Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

The Fundamental Security Concepts in AWS - Part 1

A software architect introduces the topic of AWS security by going into a detailed examination of IAM and detective controls.

April 16, 2018

by Tom Porter, Ph.D.

· 12,967 Views · 7 Likes

Host Your Maven Artifacts Using Amazon S3

If you are looking for somewhere to host your artifacts, using AWS bring you halfway there. Follow these steps for the rest of the process.

April 13, 2018

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 38,489 Views · 5 Likes

Apache Cassandra and Apache Ignite: Selecting the Right Distributed Database Solution

Sometimes Apache Cassandra and Apache Ignite complement each other. But sometimes, a single solution is better.

April 10, 2018

by Nikita Ivanov

· 14,331 Views · 6 Likes

Host Your Maven Artifacts Using Azure Blob Storage

Want to use Azure Blob Storage to host your Maven artifacts? Here's a simple guide to bringing your Java projects to the cloud for ease of accessibility.

Updated April 10, 2018

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 17,928 Views · 4 Likes

How to Create a Kubernetes Cluster on AWS in Few Minutes

While we await the release of Kubernetes's EKS management service, we've compressed the installations of K8s into a few simple steps.

April 2, 2018

by Imesh Gunaratne

· 14,571 Views · 4 Likes

DevOps KPI in Practice — Chapter 1 — Deployment Speed, Frequency, and Failure

This article discusses in detail the different deployment metrics in each DevOps KPI and how to collect and measure the data for effective deployment.

March 31, 2018

by Fabio Jose Moraes

· 18,267 Views · 17 Likes

Container Monitoring: Prometheus and Grafana Vs. Sysdig and Sysdig Monitor

It's a monitoring solution smackdown between Prometheus's Grafana and Sysdig's Sysdig Monitor. Who's better suited to your container monitoring needs?

Updated March 29, 2018

by Stefan Thorpe

· 16,407 Views · 5 Likes

Survey Shows Cloud and DevOps Complexity and Culture Concerns

Third annual survey from Quali of 1,300+ IT industry executives share insights on the adoption of cloud and DevOps strategies.

March 29, 2018

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 7,060 Views · 1 Like

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Deadlocks With SQL Monitor

With SQL Monitor, you're alerted to deadlocks as they happen, allowing you to recover any lost processes and put procedures in place to minimize their future occurrence.

March 29, 2018

by Tony Davis

· 12,963 Views · 2 Likes

Serverless Zipchamp: Update Your Zip Files in S3, (Almost) In-Place!

If there are some aspects of S3 that you find lacking, check out this AWS Lambda solution that allows you to build your own zip file editor.

March 26, 2018

by Janaka Bandara

· 22,529 Views · 5 Likes

Database Audit Log Monitoring for Security and Compliance

In this article, we will outline the importance of audit log analysis for database security, using MariaDB and Enterprise MySQL as examples.

March 26, 2018

by Shree Nair

· 19,610 Views · 4 Likes

Deep Dive into Debugging Apex and Visualforce Code with New Force.Com Ide

Learn more about different ways to debug Apex and Visualforce code using Jetforcer, a brand-new IDE based on IntelliJ IDEA

March 23, 2018

by Mikhail Shumenko

· 16,581 Views · 3 Likes

ESP8266 Wi-Fi Fan Controller

Learn how to build a Wi-Fi-capable fan controller. For this project, we'll use EasyIoT Cloud and assorted hardware to build a temperature-sensing fan.

March 22, 2018

by Igor Jarc

· 26,973 Views · 3 Likes

Docker Environment Variables: How to Set and Configure Server Applications

Whether you are new to Docker or have some experience, this extensive list of 50 Docker variables should introduce you to something new.

March 19, 2018

by Angela Stringfellow

· 61,200 Views · 2 Likes

Creating an AWS Lambda Deployment JAR Using Maven

Bringing your Java to the cloud? Here are a couple of ways you can get a deployment JAR up and ready for AWS Lambda functions.

March 16, 2018

by Ajitesh Kumar

· 25,071 Views · 4 Likes

Vertical Scaling and Horizontal Scaling in AWS

Vertical and horizontal scaling are two distinct ways of ramping up your cloud capabilities, depending on the amount of traffic you recieve.

March 14, 2018

by Jignesh Solanki

· 74,480 Views · 10 Likes

Investigating Problems With Ad-Hoc Queries Using SQL Monitor

There are plenty of ways that apps can unintentionally misuse databases. When the abuses are pervasive, you can catch them by means of a few deft queries on various DMOs.

March 13, 2018

by Phil Factor

· 5,836 Views · 2 Likes

Logging to AWS Cloudwatch Logs

Learn how to easily configure the slf4j logging framework to use AWS Cloudwatch to store your logs, for AWS or on-premise.

March 13, 2018

by Dieter Bogdoll

· 28,886 Views · 4 Likes

Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics: When to Use Which

Monitoring your resources is vital to being able to detect issues or opportunities for performance improvements. When it comes to Azure the monitoring story ...

March 9, 2018

by Sam Cogan

· 31,427 Views · 2 Likes

Deploying Elasticsearch 6.x on Azure With Terraform

Today, we will be looking at deploying a full Elasticsearch cluster using best practices end-to-end on Microsoft Azure.

March 6, 2018

by Itamar Syn-hershko

· 9,291 Views · 3 Likes

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