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A few months back, I blogged about my experience arriving at Stackery after code school. Months later, each day is still interesting and challenging and I’m so glad to have decided to pursue serverless as my concentration. I credit my AWS certifications for narrowing my focus enough to lead me to this point. The serverless community puts so much emphasis on exploration and getting started on your work or experiments today that, getting some exposure to AWS, you can get started right away.

When looking at the performance of your website, web service,or API over a span of time, you will notice variations in the performance reported by the monitor. You may also notice inconsistencies between the performance reported from different monitors. Why? Why do you see spikes in your charts?

A new version of RapidSpike is due to be released in the next few days. Here’s what’s changed, and what’s new.

Fun fact: according to the National Center for Biotechnology Research, 25% of us abandon our resolutions by January 7th. Just seven measly days into the year?!

Happy New Year! Mattermost 5.7 includes a number of user experience improvements designed to increase team productivity. Try these new features by downloading Mattermost 5.7 today. Since it includes security updates, upgrading is recommended.

OnPage and ConnectWise has come a long way from when we first announced our integration 3 years ago. Today the integration supports the day to day workings of over 3000 MSPs with more and more being added to the number. Here at OnPage we love our MSP customers because they are an active bunch who work with us to create better solutions. Many of their suggestions have been incorporated in to our latest release of the OnPage + ConnectWise Manage integration. OnPage+ConnectWise 3.0 !!!

OpsRamp is proud to announce that we’ve joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). As cloud-native adoption within the enterprise grows at an accelerated pace and Kubernetes emerges as the leading orchestration platform for containerized applications, we’ve been actively developing new enhancements and features to support these innovative technologies.

Kubernetes allows DevOps teams to deploy containerized applications faster and makes managing containers at scale significantly easier. Obtaining visibility into these containerized applications is key to maximizing application/service performance and proactively preventing downtime.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is one of the most insidious types of digital attacks that can cause cloud outages. It is typically directed at a specific target, and if done competently, can bring an application or even all network traffic to its knees.

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is Google’s approach to service management where software engineers run production systems using a software engineering approach. It’s clear that Google is unique, and they usually need to tackle software bugs and errors in different and non-conventional ways. But having software engineers doing a job that is traditionally done by professionals with a systems administration background sounds impractical.