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Going Serverless: Best Practices

Making the move to serverless architecture? By accelerating app development time, serverless isn’t just a boon for business, it’s also a win for engineering teams. Gartner explains: “Serverless architectures enable developers to focus on what they should be doing — writing code and optimizing application design — making way for business agility and digital experimentation.”

Accenture and ServiceNow reimagine the future of business

Accenture and ServiceNow’s new partnership accelerates digital transformation and time to value for customers. Today’s business environment demands digitization. Specifically, digital workflows that transform how employees work, how customers receive service, and how work, well, flows. That’s because in the COVID-19 era, organizations are under pressure to innovate faster, reduce costs, improve productivity, and meet their customers’ needs.

TLDR InfluxDB Tech Tips; Creating Buckets with the InfluxDB API

Whether you’re using InfluxDB Cloud or InfluxDB OSS, the InfluxDB API provides a simple way to interact with your InfluxDB instance. The InfluxDB v2 API offers a unified approach to querying, writing data to, and assessing the health of your InfluxDB instances. In today’s Tech Tips post, we’re learning about how to create and list buckets. Buckets are named locations in InfluxDB where time series data is written to.

TLDR InfluxDB Tech Tips; Creating Tokens with the InfluxDB API

Whether you’re using InfluxDB Cloud or InfluxDB OSS, the InfluxDB API provides a simple way to interact with your InfluxDB instance. The InfluxDB v2 API, the read and write portions are available with InfluxDB v1.8+, offers a unified approach to querying, writing data to, and assessing the health of your InfluxDB instances. In today’s Tech Tips post, we learn how to create and list authentication tokens. Tokens provide secure data flow between an InfluxDB instance and its users.

Introducing Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM)

A few days ago, I tried ordering lunch from a local restaurant. I went online, spent time looking at their menu, chose a few items, clicked “submit” and… got an error message. This experience is not unique. Earlier this week, when I tried to read the news, I got a message saying they’re experiencing a technical issue. You can see both messages below: We’ve all experienced such situations, and they can be very frustrating.

Lumigo: Troubleshooting AWS Serverless Applications

In this 2-hour follow-along workshop, you will learn how to add observability to a serverless application and troubleshoot problems such as Lambda timeouts, slow response time, cold starts, and debug errors in the business logic. AWS Serverless Hero, Yan Cui, will lead the workshop and will be available for a live Q&A throughout it. After the workshop, we will have breakout sessions where our serverless experts will help you implement monitoring and debugging in your own dev or production environment.

Flowmon: Tackling networking issues between users and Cloud apps

By extending the capabilities of traditional network visibility, cloud adoption no longer comes at the cost of losing control over the quality of mission-critical systems. Even when employees can connect to an app from a mobile phone via places like a crowded airport Wi-Fi, with Flowmon's support of the cloud-native Packet Mirroring function, NetOps can ensure smooth service.

Elastic: Getting started with Elastic Cloud on AWS for observability and ops

Elastic Cloud brings the power of enterprise search, observability, and security to your cloud environment. Learn how to easily deploy, maintain, and manage your cluster; upgrade or sync data quickly from a remote Elasticsearch cluster on a different cloud platform; and secure an Elasticsearch cluster on AWS using PrivateLink.

Flowmon: Power your digitalization with End-User Experience Monitoring

In the digital world, user-centricity is the one thing all successful modern applications have in common. But no matter how great the application is, users' experience - whether customers or employees - is instantly ruined if performance degrades. This webinar will explain the differences between four major approaches to application and user experience monitoring and show how to get true end-to-end coverage by combining them.

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry will send metrics and traces to Datadog

Datadog has a long-standing commitment to open standards. Our integrations with OpenMetrics, JMX, and WMI, as well as our implementation of the tried-and-true StatsD protocol, enable you to collect data with the tools and libraries that fit best into your workflows.