Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Whether you sat out this KubeCon or were too busy working the hallway track to make it to all the sessions on your list, never fear. You can catch up on all the talks given by Grafanistas here.

Real User Monitoring, or RUM, is about measuring the user experience. Not what the user is doing, but what is happening to the user. How is your server performing when the user is making a request? This hidden metric is part of the user’s overall motivation. After all, we all know the frustration of a slow moving website.

This blog will brief on Azure Logic App Expressions. Before getting deep into Logic App expressions let us have a short introduction about Workflow Definition Language in Azure Logic Apps.

In this post, we’ll explore how to create Ruby modules that are configurable by users of our code — a pattern that allows gem authors to add more flexibility to their libraries. Most Ruby developers are familiar with using modules to share behavior. After all, this is one of their main use cases, according to the documentation.

Prometheus is undoubtedly growing as the native monitoring tool for Kubernetes. We have been using Prometheus to collect metrics about our infrastructure for a long, but setting it of the box is still painful.

When it comes to running a website, one of the hardest things to accomplish is a high SEO ranking. Understandably, this is also the most important thing in terms of your website’s success. In order to get your website out there for people to find, you need to impress Google and its algorithms. This goes beyond just picking a great design or publishing a nice written piece or two.

With Black Friday weekend coming up, ecommerce sites are preparing for a huge increase in traffic. If you haven’t made any changes yet, fear not, there’s still time! We’ve compiled a Black Friday last-minute checklist so you can prepare your site for the Black Friday weekend! Monitor your uptime status.

You have built a massively successful system. The users just can't get enough and request new features. Your developers crank out new services on a regular basis. Your DevOps/SRE team configures and scale your Kubernetes cluster (or clusters). As the system becomes more complicated and sophisticated you realize that there are common themes that repeat across all your services.

Start your engines. The holiday season has officially begun! With the upcoming shopping frenzy surrounding Black Friday and gift buying, it is one of the most important times of the year to avoid glitches like the ones below.

Web content is being stolen, and that’s a trend. In 2013, Google employee Matt Cutts said that 30% of content on the Internet is plagiarism. 6 years have passed, and the situation has not improved. Despite the emergence of a new source determination algorithm in Google, hundreds of thousands of users copy other people's photos, videos, and texts to present them as their own. We’ll tell you how to protect content from theft and adequately respond to plagiarism.