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Improve Your DevOps Strategy Through Platform Ops

Organizations looking to scale DevOps implementations, improve their DevOps strategy, and deliver production code fast and reliably should take note of Platform Ops. Platform Ops will reshape the way we deliver value to the customer by offering an internal marketplace of self-service capabilities to many different internal business consumers. Platform Ops is an implementation of broader DevOps strategy, philosophies, and principles.

10 Mistakes to Avoid When Sizing Cloud Resources

One of the most common concerns when moving to the cloud is cost. Given that cloud allows you to turn IT costs from CAPEX (long-term investments ex. in hardware equipment and software licenses) into OPEX (day-to-day operating expenses), it’s crucial to choose the right service and estimate it properly. In this article, we’ll look at the common pitfalls and discuss how you can avoid them to truly benefit from the cloud’s elasticity.

How to Optimize Server Performance

Optimizing server performance is important in supporting end-user requirements. Using server optimization, actively monitor: Web server monitoring and optimization helps you to troubleshoot bottlenecks as they emerge and optimize server performance. In this post, we will discuss how to optimize performance and why it is important.

What Are Microservice Architectures?

In this article, we are going to look at Microservice architectures, their benefits, what makes them different from traditional monolithic architectures, and how to go about setting up monitoring and alerting for them. MetricFire is a Hosted Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus service, where we help you set up and manage these open-source tools. If you would like to follow the steps in this blog, make sure to sign up for MetricFire's free trial and even book a demo session.

IT Spring Cleaning: Making the best of the current situation

Spring is just around the corner. And since we're at home a lot right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, it's all the more worthwhile to take some time for spring cleaning. But it's not just in our own four walls that the winter grumpiness should disappear; the IT landscape is also in need of a digital spring cleaning.

Runbooks: What They Are and Why You Need One Yesterday

Let’s talk about The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and how it relates to DevOps. The game tasks our hero with finding three pendants, which unlock a Master Sword he can use to travel to an alternate realm and ultimately take down the bad guy. The US version of this SNES masterpiece came packaged with a fairly detailed instruction manual that contained an optional guide at the end to help locate the three pendants.

How to Increase Network Visibility with a Second Monitoring Session | Obkio

In today's tutorial, you will learn how to add a 2nd Public Monitoring Agent in Obkio’s app and how to create a 2nd Monitoring Session. When looking at the results of a Network Session, it tells us what the performance is between 2 points on the network. For example, let’s say you have a 1st Agent installed in your network and a 1st Public Monitoring Agent installed in Azure and you want to add a second 2nd remote Public Monitoring Agent

Auvik and TruMethods: Operational Excellence: Learn How to Be a World Class IT Service Provider

As your MSP evolves, it is critical to ensure profitability. Join Auvik’s Partner Success Manager Chrissy Little and TruMethods President Gary Pica as they discuss a simple framework to help. Topics covered in this session include an exercise for uncovering unrealized profitability, five metrics you can track for accountability, three changes to make to your service delivery, and more! If you want to save time managing networks and get deeper visibility into the key metrics, you’ll want to try Auvik’s network monitoring and management software.