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Using UX and Observability to Track Application Health

UX (user experience) is a core factor that determines the success of an application or platform in a distributed system. Specifically, developers need to understand the infrastructure within an entire application stack to improve and refine the user experience to meet customer expectations without guesswork. System downtime remains a significant source of revenue and reputational losses for enterprises, employees, and customers.

What is Scalability?

The number of simultaneous requests that an application can successfully support is a measure of its scalability. The point at which an application can no longer successfully handle more requests is its scalability limit. When a key piece of hardware is exhausted and new or more machines are needed, this limit is reached. Scaling these resources can include any combination of CPU and physical memory (different or more computers), hard disc (larger hard drives, less "live" data, solid state drives), and/or network bandwidth (several network interface controllers, larger NICs, fibre, and so on).

Cloud connectivity and interoperability

The post-pandemic world has transformed our work habits and the landscape of conducting business. Organizations now take the hybrid approach to work, wherein employees may work from an office, while travelling, or from a remote location. This fundamental shift has accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, as the cloud makes data access possible from anyplace, anytime. But the cloud brings with it a set of complexities that must be managed.

Securing Access to Cloud Native Resources with Certificates - Civo Navigate NA 2023

In this talk, Alan Vailliencourt, a Senior Solutions Engineer with Teleport, discusses the importance of moving away from passwords and securing access to cloud-native resources using short-lived certificates. He highlights the risks associated with passwords and showcases the benefits of identity-native access, incorporating proof of presence, mutual authentication, and device security. The talk provides practical steps for adopting certificate-based authentication and improving security posture for Kubernetes, databases, and other cloud resources.

The broader approach on Azure monitoring

This episode of Azure On Air podcast tackles the challenges in IT infrastructure monitoring and transitioning from on-premise to the cloud. Pedro Sousa, Microsoft Azure MVP, advocates for a shift from traditional monitoring to a holistic observability approach, starting with an understanding of business needs and working down to infrastructure details. Furthermore, he provides invaluable advice on migrating from on-premise to Azure, emphasizing the consistency of observability principles across environments.

Using Grafana and Graphite to monitor server load

Since server outages can lead to a loss of customers, reputation, and other troubles and it is important to get information on the status of the server on time. MetricFire's Hosted Grafana and Graphite will help you monitor server load in a timely and efficient manner. Servers generate a large number of metrics and it is essential to not only track their values but also to observe their changes over time. There is also a possibility to correlate app statistics with server load metrics.

AWS Cost Allocation: A Guide To Allocating Cloud Spend

Picture this. Over 90% of organizations use the cloud in one form or another, according to O'Reiley's research. Cloud computing is so popular because of its flexibility. Because you can access cloud computing resources on-demand, you can automatically increase or decrease resource usage depending on your workload, which is incredibly appealing — and quite different from traditional IT infrastructure. In 2023, controlling cloud spend is one of the greatest challenges for cloud users today.

Using Helm Dashboard and Intents-Based Access Control for Pain-Free Network Segmentation

Helm Dashboard is an open-source project which graphically shows installed Helm charts, revisions, and changes to their Kubernetes resources. The intents operator is an open-source Kubernetes operator which makes it possible to roll out network policies in a Kubernetes cluster, chart by chart, and gradually achieve zero trust or network segmentation.