Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

Cleaning Up an S3 Bucket With the Help of Athena

Learn how to detect unused objects within your S3 buckets and do some spring cleaning using the Athena query service.

May 22, 2018

by Andreas Wittig

· 8,008 Views · 2 Likes

Canary deployments are a good way to see how a new release will affect end users without the risk. Learn how to carry out a canary deployment in this walkthrough.

May 21, 2018

by Christian Melendez

CORE

· 17,508 Views · 9 Likes

Monitoring Using Spring Boot 2.0, Prometheus, and Grafana (Part 2 — Exposing Metrics)

Follow this tutorial in order to learn how to expose metrics using Prometheus. This tutorial also includes pictures to aid in the tutorial.

Updated May 21, 2018

by Satish Sharma

· 153,678 Views · 16 Likes

Monitoring Using Spring Boot 2.0, Prometheus, and Grafana (Part 1 — REST API)

Read this tutorial in order to learn how to create a REST API for CRUD by using Spring Boot 2.0, Prometheus, and Grafana.

May 18, 2018

by Satish Sharma

· 38,501 Views · 9 Likes

Stream a File to AWS S3 Using Akka Streams in Play Framework

Here's a handy guide to start streaming your files to the cloud (AWS S3) in particular when using Akka, Play Framework, and Alpakka.

Updated May 14, 2018

by Sidharth Khattri

· 13,604 Views · 2 Likes

Mule Runtime Instance for AWS with Terraform

Take a look at how you can use AWS and Terraform to create and install an instance of Mule through Anypoint Studio's Cloudhub.

May 14, 2018

by Miguel Angel Chuecos Piera

· 8,692 Views · 4 Likes

Migrating File Storage to Amazon S3

If you are looking to migrate files to S3, check out some of the methods for doing so, as well as best use cases for each one.

May 8, 2018

by Ashan Fernando

· 14,086 Views · 2 Likes

How to Use MongoDB Connection Pooling on AWS Lambda

In this post, we’ll show you how to use MongoDB connection pooling on AWS Lambda using both Node.js and Java drivers.

April 18, 2018

by Madan Kumar

· 15,620 Views · 1 Like

Cost Comparison: Azure Cosmos DB vs. DynamoDB vs. Neptune

I try here to break down the costs for these three services in an effort to help you make an apples-to-apples comparison.

April 17, 2018

by Thomas LaRock

· 30,361 Views · 5 Likes

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.

· 12,328 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

· 37,938 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

· 13,291 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

· 17,353 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

· 14,190 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

· 17,783 Views · 16 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

CORE

· 15,560 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

· 6,720 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

· 12,293 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

· 21,983 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

· 18,633 Views · 4 Likes

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