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Top 7 AWS Lambda metrics to monitor

Since launching in 2014, AWS Lambda has dramatically grown in popularity. Lambda allows you to run code 7without having to manage the underlying compute resources. From a monitoring standpoint, you no longer have the need or ability to observe traditional performance metrics like CPU and memory. That doesn't mean you don't need to keep an eye on other things, though. So what metrics should you monitor for your Lambda functions?

Run Rancher 2.4 in Azure with K3s and MySQL

This article will describe the process of installing Rancher 2.4 on a highly available K3s Kubernetes cluster in Microsoft Azure. It will also take advantage of Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL, which removes the dependency on etcd and provides us all the additional features that Azure delivers with this service. You will learn how to deploy the infrastructure to support this pattern using only the Azure Cloud Shell.

A month after switching from Slack to Discord in a tech startup

Nowadays, Slack is often the default choice for an online communication tool in the tech industry. Startups, enterprises, open-source projects - they all use Slack to communicate within their organization but sometimes also with their users and community. Our startup was no different. In this article, I explain what made us look for Slack alternative and what are our impressions after a month of switching to Discord, so you can learn from those before you make your decision.

Rancher Meetup - May 2020 - Simplifying Your Cloud-Native Development Workflow With K3s, K3c and K3d

In this meetup Rancher founder Darren Shepherd joins Bill Maxwell, Jacob Blain Christen, and Thorsten Klein as they show the current state of K3s, K3c, and K3d and discuss the future of these powerful projects.

DevOps Best Practices for CI CD and Observability

Modern DevOps engineers are responsible for both running production and quickly responding to any production issues. To do this, they need to streamline their CI/CD pipeline and be equipped to quickly identify and investigate problems in production. In this webinar, we’ll hear from Mike and Sam from Logz.io and CircleCI, respectively, on how CircleCI and Logz.io can work together to simplify and accelerate application delivery and response to production issues.

OpenStack Ussuri available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS

Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Ussuri on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The most notable enhancements of today's OpenStack upstream release are stabilisation efforts around the Open Virtual Networking (OVN) driver and the Masakari project which allow organisations to run highly available workloads on the top of an open source software-defined networking (SDN) platform. Full commercial support for OpenStack Ussuri in Canonical's Charmed OpenStack distribution will come with the OpenStack Charms 20.05 release on May 20th.

Virtana Announces New Funding from its Major Investors

San Jose, CA, May 13, 2020 – Virtana, the leader in enterprise hybrid cloud migration and optimization, announced today a new $15 million investment from HighBar Partners and Benhamou Global Ventures. The funding will allow Virtana to help more customers optimize performance, cost, and capacity in on-premises and cloud data centers.

Jenkins and JFrog Pipelines: CI/CD Working Together to Release Your Software

As a software producer, you need to keep releases moving, even as you need to move your technology ahead. Transitioning your Jenkins continuous integration (CI) pipelines to a newer, optimized system can’t be a roadblock, and your enterprise can’t afford the work stoppage a rip-and-replace rework would require. We understood that deeply when we built our CI/CD solution, JFrog Pipelines.

The simple way to connect Microsoft Teams users to your SIP trunks quickly

The current period, with so many working from home due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, has seen a considerable increase in cloud communications consumption. Microsoft Teams’ daily active user count alone has more than doubled in approximately a month. As a long-time partner of Microsoft, Ribbon and our partners have been on the front lines helping organizations keep their communications robust and available during this time.