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This is the third blog in our series on Kafka, where we continue to explore the nuances of deploying Kafka for scale. In our previous blogs, Essential Metrics for Kafka Performance Monitoring and Auto-Instrumenting OpenTelemetry for Kafka, we laid the foundation for understanding Kafka’s performance and monitoring aspects. Now, as we explore further into the Kafka ecosystem, we’re here to tackle the common challenges that can arise during deployment and scaling.

Using Grafana Cloud to manage and monitor even your most sensitive data from your AWS services just got easier. If your organization’s workloads are hosted in AWS and you are using a Grafana Cloud instance that’s also hosted in AWS, you can now use AWS PrivateLink to establish a secure connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) network and Grafana Cloud for all your data.

I recently recorded a Lightboard presentation on securing open source software dependencies in the public cloud. This blog summarises, and expands upon, some of the key elements from that presentation: I think about this topic through two lenses: software supply chains and updating software dependencies while maintaining stability.

CloudWatch can be a great start for monitoring your AWS environments, but it has some limitations in terms of granularity, customization, alerting, and integration with third-party tools. In this article, learn all the ways that Kentik can supercharge your AWS performance monitoring.

Amazon CloudFront is a Content Network Delivery service (CDN). CDNs are primarily used to reduce latency. They do this by serving certain types of content (images, videos and static files) from servers that are geographically closest to any particular user. I.e. users in France will receive content from the server in Paris; users in Malaysia will receive content from the server in Kuala Lumpur.

In today’s hyper-connected digital landscape, businesses rely heavily on cloud computing to streamline operations, enhance scalability, and drive innovation. However, the seemingly limitless potential of the cloud comes at a steep price – one that goes far beyond financial considerations. Welcome to the world of data centres, the not-so-hidden environmental offenders of the corporate world.

Getting to cloud efficiency is both an art and a science. The art has long been CloudZero’s specialty: giving engineers complete visibility into the costs associated with their cloud infrastructure, putting it all in a business context, and helping them make proactive decisions about how to build and scale efficiently. In other words, the art is on the human side. Giving human engineers the visibility and context to understand and control cloud costs.

SharePoint, born from the tech giant Microsoft, is not just another application; it’s a robust platform that’s been transforming the way businesses handle their internal processes for years. At its core, SharePoint is designed to streamline collaboration and document management. But what does that mean in layman’s terms? Imagine a vast digital library, where instead of books, you have documents, images, videos, and other digital content.