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The performance of your APIs is a critical factor that influences the success of a project. After implementation, you will want to constantly monitor your APIs. You may want to monitor response time on a regular basis or you may have more extensive monitoring scenarios. MetricFire specializes in monitoring systems, including APIs. You can use our product with minimal configuration to gain in-depth insight into your environments.

Have you noticed recently that your AWS Lambda invocation requests are getting throttled? If so, your Lambda functions are probably not running as designed. Let’s examine the possible causes and solutions to poor Lambda performance.

At CloudZero, we talk to leadership teams at SaaS and companies every day. When it comes to individual customer profitability, the vast majority of them fall into two camps: they’re either taking their best guess — or they have no idea. Typically only the largest companies - those with the resources to dedicate a 5-10 person engineering team to calculating cost - have this level of insight. And you can be sure they yield that knowledge to their competitive advantage!

The best way to stay out of danger is to keep far away from where danger lurks. But in the internet age, the global network means risk to your systems is from everywhere, at all times. With estimates that worldwide damage from cybercrime will exceed 6 trillion dollars by 2021, many companies choose, or are required by regulations to isolate their most sensitive systems to avoid any type of security breach.

As many on-site organizations scramble to adopt remote work, DevOps teams are turning to messaging and integrated workflows to collaborate effectively. Usual office work practices are changing, and people are having to adapt to a remote-first approach. This demands a change to your company culture, a remote mindset and the tools to deliver it.

As Kubernetes is eating the world, discover an alternative certified Kubernetes offering called K3s, made by the wizards at Rancher. K3s is gaining a lot of interest in the community for its easy deployment, low footprint binary, and its ability to be used for specific use cases that the full Kubernetes may be too advanced for. K3s is a fully CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) certified Kubernetes offering.

In today’s world, with many microservices fuelling hundreds of components, the failure of just one piece can cause a crash for the whole system. For example, a lack of memory in one component can cause a database failure. This database failure could be the reason for authentication problems for particular users, causing those users to not be able to login. And of course, finding the core problem manually can be complex and time-consuming.