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10 Essential Monitoring Interview Questions to Prep for in 2020

You might be on the move. You might be breaking into the field. You might be trying to level up with your next gig. You might be ready for a manager’s role. Regardless of the reason, you are wondering what you need to re-study for your job interviews and “homework” assignments. Even with years of experience, every new gig expects you to answer different kinds of DevOps interview questions.

Stackdriver Sandbox - Stack Doctor

Want to get started with Stackdriver without impacting your production monitoring setup? Join Yuri Grinshteyn to learn how to use the Stackdriver Sandbox to start learning about and using Stackdriver. The Sandbox includes a GKE cluster with a sample microservices application deployed and fully instrumented for monitoring, logging, and tracing.

Avoid downtime with EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems by using VirtualWisdom

January 30, 2020 As a healthcare CIO mandated with the transition to electronic healthcare records, you’ve done your due diligence, evaluated various EHR vendors and most likely settled on Epic, a software vendor with over 25% of the US acute care hospital market share. You’ve followed Epic guidelines for minimum hardware requirements and acquired what you believe is the right workstation, server, networking, and storage infrastructure for Epic.

A Civo 2019 retrospective: How we got here and what's next

Looking back over 2019 it's been a huge time of change for us as a company. When I co-founded Civo four years ago we were aiming to be an IaaS (Infrastructure-As-A-Service) provider, focusing on small developers and teams rather than huge corporate hosting requirements. The developer experience was really important to us, but trying to carve out a niche in such a crowded market was really challenging.

Serverless Has Evolved in 2020

Come January, pretty much any current tech keyword you type into Google News will result in hundreds of prediction op-eds and roundups. The fact that it’s an entirely new decade has amplified this phenomenon and serverless is no exception. As the CEO of a company dedicated to helping software teams build, manage, and deliver serverless applications, it’s a joy to read these posts by some of the brightest minds in the industry.

AWS Billing Alerts: When to Use Them and How to Set Them Up

Making sure you don't overspend on AWS is a perennial challenge for many software companies. To help make sure you don't surpass your budget, AWS offers billing alerts, which send you an alert when your costs have reached a certain threshold. This can be a handy way to keep your costs in check, but can take some time to set up and will cost you some extra money.

Intro to Rio Online Training: The Application Deployment Engine for Kubernetes

Rio is an application deployment engine built on top of Kubernetes, Istio, Knative, and Prometheus. You can use it to build, test, deploy, scale, and version stateless apps on any standard Kubernetes cluster, which means that you can run your apps the way you want to without having to spend time wiring them together.

Azure Functions Triggers and Bindings

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that lets you run event-triggered code without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure, in other words, Microsoft’s Azure Functions is a modern serverless architecture, offering event-driven cloud computing that is easy for developers to use. This blog is about Azure Functions triggers and bindings.