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How Roblox went from Windows to Ubuntu in 7 days for edge compute nodes

Roblox is a gaming platform for 100 million kids all over the world, and to serve them must deploy edge compute globally for low latency gaming experiences. This means imaging, managing and rebuilding thousands of servers. In this talk, Rob Cameron, Roblox Technical Director for Cloud Services, shares how they migrated servers from Windows to Linux for approximately 200k containerised workloads in a seven day timeframe, leveraging MAAS for the path to full orchestration.

Validating Change in O365

Before introducing new systems like #O365, or changes, like moving to the #Cloud, IT teams know it’s best practice to run through ‘what if’ scenarios and benchmark #performance to assess the potential impact on #userexperience. However incredibly, many still choose to skip these steps. The #consequences mean more time spent #troubleshooting, reduced service quality, poor app response time and #unhappyusers. Imagine if you could validate change quickly, but in a simple way that avoids #risk and business #disruption.

Monitor ClickHouse with Datadog

ClickHouse is an open source database management system, and was originally developed as a backend for Yandex’s Metrica analytics platform. ClickHouse is column oriented, meaning that it can quickly scan through ranges of values in a single column without touching irrelevant values in other columns. This makes ClickHouse well suited for online analytical processing (OLAP).

Docker container monitoring with Netdata

Properly monitoring the health and performance of Docker containers is an essential skill for solo developers and large teams alike. As your infrastructure grows in complexity, it’s important to streamline every facet of the performance of your apps/services. Plus, it’s essential that the tools you use to make those performance decisions work across teams, and allow for complex scaling architectures.

Introduction to the Integration Module for Freshservice

The Kelverion Integration Module for Freshservice provides a powerful integration capability for writing Azure Automation runbooks as well as being usable in PowerShell scripts. The Integration Module supports Freshservice SaaS instances with the REST API. Using Kelverion smart discovery the Integration Module interrogates Freshservice and discovers how it has been configured providing a forms based view of the tables, fields, properties and allowed inputs for mandatory and optional fields.