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In a previous post, I demonstrated how to call InfluxDB APIs from AWS Lambda, but the setup is fairly manual and the results are not portable. Ideally, we as a community can expand and share ways to collect and process time series data. To that end, I want to share a CloudFormation template. CloudFormation is AWS’ infrastructure as code service that lets you define almost any AWS component in a configuration file.

Survey respondents who continued their cloud journey experienced less IT performance issues—Virtana and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to present full survey findings during June 25th webinar

Building a healthy productive engineering culture is hard and just deploying frequently with continuous deployment is not enough. I'm going to show you how you can use a carrot, not a stick, approach to take continuous deployment to the next level by celebrating team values with Sleuth.

One of the most important aspects of any Chaos Engineering program is knowing that every experiment is being run safely. And one of the simplest ways to ensure safe experiments is by having safeguards that prevent running chaos experiments on a system that is unhealthy or has an incident in progress. Today, Gremlin is excited to announce Status Checks, which run before you kick off a Chaos Engineering Scenario in order to verify your system is in a steady state.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: one of our core objectives in Cloudsmith is to ensure that we support pretty much every package format we possibly can. In other words, the product is universal. We want to make sure that however you built the software assets you use, Cloudsmth will provide a single, consistent way to store, manage, secure and distribute those assets. As part of that ongoing mission, today we announce support for Terraform Modules.