, then send them directly to dev team Slack channels where the responsible engineers can view and take action. Here are just a few examples of real customer anomalies, what caused them, and the action the customer took.

Key Kubernetes audit logs for monitoring cluster security

Kubernetes continues to be a popular platform for deploying containerized applications, but securing Kubernetes environments as you scale up is challenging. Each new container increases your application’s attack surface, or the number of potential entry points for unauthorized access. Without complete visibility into every managed container and application request, you can easily overlook gaps in your application’s security as well as malicious activity.

Top Observability tools for DevOps Engineers and SREs

Better visibility is the first step to improved system stability. Our latest blog outlines Top Observability tools for DevOps Engineers & SREs to help you get started on your journey to gain valuable insights into your infrastructure. “We can't fix something which we can't observe” - whether it's a steam engine or a complex microservice based cloud deployment, great observability makes troubleshooting things easier.

FlashDrive's mission

This is everything you need to know about FlashDrive, and how it can help you reduce your infrastructure costs while improving your applications' responsiveness and overall quality. FlashDrive is a Docker cloud hosting service constituted in a network of high availability clusters located in North America and Europe. To completely understand what FlashDrive is and how it can help you, let's first talk about the Docker cloud, containers, and the purpose of containerization.

Heroku vs AWS: What to choose as a startup?

Cloud computing sometimes spoils one with choices. Let's just take a look at a couple of common cloud services. You can use cloud services to deploy and scale web and mobile apps besides monitoring them. AWS and Heroku provide cloud computing resources. AWS is from Amazon, while Heroku is from Salesforce. In this article, let us see which one is better to use from the start-up perspective.

Track Datadog metrics in Sleuth

Data from monitoring tools like Datadog are useful for developers to help them understand whether the code they've deployed is healthy or needs to be fixed or rolled back, or when there is an incident to investigate. As a deployment mission control, Sleuth helps developers see metrics data from a developer-centric point of view - by deployment - and interpret such data for them. ‍‍

Building a Cloud Strategy with Kubernetes

Enterprises are increasingly trying to leverage diversified cloud infrastructures. Specifically, to scale as business demand varies. So, how can you scale your applications to meet customer demands? The answer is you want to deploy your software on-premises or to a specific public cloud, based on business value. Kubernetes is the answer to your cloud strategy and it provides a holistic solution that simplifies the deployment, management, and operational tasks. Write to us: contact@ziniosedge.com

What to Expect from DevOps in 2021

As we move into the next year, we are hoping for a return to relative normalcy. That goes for our personal lives, social lives, and professional lives. Professionals have acclimated to the situation, or now see a return to relative normalcy just around the corner with the development of vaccines. And despite the wait, different industries and the DevOps community in particular have persisted.