Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

For the first time, Kubernetes engineering teams interested in learning more about Speedscale will be able to play with the framework without registering, at play.speedscale.com. Engineers can see firsthand how you: While users won’t be able to actively watch replays run, there are a variety of pre-created traffic snapshots, reports and configs to browse. Engineers will be able to experience the ease with which snapshots are generated for fast, scalable test automation.

Tomas Fedor, Head of Infrastructure at Productboard, is here to talk about his personal passions and professional perfections. Tomas takes us through some of his biggest adaptations he had to make when adopting the cloud. He also tackles the complexities of working through his POC process, and how to keep consistencies across various teams. Teams are a central focus for Tomas as well, and his techniques and experiences in growing and leading specific technical teams is insightful.

The world has changed since I started out on a help desk in Colorado 25 years ago. In those long ago years, a company’s desktop machines actually lived under the desks of many in the organization (and often doubled as a foot warmer!) and configuration was done machine by machine manually, or maybe even by some script that was created to run at login if we were lucky. If there were laptops in use by the business users, they were a lot less mobile and rarer than in today’s business world...

Mattermost v6.1 is generally available today and includes the following new features (see changelog for more details).

Tracing has become essential for monitoring today’s increasingly distributed architectures. But complex production applications produce an extremely high volume of traces, which are prohibitively expensive to store and nearly impossible to sift through in time-sensitive situations. Most traditional tracing solutions address these operational challenges by making sampling decisions before a request even begins its path through your system (i.e., head-based sampling).

The question that people who don’t know us constantly ask, “What does Upsun do, exactly?” Our new overview video aims to answer just that. We took a five-step approach to ensure our message was both clear and succinct: We hope that this video addresses the question about what Upsun does and inspires you to use the same five-step framework when you’re tasked with explaining a difficult concept.

It’s no surprise that monitoring and managing networks in the financial services industry is a complex task with plenty of challenges. In addition to the “standard” networking requirements, like high availability and traffic capacity planning, IT in the finance industry has to deal with regulatory and industry-specific challenges that create even more issues to deal with.

EC2 instances come with a spider web of charges — when you take a look at your bill, you’ll see there are hundreds of unique line items connected to your usage. In addition to the instance, you’re also billed for storage, data transfer, and networking associated with that instance. It’s important to fully understand those charges so you can find ways to optimize your costs.