Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), the latest addition to the AWS platform, is a cloud-based Kubernetes service that provides features for automated cluster management and maintenance. Whether you are migrating an existing Kubernetes cluster or deploying a new application to Amazon EKS, Datadog can help you monitor your container infrastructure and applications in real time.

In a crowded MSP market, you need ways to differentiate yourself from the competition. As former MSP Charles Loves points out, “When you compare MSPs, the look and feel of the offering is often the same. So when the customer tries to compare MSP A, B, and C, what are the real differentiators they can leverage?” You don’t want to end up in a situation where dropping prices is the only way to edge out firms with similar offerings.

I recently spoke to Nick Rockwell, CTO at The New York Times (a Sentry customer), and Yonas Beshawred of Stackshare about simple solutions, React, and going serverless. Take a listen or read on for the highlights. Because why would we even bother with the lowlights?

It does not matter how BIG your IT team is – this little device doesn’t need much. No fancy desks, gadgets, vacation days or sick days. It keeps your team working efficiently and effectively so that they can focus on the real matters!

As communication and network infrastructure grows in size and complexity, having a complete view and understanding of your network environment (including the amount and type of network traffic going back and forth) becomes vital to your business’ health and operations. Having the right tools to do the job is just as important. If you can’t quickly determine the source, destination, rate and the type of traffic going across the network, you don’t have the right tool.

NVM (Node Version Manager) is a great tool that enables the user to switch beetween differents versions of Node.js. Here's a quick introduction on how to install, use it and take advantage of all its features.

We announced it at NodeJS paris meetup (here are the slides) and we did it! For the release of PM2 0.9.x, a new awesome and simple feature will make your life much easier.

As you would probably know, Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime, gracefully named V8. The V8 engine, and hence Node.js, runs in a single-threaded way, therefore, doesn't take advantage of multi-core systems capabilities.