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Kusto 101 - A Jumpstart Guide to KQL

Jul 24, 2019 By Squared Up In Squared Up

This blog post is for anyone needing a jumpstart into the world of Kusto. Perhaps you’ve heard about Kusto and are just curious. Maybe you’re just starting to use Azure Monitor for your application monitoring. You might even be getting skilled up in anticipation of the new Squared Up for Azure release that will have KQL at its heart. Whatever your reason, set aside the next 10 minutes and we'll get you up to speed with KQL. Ready? KQL stands for Kusto Query Language.

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Using Vagrant to simplify building Virtual Machines

Jul 24, 2019 By James Tyler In RapidSpike

Oracle’s VirtualBox software is a key tool in software and website development, but can be complicated to configure. Vagrant simplifies the process and enables developers to repeatably build and scrap near-identical Virtual Machines (VM). This post will create a Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine with a local directory mounted on it to make it easier to code on.

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The unexpected path to the c-suite

Jul 24, 2019 By Ashley Faus In Atlassian
When I was a little girl, I played “business” at my grandmother’s house. She gave a box of blank payroll checks from a defunct business and heels and fancy clip-on earrings that she wore to work. I stuffed a bunch of blank checks into a purse and strutted down the hall to the back bedroom (y’know, the official boss’s office), where I’d wave my hands around telling everyone to get to work.
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Intent-based Capacity Planning and Autoscaling with Kubernetes

Jul 24, 2019 By Gigi Sayfan In Squadcast
Intent-based Capacity Planning is Google's approach to declare reliability intent for a service and then solve for the most efficient resource allocation plan dynamically. Learn how you can start using this approach to effectively manage the reliability of your services running on your Kubernetes cluster.
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Introduction to the Automation Portal

Jul 24, 2019 By Kelverion In Kelverion
The Automation Portal is an easy to implement self-service front end for your automation solutions. It offers a versatile interface without the lengthy list of prerequisites required by many other self-service portals available today. The Automation Portal ethos is to “keep things simple and flexible”. The portal has been designed to complement existing Automation platforms. The Automation Portal has been designed with System Center Orchestrator and Azure Automation in mind, however it equally complements any automation platform or scripting language that can read and write to the Automation Portal database.
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