Tips: Monitoring Your AWS Lambda Functions with ELK
Serverless technology has made it possible to deploy code without knowing anything about the underlying server infrastructure. As a result, running code in the cloud has never been easier. AWS…
The Golden Signals: Why They’re So Important to DevOps/SRE Teams
In the past few years, many organizations have adopted distributed systems, aiming to deliver highly available applications with the ability to quickly release new features and services to their customers.…
What Is a Service Mesh, and Why Is It Essential for Your Kubernetes Deployments?
Before talking about Service Meshes, I’d like to review how we got here. The first turning point was when people started adopting a different architecture that was designed for many…
Building a Multi-Region Serverless App with AWS AppSync
Serverless technology eases much of the pain of managing your infrastructure. Unfortunately, it’s only a partial solution to the headaches of multi-region deployments. While some core services like Amazon S3,…
How to Protect Your Application Secrets in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
With hybrid and multi-cloud deployments becoming the norm, secrets management in the cloud is one of the biggest challenges currently faced by cloud administrators. As organizations lean toward serverless and…
How to Get the Most From AWS Cost Management Tools
With the adoption of public cloud services on the rise and technical resources such as servers far from sight, companies are forced to address the elephant in the room: How…
How to Properly Monitor Your K8s Clusters and Pods
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating the deployment and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes provides capabilities like service discovery, horizontal autoscaling, and load balancing, while ensuring that…
Five Steps to Generate Buzz for Your Tech Brand Using Micro-Influencers
There is growing recognition of the integral role "micro-influencers" (MI) can play in marketing tech brands and products. It's a guerilla-marketing approach that properly organized and executed could generate incredible…
Open Source Distributed Tracing: Why You Need It & How to Get Started
With the rise of new computing platforms, such as the internet and the cloud, combined with a proliferation of new devices and form factors, distributed computing has become so ubiquitous…
Tips and Tricks: Working with AWS Lambda at Large Scale
AWS Lambda is a powerful tool that lets you quickly build a scalable application without needing to care about hardware. As Lambda scales, challenges emerge that are not present in…
