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7 Reasons Why Serverless Encourages Useful Engineering Practices

Serverless provides benefits far beyond the ease of management…it strongly encourages “useful” engineering practices. Here’s how. It’s hard to determine what can be considered a “good” or “bad” engineering practice. We often hear about best practices, but everything really boils down to a specific use case. Therefore, I deliberately chose the word “useful” rather than “good” in the title.

Talking Shipa - "What's New in 1.2?"

Shipa is excited to launch our new webcast series, Talking Shipa. To kick this series off, we sat down with Shipa Founder and CEO, Bruno Andrade, to discuss the release of Shipa Application Management Framework for Kubernetes, version 1.2. In this video, Bruno spends a few minutes with us to talk about the new features and improvements that are packed into this new release.

Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 3 - Tying Up Loose Ends

In my previous Link Analysis blogs, "Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 1 - Data Reduction" and "Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 2 - The Visual Part," I used techniques that work well when we have a controlled data set. However, as we know, real data can be messy. When analyzing links in fraud data, the data can be very noisy. Let’s say we want to use IP addresses for link analysis in the Splunk platform. It is not unusual for two people to share an IP address.

A New Chapter: Nexthink's $1.1B Valuation

Among the many topics that a tech founder CEO can write about in a blog, I always feel that fundraising announcements are the least glorious especially when compared to announcing great achievements such as business growth, new products, or meaningful partnerships. However, funding is a moment when others take notice, it’s a major milestone for the team and an acknowledgement from the market that what we’re building is needed and in-demand.

Hybrid cloud - everything you need to know

Hybrid cloud allows businesses to optimise their costs associated with cloud infrastructure maintenance. It also brings many other benefits, such as business continuity, compliance, better scalability and improved agility. According to the Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 2020, hybrid cloud is an essential technology that every modern organisation is looking for and its adoption is only expected to grow in the following years.

Using the Cloud Monitoring Dashboard Editor

Want to visualize your monitoring data like never before? In this episode of Stack Doctor, we show you how to use the new Dashboard Editor to easily visualize your Cloud Monitoring data. Specifically, we’ll show you how to create a dashboard using gauges, scorecards, and text widgets and how you can utilize the new layouts and chart configuration modes to closely monitor the health of your services!

Understanding and Debugging Applications Using the Service Map

Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack. Elastic APM makes it easy to pinpoint and fix performance problems quickly. In this video, you will learn what distributed tracing is, how it can be used to better understand your environment, and how service maps give you a quick overview of your architecture.

Operationalizing Kubernetes

Organizations have now seen the value of building microservices. They are delivering applications as discrete functional parts, each of which can be delivered as a container or service and managed separately. But for every application, there are more parts to manage than ever before, especially at scale, and that’s where many turn to an orchestrator for help.