Over the past few months, Helios has experienced rapid growth resulting in our user base increasing, our services multiplying, and our system ingesting more data. Like all tech companies that need to scale, we wanted to avoid our performance becoming sluggish over time.

A new era is here, where cloud computing is taking a growing share of the digital workspace market. Microsoft are well placed to capture an increasing part of this market to deliver digital workspaces to end users to run their business applications. Using Azure as the umbrella we see new Microsoft services arise each year. Last year the Windows 365 service was born with a Cloud PC service offering both Business and Enterprise subscriptions.

Maintain high uptime and performance for your APIs without any overheads using Google Cloud’s API monitoring tools.

These three top cloud providers are used daily by millions of users across the world – but what sets them apart? We take a magnifying glass to the features that matter.

When I reference ServiceNow in discussions with DevOps and platform engineers they often look at me and quickly roll their eyes – with that bored look on their faces saying “next…” Why is that? At Cloudify, our DevOps automation platform primarily targets DevOps engineers, who were also locked in this mindset. Over the past year and a half, we started a deeper integration between Cloudify and ServiceNow, originally as a way to address a specific customer environment.

I have been building a feature on elmah.io lately that picks up validation results from an external API. Before serverless was a thing, I would probably have done this using a scheduled task or Windows Service using Hangfire or similar. But after having migrated everything to serverless Azure Functions, I wanted a good solution running similarly. Azure Durable Functions turned out as the perfect companion and in this post, I'll show you a possible way to implement polling of an asynchronous API.

Amazon CloudWatch monitors metrics of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources in real time and can trigger alarms when a metric goes above or below certain thresholds. Typically, Amazon CloudWatch sends out alarms by posting a message to an SNS (Amazon Simple Notification Service) topic, which distributes the message via several mediums, including email, SMS, and Lambda functions. Setting a CloudWatch alarm can be complex.