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Beyond Microservices: Miniservices, Macroservices, and the in between

Containerized microservices have been the gold standard for cloud computing since they replaced the monolith architecture over a decade ago. The flexibility, scalability, and velocity they enable for teams make them an obvious choice. Yet, a strict interpretation of one service for one function doesn’t quite serve everyone, especially when architectures get large. We’ll discuss how flexibility in service architecture might be the way to go.

The Data Lake Dilemma: Why Businesses Need a New Approach

In today’s data-driven landscape, every organization knows the immense value their data holds, but with the explosion of data from diverse sources, traditional data storage and management solutions are proving inadequate. Organizations are urgently seeking new ways to handle their data effectively.

Calico VPP: Empowering High-Performance Kubernetes Networking with Userspace Packet Processing

This is a guest post authored by Nathan Skrzypczak, R&D Engineer at Cisco. Calico VPP, the latest addition to Calico’s suite of pluggable data planes, revolutionizes Kubernetes networking by enabling transparent user-space packet processing. With features such as service load balancing, encapsulation, policy enforcement, and encryption, Calico VPP brings the performance, flexibility, and observability of VPP to Kubernetes networking.

Synthetic monitoring for TFA-backed applications

Two-factor authentication (TFA, sometimes 2FA) is a crucial security measure that adds an extra layer of protection to your online account. It goes beyond the traditional password-based authentication by requiring a second form of verification. In TFA-backed applications, users are supposed to provide two forms of verification before gaining access to their accounts.

The Three Most Common Sales Mistakes MSPs Must Avoid

The theme I wish to explore in this year’s series of blog posts is how to be a better salesperson and how to build a better sales model. Each month I will explore a particular sales struggle that may be impacting your sales success and provide a few insights and actionable strategies that can be implemented to help you or members of your sales team overcome these challenges so that you can become more effective in your role.

An SRE's Most Important Skill? Communication

I wish someone had told me that I shouldn’t hop between frameworks. Just like learning four programming languages in your first year, in my experience spending time content switching as a beginner is wasted effort. If I’d spent a solid year learning how to deploy services on AWS, then when it was time to learn Azure, I’d see more similarities than differences and find it a lot easier to pick up a second public cloud.

How Incidents Foster Leadership

To become battle-tested, you need to go through battles, not just read books or mentor newcomers. Both are helpful but the stakes are low. On the other hand, high stake jobs, such as running a big project or managing a team, are hard to get when you lack experience. So how can we solve this dilemma? Enter incident response.

A Beginner's Guide to Setting Up Status Pages with Uptime.com

Imagine your website or service suddenly goes offline, and, somehow, you’re the last one in the loop. Not the best start to your day, wouldn’t you say? This is where the hero of our narrative steps into the spotlight: status pages. These powerful tools are more than just digital canaries in the coal mine; they are the beacon of transparency and trust for your users, signaling that you’re on top of things—even when things go topsy-turvy.

How AI and Machine Learning are Revolutionizing the Research Process

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has been nothing short of transformative. Scholars across disciplines are leveraging these technologies to analyze data quickly and accurately, opening new frontiers in knowledge and understanding. The traditional research process, often laborious and time-consuming, is evolving into a more efficient and dynamic practice thanks to the computational power of AI and ML. For example, students who turn to specialized services with requests such as "Write my paper for me" can receive academic papers much faster, thanks to AI.
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How CloudFabrix Telco Service Assurance Uses Multi-Protocol and Multi-Layer Correlation to Improve Service Delivery

Telco service providers face a unique set of challenges when it comes to service delivery. Their networks are complex and heterogeneous, and they need to be able to correlate events from multiple protocols and layers in order to quickly identify and resolve problems.