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A day in the life of a Software Engineer: A developer's perspective on working with serverless

Want to know what actually goes on under the platform and behind the screens at Dashbird? We recently sat down for a Q&A with our CTO, Marek Tihkan, on leading and managing an engineering team. Today, we speak to Alex, one of the engineers on the Development team and the brain and elbow grease behind our newly launched Dashbird Atlas real-time 3D map of your entire serverless environment.

How to Evolve Your Existing Logging Strategy for Kubernetes

It’s one thing to build a Kubernetes log management strategy that only needs to support Kubernetes. But most organizations don’t have that luxury. They have log management practices already in place for other types of platforms or infrastructure, and they need to extend them to support Kubernetes. How can you do that in an efficient way? Keep reading for tips on integrating Kubernetes logging data into your existing log management workflow without rebuilding from the ground up.

DevOps tools for compliance monitoring

Monitoring and compliance are, in many ways, synonymous. At the very least, there’s a big overlap in terms of defining and monitoring rulesets you care about. The time frame may vary; with monitoring, you might jump on an alert right away, as opposed to the compliance team’s quarterly audit, but the foundation remains the same. As our development cycles grow ever more dynamic, the need for automating repetitive tasks becomes all the more important.

Introducing Android Crash Reporting with BugSplat

BugSplat users can now collect Android crashes with the Crashpad SDK. If you're supporting a cross-platform C++ application, porting a C++ application to Android, or creating a new NDK library from scratch, you can now use BugSplat to track, collect, and debug your Android crashes. This will bring the same in-depth view of crash events you get with BugSplat on other languages to your Android application.

Support for Crashpad Attachments

BugSplat now supports attachments for Crashpad out of the box. Developers can include additional files with the Crashpad crash upload using the newest release of the BugSplat Crashpad SDK. This release includes updated examples that show how to include Crashpad attachments for Windows, Linux, Android, Qt Windows, and Qt Linux (but not yet for macOS). Before this change, including attachments with Crashpad out of the box was difficult.

The Magnificent Seven: New Ways to Get More Out of Your Microsoft and Splunk Environment

As a leading global provider of cloud computing services with a business critical software portfolio, Microsoft is a key Splunk partner. In our mission to empower customers with data, we are delighted to share a few of the latest integrations, dashboards, and reference guides that help you extract even more value from your Microsoft environments. Here’s a peek at what we’ve been working on lately.

4 ways to save on IT costs in the asset life cycle [Part 2: Deployment]

Welcome back to our four-part series on cutting IT costs in the asset life cycle. In our last blog, we discussed challenges with spending during the asset procurement stage and learned about valuable reports that can help. In this part, we’ll talk about asset deployment and look at more reports that can help cut costs during this stage of the asset life cycle.

Running Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana on Kubernetes with Helm

Kubernetes (or “K8s”) is an open-source container orchestration tool developed by Google. In this tutorial, we will be leveraging the power of Kubernetes to look at how we can overcome some of the operational challenges of working with the Elastic Stack.