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AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Classic Load Balancer vs. Application Load Balancer

If you use Amazon Web Services, you have two load balancing options for your applications: Classic Elastic Load Balancer (CLB) and Application Load Balancer (ALB). And while choice is always good, the CLB vs. ALB debate can be intimidating. Which load balancer is right for your application? Is ALB better than CLB, or vice versa? This blog explores these questions.

AWS Lambda in Java 8: examples and instructions

Serverless computing is a modern cloud-based application architecture, where the application’s infrastructure and support services layer is completely abstracted from the software layer. Any computer program needs hardware to run on, so serverless applications are not “serverless” - they do run on servers - it’s just that the servers are not exposed as physical or virtual machines to the developer running the code.

11 unique insights into SLOs and reliability management

A quarter has passed since we launched our Reliability Management capabilities that help developers focus on defining, monitoring and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to drive great digital experiences. Reducing alert fatigue and balancing innovation with reliability are common outcomes that customers expect from Reliability Management. If you are new to SLOs, these insights from our customers capture common practices among peer developers.

Learn about the meaning and value of cloud-native from experts at Atchison Technology, Qumu, Microsoft, and Techstrong Group

In the past decade, we've seen explosive growth in the adoption of the cloud-based infrastructure model. IT organizations are increasingly choosing to reduce their up-front investments in IT infrastructure by deploying their applications into cloud environments. These environments offer on-demand availability of data storage and computing power that organizations need to handle high volumes of data and growing demand for application access and services.

Too many tools? Best practices for planning and implementing a successful IT tool consolidation strategy

IT tool consolidation is the ongoing and combined effort of all members of an IT organization to ensure that employees (only) use IT hardware, software and services that create and demonstrate explicit value for stakeholders in the business. The best metaphor for tool consolidation is in my kitchen, where common sense principles around value creation provide useful guidelines for any consolidation process.

New AWS services? No problem! How Sumo Logic is evolving to meet your AWS observability needs

Every year, AWS re:Invent demonstrates the pivotal role that AWS plays as companies build their modern applications. Investing in a growing portfolio of AWS services can be key to a business’s ability to compete. But this often means additional complexity: more services, across more regions and accounts. Organizations need a way to ensure their applications running on AWS services are reliable and secure. Enter Sumo Logic.

Prepare your IT systems for Black Friday with best practices and strategies from Ulta Beauty

For retail and e-commerce companies, exponential traffic spikes are a holiday season tradition that often peaks on Black Friday. And Ulta Beauty knows this all too well. As the largest beauty retailer in the US today, operating 1,300 stores nationwide, Ulta experienced the growing pains of its on-premises IT environment: slow rollouts, tedious infrastructure management, and a lack of visibility into critical systems. Sound familiar?

How to design a microservices architecture with Docker containers

Application development trends guide industries (tech and non-tech alike) toward a more cloud-native and distributed model with digital-first strategies. Many organizations are adopting new technologies and distributed workflows. Software development pipelines enable teams to collaborate efficiently and maintain productivity. However, organizations that were early to embrace modern application development strategies and tools, including containerization and multi-cloud environments.

geeks+gurus: How Ulta Beauty digital services shine for the holidays

For many online retailers, the bulk of sales happen during the holiday season. It is critical everything goes off without a hitch. In this session, longtime digital services veteran Omar Koncobo, IT Director of Ecommerce/Digital and Marketing Systems at Ulta Beauty discusses his top tips for successful holidays learned from seasons past: When to start preparing for the holiday traffic spikes Lessons learned from Ulta on scalability When things go wrong — spotting problems and fixing them fast Managing costs and preparedness.

Sumo Logic's investment in OTel

When teams collect data without full observability of what others on the team can see, it becomes clear that no one’s picture is truly accurate. In this picture, all of the people are wearing blindfolds and feeling around to see what is in front of them. One thinks this creature is a spear, another thinks it is a tree trunk, and another a rope. As long as they cannot observe what the others can, there is poor data fidelity.