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Cloud engineers have become a vital part of many organizations – orchestrating cloud services to create seamless digital experiences for clients. With responsibilities spanning across cloud security to troubleshooting incidents, cloud engineers are key to keeping modern businesses running efficiently. And as the need for cloud expertise continues to rise, so do opportunities in the field.

GoReplay and Speedscale are two popular tools commonly used for load testing. Both share traffic shadowing as a core feature. This article compares both tools against the following criteria: For more Kubernetes load testing comparisons, check out our other posts.

Amazon cloud storage offers a scalable and secure way to keep and access data across multiple devices. As to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), it provides automated backups, software patching, and scaling without the need for manual intervention. In this guide, we are going to walk you through the process of transferring a database from a local machine or a traditional server to AWS with the help of the command line as well as with a convenient GUI – dbForge Studio for MySQL.

Data overload. Poor decision-making. Inefficient processes. Limited real-time insights. These are just a few of the many challenges an organization would face without business intelligence (BI). Yet traditional BI has its own set of challenges, including complexity, cost, data diversity, and more. These limitations have led businesses to seek a more affordable and efficient solution — the cloud. This article explains cloud business intelligence (cloud BI), how it works, and its benefits.

Are you a startup struggling to choose the right cloud platform for your business? With so many options available, it can be overwhelming to determine which vendor best suits your needs. This article will compare AWS, GCP, and Azure based on key factors such as pricing, compliance, security, scalability, ease of use, and their specific benefits for startups. After you have gone through this article, you will have a clearer understanding of which cloud platform is the best fit for your business.

Serverless platforms make it incredibly easy to deploy applications. You can take raw code, push it up to a service like AWS Lambda, and have a running application in just a few seconds. The serverless platform provider assumes responsibility for hosting and operating the platform, freeing you up to focus on your application. Naturally, this raises a question: if something goes wrong, who’s responsible?

The way the story goes is that in the old days Amazon used to cut power to data centers so they could see if their services were actually redundant across different data centers; and that they only abandoned this practice when EC2 customers started to complain (no matter how many times they were warned their instances might disappear without notice). This story may be apocryphal, but you don’t need to be worried about power loss outages in order to have a given data center go down.