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Imagine this: It’s a calm, ordinary day at your office. Your website is the main gateway through which customers interact with your business, be it tech, finance, or real estate. Suddenly, without warning, your website goes down. Panic ensues. Sales halt, customer complaints skyrocket, and your brand’s reputation takes a nosedive. This isn’t a doomsday scenario, but a very real possibility in today’s digital-first world.

Azure App Services, part of Microsoft Azure’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, simplifies web application and API development, deployment, and scalability without managing underlying infrastructure complexities. Supporting various programming languages and frameworks, its versatility suits diverse applications. Understanding Azure App Services pricing is crucial for effective cost management and resource optimization.

The role of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) has become increasingly pivotal nowadays, with businesses relying on their expertise to manage and optimize complex network infrastructures. The effective monitoring of these intricate networks is central to the success of MSPs, a practice known as MSP Monitoring.

“Are your customers, partners and employees complaining about how slow your applications are running?" If you are not worried about the answer to this question, stop reading now.

The border between the management of telecommunications networks and the services that they support and the management of IT infrastructures and the applications that they support has always been a porous one. One might say that they are like two dialects of the same language rather than different languages. Nonetheless, these areas, whether characterised by technology or practice, are different and have, for the most part, been served by different vendors and products.

Step Function added support for testing individual states . Which lets you execute individual states with the following: And returns the following: With the TestState API, you can thoroughly test every state and achieve close to 100% coverage of a state machine. So, does this eliminate the need for Step Functions Local ? Can we do away with end-to-end tests as well? If not, where should this new API fit into your workflow, and how should you use it?

It is essential to configure log rotation for Docker containers. Log rotation is not performed by default, and if it’s not configured, logs on the Docker host can build up and eat up disk space. This guide will teach us how to set up Docker log rotation. Logs are an essential piece of telemetry data. Logs can be used to debug performance issues in applications.

You might be thinking “building HTTP API docs from scratch? in 2024? wtf?”, and you’re probably right. After all redoc has been around since 2016, and there are hundreds of “generate beautiful documentation from your OpenAPI spec” startups around, some even use AI now. To be honest, I didn’t even know it was possible to do-it-yourself when I started looking into it.

Infrastructure is a complex and difficult concept for developers. When an issue occurs, where do you even begin to look? I’ve spent years of my life playing the “What looks like one but not like the other” game, wrestling with confirmation bias and hunting through haystacks of logs to find a clue to my hosted applications. This takes away from time spent improving my applications—and it isn’t fun.

CloudWatch metrics play a critical role in monitoring AWS resources and facilitating effective troubleshooting during system failures. It allows for continuous monitoring of AWS resources like EC2 instances, Lambda functions, and RDS databases. Using Cloudwatch metrics, DevOps teams can monitor and manage their AWS infrastructure easily. Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).